Arjuna & Hanuman...... Greatness of nama.... Must read by all

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Courtesy Ramakrishna Math

 

Arjuna once got a very big gnawing doubt. If Rama was

really a good archer, why did not build a bridge of

arrows? Why did he have to struggle so long with a

monkey army for the bridge? He very much wanted to

meet Hanuman and get the answer to this question.

While he was on a pilgrimage in South India he prayed

a lot to meet Hanuman and once he finally did meet him

in an old temple where RamNam was being sung.

 

Hanuman was sitting in a corner quietly meditating on

Ram.He asked him, “If Rama was truly a great archer as

he claimed why did he not think of building a bridge

with arrows?

 

Hanuman laughed and said, “How could he? How can a

bridge of arrows hold the weight of us monkeys?”

 

Arjuna said, “It should be possible. I can build such

a bridge now if you want”

 

Hanuman and Arjuna entered into a bet. Arjuna will

build a bridge of arrows and if Hanuman is able to

walk on it, Hanuman will enter fire else Arjuna will.

Accordingly, Arjuna got ready to build the bridge.

 

Hanuman sat in a corner repeating RamNam. When the

bridge was built, Hanuman still uttering Ram’s name,

kept his tail on it. The bridge broke into pieces.

Seeing this, Arjuna became despondent. As per the bet,

he had to enter fire. He was not worried about dying.

He felt terrible that his entire archery knowledge was

a waste.

 

Hanuman tried to dissuade Arjuna from carrying out the

bet. But Arjuna was adamant. He lit a fire and was

about to jump into it when an old brahmin came along.

Seeing a man ready to jump into fire he asked what the

matter was.

 

Both Hanuman and Arjuna repeated the entire story. The

brahmin said, “For any bet you need a witness. Now who

is your witness? Both Hanuman and Arjuna said that

there was none. The brahmin said, “This is not a valid

bet as you do not have any witnesses. Can you repeat

your bet? I will be the witness this time. Whoever

fails will jump into fire”.

Now, Hanuman was fully aware that he could bring down

the bridge. Arjuna knew that doing it the second time

was not going to change the results. Still feeling

very despondent, he prayed constantly to Krishna and

built his bridge.

 

Hanuman knew that he could bring down any bridge and

he had just done so. As soon as Arjuna completed the

bridge Hanuman hit his tail, supremely confident that

the bridge would crumble to pieces.

 

Lo! Nothing happened. He put one foot, again the

bridge stood. He started walking on it. The bridge

continued to stand.

 

Hanuman now got angry, He started pacing up and down

furiously still the bridge was very much in tact.

He came down to accept defeat. But he felt that

something was wrong. He came up to the brahmin and

asked,

 

“Who are you?”

 

Now Krishna revealed his form. He said, first time

Arjuna had the feeling that he was building the bridge

whereas Hanuman thought all the time of Rama. So

Rama’s power cannot fail and he won.

 

Second time, humbled by his defeat, Arjuna uttered

Krishna’s name for every arrow and so Krishna’s name

cannot fail. Meanwhile Hanuman was sure that he would

win the next time and so he thought he was bringing

down the bridge which why the bridge stood the test.

Neither of you failed. The Lord’s power won that is

all said Krishna and reconciled them both.

 

RadheKrishna

 

Pl chant:

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

 

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