Srimad Ramayana Tathva Deepika # 102 (Ba:la Ka:nda)

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Srimathe Ramanujayanamaha!

Sri Jeeyar divyathiruvadigale saranam!!

 

Romapaada’s ministers gave the advice - sending the devadaasis to accompany

Rishyasringa would be the best idea. Rishyasringa who used to move in the woods

with great interest on thapas and swa:dhya:yam was not aware of the other sex.

He had no knowledge about the enjoyment of mundane pleasures. But the senses

are so powerful that they can lure the minds of even great souls and tempt

even those who had not known their enjoyment. So those exquisitely adorned

devadaasis could woo the maharshi and bring him here. On their advice, the king

entrusted this work to some ladies. Those charming devadaasis dressed

enchantingly went to the woods carrying many luxury things and wandered near his

hermitage trying to catch his attention. Rishyasringa was a dhira. He used to

lead his life contentedly carrying on his duties of ashram life. He kept himself

confined to the ashram. He never had any scope to have a look at any female or a

male living in the city or state.

 

One day he inadvertently saw the devadaasis singing delightfully in sweet voices

in his ashram premises. Seeing Rishyasringa alone there, all those ladies

approached him and enquired who he was and why he was roaming alone in that

dense uninhabited forest. Their beauty attracted him. Till then he had not seen

such pretty beings. So he attempted to reply their query, “My father is Rishi

Vibhandaka and I am Rishyasringa.”

 

Long back one day his father went to a spring to take bath and he saw there

U:rvasi. He was entranced by her bewitching beauty and a deer drank that water

and got pregnant. Rishyasringa took birth from that deer. Since he had a horn

similar to the rishyamriga, he was referred as Rishyasringa. He reached

Vibhandaka’s hermitage and started living there doing severe penance as a

celibate.

 

To be continued....

Jai Srimannarayana!

Ramanujamma Mudumbai, Ramanujadaasi.