HH Shri: Swa:mi:ji reveals the secrets of Sri:mad Ra:ma:yanam

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Dear Sriman Muraliji,

 

Adiye:n's humble prana:mam. Jai Srimanna:rayana.

 

Adiye:n just wanted to share the joy of reading your wonderful mails

with everybody.

 

Your wonderful postings on Sri:mad Ra:ma:yana are very educative

and purifying. They nicely describe the all-loving and charming

qualities of Ra:machandra and just by reading them one's heart is

filled with a great desire to remain just as an unrecognized, menial

servant of His devotees.

 

Thank you so much for this pleasing service to our Acha:rya.

 

adiye:n,

Sheshagiri.

 

 

 

 

, "murali_chris" <murali_chris@h...> wrote:

> Jai Sri:manna:ra:yana!

>

> With the benevolence of HH Shri Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji

> and His guidance, I would like to continue from

> my previous posting on secrets of Sri:mad Ra:ma:yanam

> as revealed by Shri Swa:mi:ji ..

>

>

> Shri: Swa:mi:ji said there is another story of purification

> in Ra:ma:yana just like that of Va:lmi:ki. That is

> Ahalya. When Ahalya's body was polluted one day,

> her husband Gautama Maharshi wanted to purify

> her body. He did not curse her to remain like a

> stone as many people say. We often here that a rishi

> has given a boon or a curse .. What exactly is a curse

> or a boon ? Do they give something from somewhere ?

> Do they take away something which we have ?

>

> Shri: Swa:mi:ji was quoting the words of Shri: Pedda

> Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji. Shri: Pedda Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji used to

> say that human body is a model for this nature.

> Whatever we see in this nature, we can find in this

> human body. It is a pilot project where Lord will

> start making changes. These changes permeate

> to the nature also if a person has enough power

> to control.

>

> For example if we do pra:na:ya:ma regularly we gain some

> sort of control over our breath. You can hold your

> breath longer. (This also prolongs our life).

> Of course, normally, it may be a few seconds,

> but for Yo:gis it could be minutes or hours or days

> depending on how much they practice. If we can control

> breath for some seconds in our times, think of Maharshis

> in earlier yugas. They must have tremendous control on their

> body and senses by doing regular yoga anushtanam.

>

> We often hear that one Maharshi has not eaten

> any food for thousands of years. Another maharshi

> has taken only water as food for so many years.

> Another maharshi has taken only air as food for

> thousands of years while doing penance or Tapas.

> As a result of thier great penance they can

> exercise control over their body and also

> the surrounding nature if they wish.

>

> (Unbelievable ? .. Here are some examples

> Are we not living without food on E:ka:dasi day ?

> If we can stay up for one day without food,

> I think Maharshis could have done whatever was

> described in our pura:nas. I personally have

> demonstrated experience of divine persons taking only

> a small glass of milk or water for months & years together.

> A group of 40+ people doing 'ashtakshari japam' took

> only few ground nuts and small glass of milk for

> more than 40 days continuously in Badari)

>

> Even in recent times we have seen yo:gis

> automatically increasing their body temperature

> even upto 10 degrees or decreasing it as they wish.

> Shri: Swa:mi:ji took the example of Dhi:re:ndra Brahmacha:ri

> who demonstrated before Russian doctors and

> scientists his control over his body

> temperature by changing it as per his wish.

> So in this kaliyuga when the food, nature, air,

> water, thoughts, everything is polluted, we

> are able to see yo:gis exhibiting such

> unbelievable acts, then think of maharshis

> in earlier ages where there is not even a

> trace of pollution. It is quite possible

> that Maharshis have such powers. So what

> do they do when they give a boon or a curse ?

>

> They control the nature surrounding the person

> to whom they are giving the curse using their

> Tapas sakti. When Maharshi Gautama wanted

> to purify the body of Ahalya, he took away the 'water'

> element from her body. As we know, body is made

> of five elemenets 'pancha bhootas' earth, water,

> fire, air and space. Water binds all the other

> elements together. If water is taken away, then

> other elements can not be glued together, so

> even though all the other elements were present

> in Ahalya's body, there is no visible form now.

