Sri Raghavendra Swamy Virachita
SRI #RAMACHARITRYA #MANJARI
(ಶ್ರೀ #ರಾಘವೆಂದ್ರಸ್ವಾಮಿ
ವಿರಚಿತ “#ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಮಚಾರಿತ್ರ್ಯ ಮಂಜರಿ”)
Srirama listened to the narration rendered by Sage
Agastya, completed the oblations of the evening, spent a night there and in the
early hours of next dawn, he told the sage: “Great Sage Agastya, you have
purified me by narrating the history of this hermitage and by seeing you. I may
see you frequently in the future and get purified.”
Tears of joy started flowing from the eyes of Sage
Agastya, who replied, in a choked voice: “Oh Lord Rama, you are the Lord of
entire universe and everyone gets purified by remembering your name each day.
Even those hearing your name spelt by someone else gets relieved from sins.
There is no sin that your name cannot remove. There is no question you getting
purified. On the contrary, you have purified me and my associates here. I
request you to keep visiting this hermitage often and purify me. I have not
narrated anything that is unknown to you.”
Srirama took the permission of sage Agastya and
returned to Ayodhya in the Pushpak plane. After reaching Ayodhya, he told the
plane “Do come whenever I require” and sent it back to Kubera.
Mal propaganda by Suranakas
There was community called Suranakas among demons.
They were very strong and powerful. Moreover, they did severe penance for thousands
of years and impressed Lord Brahma, who appeared in front of them and sought to
know the boon they wanted him to give. The Suranakas demanded: “We should be
assured of Moksha or salvation, notwithstanding the severity of the sins committed
by us. Being the embodiment of innumerable qualities, you must bestow upon us
this boon.”
Lord Brahma replied: “Overdrinking of liquor, spoiling
the modesty of women, killing of Brahmins and so on may not snatch the positive
energy in you. On the contrary, your desire to perform good acts will increase
and you may finally get salvation. However, you should never try to separate
Sri Narayana from Rama Devi. Once you do that, all the positive currents will
get destroyed and you will not earn salvation.”
The Suranakas pondered over the words of Brahma. It
was their inherent trait to separate Sri Narayana from Rama Devi. However, with
the ruling by Lord Brahma, they were shocked. They could not foresee when they
might commit such dangerous sin. They decided to immediately descend on earth
and earn positive vibrations through philanthropy, performance of sacrifices
and other good acts in advance. They wanted the positive energy earned by them should
overweigh the negative energy earned through heinous acts; they would naturally
indulge in committing.
Meanwhile, Seetha Devi thought: “These demons are not
indulging in good acts and earning positive energy (PuNya) with any good
intention. By birth they are an apology for human values and social welfare.
Their natural attitude is to separate me from Sri Narayana, to torture the
righteous and wreak havoc among good people, sages and Rishis. Their
association with good people is pretentious. They do not deserve salvation. I
will see that they fail in their mission.”
It should be kept in mind that Sri Narayana incarnated
as Srirama and Rama Devi as Seetha Devi. They are inseparable and eternal.
Anyone disturbing their integrity cannot earn salvation. The awareness of the
supremacy of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi was an acquisition through
deceitful means. Their association with the virtuous was unnatural. Their
knowledge of the Divine and Divinity was lopsided, corrupt and laced with
deceit. For them, Srirama was just a super human being and Seetha Devi an
ordinary, charming prince/queen. There are bound to be some people gaining
comprehensive knowledge through their association with knowledgeable. However,
such people have no proper insight into the supremacy of Lord Vishnu. They
spread mysticism to mislead society. Seetha Devi is in-charge of their
half-baked, fake knowledge. For Suranakas, as said earlier, Srirama was an
ordinary human being and Seetha Devi an ordinary woman. Ravana had abducted
Seetha Devi and Rama could not see her until the death of Ravana. Suranakas
imagined ‘filthy’ stay of Seetha in the confinement of Ravana. They thought
that Seetha Devi could have ‘slipped’ during her confinement into the ‘sensuous
designs’ of Ravana. They doubted whether Rama had any ‘shame’ to accept Seetha
Devi even a year she had spent with Ravana, who was lusty, zealous, greedy and
capricious.
There was nothing that Rama was unaware of. Still, he summoned a spy named Bhadra and asked him to know what people were talking about him and Seetha Devi. Bhadra, after a few days, reported: “Oh Lord, people are whispering among themselves that Ravana had forcibly carried Seetha Devi on his lap to Lanka and kept her in Ashokavana, which was his exclusive, private garden. People say that Seetha Devi was very much in the clutches of Ravana and that you have no muscularity to discard Seetha Devi on this count. People are of the view that when Rama, the king, was following such suspicious practices, they would not be at fault if they were to follow similar principles."
Reaction of Rama will be narrated in the next episode.
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