Bhagawatham-05-gnani Jada Bharathan

Gnani Jada Bharatha carries Raja Rahugana.

After the stories of Priyavrata,Manu's son and Agnidhra, Rishabhadeva appeared as the son of Merudevi and king Nabhi. He had 100 sons the eldest of them was Bharatha. When Rishabhadeva became old,he entrusted the kingdom to Bharatha and went to the forest for meditation. He became one of the Thirtankers of the Jain religion.Bharatha married Panchajani and had 5 sons.He performed many yagnas and worshiped the Gods and did many Dharmas,also ruled the earth in a Dharmic way.He lived with Pulaha Maharshi on the banks of Gandaki river and became a great sage by himself.Once, when he was praying the Sun God at the banks, he saw a doe coming to the river for water. The doe jumped into the water when she heard the roar of a Lion and lost her life while giving birth to a young deer. Sage Bharatha then,lifted the deer and grazed it well,he was all the times in love with the deer even forgetting the tapas and gods,while doing so.Finally when he breathed his last he's in the thoughts of the deer and hence he took birth in the next Janma as a deer.

SINCE IT'S TRUE THAT ONE WILL GET THE LIFE OF WHAT ONE THINKS OF, AT HIS DYING MOMENT,IS IT NOT GOOD TO REMEMBER THE GODS ALWAYS, SO THAT, OUT OF HABIT, ONE COULD THINK OF THE GOD, AT HIS LAST MOMENT IN LIFE...?

Bharatha the deer could remember his old life and thought how foolish was he in his last life, thinking always of the material things forgetting the gods.And this time he lived near the sages on the banks of river and was in the river when he finally gave up the life of the deer. He took birth , in this third life, as the son of a pious Brahmin and had attained nirvana this time.Hehad no attachment to his family and did not even speak to any body. He was like a JADA or dunce, hence he earned the name of JADA BHARATHA.He did not make much headway in studies of veda etc. however hard his father tried.Bharatha now was a Gnani , eating whatever little he got and not reacting to anyone or any thing.Some robbers, one day took him to Kali Mandir for giving him as Nara Bali,he did not resist them and hence Godess Kali had to act to save him.

Once, the Kings men had taken Bharatha to help the Kings palanquin.The king Rahugana was going to Sage Kapila to gain spiritual knowledge. Bharatha being a realised soul did not want to hurt even an ant on his way,. so he had to jerk violently at times to save the ants and this bumped the kings head on the palanquin . This made the king angry and asked the brahmin what his problem is,Bharatha said he has no problem as he is not his body. Listening this wise words king Rahugana got down from the palanquin and fell on the feet of Bharatha and realised he is a great sage.The king asked for the forgivance and sought the spiritual knowledge from Bharatha, for which he was traveling.

Jada Bharatha explained in details, about the soul and body and said that one should forget the body and should be in the service of the Lord all the times. A man becomes liberated when he severs all the attachments through wisedom and keeps the company of sages and great souls and sings and listens to god's praises all the times. An advise all of US need very much, on this day.