AHALYA

RAMAYANA

'Lustful beast as you are, dead to all truth and righteousness, may your manhood fall away from you,'

"Indra at once became an eunuch and went back to the Devas in ignominious shame.

"Then the sage turned to his erring wife and prescribed a long penance for her. He said: 'Living on air, you shall stay here, unseen by anyone. After a long time, Dasaradha's son will pass this way. When he sets foot in this aashrama, you will freed from the course. Welcome him as a guest. You will then recover your last virtue and get back your own beauty.'

The sage then left his violated aashrama for Himalaya to engage himself in austerities there."

Viswaamitra said to Raama: "Let us enter the aashrama.  You will bring redemption to Ahalya and re-kindle the light in her as the sage promised."

And they went into the aashrama, As Raama set foot in the aashrama, the curse was lifted and Ahalya stood before them in all her beauty. Having lain concealed behind leaves and  creepers and kept her vow for many years, she now shone, says the poet, in Raama's presence, like the moon emerging from the clouds, like a flame issuing from smoke and like the sun's reflection in rippling water.

Raama and Lakshmana touched the feet of the sage's wife and pure by penance. She welcomed the divine princes with all the customary rites of hospitality. A shower of flowers descended from the heavens as Ahalya cleansed of sin, shone like a goddess; simultaneously the sage Goutama returned to the aashrama and received his repentant and purified wife back to his affection. 

Contd..next.

Bhagavad-Gita

3-25

As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, the learned may similarly act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path.

3-26

So as not disrupt the minds of ignorant men attached to the fruitive results of prescribed duties, a learned person should not induce them to stop work. Rather, by working in the spirit of devotion, he should engage them in all sorts of activities ( for the gradual development of Krishna consciousness) 

3-27

The spirit soul bewildered by the influence  of false ego thinks himself doer of activities that are in actually carried out by the three modes of material nature. 

3-28

One who is knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty armed , does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results.

Contd..next.

పోతనభాగవతము

నటనటీ సుషిరాన్వితమై నాట్యరంగం వలె ఉంది.

చందన కర్పూర తిలకాంచితమై పార్వతీ పాలభాగం వలె ఉంది.

ఇంద్రబాణాసన మేఘకరక కమనీయమై వర్షాగమం వలె ఉంది.

గాయత్రీ విరాజితమై వేదం వలె ఉంది.

సరళ మృదులతా కలితమై మహాకావ్యం వలె ఉంది. 

సువర్ణ రుచిరమై వినతా గృహంవలె ఉంది. 

సుమనోలలితమై అమరావతి పట్టణంవలె ఉంది

మధుమానితమై కైటభువి అధికారంవలె ఉంది. 

అమృత ఫలదమై హరిసేవనం వలె ఉంది.  

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