Ramayana has become an interesting story due to the wonderful references with respect to air travel. The role of Sampati has been narrated in detail in the past article. To remind a few facts, it is better to memorize them.
On hearing the prayer of Garuda, God Vishnu has blessed two healthy children to him. The elder one is Sampati and the younger is Jatayu. Both of them have performed their services towards Shree Rama, the incarnation of God Vishnu, in sincere devotion.
Initially, in Ramayana, Vibhishana could be observed as a loving and devoting younger brother of the demon, Ravana. He is the son of Kaikashi and his father is Vishrava. Vibhishana is considered as a demon but his ancestral history is rooted to a Gandharva Princess. The mother of Kaikashi is Ketumati and the father is Sumali. Sumali’s father is Sukesha and Sumali’s mother is the Gandharva Princess Manimaya. Sumali had fourteen children and Kaikashi was one of them. Thus, the palace of the great grandmother of Vibhishana could be only guessed.
In Ramayana, Shatrughna is a loving and devoting youngest brother of Rama. He is the younger son among the twin babies born to Sumitra and his father is Dasharatha. Shatrughna is considered as the incarnation of the Sudarshana Chakra of the protector God, Maha Vishnu. God Vishnu holds the wheel in his right hand, as a symbol of protection of Dharma. So Shatrughna also is the active character in protecting the Dharma with the incarnation of God Vishnu, Rama.
In Ramayana, Lakshmana is the loving and devoting younger brother of Rama. He is the son of Sumitra and his father is Dasharatha. Lakshmana is considered as the incarnation of the serpent king, Adishesha, also known as Sheshanag. God Vishnu takes rest, lying over, Adishesha. So he is the mattress to God Vishnu.
The adventures of Hanuman in Ramayana are famous throughout the world. Hanuman who will never die, or in our words, a Chiranjeevi, means, immortal or living forever, is unmarried and has a tail like a monkey or a monkey himself and is also a pure vegetarian.
Sita is the wife of Lord Rama and a great Mother Goddess in Ramayana. There is only one supreme power in this world. One may address it as a God or Goddess and in the case of Sita, she is the incarnation of the great Goddess Mother Earth, the wife of Shree Vishnu, known as Bhoodevi. Earth has the maximum tolerance power. Shree Shankaracharya in his commentary on Bhagavad Geetha already explained that the soul is a part of that Mother Goddess and that supreme power resides in the hearts of all living beings. There is only one supreme power and in this life itself people could realize that in Mother Goddess. Provided by his philosophy of Advaitha, only one incarnation of that supreme power, could be seen at a time, in front of our eyes, in human form. He is a great devotee of Mother Goddess. Before the incarnation of the Mother Goddess as Sita, she was invisible, manifesting in all the five fundamental items, i.e., the earth, air, fire, sky and water.
Ramayana is the greatest of epic writings the world has ever seen, written by Valmiki Maharshi in Sanskrit, read by everybody in some form or part of it again and again in our country. In the original book, Valmiki Maharshi initially, exhibits the main character, Rama as an ordinary king deprived of his throne or non-crowned. Driven out of palace and went to forest. Wife accompanied him but she is abducted by Demon Ravana. Rama bound to help Sugriva, the brother of Vali, the king of monkeys. Then the story reverses gradually since most of the actions executed by Rama establishes in the hearts of the readers, a sense of honor on him.
Our Earth is permanent, but always rotating around the sun. It is also revolving about its own axis which is inclined, more than twenty three degrees, having a shape of an apple. Technically, the shape is geoid. Three fourth of its mass is water and only one fourth is soil. In Rigveda or Yajurveda, it is explained as the Sun controls our Earth.
In mythology, Earth is worshiped as the wife of God Vishnu. God Shiva is allotted the duty of destruction according to the code of conduct of Indian (our) thought called Dharma. The dancing of Shiva is explained as Pralaya, which means total shuffling of the earth. The protector of earth has scientifically arranged one permanent shed as a safe house at Badari for the use in case of emergency and the creator Brahma used to sit in it, taking classes to his four children, namely, Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatkumara and Sanatana. That shed is called Narayana Ashram.
Continue readingNarada Maharshi is an epic character noted for doubts management. He used to propagate Narayana mantras, consisted of four letters. By playing his Tamburi {a guitar like musical instrument, having fretted with three Turkey strings} in tune of this mantra, he campaigned for Dharma and always travelled to the palaces of Asuras or Devas or even to any people in this world.
॥ नारायण नारायण नारायण ॥
Lord Vishnu is the father of Narada Maharshi and Goddess of wealth, Lakshmi is his mother. Lord Vishnu had taken twenty one round tours circumscribing the entire world, in order to protect the innocent people and give the capital punishment to the persons engaged in illegal actions, holding an axe, in disguise as a man with a name of Parasurama, or Asura Mardana. Narada Maharshi felt proud of his father.
Continue readingकूजन्तम् राम रामेति मधुरम् मधुराक्षरम्।
आरुह्य कविता शाखाम् वन्दे वाल्मीकि कोकिलम्॥
Ramayana has many good and exemplary characters beckoning holy nature. Varuna is the Charioteer and provides chariot riding services to the Sun God and is the brother of Garuda. Garuda serves Shree Mahavishnu providing self-body as a comfortable vehicle for his master’s satisfaction. Varuna one day desired to have a child and prayed to Sun God. God offered a male child immediately to Varuna but later, Varuna thought looking after a child with good care would become a problem while attending to his uninterrupted routine works of driving the horse chariot of Sun God.
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