Please God
 

A sage observed seven dark women walking by his hermitage every morning and return clean and beautiful. He asked them who they were. They said, 'We are the seven seas. When people come and wash their sins in our waters, we grow dark...There is a person who, when we go and circumambulate him, the sins wash away and we regain our true nature'. Curious, he enquired about that person endowed with such powers.

They replied, 'He is Pundalika, a boy famous for his devotion towards his parents. God visited that boy's house, and Pundalika requested Him to stand on a couple of bricks till he finished doing 'pada pooja' to his parents. Pleased with the boy's devotion, God manifested in the form of Panduranga. Pundalika ranks high as one of the four prime devotees of the Lord (Prahalada, Parasara, Narada, Pundalika). Here is a devotee who did not neglect his worldly responsibilities and God placed him on a high pedestal.

The path you have chosen to lead your life is not so important, as fulfilling the responsibilities associated with that path. How well you play your part in this drama of life decides how close you become to God.