PLATE FIVE

“One day, while speaking to his friend Parvata Muni, Narada Muni re-
quested him to go with him to see his disciple the hunter. When the
saintly sages came to the hunter's place, the hunter could see them com-
ing from a distance. With great alacrity the hunter began to run toward
his spiritual master, but he could not fall down and offer obeisances be-
cause ants were running hither and thither around his feet. Seeing the
ants, the hunter whisked them away with a piece of cloth. After thus
clearing the ants from the ground, he fell down flat to offer his obei-
sances. Narada Muni said, ‘My dear hunter, such behavior is not at all
astonishing. A man in devotional service is automatically nonviolent. He is
the best of gentlemen. O hunter, good qualities like nonviolence, which
you have developed, are not very astonishing, for those engaged in the
Lord’s devotional service are never inclined to give pain to others be-
cause of envy.’” (pp.234-236)
