Sunday, August 26, 2007

Hare Rama

  





Three kinds of error exist in life to dilute the truth of life and they are related to the thought, word and deed,,, Birth, death, and old age, and they constitute the three kinds of sorrows and three kinds of indigences referred as_Poverty of body, poverty in men and poverty of means, 


There are nine sentiments of poetry that possess route in life, that erotic sentiment, humorous sentiments, pathetic sentiments, haptic sentiments, sentiments of wrath and fury, the sentiment of disgust, the sentiment of quietism and marvelous sentiments,


  Three kinds of listeners are there in the human race, liberated souls, the seekers of liberation, the worldly souls with extra indulgence in worldly affairs,


Wealth invariably meets one of the three fates, it is either devoted to some charitable purpose, squandered away on luxury, or lost in enjoyment, evidently the first is the best use of it, the wealth of the miser who neither devotes it to the service of the needy nor it for its own comforts meets with the third, which is worst fate,


The fivefold ignorance has been characterized as mistaking, the unreal for real, the ephemeral for the eternal, painfully as pleasurable, the impure for pure, and that which is worth discarding for something worth acquiring,


Three kinds of agonies referred to are that inflicted by other living creatures, that proceeding from natural causes and that caused by the bodily or mental distemper,


The number of species of living beings has been categorically fixed in Hindu scriptures as eighty-four lakhs, the four broad classifications are_ 
JARAYUJ-viviparous, such as men and beast,
ANDAJA--oviparous, such that born of eggs,
SVEDAJA--born of sweat, such as lice, bugs,
UDBHIJA--sprout from the soil that earth, that plants and vegetation,

Four kinds of devotees exist in the sphere of life, 
The seeker of wealth,
The seeker of truth,
The seeker of worldly riches,
The seeker of enlightenment,


Our scriptures have recognized four common methods of persuasion,

Sama That Expostulation,

Dama/Dana that inducement in the shape of gifts,

Danda That use of force or corporal punishment 

Bheda that sowing seeds of dissension to create the difference,

 The scriptures pension 48 marks on the soles of the lord's feet,

A vertical line, Urdhvarekha,

A svastika

An Astakona, a figure consisting of a pair of eight squares 

Goddess Laxmi

A plough

A figure of Sesa


An arrow

The sky

A lotus

A chariot

A thunderbolt

A grain of barley

The wish-yielding tree in heaven

A goad

A flag

A crown

The discus that Sudarshan 

A throne

The Yum

A chowrie

Un umbrella

A human figure

and a warmth of victory

In right sole

The River Saryu

A cow's hoof

The Earth

A pitcher

A small flag

A jambu Fruit

The cresent 

A conch shell

A Satkona that pair of triangles interacting 

A triangle

A mice

A Jiva

Vindu

Shakti

Reservoir of nectar

Three horizontal lines

A fish

Full Moon

A flute

A lute

A Bow

A Quiver

A swan

An ornament 



There is a universal belief among Hindus in the occult influence of stars upon human affairs and in his day-to-day life a Hindu is guided by astrological principles both in secular and religious activities, even while undertaking a journey he is required to consult an astrologer and insist on leaving his home on an auspicious day, and ay an auspicious hour, in urgent and emergent cases, however, when he cannot afford to wait for an auspicious day, he is allowed to chose a lucky moment in the course of an hour and may leave at the moment, king Janaka is here as referred to as having availed himself of this expedient,


The enlightened devotees are most beloved of the Lord and constitute His very self,




The gigantic tortoise was none other than an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, Vishnu assumed the form of a gigantic tortoise in order to support Mount Mandara and prevent it from sinking while it was being rotated by gods and demons in their attempt to churn the ocean of milk and obtain nectar out of it, beside nectar Goddess Laxmi the presiding deity of wealth manifest along with the moon and the other precious gems to glorify the truth of life in both planes,




चहुँ जुग तीनि काल तिहुँ लोका 
भए नाम जपि जीव बिसोका
बेद पुरान संत मत एहू 
सकल सुकृत फल राम सनेहू
ध्यानु प्रथम जुग मख बिधि 
दूजें द्वापर परितोषत प्रभु पूजें
कलि केवल मल मूल मलीना
पाप पयोनिधि जन मन मीना


Hare Rama

Not only in this kali age but in all the four ages, at all the times that past, present, and future, and in all the three spheres that heaven, earth, and the subterranean region, creatures have been rid of grief by repeating the name, the verdict of Vedas and Puranas as well as of saints is just this,
Love for Rama is the reward for all virtuous acts,
In the first age, it is contemplation,
In the second it is sacrifice,
In the third Lord is propitiated through worship,
In this kali age which corrupts beyond words and thoughts, roots of all impurities where the mind of the man wallows like a fish in the ocean of sin, in this terrible age, the name alone is the wish yielding tree, the very thought of which puts an end to all illusion of the world,


The Ramayana as originally composed by Brahman himself and delivered to Lord Shiva through Narada is believed to contain as many as 100 crore verses,  


