Srimad Ramayana Tatthva Deepika - Ba:la Ka:nda (52)

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Sri:mathe: Ramanuja:yanamaha!

Jeeyar Thiruvadigale: Saranam!!

 

In great grief Sri Rama who could not perform even the final

rites of his father, cremated Jata:yu. Since the falcon king

had sacrificed his life for the sake of Bhagavan he felt it would

be fit to perform ‘Brahma me:dha samska:ram’ for him and

accordingly did so and blessed him with ‘utthama lo:ka:s’.

 

Sri Rama elucidated to the world that living as a human being,

considering himself only a human being, one would be empowered

with the control and capacity to present ‘utthama loka:s’

with ‘satyava:k paripa:lana’ (truthfulness) and he proved it by

presenting Jata:yu with ‘Utthama loka:s’

 

Later Ramachandra saw a ra:kshasa named Kabandha who was a

horrifying and terrifying monster. He killed him and cremated

his body as per his wish. Kabandha regained his previous

celestial figure and went back to heaven. Kabandha told SriRama

to visit Sabari who was aware of the intricacies of dharma, and

was awaiting for ‘athitthi saparya’ (treating a guest with a

high order of hospitality) He wanted Rama to notice her sublime

virtue of ‘A:cha:rya abhima:na Nishta’. She had been practising

the great dharma of ‘guru susru:sha’.

 

Sri Rama went to her hermitage on his own to prove to the world

that though one is born as a tribal if one serves the

great devotees with high reverence, one would be fit to be

worshipped by all. It is the height of Sri Ram a’s sousi:lyam.

That ‘Maha:purusha’ had gone to visit a tribal woman. Not only

that, he had been worshipped well by her.

 

Sarabhanga and others were ‘thapo:nishta:s’. They too worshipped

him but Sabari had ‘A:charya Bhakthi nishta’. She worshipped him

very well. To tell us that she had worshipped him well Va:lmiki

says:

 

“Sabarya: pu:jithah samyak ra:mo: dasaradha:thmaja ha”

 

Dasaratha’s son Rama had been very well venerated by Sabari.

King Dasaratha got renowned cooks to prepare delicious dishes

for SriRama and fed him. Sarabhanga and the rest knowing that

he was ‘Parama purusha’ Himself worshipped him with more bhakthi

and affection, Dasaratha’s was ‘sne:ham’(friendship) and

Sarabhanga’s was ‘bhakthi’. But Sabari’s was pure love.

 

To be continued………

 

Jai Srimannarayana!!

Ramanujamma Mudumbai,

Ramanujadasi.