Antharanga Ramanyana

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Antharanga Ramayana

 

Parvati the consort of lord siva, begged of her lord to build a house

for her on the snowy heights of kailasa, the abode of lord Siva.

He remonstrated with her that she was not destined to own a house.

However, when parvati persisted in her request,the Lord bade the

celestial carpenter to build one. On an auspicious day there was the

usual grahapravesam to which all were invited. After the celebrations

were over and everyone had taken leave after each one was honoured

according to his desire, ravana who had come to attend the

celebrations still tarried behind to ask of the lord what he had in

mind to ask.When the lord looked around to see whether there was

anyone still left to be honoured,he saw ravana who came forward and

requested the lord to gift him the house that had been built.

The lord turned to parvati and exclaimed "Did I not tell you that you

were not destined to own a house?" so saying he gifted the house to

ravana and returned to the snowy Kailas. One cannot avoid one's

destiny.

Parvati was grief-stricken that she could not live even for a few

days in the house Her husband had built for her. Lo! This thought was

the reason why she was born as sita.Ravana knew the Avatara rahasya

of sita,and so he wanted to make sita stay in the house for a few

days. So he brought sita to lanka but sita stayed in the Asoka Grove

there,steeped in sorrow. It is the thought, the Sankalpa that causes

birth.

When sita devi came to realize that she was really parvati and had

only been brought to lanka because of her desire for a house, she was

rescued by Lord Rama and both returned to Ayodhya.

Lord siva who had taken birth as rama, made nandi,the bull,to be born

as Hanuman and be of service to Him. So, indeed it was that Hanuman

was steeped in Bhakthi for Sri Rama.

This version you will not find in any book. This is Antharanga

Ramayana.

Sri Rama is the Atma, the Manas is his consort Sri Sita. This manas

was kidnapped by ravana, and sita had to leave the beautiful ayodhya

behind and go to lanka.sri rama rescued sita from lanka and took her

to ayodhya and was crowned king there. This is the story of Atma

Rama. This Atma Rama resides always in our inner most being.

 

Friends, I read the above in a book on sadguru gannanda of

thirukovilur.depicting rama as an incarnation of siva may not be

acceptable to vaishnavas,but for advaitins who believe that the

supreme lord is formless,this is very interesting one.

One should live in silence without any desires,without thoughts and

without any will of one's own.

 

Pranams

 

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