Chinna Katha 2 - Rasas - Vishnu

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Chinna Katha 2

 

Rasas

 

Man is becoming slave to five senses Sabda, sparsa, rupa, rasa and gandha. He is

ruined by the temptations of these five senses. Here is an episode narrated by

Brahmasri Chaganti Koteswara Rao garu in his Pravachanas on Devi Tatvam in

Hyderabad recently.

 

A studious intermediate boy prepared for EAMCET thoroughly. He kept a stop clock

and wrote mock tests for one hour each. He evaluated the papers himself. He

secured centum in all his mock tests. His preparation was so thorough, he was

cock sure of getting a rank

within the first 100.

 

Finally the day of the EAMCET examination dawned. He sat in the examination hall

with his pencil, pen, eraser, hall ticket and all. Invigilator gave him the

question paper booklet and answer card. The bell rang indicating the start of

the examination. The boy opened the question paper book let. All the questions

were known to him. He was ecstatic. He was ready to start solving the problems

and mark the answers.

 

Suddenly a melodious film song broke out from a nearby speaker in a marriage

pandal. It was his favourite song. The boy was immersed in the song. The speaker

was playing, song after song all his favorite songs. The boy was totally lost in

his favorite songs.

 

Suddenly, he remembered he was in an exam hall writing the EAMCET exam his hopes

and aspirations were pinned on. He came to his senses and realized he had spent

half the available exam time listening to film songs. In a state of panic he

furiously attempted answering the

paper in the remaining time but was unable to. He got 96623rd rank. He finally

secured an engineering seat in a college not of his choice and only on payment.

 

Why did an unusually intelligent and hard working boy fail to secure a good

education on merit? Because he became a slave to rasas, his life was ruined.

Having surrendered to Sabda, Sparsa, Rupa, Rasa and Gandha (the five senses),

the deer, elephant, locust, fish and butterfly lose their lives. That is why

sastras prescribe control of panchendriyas as the first step to Sadhak.