Sri Ramayana that Manasa which denotes the mind and Lord Shiva gave this story the title Ramacaitamanasa firstly because it contains a life account of Sri Rama, and secondly because He treasured it in his mind for a long to make it perceptible by the mind bear by the spirit in the journey with before communicating it to Sri Parvati, 


The four rewards of human existence are_
Dharma that religious merits,
Artha that material riches,
Kama that sensual truth to maintain the line,
Moksha that releases from the bondage of worldly existence,


Narada the mind-born son of Brahma was the son of the maidservant in his previous incarnation and even as a child came in touch with holy men, who imparted him highest wisdom hat made him a real devotee by their very conduct, in the next birth he appeared as mind born son of Brahma,


Sage August that Agastya a truth of austere penance was begotten of god Varuna through a pitcher, another great sage was also born of the same pitcher, the association thus obtained in his embryonic state with a great sage made him equally great,

Sage Agastya is said to have drunk up the ocean in three droughts, he was born of a jar, this earn him the title Kumbhaja, 



Swan is traditionally believed to feed on pearls and credited with a natural gift of separating milk from water,


According to Indian tradition, a Cataka bird would stalk its thirst only with a raindrop obtained when the sun is in the same longitude as the Arcturus which is generally in the month of October, a month when showers are rare occurrences, 


Shedding of tears is regarded in India as an ill omen, therefore on auspicious occasions Indian women would take particular care not t allow tears to drop from their eyes 



The Dandaka Vana the deadliest forest had been rendered unfit for life in any form whatsoever under a curse from the sage Sukracharya known as the presiding deity of the planet Venus, a Brahman in the truth of eternity, Sri Rama liberate this forest from the curse of Sukracharya through his vow in truth with austere penance, 


Bhav is an ocean of transmigration that is ruled by the truth of Lord Shiva, one of his names represents the reality of this transmigration
The name of Rama as given by Lord Shiva makes spirit come out from it,

 The Water lily that white water lily is proverbially noted for its attachment to the moon and is supposed to open its petals in the moonlight alone, similarly the Cakora is said to feed on moonbeams and supposed to be particularly enamored of the moon, 


Lord Ganapati is reputed to be an offspring of Shiva and Parvati, it may, there, be asked how he came to be worshipped by the divine pair even at the time of their wedding, the poet meets this question by stating that Ganesha and other gods are eternal and unbegotten and that only appear to be born,


The first of the fourteen Manu's, he was born of Swayambhu that self-born Brahma from his Sankalp that the creator divided himself into two halves one of which was a male and another female, the former was known as Swayambhu and the latest Satarupa, he was the first of the fourteen manus who rule over the God's creation in succession, each holding office for 71.5 Caturyugas or repetitions of the four, 


Janaka, the father of Janaki that Sita an austerity incarnate for the cause to support the truth of his master, being a father because of the lineage of austere penance in cult with self eternal, Janaka was King of kingdom Mithila and enjoyed a hereditary total of Vedaha that having no  feeling of self-identification with the body, at the sight of Sri Rama, he was completely out of his body and therefore justified his name that given over to her foster Daughter attained through his austere penance beside his Yajna fire ay wee hours,


According to Hindu scripture, every natural object is believed to be presided over by a spirit, 

 
The Shrangvarapura is marked as an ancient heritage village that very first milestone in pilgrimage from the exile of Sri Rama, this ancient heritage chapter is now known in the name of Singraur that 22 miles to the northeast of Allahabad, Sri Ganga has changed its course since lord left from, only a small tributary from flows here now,

The descent of the celestial river Ganga, to the earth is associated with the name of king Bhagiratha, for is said to have austere penance for 1000years and eventually succeed in bringing it down the stream,

The Puranas relate how king Sagara, an ancestor of aluminous Bhagiratha, performed a sacrifice, the house was released by the king prior to the sacrifice was stolen, 


King Sagara's 60000 sons went out in quest and dug the earth on all sides and found the horse by the Sage Kapil's side, who set absorbed in meditation, in the nether region, the foolish haughty princes take the sage as a thief and try to assault him, sage reduce them to ashes,

King Anshuman and his son Dilip try their best to bring Ganga to the planet to liberate their ancestors, in their Line, Bhagirath was succeeded in bringing the stream to the planet, Ganga touched their remains and their spirits absolved from the sin of insulting the holy Sage and ascended to heaven,

Such is the glory of Ganga which itself is a mystery all the way but a truth for spirit to untie its knots of Maya to liberate the self,

At its First Sri Ganga manifest in the Kamndal of Brahma as a result of his esteemed austere penance which he offered on the lotus feet of Lord Vishnu's feet while that was passing through his region in course of measuring its three feet as Vamana since then, Sri Ganga served the lotus feet of Lord Vishnu in varying capacity and truth,

Then unto the truth of devotion, Lord Vishnu sent it to the Lord Vishnu who honored it by having it on his head and letting it pass through in a defined stream to help the devotees and aspirants on the planet,