Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Shri Hanuman and Bhima's Ego 2/3

Shri Hanuman felt compression for His innocent brother who was ignorantly moving toward danger land of the Himalayas. Bhimsen did not know it. Because of his great enthusiasm and loud roars, huge chunks of ice would break off and fall down upon him. Shri Hanuman also become conscious that Bhimsen should not encourage the Yakshas (a special superhuman race of Himalayan dwellers) who could either dangerously harm or insult him.

So Shri Hanuman, out of compassion, laid down on the narrow little path leading to the mysterious part of the Himalayas. Bhimsen arrived there and saw the left and right there were steep mountains, and between them there was a narrow little path, which was blocked by an old golden-haired monkey looking being. There was no way to proceed expect by jumping over that insignificant looking, sleeping Vanara (monkey like human).So in order to awaken Him,Bhimsen roared and roared.


Shri Hanuman looked at him and said,

"I am old and sick, sleeping peacefully in silence. You are a human being and you appear to be intelligent and literate. Why did you awake me? Human beings can not proceed any further. You may be prosecuted or misled by the astral protectors of this land. Where do you wan to go?"

"Who is asking you the way?" Bhimsen replied in an unsubtle,crude tone. "You must get out of the way and let me go."


"Look, here are many sweet fruits and roots. Eat them and rest and rest and you will be more powerful.Then you can go back from here. Who are you to come this  inaccessible part of the world?" Shri Hanuman asked.


 'I am Bhimsen, son of King Pandu, born in the dynasty of the Moon," And getting tired of talking to this useless being he said, "I don't need your suggestions. You know now who I am. Show me the way."


'I have already told you that this path is not open to human beings. You may run into danger," Shri Hanuman said.


‘Don't bother for me. Just move over a little," Bhimsen persisted.

"I am feeling too sleepy, I cannot get up. You jump over my body and make your way," said Shri Hanuman.

“By jumping, Shri Hanuman crossed the ocean. I can also jump over this mountain, but God resides in every living being, so it is against the law of reverence of life to cross over any living soul," Bhimsen replied. 'Who is Hanuman?" Shri Hanuman innocently asked.

“Shri Hanuman is the Messenger of Sri Ram, the son of the Wind God. In the search for Sita, He leapt eight hundred miles across the ocean. He is my elder brother. Just move your tail, even that will be sufficient for me to pass," Bhimsen replied.

'I am unable to move any of the limbs. If you are in hurry, kindly move my tail by yourself and your own passage," Shri Hanuman said.


Bhimsen bent low and with the fingers of his left hand tried to throw away His tail, but the tail did not move. He used his right hand carefully, but the Monkey's tail did not move. He put his mace down on ground and tried again within both hands.


Message:-"Hatred is the heaviest Cross of all, my child. Even the heavens pity the person who carries the Cross of Hatred, as this Cross gets heavier and by the moment. Always be in peace and be in silence. Even if you can be in one such state, you can live through nobly. ”



He applied his whole power, got hot and perspired, and began taking long, deep breaths, but the tail was so mysterious. It didn't move one tiny bit. Then he stood with folded hands and said politely, Please excuse me for my imprudence. If you feel me worthy, please introduce yourself."

"I am Shri Hanuman," He replied.


"In this wilderness?" Bhimsen was surprised.


"It is not really a wilderness. So many astral musicians, dancers, and nature lovers from other planets have made their residence all around here. They satisfy my heart through singing the pastimes of Lord Ram. By the blessings of mother Sita, all the enjoyments I require are arranged and presented by Devas (Gods), Gandharvas (court musicians from heaven) and Apsaras (celestial dancers), and since they cannot  move freely among human beings, I also stay in this area. The Sougandhika lotus you want is quite near here. Its lake is there on the outside of the hill. Stop marching upward. This area is occupied by the the beings of other planets," Shri Hanuman said politely.


"It is my great, good fortune that I saw the lotus feet of my revered elder Brother," said Bhimsen, and he fell down at the feet of Shri Hanuman.


In answer to his request, Shri Hanuman described the various mystic incidents of the Ramayana. When Bhimsen heard about the huge, gigantic form of Shri Hanuman by which He leaped the ocean, he wanted to see it, after all Bhimsen was a power-lover.

