RAAMA WINS SEETA'S HAND

RAMAYANA

All arrangements for Janaka's yaaga had been completed and to Mithila had come many rishis and Braahmanas from various kingdoms. Viswaamitra and the princes were duly welcomed . Janaka's preceptor, Sataananda , was the first to pay hpnour to Viswaamitra, Janaka followed him.

The King said to the sage:  "I am indeed blessed that you should attend my yaaga.

Pointing to Raama and Lakshmana, Janaka asked Viswaamitra "Who are these god-like youths who resemble each other, and carry their weapons with the proud ease of seasoned warriors? Who  is the happy father of such sons?"

enemy of this world. 

Viswaamitra told Janaka that they were the sons of King Dasaradha. He narrated how they had protected his own yaaga and destroyed the Raakshsas " "They have come here ," the sage went on, "to see , if they may, the great bow of Rudra in your palace." Janaka understood the meaning of Viswaamitra's words and rejoiced.

The King said: " The Prince is welcome to see the bow. If he can string it, he will win the hand of my daughter. Many were the princes who saw this bow and went back,  unable even to move it. I shall indeed be happy if this prince

 succeeds where so many have failed  and I am there by enabled to give Seeta to him."

Janaka then ordered his men to bring the bow which was kept safe and sacred in an iron box. It was brought on an eight wheeled carriage and dragged like a temple chariot during a festival.

Contd..next.

BHAGAVAD-GITA.

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The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world. 

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As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the living entity is similarly covered by different degrees of this lust. 

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Thus the wise living entity's pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust , which is never satisfied and which burns like fire.

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The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him. 

Contd..next. 

పోతనభాగవతము

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ఆ శౌనకాది మునీంద్రులు వినయశీలుడూ, విజ్ఞాన విశేషం చేత వేదాలనూ, పురాణాలనూ, పండించుకున్నవాడూ, శ్రీమన్నారాయణుని సద్గుణ సమూహాన్ని సంకీర్తించేవాడూ, అనంతమైన కారుణ్యంతో నిండినవాడూ అయిన సూతుణ్ణి ఆలోకించి ఈవిధంగా అన్నారు.  

మిగతాది..తర్వాత.

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