SRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY’S
SRI RAMACHARITRYA MANJARI
(ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಘವೆಂದ್ರ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ವಿರಚಿತ “ಶ್ರೀ
ರಾಮಚಾರಿತ್ರ್ಯ ಮಂಜರಿ)
Boyhood days of Sri Hanumantha
Anjana Devi thought that the child was hungry and ran
outside to bring some food for her gigantic son. At that moment, the Sun was
just rising in the eastern horizon and the twilight was naturally reddish. The
newborn baby boy pretentiously perceived the red Sun to be a fruit and flew
like breeze to catch the fruit-like Sun and eat. When the newborn baby boy was
nearing the Sun, solar eclipse occurred and Rahu was closing in on the Sun to
swallow him. But Rahu noticed the baby boy rushing to swallow the Sun, who had
been given to Rahu as food during eclipse and he immediately informed this to
Lord Indra. The enraged Lord Indra followed Indra from behind on the Airavat,
his celestial vehicle, and he wanted to punish the baby boy. When Indra was
close to Sun, the red rays of Sun fell on Rahu, who was seen by the baby boy.
Due to the red rays of Sun that fell on him, Rahu also appeared like a ripened fruit.
As soon as the hungry baby boy saw red Rahu, he ran towards Rahu. This baby boy
was not an ordinary child. He was omniscient. He was very much aware that the
red figure in front of him was not a fruit but it was Rahu, who had become red
due to the red rays of Sun. Moreover, the boy was not hungry. He was Lord Vayu,
who is never troubled by worldly conditions like hunger, thirst, sleep and so
on. When he is hungry, there is nothing in the entire universe that could
satisfy him. Pretending to be ignorant and innocent, baby boy chased both Rahu
and Sun. Lord Vayu has zero tolerance on wicked persons. Therefore, he wanted
to punish wicked Rahu for trying to swallow the Sun, though it appeared as
though Hanumantha was also chasing the Sun. Rahu was frightened by the way
Hanumantha was chasing and escaped from that spot. Hanumantha chased Rahu
everywhere like the Divine Disc hurled by Lord Hari. All the deities were
watching this chase by Hanumantha. They wondered: “If this is any indication of
this baby boy’s strength and power, it is hard to imagine his state when he
attains adulthood.”
When it became impossible for Rahu to hoodwink the
baby boy, he surrendered to Lord Indra, who was accompanying him. Indra then
turned his Airavat (Elephant with five trunks) towards the boy. The Airavat was
larger in size compared to the size of Rahu. The boy now turned his attention
to Lord Indra, leaving aside Rahu. Indra for once failed to know that the boy
was an incarnation of Lord Vayu. Besides, he also ignored, due to extreme ego
and pride, the established rule of war that no weapon can be employed against a
weapon-less rival. Lord Indra hit the boy on his cheeks with the Vajrayudh,
which did not do any harm to the boy. However, he pretended to have become
unconscious. This enraged Lord Vayu, the original form of the newborn baby boy.
Lord Vayu was very angry over Indra for he had employed the most lethal
Vajrayudha on a just-born boy. When Lord Vayu became angry and became
motionless, all deities, including Brahma and Rudra, suffered suffocation. Lord
Vayu showed to the universe that without him the universe would become stagnant
or standstill. Besides, younger persons have no right to punish elders.
Everything in the universe became standstill and were on the verge of dying.
Brahma realized that the situation was going out of control because of the sin
committed by Indra in wielding the Vajrayudha against Lord Vayu, the supreme
power. Lord Brahma then appealed to Lord Vayu to pardon Devendra and save the
universe from imminent destruction. Lord Vayu too was convinced and pardoned
Devendra. Life returned to the universe.
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