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Om Asmath Gurubyo Namaha

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

In 16th sarga, during Aswametha and puthrakameshti Yagas, the devathas along

with Chaturmukha Brahma came to Ayodhya, to accept their oblations . They were

not visible to human eyes. But our sage Valmiki able to observe the discussion

between the devathas and Chaturmukha Brahma. After giving their respects to

Him, the devathas were saying "Oh! Brahma!, Because of your boon to Ravana,

he became very powerful and cruel. Not only he is creating chaos on earth, but

also he is trying to dethrone Indra and takeover Indraloka. All demigods have to

obey him, the fire, the wind, and other natural elements are all under his

control. Please tell us an "UPAYA" (means), to destroy him. Because we have to

respect your boon, we are bearing all this cruelty, otherwise we would kill him"

.. Brahma kindly said "Do not fear, when Ravana asked for the boon, that he

shouldn't be killed by anybody, he forgot to include Nara, Vanara, and Ruksha

(bear). He was quite arrogant to think that, they were too insignificant to be

included. Now we have a chance to kill Ravana, (because of the loop hole), by

any one of them". Meanwhile Sri Mahavishnu appeared with all His glory

(Sankhu, Chakra Gada Pani), full of grace and karunyam. He is Jagathpathi and

jadrakshaka(protector) . He is the only one, capable of killing Ravana with his

whole clan, as Andal mentions in Thiruppavai "polla arakkanai killikkalaidhanai"

(uprooted the bad rakshasa). On seeing Mahavishnu all the devathas surrendered

onto Him and prayed Him to be born to Dasaratha. Vishnu immediately accepted

their prayer and chose King Dasaratha as his father. He told with the devathas

"I will born to Dasaratha to eliminate Ravana, and rule over Ayodhya for 11000

years". He vanished after giving His abhaya. Before going away He asked them

innocently "How would you like me to be born?" Devathas immediately replied

"please be born as Nara", and He accepted their request.

 

At the finishing point of all proceedings of Yaga, from the fire came a

divine Purusha, emanating radiance. He was holding a golden vessel containing

Divine Payasam, (milk desert), and offered it to Dasaratha. He accepted the

prasadam, with humbleness and great reverence and did pradakshina to the

DivinePurusha. On recommendation of Vasishta, he took the prasadam to his palace

and gave his queen Kausalya one half, one half of the left over to Sumithra,

with quarter of the payasam left,He gave half of it to Kaikeyi, and leftover to

Sumithra, (Kausalya ½, Sumithra ¼, Kaikeyi 1/8 and Sumithra 1/8) in that order.

Some Ramayanas say that Sumithra didn't get payasam which is not true, as it

contradicts Valmiki. Ramayana.

 

According to the prayer of the devathas Lord Vishnu wants to came into

the World in four forms i.e. four sons of Dasaratha to show us a righteous path.

1)Pithru vakya paripalana (obey father's words) and love towards brothers- Rama

2)Seshathvam- kainkaryam (the duty of the soul is to serve Lord)- Lakshmana

3)Parathanthryam (to obey and serve implicitly of perumal) - Bharatha

4)Bhagavatha kainkaryam, the higher level of seshathvam, (to obey and

serve the Bhagavathas(devotees)-Sathrughna.

 

Going further, with the birth of 4 children, let us see what else our

purvacharya's has taught us.

 

Dasaratha represents "Jeevathma", and the 3 queens represent 3 gunas, namely

Sathvika, thamasa,and rajasa. Every soul possesses all these gunas. So, we have

to see within us. Everyone of us are Dasarathas, having 3gunas. Now Dasaratha

did a Mahayajnam to get children. They are nothing but the purusharthas.

Purushartha-means one can have desire and get through his effort. The 4

children represent 4 purusharthas. They are Dharma, Artha,Kama and Moksha. Like

Dasaratha to get these purursharthas we have to lead our life like a Yajna,

worshipping the Lord. Lord Vishnu wants to taught us how to practice all these

things. So He came in four forms.

 

Dharma- by practicing it we can attain both physical and eternal welfare, as

revealed by Rama

Artha- means wealth, the real wealth is doing service to Lord, when we use our

wealth for divine sake then only it will be called as a real wealth as Lakshmana

did.

Moksha-eternal bliss and to be realizes by all, Bharatha being the perfect

example

Kama- desire for Moksha only, as experienced by Sathrughna. (Andal in

Thiruppavai quotes "mattrai num kamangal maatrelo" to rid of all other

kamas).

Dharma and Artha go hand in hand like Rama and Lakshmana and Moksha and kama go

hand in hand like Bharatha and Sathrughna.

 

Tomorrow we will read about the festivity of the birth of Kausalya,

Sumithra, and Kaikeyi's children.

 

Jai Srimannarayana!

Contd.

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