(In the first part of Chapter 65 of Balakanda, Sri Valmeeki Ramayana, being given here under. the penance of Vishwamitra creates a chaos in the three Lokas and the deities approach Lord Brahma, request him to confer on Vishwamitra the status of Brahmarshi. Please read, comment and share. SDN)
ATha haimavateem RAma disham tyaktwA mahAmunihi|
PUrvAm dishamanuprApya tapastEpE sudAruNam|1||
Maunam varShasahasrasya krutvA vratamanuttamam|
ChakArApratimam RAma tapaha paramaduShkaram||2||
PUrNE varShasahasrE tu kAShThaBhUtam mahAmunim|
ViGhnairbahuBhirADhUtam krODhO nAntaramAvishat||3||
Sa krutvA nishchayam RAma tapa AthiShThadavyayam|
Tasya varShasahasrasya vratE pUrNE mahAvrataha||4||
BhOktumArabDhavAnannam tasminkAlE RaGhUttama|
IndrO dwijAtirBhUtvA tam sidhDhamannamayAchata||5||
Raghava, Vishwamitra left the northern side of Mount Himalaya, moved to a Tapovan in the eastern side and launched a very strict, difficult and severe penance, in accordance with his oath. Pledging to do penance without speaking a word for thousand years, he completed an improbable, unparalleled and inexplicable penance. Living like firewood1 for one thousand years, he succeeded in keeping silent. Even though he was disturbed by impediments on innumerable occasions, anger never entered his mind. He had taken a very rigid and horrid oath to ‘remain silent and not to get angry’. Acordingly, he remained speechless for one thousand years. After completing his Vrat, Vishwamitra began preparing food. Indra came there in the guise of a Brahmin and begged for the rice that Vishwamitra was preparing. Without an iota of doubt or suspicion, most revered and penance-bound Vishwamitra submitted the entire quantity of rice he had baked to Brahmin-looking Indra and remained without food. Without spelling a harsh word to the Brahmin, he allowed the Brahmin to walk away and became silent yet again. He once again controlled the breath in the same way he had done earlier. Without spelling a word, he served the food to the Brahmin, observed utter silence and completed a thousand years in that state. As he had controlled the breath and doing Pranayama, a smokeful fire broke out in his head. The people got scared and felt that the fire in the head Vishwamitra might engulf the three worlds. Seeing that scene, deities, Gandharvas, Pannaga, Uraga and Rakshasas joined together and went to Brahma wearing pale faces and said: “Lord of deities, an attempt was to make Vishwamitra become sensuous by sending a most beautiful Apsara has been made. Through several methods, we tried to infuriate him so as to make him lose the positive, divine energy that had accrued to him through penance. Whatever is done, his penance is getting more and more severe by every passing day. At present, no lacuna or drawback is there with him. If you do not confer his cherished Brahmarshi status at least now, he will definitely burn all the three worlds, including the mobile and immobile things, with the divine power of his penance. Owing to the divine power of his peance, the four directions are perturbed. Everthing is bereft of shin. Oceans are getting emptied; mountains are breaking and the earth istrembling. Perplexed and baffled Vayu is blowing slowly. Due to the infinite radiation of the penance of Vishwamitra, the Sun has become dull. The people of heaven, earth and underworld, whose minds are now devastated, have lost all the distinction between their duties and deeds they are not supposed to do. Because of this chaotic situation, pagans, who do not value customs, religious activities and tradition, will be born. We are unable to guess what might happen once such a thing happens. Pitamaha, before Great ascetic, cleverest and committed Vishwamitra gets angry due to his failure to achieve the desired goal and starts destroying the universe (Brahmanda2), it is better to pacify him and make him happy. If he remains disappointed for some more time, we are sure to face great danger. Just as it happened in the past, when all the three worlds were burnt to ashes by the Great Wildfire, Vishwamitra might burn the three worlds with the divine power of his penance. Otherwise, enraged Vishwamitra might demand the Indraloka itself. Therefore, it is very essential to immediately confer the Brahmarshi status upon most radiant Vishwamitra, which is his cherished desire.”
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