> She is reduced to very fine dust or ash particles

> without a definite shape.

>

> Maharshi did not take away the 'pra:na' or life

> force. So Ahalya is there, she is alive, with an

> invisible body. She lived like that for thousands

> of years. Just like Va:lmi:ki lived inside an ant hill

> without his physical body. She did not become a

> stone as many people say, and Ra:ma did not 'leg'

> the stone to make it Ahalya. After all Ra:ma

> was walking alongwith Maharshi Viswa:mitra and

> he is very respectful to Maharshi. He knows that

> he was walking in Gautama's Ashram. So will he

> walk by kicking the stones or stamping grass etc. ?

> No. Then how did Ahalya got back her body ?

>

> Shri: Swa:mi:ji said that it is Shri: Ra:ma's feet

> that gave back Ahalya the fifth element - water

> to her body. Sri Ra:ma is an incarnation of Lord

> Sri:manna:ra:yana. The holy Ganga flows from Lord's

> feet always. (Ganga is holy because it originated

> from Lord's feet. It is the river which has three paths

> that means it flows in all the three worlds. Gods, Rishis

> also take bath in holy Ganga which is nothing but

> Divya pa:da ti:rtham of Lord Sri:manna:ra:yana.)

>

> So when Ra:ma walked inside the A:shram, all the

> four other elements of Ahalya's body got purified

> and fortified with water by a mere touch of Sri: Ra:ma's

> foot. So she got back her form immediately.

> Sri: Ra:ma respectfully did namaska:ram to her

> as she is a very pious and elder woman and got blessings

> from her. Gautama also knows beforehand.

> He came to the Ashram when this is happening and

> he accepted Ahalya again after purification.

>

> (Alas! we were not borne during Lord Ra:ma's incarnation,

> lest we also would have got benefited from the divine

> touch of His lotus feet. Do not worry -

> Shri Swamiji knows our feelings and is very kind.

> He is washing Lord Sri Ra:ma's feet everyday 365 days

> in a year, for years together and giving us that holy

> 'charana amrutam' - divya pa:da tirtham.

> How noble is Shri: Swa:mi:ji who wants everyone of us

> to be purified of all our sins and misdeeds repeatedly,

> distributing the tirtham to thousands of devotees untiringly.)

>

> When we take the ti:rtham next time, let us

> recollect Ahalya's story. Let us recollect

> Ahalya's story when we chant the following na:ma

> in Sri: Ra:ma Ashto:ttaram -

>

> "Om Ahalya: Sa:pa Samana:ya namaha"

>

> This na:ma itself tells that the water element

> is restored in Ahalya's body. If we quench the

> thirst of any person - he says 'thank you

> now you have provided 'upa-samanam' to me. If

> someone is sweating in the hot sun or heat

> and if he takes bath with cool water, he feels

> 'upa-samanam' from heat. 'Samanam' thus means providing

> relief from 'ta:pam' or heat. When water element

> is taken away from Ahalya's body, all the other

> elements are longing for water because they want

> to get united back. They are experiencing the ta:pam

> and Sri: Ra:ma's foot provided the 'sa:manam'.

>

> It is the samkalpa of Maharshi or divine souls,

> which controls this nature. If a Maharshi's samkalpa is so

> much powerful, what would be the power of samkalpa

> Lord Sri:manna:rayana ? He controls this entire

> universe by just conceiving in his mind. Should

> we not pray him to alleviate our 'Agnya:na'

> with his samkalpa. Should we not pray him for

> leading us in the right path ? We certainly do.

> Let us all do that and pray Shri: Swa:mi:ji to

> lead us to Him.

>

> Let us know more secrets from Shri: Ra:ma:yanam

> in the next posting

>

> Adiye:n

> Ra:ma:nuja Da:saha

> Murali: Krishna Kalvapu:di.

>

> Jai Sri:manna:ra:yana