mani/mantra/& the garuda-legend-5

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srimathE lakshmi-nrsumha parabrahmaNE namaha

sri vedanta desika guravE namaha

 

Dear "bhAgavatOttamA-s",

 

Let's see what happened to our poor brahmin boy in the story related by

Sri.U.Ve.Mukkur Swami :

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After obtaining "mantrOpadEsam" from his village-guru, for several decades

thereafter, the little boy retired to a forest for meditation. There the boy

chose a secluded spot on a hillock and seated himself there.

 

Then fixing his "inward eye of concentration" on a huge boulder that stood

before him at that spot, the poor little boy began meditating on the great

"mantrA" taught him by his great "guru" : "ingEnthu angae!angEnthu-ingae!"!!

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The years rolled on, the seasons changed, and the landscape too underwent

transformation.....

 

But our little boy, seated before the boulder on the hillock, continued his

"mantra-dhyAnam" with a fervour and passion that was truly and amazingly

divine.

 

He continued incanting "ingEnthu angae ! angEnthu-ingae !" for several years

and many millions of times... unmindful of time, hunger, food, clothing

shelter, personal comfort .....

 

There was nothing else but undistracted, single-minded pursuit .... of the

"mantrA" taught him by his "guru"!

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After many, many years ..... one day, the boy finally snapped out of his

deep "mantra-dhyAna" !

 

He opened his eyes and witnessed the whole world around him !!

 

He marvelled at all the changes that had been wrought through the period he

had been in deep meditation. The rains had washed away trees, animals had

grazed away some pastures, forest-fires had decimated vast tracts of land,

the winds had changed the face of mountain peaks ......

 

The only thing that had remained immutable, the boy noticed, was the great

boulder that still stood before him.

 

Looking at that great piece of rock, the boy could not help reflecting loudly:

 

"Dear Great Rock ! In the time that I went into "mantrA-dhyAna" until this

very moment everything in this world seems to have changed ! Except two

things ! One is yourself, Oh Great Boulder, you who have been constant and

my only companion these many years! I am deeply grateful to you !

 

"And the other unchanging thing, Oh Great Boulder" the boy continued

ruminating," is the "mantrA" itself which I have been meditating on

:"ingEnthu angae! angEnthu-ingae!" !!"

 

Now, no sooner had the lad uttered the words "ingEnthu angae!" than he

witnessed a most incredible sight that left him aghast !

 

At the very instant he uttered "ingEnthu angae !" (go thither) the boy saw

the great awesome boulder rise above the spot it stood, all by itself ! and

hurl itself about a few 100 feet away like a tiny pebble, as it were !!

 

The boy was astounded !

 

Unable to believe his eyes, the boy suspected he was dreaming and pinched

himself in the arm !!

 

He realized he was living very much in cold reality !

 

Then out of sheer curiosity and awe, he looked again at the boulder in the

distance and this time the boy gently and nervously uttered :

"angEnthu-ingae !" (come hither)!

 

Lo ! Behold ! The boy watched the boulder fly through the air like a leaf

and drop down at his feet !!

 

The boy was simply mesmerised !!

 

It suddenly then dawned on him that the great "mantrA" of his guru,

"ingEnthu angae!"angEnthu-ingae!" (go-thither, come-hither) was really

working for him !!

 

It suddenly struck the the boy that he had somehow acquired a mysterious and

paranormal ability to move objects of the world "hither-and-thither" by

merely chanting "ingEnthu angae!"angEnthu-ingae!".

 

Dumb-struck by the discovery he sat down, his knees shaking and his heart

pounding !

 

It took a while for him to recover too !!

 

The boy eventually came to his senses and immediately felt an extraordinary

sense of gratitude to his guru who had taught him the great "mantrA" !! The

boy exulted, too, in the happy knowledge that now he could easily go back to

the Master and proclaim his eligibility for further Vedic studies !!

 

However,before setting out on his journey back to home after so many years

and just to make sure he had truly mastered the "mantrA", the boy tried the

same incantation "ingEnthu angae!angEnthu-ingae!" several times !!

 

And each time, Behold ! the great boulder was tossed about "hither and

thither" like a mere play-ball and with the same intensity and force with

which the boy articulated the "mantrA"!!

 

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We shall continue the story in the next post.

 

srimathe srivan satagopa sri narayana yathindra mahadesikaya namaha

sudarshan