SEETHA

RAMAYANA

Years rolled by; and while sixty thousand grew into strong, handsome princes, Asamanjas turned into a cruel lunatic. He indulged in the past time throwing little children into the river and laughed merrily as they struggled and died.

Naturally people hated this maniac and banished him from the country. To the great relief of all, Asamanjas' son, Amsumaan , was the opposite of his father and was a brave, virtuous and amiable prince.

King Sagara launched a great horse-sacrifice  and prince Amsumaan  was  in charge of the sacrificial horse, but Indra, in the guise of Raakshasa, managed to carry off the animal. The Devas regarded yaagas by mortals as a challenge to their superiority., and lost no opportunity of throwing obstacles in their way. If, however, all obstruction was overcome and the yaaga was completed, they accepted offerings made to them . And then he who performed the yaaga got due reward.

The King was greatly upset when he heard that the sacrificial horse was stolen. He sent out sixty thousand sons of Sumathi to go in search of the animal all over the earth and to spare no pains to retrieve it. 

"The loss of the horse," he impressed on them, "not only means obstruction to the yaaga; it casts sin and ignominy on all concerned. You should therefore, recover the horse , where ever it my be kept hidden."  

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BHAGAVAD-GITA.

2-69

what is  night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self controlled;and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.

2-70

A person who is not disturbed by he incessant flow of desires --that enter like river into the ocean, which is ever being being filled but is always still--can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires. 

2-71

A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego--he alone can attain real peace.

2-72

That  is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God. 

Contd..next.

పోతనభాగవతము

1-32,33

న్యాయాన్ని మెచ్చినవాడూ, చచ్చిపోయిన బ్రాహ్మణ బాాలున్ని తెచ్చి యిచ్చిన వాడూ, రుక్మిణీదేవి మనస్సుకు బాగా నచ్చినవాడూ, జగతికి సంతోషాన్ని సమకూర్చేవాడూ, సజ్జనుల ఆదరాభిమానాలను దిద్ది తీర్చేవాడూ, పట్టు పీతాంబరాన్ని కట్టుకునేవాడూ, బ్రహ్మాండ భాండాలను సృజించేవాడూ, గేపికల గృహాలవైపు పయనించేవాడూ, ఆదిశేషునిపై శయనించేవాడూ,

ఆయిన నా స్వామికి సమర్పితంగా శ్రీమన్మహాభాగవత పురాణం తెనిగించడానికి పూనుకొని  ఆ గ్రంథానికి కథా ప్రారంభం ఈ విధంగా చేస్తున్నాను. 

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