Learning from a Blind Boy
One last evening in Kandahar, while in a dim crowded tea stall, Radhanath Swami squatted on the floor with the locals. Suddenly everyone’s attention focused on a blind boy who stumbled in carrying a rustic wooden instrument with a single string nailed across it. He was perhaps sixteen years old, and like the others, wore soiled rags that loosely covered his emaciated body.
Radhanath Swami’s heart quaked—nothing covered the boy’s blinded, disfigured eyes. Despite his extreme poverty, the boy smiled radiantly as he poured his heart into singing songs in praise of Almighty Allah as he thumped that one-stringed instrument. His sweet voice and sincere emotion hypnotized all crowded in the tiny shack. An hour passed as the spontaneous joy of that blind boy lit up the room with a supernatural joy. He plucked upon his one string and cried in praise of God.
Radhanath Swami was moved. The boy was homeless, blind, illiterate, and poverty stricken. Yet, even in his humbled state, he sang of the vast treasure of joy he had found within his heart: his love of God.
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I wish all these artworks on this site get into some high profile museum. They are so good, especially coupled with Radhanath Swami’s Journey Home.
Thank you for the wonderful post
HH Radhanath Swami reveals here in this article that we can learn great lessons by just observing and make our conscious up always.
What a beautiful pastime from book of HH Radhanath Swami.. saw in meeting with Cornell West where he mentioned this story to students in Princeton University… this incident had such an impact in his life!
Very nice
Nice article.
Radhanath Swami’s experiences and lessons which he learnt from each of them are unbelievable. They help us a lot in our day to day life also. Thank you so much.
Radhanath Swami can extract such deep lessons from any experience from life.
Its really amazing to read how HH Radhanath Swami has described the simple devotion of this blind boy who would have been ignored by most of us if we would have come across one.
Very enthralling….I cant wait to read this book.
Maharaj ability to learn lessons from every opprotune moment of life surpassing sectarian ideas and to teach those in simple language is inspiring.
It is how Swamiji is inclined to take lesson from each and everything.This is great.Thank you very much.
from this incident, we can learn that it is not money or status in society that brings happiness, but the spiritual aspect of one’s life, which one’s awakened by chanting of the Holy Name can bring forth happiness that is beyond all material conditions, and all aspects of creed, colour, nationality etc.
That’s so sensitive of Radhanath Swami to appreciate a blind boy, i would’ve thought of as a nuisance. very touching. thank u swami.
hard believe such saints as Radhanatha Swami exist today. thank u for teaching me to be a better human!
Very inspiring
This shows that happiness is of the soul and real happiness lies in transcending the body
Really inspiring book…….
Amazing
Radhanath Swami is teaching us how to learn some good lessons from people we meet.
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Beautiful article.
One who finds out the real treasure of heart i.e selfless love for the supreme lord does not hanker for anything of this world. thank you very much Radhanath swami for shring this article.
Actually, the search for happiness ends here.
lessons are available from anything and everything within the supreme lords creation, but it is upto the eyes and the mind of the beholders conception that what is to accept and implement for his future endeavours…,
A very profound realization by Radhanath Swami from a blind boy ! Thank you very much ! Hare Krishna !
We can learn very profound lesson from this experience by HH Radhanath Maharaj.Thank you very very much.
Thank you for sharing this experience.
Thankou for sharing this treasure of joy ..
there is so much to learn from Maharaj, thank you for sharing
Heart touching story!
Real Joy comes from within.