"Don't wish to see it. In this Copper Age, no one can bear the great lustre and effulgence of that 'superhuman form. Man's capacities and higher faculties have been considerably reduced. The degree of higher values of human life has gone down," Shri Hanuman explained. "Why did it happen?" Bhimsen asked.

"Dharma (righteousness) is the root cause. Dharma is the very basis of memory, physical strength, endurance, and capacity to face the bliss. Dharma also influences the size of human beings. From the Golden Age until now, dharma has considerably reduced. And this has shortened the size of man. Now you cannot even face my enormous size I exhibited at that time. I am afraid you may lose consciousness," Shri Hanuman explained lovingly.


"I cannot move without seeing you in that powerful form." Bhimsen had a very stubborn and innocent personality; he clasped Shri Hanuman's feet and insisted.


"Well then, look," Shri Hanuman said, and He willed, and within a moment, a blinding, dazzling light flashed throughout the space, and Bhimsen saw that he was like a tiny little creature in comparison with the enormous size of Shri Hanuman, Who was larger than even the Gandhamadan hill, at the foot of which they were standing. It was shockingly wonderful and scary. The manifestation of extreme power, extreme velocity, and limitless strength is always frightening. In its natural state it looks dangerous.


Message:-



“Now we come to the most sublime form of faith. It’s called graceful surrender. How do 1 define this form of faith? It is as finely chiselled as a straw of grass and as strong as the roots of a banyan tree. It is because of this faith that even God hesitates before letting loose His wrath.

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Shri Hanuman and Bhima's Ego 1/3

Man suffers only because of the ego, and to a degree ego is reduced, to the same extent you feel relaxed, you become very sensitive, and you become friendly to your surroundings. And when it is totally disappeared, you become one with the whole existence. Ego is the greatest barrier in the spiritual path. The moment you transcend the last and finest point of your ego, the last extremity of your “I” ness, you realize God. Nothing can stop you from universalizing into Absolute Brahman (the Supreme Being).

            Irrespective of the method of meditation the Guru teaches you, it only leads to reduction of your ego eventually changing your outlook of the world. Your relation with your friends improves. Your degree of enjoying the joys of the world increase into deeper peacefulness and when through the spiritual practice, the ego is totally evaporated; your enjoyment becomes unlimited, unbounded, and perpetual. Come what may you will always remain stable and in a state of happiness eventually becoming liberated.

            Chosen once are those who have taken shelter at the patronage of the wisdom of one’s own spiritual Master. The more you surrender the faster the ego evaporates. If there is some delicate or different point in the ego, the Master breaks it. But it is done only to those who surrender. Others can feel offended, they may lose faith and so only chosen once are worked on. This is mercy of the Master and God. If the Master does not do it, an astral yogi does it. Otherwise, God Himself does it.


Bhimsen

Bhimsen was one among such chosen once and Shri Hanuman worked on it in a very interesting way.After receiving benedication  from Lord Pashupatinath in Nepal, Arjuna went to planet Svah to receive special education in archery and esoteric weapons.


The four brothers,Yudhisthira,Bhima,Nakul,Sahdev and the wife Draupadi, were waiting for him, residing in Badrinath on Nar Narayana hill of Himalaya.

One windy day, an extremely aromatic and beautiful, blue lotus flower the astral land of the Himalayas fell upon the flow of the river Alakananda, It flowed on,and when it reched near Pandava's ashram. Draupadi piked up. She was highly surprised and captivated by his beauty and perfume. She showed it to her husband and wanted some more similar flower. Bhimsen walked out, placing his dreadful mace in his shoulder, in search of the flower.He walked up the steep slopes and found a mysterious,deep silence.Since he was possessing ten thousand elephant power, being filled with ego, he was roaring again and again,echoing all around. It was so loud that his voice was echoing all over the hill and dales, valleys and jungles. It scared all animals and the elephants, boars and tigers started running towards the denser forest.

The whole of the Himalaya were like a playing field for Shri Hanuman. At this time He was sitting on one of the hills nearby,absorbed in the remembrance of that lotus-eyed,long armed, long-chested, Olympian King Shri Ram. His heart was full of joy, so much that he was unable to contain it, and His heart was overflowing in the tears. He heard the roar and realised why beasts were escaping. Although Shri Hanuman had not seen Bhimsen before, yet he knew that he was His own brother, born by the mercy of the Wind God at the end of the Copper age.