Rudra & Vishnu -- Sri Ramayana

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Jai Srimannarayana,

 

Om Asmad Gurubhyo: namaha. For the benefit of Sriman 'Anand Srinivasan

Narasimhan' who posed the question on Lord Rama worshipping 'Mahadeva', I am

attaching the answer, that Sri Swamiji gave about two years back. Please read it

completely:

 

 

Mon Oct 22, 2001, Sri Swamiji wrote:

 

Jai Srimannarayana!

 

According to Sri va:lmi:ki Ra:ma:yana, there is no mention about Sri:ra:ma's

worship to Lord Siva. Lord Siva appeared before Sri:ra:ma, after the death of

Ra:vana, along with all the other De:vathas. And then Lord Siva praised

Sri:ra:ma as the Ultimate Supreme Lord to all the Ji:vas. And there only, he

suggested Sri:ra:ma to go back to Ayo:dhya and bless the Bharatha and others for

some time and come back to the Divine abode, when all the De:vathas requested

Sri:ra:ma to come back to Divine Abode, because Ra:vana was killed. This shows

the concern that Lord Siva has towards the Lord. That is all mentioned about

him. It was Tulasi Das who made somany inter-polations about other dieties and

also he made his own story about Srira:ma in his Ra:macharitha Ma:nasa book. He

is the one who made the story of Ra:me:swaram in his book. But it is not

authentic sofar as Ra:ma's history is concerned.

 

We always treat Sri RA:MA:YANA as our ancient history and not just an epic or a

pura:na. History means 'that has to be accepted as it is without any changes or

additions'. Sri RA:MA:YANA & SRIMATH MAHA:BHA:RATHA are our historic books, but

not pura:na:s or epics. Sri Tulasidas also made mistakes in this regard. This

made so many people to think about Srira:ma's worship to Lord Siva.

 

There is one place in Va:lmi:ki Ra:ma:yana, where the name "Maha:de:vaha"

mentioned. People give the meaning to that word as Lord Siva, which is wrong

there. The context is 'Ra:ma returning from Lanka in the Pushpaka Vima:nam,

along with Sitha and other subjects. Sri Ra:ma was explaining the events and

places to Sitha from the areal view. While crossing the Ocean, He was showing

the bridge, constructed by the Va:naras and said how that was built and so on.

When the flight reached the other end of the Sea, then He said "Athra pu:rvam

Maha:de:vah prasadam akaro:th Prabhuhu" it means "O Sitha! when we wanted to

cross the ocean, it was here only, Maha:de:vah= The God of Sea, Varunade:va,

appeared and blessed us with the means as and how can we build the bridge". Here

the word Maha:de:vah is wrongly interpreted by somany. In fact, there was no

Siva appeared during their sojourn to Lanka.

 

Some people say that after killing the Ra:vana, Ra:ma was possessed by Brahma

Hatya Dosha ( A greater sin captures by killing a brahmin)and to get rid of that

sin he consecrated the Siva Linga at Ra:me:swaram. This is again a false story

created without any authority. If Ra:ma is captured by the sin, by killing a

Demon, who did all non-sense, then no one will dare to punish wicked. By

punishing a wicked person, no one will be captured by sins. And Ra:ma never felt

sorry for killing Ra:vana and He never wanted to do any Pra:yaschitta

(purification act) for that act.

 

You may read Sri Va:lmi:ki Ra:ma:yana, whenever it is possible. You can take it

granted any event, which goes inaccordance with that only. If something goes

against to that you need not ask anybody and think it is a story created by the

writer according to his own wish.

 

=chinnajeeyar=