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

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> Srimathe Ramanujayanamaha!

> Sri Jeeyar divyathiruvadigale saranam!!

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> 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.

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> 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. "

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> 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.

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> To be continued....

> Jai Srimannarayana!

> Ramanujamma Mudumbai, Ramanujadaasi.

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