Srimad Ramayana Tatva Deepika#75 (Ba:la Ka:nda)

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Srimathe Ramanujayanamaha!

Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!!

 

Later Valmiki took bath in the waters of Tamasa and contemplating on the

sloka of ‘ma:nisha:da’ which was giving out the purport of the entire

Ramayana, returned to his hermitage. Valmiki’s disciple Bharadwaja also

followed him to the hermitage carrying the kalas filled with water.

After coming back to the a:Sramam Valmiki finished his daily prayers and

sat down recollecting this sloka. Just then Chaturmukha Brahma arrived

there to see Valmiki as he had heard from Narada, who visited

Brahmalo:ka, about Valmiki. Valmiki at once got up from his seat with

reverence, went forward to receive Brahma, stood there spellbound with

adjoined palms. He worshipped Chathurmukha with arghya, pa:dya,

a:chamana and offered him a seat. Then Valmiki enquired his well being.

 

Chaturmukha beckoned Valmiki to be seated. With his permission Valmiki

sat down. Valmiki was pondering over the events - the arrival of the

Grandparent of

the worlds Brahma, the sloka unintentionally emanated from his tongue,

Sage Narada’s sudden visit there and his revelation of the story of Sri

Rama - and was puzzled and was meditating on them. Thus thinking in his

mind he felt, “Listening to that Krouncha bird’s cries my heart melted!

That hunter killed the bird without reason. I had some how submitted to

the grief in my heart with out my knowledge. This slo:ka emerged. Don’t

know the reason!”

 

Seeing Valmiki in a confused state - not knowing the fact that He

(Chaturmukha) made his consort Saraswathi to be seated on Valmiki’s

tongue and made him utter the ‘slo:ka’, - told him smiling, “A slo:ka

came out of your tongue. It is the poem intended to sing the glory of

Sri Ramachandra but not intended to express grief. You need not worry

about it in your mind. The sloka ‘ma:nisha:da’ was emerged on my

‘sankalpa’ by Saraswathi. You author ‘Ramacharitha’ in detail as an

epic. Sri Ramachandra is Dharma:thma. Not in this world alone, in all

the lokas he is the ‘gunavan’. He is the radiant, resplendent, he is the

giver of ‘A:nanda’, the erudite scholar, he is the One who can bear the

whole expanse of earth. You heard the story briefly from Narada. You

render the legend of Sri Rama. I bless you that you shall know all that

is unknown to you.

 

In the story of Sri Rama, Lakshmana, Sita and the demons whatever

happened and what all happened either in public or in private knowingly

or secretly will be clearly visible to your mind’s eye. There will not

be a single word which will not be true in Sri Ramayana - the story of

SriRama you are going to write. You render Ramakatha in pleasant verses

in the sloka format. The Ramayana you are going to author will flourish

in all the worlds as long as the mountains flourish and the rivers flow

on this earth. You will flourish in my Brahma loka as long as Sri

Ramayana is in propagation in the world,” and lord Brahma vanished.

 

(In the next posting …)

Jai srimannarayana!

Ramanujamma Mudumbai, Ramanuja Dasi