SEETA'S RESOLVE

 RAMAYANA

A fine speech you have made. O Knower of Dharma. It is to me a strange doctrine that a wife is diverse from her husband  and that is his duty not hers, and that she has no right to share in it. I can never accept it.  I hold that your fortunes are mine,  and if Raama has to go the forest, the  command includes Seeta also, who is a part of him. I shall walk in front of you in the forest ways and tread the thorns and the hard ground to make them smooth for your feet.  Do not think me obstinate.  My father and mother have instructed me in dharma. What you tell is totally opposed to what they have taught me.  To go with you where ever you go --that is my only course.  If you must go to the forest today, then today I go with you. There is no room here for any discussions.  Do not think that I cannot bear forest life .  With you by my side it will be a joyous holiday. I shall not be a source of trouble to you .  I shall eat fruit and roots like you and I shall not lag behind as we walk. 

I have long wished to go to the woods with you and rejoice in the sight of great mountains and rivers.  I shall spend the time most happily among birds and flowers, bathing in the rivers and doing the daily rites.  Away from you, I do not care for Heaven itself.  I shall surely die if you leave me behind.  I implore you to take me with you. Have pity on me. Do not forsake me now.

Beginning in answer, her speech ended in sobs, Raama explained to Seeta that life in the forest was not as easy as she thought and set out at great length the difficulties and dangers and again insisted that she should not think of accompanying him.

Contd..next.

BHAGAVAD-GITA

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when they have thus enjoyed vast heavenly sense pleasure and the results of their pious activities are exhausted, they return to this mortal planet again.  Thus those who seek sense enjoyment by adhering to the principles of the three Vedas achieve only repeated birth and death. 

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But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My Transcendental from--to them I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have.

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Those who are devotees of other Gods and who worship them with faith actually worship only Me, O son of Kunti, but they do so in a wrong way.

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 I am the only enjoy-er and master of all sacrifices. There fore, those who do not recognize My true transcendental nature fall down. 

Contd..next.

పోతనభాగవతము

పరాశరనందనా! నీవు ధాతువు. పంచమవేదమైన భారతాన్ని రచించావు. వేదాల తాత్పర్యాన్ని చక్కగాతెలుసుకొన్నావు. కామం, క్రోధం, లోభం, మోహం, మదం, మాత్సర్యం, అనే అరిషడ్వర్గాన్ని జయించినవాడవు. పరబ్రహ్మ తత్వాన్ని నిర్ణయించినవాడవు, యోగులలో అగ్రేసరుడవు,  వినయసంపన్నుడవు, ఇటువంటి నీవు ఈవిధంగా చలించిపోయి, పిరికివానివలె 
విచారించటానికి, కారణమేమయ్యా? ఆశ్చర్యంగా ఉందే?'
మిగతాది.. తర్వాత.

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రామో

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