Day 12
Jai Sri Ram.
Apl. 16, 2012.
Rama, the Valours and the Warmhearted.
The second epithet that marks the greatness of Lord Sri Rama is His valour.We can cite an instance when He crossed arrows with Kara Dhushana and their army of 14000 rAkashasas at Janasthana. That was a single handed heroic feat which Sita acknowledged with a loving hug, as if to medicare the wounds of courage, befitting His victory.
The other instance would be the war He had to wage with the ill-gotten Ravana himself, as he, despite the words of providence provided by Hanuman, the envoy from Sri Rama, Vibheeshana, his own younger brother and finally by Angada, Chieftain in Rama's army, did not mend his ways.
Sri Rama, as a measure of His Kind heartedness, on the penultimate day let him go and advised to return to war the next day, if only unwilling to return Sita and beseech a pardon. But Ravana returned the next day to be finished by Rama, just like decombing the weed in a pot of flowers in His patio.
His was however never a brute valour, but the one guided by intelligence and warm heartedness.
The third attribute that befits Sri Rama is that He the knower of Rituous ways or Dharmajna: Albeit, Rama is the personification of Rituousness, let not that be understood in a general way. The essence of dharma for Him is being benignant. When some body is in pain or grief, He grieves for them, far too emotionally than them.
For instance, Sugreeva was grieved at the loss of Vali, his estranged elder brother, in a bout involving both of them, for his own cause. Rama sobbed even after , he, Sugreeva stopped at one stage. This aspect is known as "Paradukka dukitvam".
One can see an objection as to how Rama could be eulogized for valour when He had to fight a war of seven days to vanquish Ravana or that His armor has to chase a crow-demon leaving enough time to run round the three worlds in pursuit of refuge etc.
Sri Rama was not a brute warrior. When His, long rope of hope fails to fructify, He does the act of finishing. The crow-demon in reality survived the BrahmAstra by such pittance but Ravana did not of his own misdemeanor.
The other objection could be that Sri Rama being an Avtar, how could He sob in pain for others instead of relieving their pain.
Sri Rama does that not out of His own sufferings in the first instance. But for others that too as a mother would do for a child and remedy the ills soothingly as well.
When we have a Protector and a good Samaritan as Sri Rama, what we have to remorse for? Truely Nothing, we do know.
Jai Sri Ram.
Apl. 16, 2012.
Rama, the Valours and the Warmhearted.
The second epithet that marks the greatness of Lord Sri Rama is His valour.We can cite an instance when He crossed arrows with Kara Dhushana and their army of 14000 rAkashasas at Janasthana. That was a single handed heroic feat which Sita acknowledged with a loving hug, as if to medicare the wounds of courage, befitting His victory.
The other instance would be the war He had to wage with the ill-gotten Ravana himself, as he, despite the words of providence provided by Hanuman, the envoy from Sri Rama, Vibheeshana, his own younger brother and finally by Angada, Chieftain in Rama's army, did not mend his ways.
Sri Rama, as a measure of His Kind heartedness, on the penultimate day let him go and advised to return to war the next day, if only unwilling to return Sita and beseech a pardon. But Ravana returned the next day to be finished by Rama, just like decombing the weed in a pot of flowers in His patio.
His was however never a brute valour, but the one guided by intelligence and warm heartedness.
The third attribute that befits Sri Rama is that He the knower of Rituous ways or Dharmajna: Albeit, Rama is the personification of Rituousness, let not that be understood in a general way. The essence of dharma for Him is being benignant. When some body is in pain or grief, He grieves for them, far too emotionally than them.
For instance, Sugreeva was grieved at the loss of Vali, his estranged elder brother, in a bout involving both of them, for his own cause. Rama sobbed even after , he, Sugreeva stopped at one stage. This aspect is known as "Paradukka dukitvam".
One can see an objection as to how Rama could be eulogized for valour when He had to fight a war of seven days to vanquish Ravana or that His armor has to chase a crow-demon leaving enough time to run round the three worlds in pursuit of refuge etc.
Sri Rama was not a brute warrior. When His, long rope of hope fails to fructify, He does the act of finishing. The crow-demon in reality survived the BrahmAstra by such pittance but Ravana did not of his own misdemeanor.
The other objection could be that Sri Rama being an Avtar, how could He sob in pain for others instead of relieving their pain.
Sri Rama does that not out of His own sufferings in the first instance. But for others that too as a mother would do for a child and remedy the ills soothingly as well.
When we have a Protector and a good Samaritan as Sri Rama, what we have to remorse for? Truely Nothing, we do know.
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