पटना शहरमें कोई ब्राह्मण रहते थे। उनका नियम था – प्रतिदिन एक ब्राह्मणको भोजन कराके तब स्वयं भोजन करते ।
एक दिन इसी तरह वे किसी ब्राह्मणकी खोजमें थे कि एक व्यक्तिने, जिसके हाथ-पैरोंमें गलित कुष्ठ हो रहा था, कहा कि ‘मैं ब्राह्मण हूँ।’ उसके ऐसा कहनेपर उन्होंने उसको अपने घर चलनेके लिये आग्रह किया और उनको लाकर उसी आसनपर आदरपूर्वक बैठाया, जिसपर वे प्रतिदिन ब्राह्मण-अतिथिको बैठाया करते थे तथा उनके चरणको उसी परातमें धोया। पर गलित कुष्ठ होनेके कारण उस परातका जल पीब तथा खूनके रूपमें बदल गया। उनका यह नियम था कि वे प्रतिदिनब्राह्मणका चरणोदक पान किया करते थे। इसी नियमके अनुसार उन्हें आज भी पान करना था। वे आँखें बंद करके चरणोदकको हाथमें लेकर भगवान्का स्मरण करते हुए पी गये।
कहते हैं कि उसके पान करते ही वे समाधिस्थ हो गये। वे गृहस्थ लगातार सोलह दिनोंतक इसी दशामें रहे। सतरहवें दिन उनका शरीर शान्त हो गया।
उस ब्राह्मणीने लोगोंको यह बताया- ‘वे ब्राह्मण, जो भोजन करने आये थे, स्वयं भगवान् थे। मैं उनके दर्शनकी अधिकारिणी नहीं थी, पर सदा पतिदेवके अतिथि- सेवा कार्यमें सहयोग देती थी, इसीलिये भगवान्ने मुझे भी दर्शन दे दिये ।’
Some Brahmin used to live in Patna city. His rule was – every day after feeding a Brahmin, he used to eat himself.
One day in the same way he was in search of a Brahmin that a person, who was suffering from leprosy in his hands and feet, said that ‘I am a Brahmin’. On his saying so, he urged him to go to his home and brought him and made him sit respectfully on the same seat on which he used to make Brahmin-guests sit everyday and washed his feet in the same vessel. But due to leprosy, the water of that dish turned into pus and blood. It was his rule that he used to drink water every day at the feet of a Brahmin. According to this rule, he had to drink paan even today. He closed his eyes and took Charanodak in his hand and drank while remembering God.
It is said that he became samadhistha as soon as he drank it. Those householders remained in this condition for sixteen consecutive days. His body became calm on the seventeenth day.
That Brahmin told the people – ‘That Brahmin, who had come to eat, was God himself. I was not entitled to his darshan, but always cooperated in the work of serving the guests of my husband, that is why God gave me darshan too.’
