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

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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