Srimad Ramayana Tatthva Deepika - Ba:la Ka:nda (12)

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Asmad Gurubhyonamaha!!!

Jeeyar Thiruvadigale saranam!!!

 

Jaisrimannarayana!!!

 

Dridhavratha is one who is determined in his

deeds. A human being should have strong

determination. Whatever one plans, one should

have the grit to execute them. This strength

of will is called ‘adhyavasa:yam’. SriRama as

a human being excelled in this. As Sitha,Rama

and Lakshmana reached the forest the rishis

prayed to SriRama to rescue them from the hands

of the demons. Rama, the son of Dasaratha, the

ruler for the people inthat kingdom, thought it

his responsibility to protect those rishis and

gave his word accordingly. After giving the

promise as he returned to the ashram Seetha

confronted him saying that killing the demons to

protect the rishis is ‘adharma’. Seetha, being

the piratti wanted to ascertain how strong Rama

would be in his words.

 

Men commit three types of blunders due to ‘ka:ma’.

One is aspiring for another woman.

Second is resorting to lying.

The third is to harm some one without enmity.

 

 

Seetha tells Ramachandra, ”Prabhu! You don’t

aspire for other women. You never lie. But

killing the demons without hostility is not

dharma. It is nothing but ‘ka:ma-pravritthi’.

You should not do like that.”

 

Ramachandra replies:

 

“apyaham jeevitham jahya:m

thva:m va: seethe: salakshmana:m |

nathu prathijna:m samsruthya

bra:hmane:bhyo: vishe:thaha ||”

 

“Seetha! I don’t care to lose my life. I am not

bothered if I have to leave you. I am ready

even to leave Lakshmana. but I can never take

back my word given to the sages who are

brahmavetthas.”

 

Thus he showed his determination. He agreed to protect

Vibheeshana though Sugreeva and others did not like it,

for he was from the foe’s side. Ramachandra tells that

if anyone seeks his protection even once he will be

shielded

from his enemies and this is his ‘vratha’(religiously

practised).

 

The Lord is a ‘dridhavratha’.

Like a farmer who untiringly cultivates his farm

year after year even though the crops fail the

Lord is giving us bodies again and again with

strong determination on his ‘sankalpa’ (srishti)

to evolve these souls.

 

 

Jaisrimannarayana!!

 

Mudumbai Ramanujamma

Ramanuja dasi