PARASURAAMA'S DISCOMFITURE.

RAMAYANA

HAVING thus safely handed back to Dasaradha at Mithila the princes entrusted to him in Ayodhya and after attending the wedding celebrations Viswaamitra took leave of the two kings and went to Himalaya. In the story of Raama, Viswaamitra has no further part.

Viswaamitra may be said to be the foundation of the grand temple of Raama's story. After Raama's wedding in Mithila, we do not see him again. It should be noted that characters who play a leading role in one canto of Vaalmeeki almost fade out in  subsequent  cantos. Viswaamitra who dominates the Baala Kaanda does not appear again. Similarly Kaikeyi and Guha are prominent only in Ayodhya kaanda. The same thing can be said of Bharata whom we do not come across in the chapters intervening between the Chitrakoota meeting and Raama's return to Ayodhya. The poet hardly brings Bharata  before our eyes during the period of Rama's distress. The characters in Vaalmeeki Ramayana (unlike those in the Mahabhaaratha and in ordinary plays and novels) do not present themselves off and on. Critics should bear this general characteristic of Vaalmeeki's epic in mind. 

King Dasaradha returned to Ayodhya, accompanied by his retinue. On the way, there were bad omens and anxious Dasaradha asked Vasishtha what they portended. Vasishtha replied that there was no need to be alarmed, for though the birds in the air indicated approaching trouble, the animals on the land promised a happy consummation.
Contd.. next.

BHAGAVAD-GITA.

4-5
The personality of Godhead said: Many,many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!

4-6
Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.

4-7
Whenever and Where ever there  is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and predominant raise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself.

4-8
To deliver the pious and annihilate miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.
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పోతనభాగవతము

1-44
మునీంద్రా ఈ కలియుగంలోని మానవులందరూ సోమరిపోతులు, మందబుద్ధులు, మందభాగ్యులు, అల్పాయుష్కులు. నానా విధాలైన బయంకర వ్యాధులు వాళ్ళను పట్టి పల్లారుస్తున్నాయి. వాళ్ళు సత్కార్యములేవీ చేయటానికి అసమర్థులౌతున్నారు. అందువల్ల ఏది వారి ఆత్మలకు శాంతిని  ప్రసాదిస్తుందో అటువంటి మార్గాన్ని అనుగ్రహించు.   
మిగతాది..తర్వాత.
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