STORM AND CALM

 RAMAYANA

Let us resolve firmly to change this sorrows into joy. That would be a proof of our nobility and courage, Lakshmana. With the blessings of my mothers and elders. I shall go to the forest. Bring here the water. the water from the Ganga for the Coronation.  I shall use it for ablution before departing for the forest. No, no, that water belongs to the State and is intended for the coronation.  How can we tough it.? We shall go to holy Ganga ourselves and fetch the water for my ablution.  Brother , be not sad thinking of kingdom or wealth, life in the forest  will be my highest joy." 

So Raama revealed to his brother his inmost thoughts. In these passages Vaalmeeki uses the word daiva. In Sanskrit literature, daivam means fate. Daivam, dishtam,bhaagyam, niyati and vidhi are all words conveying the idea of something unexpected and inexplicable.  Because of the belief in God as the Prime Cause, a natural confusion arises between fate and God's will. What Raama said to Lakshmana on the present occasion does not mean that he thought that the Gods contrived Kaikeyi's action for their own benefit. Raama offered no more than the usual consolation. "It is the work of fate.  Do not grieve. No one is to blame for this.  

In Kamba Ramayana also addressing his brother 'raging like the fire of Dissolution. ' Raama says "it is not the river's fault that the bed is dry .  Even so, my going hence is not the King's fault, nor Queen Kaikeyi's nor her son's.  The wrong is the work, of fate. Why should one be angry then?".

Contd..next.

BHAGAVAD-GITA

9-5

And yet every thing that is created does not rest in Me. Behold  my mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities and although I am every where, I am not a part of this cosmic manifestation, for Myself is the very source of creation. 

9-6

Understand that as the mighty wind, blowing everywhere, rests always in the sky, all created beings rest in Me.

9-7

O son of Kunti, at the end of the millennium all material manifestations enter into My nature, and at the beginning of another millennium, by My potency, I create them again.

9-8

The whole cosmic order is under Me. Under My will it is automatically manifested again and again , and under My will it is annihilated at the end.

Contd..next.

పోతనభాగవతము

1-84

ఈ ప్రకారంగా వేదములు  విభజింపబడి మందబుద్ధులైన మానవులచే పఠింపబడుతూ ఉన్నవి. స్త్రీలూ, శూద్రులూ, బ్రహ్మ బంధువులూ, వేద శ్రవణానికి సమర్ధులుకాని కారణంగా, సామాన్యులందరికీ క్షేమం కలగాలనీ దీనవత్సలుడైన వ్వాసభగవానుడు మహాబారతాన్ని రచించాడు. ఆప్పటికీ విశ్వశ్రేయస్సుకోసం తానుచేసిన కృషిలో ఆయన హృదయం సంతుష్టం కాలేదు. అందువల్ల ఆమహర్షి సరస్వతీ నదీతీరంలో ఏకాంతంగా కూర్చుండి తన అసంతుష్టికి హేతువేమిటా ఆని ఆలోచించసాగాడు.  

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