Sri Raghavendra Swamy Virachita

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There arises a question after going through the above story. Lord Brahma asked Shwetaraja, the king, to handover the necklace to Sage Agastya with a request that the necklace be handed over to Srirama. The question is, why Lord Brahma preferred this indirect connection? Could Lord Brahma not ask Shwetaraja to directly handover the necklace to Srirama?

The holy Scriptures have mandated that the donation of anything should be given after ascertaining whether the recipient deserves it or not. Donation to non-deserving persons causes inexplicable hardships. Lord Sri Hari is the primary and ultimate recipient of all donations. Anyone having ‘most presence’ of Sri Hari is the second recipient. The ‘presence’ of Lord Hari means, the Lord, although is omnipresent and is ‘present’ in every person, the variation in the presence of Lord Hari is directly proportionate to ‘purity’ of heart, other organs etc., which depends on the style of living and various other factors or phenomena. In this case, Lord Brahma and Lord Vayu have the ‘most presence’ presence of Lord Hari for obvious reasons. Rudra and deities equal to Rudra are the ‘third’ recipients of donations. The list of ‘recipients’ and their respective shares is quite long.

A devotee should not ‘desire’ for worldly pleasures like satisfaction of hunger or quenching of thirst. The devotee should not long for heavens or pleasures in heaven that are ‘common’ in the world hereafter. The devotee should ‘bare’ the pains involved in this world and the world hereafter. The ‘donation’ should be proportionate to the qualification of the recipient. Only then, the Lord Hari returns the ‘fruits’ of such donation in multiples quantity and quality. The ‘fruits’ of donation also depends on the commitment, dedication, conviction and other qualifying aspects of the donor. The ‘fruits’ cannot be ‘more than’ what the donor has ‘sought’. Otherwise, the recipient of fruits of donation or the donor will have to wait till he exhausts all the ‘fruits’ to move to the next world. Shwetamaharaja only wanted relief from ‘hunger’ and ‘thirst’. If he were to hand over the necklace directly to Srirama, the ‘quantum of fruits’ would be more than what he actually desired and he was not ‘qualified’ to receive such a bounty. Even if he were to have been blessed with a huge quantity of fruits, then it would have taken longer for him to attain salvation, which was unnecessary. Sage Agastya could absorb any amount of fruits but he had no such worldly desires. Therefore, Lord Brahma asked Shwetamaharaja to give the necklace to Srirama through Sage Agastya and his desire of getting permanent relief from hunger and thirst was fulfilled immediately after he handed over the necklace to Sage Agastya because it was virtually meant to be given to Srirama.

History of Dandakaranya will be explained in the next episode.    

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