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Sunday, May 14, 2023

What if Rama said No to Sita

 Simplification has been the motto behind any scripture written in India! 

Veda Vyasa Maharshi classified Vedas and said these are complex so I have to simplify 

Veda -- Vedanga -- Sootras -- Upanishad -- Purana -- > This is where he left simplification probably he would have covered last mile human of population then available and would have felt his simplification succeeded. 

But then the more days passed people might not have gone to the top most knowledge and simplified what is in hand as a result we have concept of Eka-Shloki  

The Eka Sholki for Ramayana starts as  

aadau Rama tapovanadi gamanam drushtwa mrigam kaanchanam 

This is my attempt to apply a learning from this shloka to day-to-day life so I felt like not writing full Shloka initially but its a job of merit to think of Ramayana so let me copy-paste full shloka so that you -- my reader also get the benefit 

आदौ राम तपोवनादि गमनं हत्वा मृगं कांचनं
वैदेही हरणं जटायु मरणं सुग्रीव संभाषणम् ।
वाली निग्रहणं समुद्र तरणं लंकापुरी दाहनं
पश्चात् रावण कुंभकर्ण हननं एतध्दि रामायणम्।।
ādau rāma tapovanādi gamanaṃ hatvā mṛgaṃ kāṃcanaṃ
vaidehī haraṇaṃ jaṭāyu maraṇaṃ sugrīva saṃbhāṣaṇam .
vālī nigrahaṇaṃ samudra taraṇaṃ laṃkāpurī dāhanaṃ
paścāt rāvaṇa kuṃbhakarṇa hananaṃ etadhdi rāmāyaṇam..
https://shlokam.org/adaurama/
And now we will continue what if Rama said No to Sita-mata's request to get golden deer 
She would have got  upset with him, she would have been upset for few hours and yes that would impact Rama for some hours and also LakshmaNa, but Rama felt this is a small task and took it up which changed the course of their life forever, they were upset for a longer duration in the life but the story remained in lives of humanity and would remain forever. 
Now we also quite often get into situations where we take a step and it opens up box of pandora and roller coaster drive triggers on its own. 

Was it in Rama's thought process to say yes / no based on a lengthy discussion or just he thought let me do it. 
Do we get time to think this much before we take any next step or do we just take it to get out of current situation. 
This makes me think that even if we are not aligned, there is a power that is running business logic in cloud container called brain, so let's go with flow. 
Now you might ask will my story be same as Rama's if I go with all Chaos, Yes of course, because Rama's story is not written to tell us how Rama lived but it is telling us how to live, we have to live Rama's way -- that is being tranquile in any condition. 
Hope I have kept it simple enough, a famous Telugu vaggeyakara [composer-lyricist] said - "Takkuvemi manaku Ramundu okkadu undu varaku" meaning "what do we lack in life as long as Rama is in it?" 
We lack nothing, have a great life.

Jai Shri Rama 
Jaya Guru Datta.  

1 comment:

Krishna said...

చాలా బాగుంది రా ఆది! మంచి విషయం మంచి మాటలు 👍