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Today evening Swami came at 3:15 P.M. an hour earlier than yesterday (also, in the morning darshan Swami came early i.e. at around 8. 00 Am. & took a round on His mobile chair) as usual after arriving in Sai Kulwant Hall Swami took His full darshan round in the car and got down near the interview room. Immediately after, Swami went inside the interview room. After some time Swami came out on His mobile chair & took a round of upper verandah and talked to many devotees sitting there. Swami entered the bhajan mandir from the far left door. At that time only the music college boys were sitting inside the bhajan mandir. Swami spent almost one hour with them. Today evening Swami spent a great deal of time with these boys. Perhaps, planning for Kodaikanal journey? At 4:30 p.m. Swami went back to interview room. Then Seva dal on duty near bhajan mandir allowed the waiting “bhajan lines” devotees to go inside the bhajan hall. Many of the devotees queued up for bhajan mandir lines had given up of having close darshan of Swami inside the bhajan mandir because now that Swami had spent almost one hour inside the bhajan mandir and gone back to Interview room, chances of His coming back were quite slim. The bhajan started at five p.m. Swami walked into mandir after five minutes and sat on His throne, a pleasant surprise indeed. Bhajans ended at 5:35. P.M. after the sacred Aarti Swami left for His " Yajur Mandiram " Swami's New residence.

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SOME GLIMPSES OF THE RAMAYANA, AS REVEALED BY SWAMI

Loving Sai Ram and greetings from Prashanti Nilayam. In a few days from now, we here, as many elsewhere, would be celebrating the festival of Sri Rama Navami, the anniversary of the advent of the Rama Avatar. The Rama Avatar is the first of the Great Avatars, in which God in human form spent a considerable amount of time on earth, teaching invaluable lessons to us humans.

The epic story of Rama or the Ramayana as it is called, was first recorded by Sage Valmiki. Since then, several versions of the Ramayana have appeared in many languages. In that sense, much is already supposed to be known about Rama, His life and His Message. Nevertheless, in His own inimitable way, Swami has added wonderful nuances to the traditional story of Rama, that give us insight never before available. In this letter, we would like to recall three examples of such enlightenment.

Our first recall is courtesy late Prof. Sampath, who spent many years at Swami’s Lotus Feet, part of it as the Third Vice Chancellor of Swami’s Institute. Once during that period, Swami took Prof Sampath with Him to Kodaikanal. As sometimes happens, that year, the festival of Rama Navami occurred during Swami’s stay in Kodai. Typically on that morning, Swami not only recalls aspects of Rama’s life but also materialises some object that featured in Rama’s life. One year it was the amazingly big ring of Rama, another year it was the huge diamond that Sita gave to Hanuman as proof of his meeting with Sita, and so on.

This particular year, after Swami had spoken to the students, Prof Sampath recalled a famous Tamil song that describes how when the young princes, Rama and Lakshmana were walking on the streets of Mithila along with Sage Viswamitra, Sita who was standing in a balcony in the palace, saw Rama and wondered: “Who is this person, and what is His name?” The moment Prof Sampath made a reference to this famous song, Swami sternly admonished Prof Sampath saying, “Don’ talk rubbish. Nothing like that happened.” “No Swami, there is a version of the Ramayana which describes such a scene and there is this song there. It is actually a famous song and many leading musicians have in fact recorded this song.” Swami then said, “All that is nonsense. Was this poet in Mithila when Rama and Lakshmana walked the streets? How does he know? Take it from Me, nothing like that happened. Lord Rama was the very Embodiment of Supreme Consciousness while Mother Sita was the very Embodiment of Divine Energy. They took human forms to enact a sacred drama in order to teach special lessons to humanity. Such unwanted poetic and romantic fiction tends to give wrong ideas to people, and this sort of thing must certainly not be said before My students!” That message was certainly loud and clear. On a later occasion, in a different context, Swami told late Mr. V. K. Narasimhan (for many years the editor of Sanathana Sarathi) that poets and writers often inject their own romantic aberrations while describing the story of the Lord, thereby both distorting as well as polluting it.

Our next recall is from a Discourse that Swami once gave to students during a Summer Course. Now Ravana the principal villain of Ramayana is normally portrayed as an evil man who coveted another man’s wife. In factual terms, this is certainly correct. But Swami told students that the inner significance of this so-called abduction was something much deeper. Ravana’s abduction of Sita is symbolic of man imagining that Nature is there for his benefit and is available for him to exploit as he pleases. In this respect, Ravana personified modern man who thinks that Nature belong to him and exists for him to exploit. Ravana failed to see Nature as his Divine Mother and paid the price for it. Modern man too would pay a heavy price one day, if he keeps on going the way he is doing at present. Swami added, “Mother Nature is very kind and generous, and She will give you anything you want, provided you pray to Her for that. If instead She is ill treated, She would be patient up to a point but beyond that, She would be aroused; and when that happens, be warned that hell would break loose!” The warning is there loud and clear, but is anyone listening?

On now to the third example of the way Swami makes us read between the lines. One day in Trayee, Swami said to students, “You all know the scene where Sugriva brings the bundle of jewels that fell from the sky and places it before Rama. Rama looks at the jewels and, turning to His brother asks, ‘Lakshmana, can you identify these jewels? Do they belong to Sita?’” Swami then continued, “Now why did Rama ask Lakshmana to do identify the jewels? After all, Sita was His wife and if anything, Rama should have known more about Stia’s jewels rather than Lakshmana. Why then did Rama ask Lakshmana that question?”

This is the sort of question that readers of Ramayana or the people who listen to discourses on the Ramayana seldom ask. So when Swami put this question, everyone blinked – no surprise in that. After a while, Swami said: “Everything that God does has a meaning. When God incarnates, He always does so with a Complete Master Plan. This question asked by Rama was a part of that Master Plan. At the time when Sita was abducted, Rama, Lakshmana and Sita were all of the same physical age – in their late twenties. They were all young and they lived alone in the forest. Often Rama would go into the forest, leaving Lakshmana behind to guard Sita. So pure was Lakshmana that he regarded Sita not as a young woman, not as his sister-in-law but verily as his mother. Thus, when Rama asked the question about the jewels, Lakshmana gave the famous reply: ‘Brother, I do not know what jewels mother wore. I have never looked her in the face; so I do not know. But having always worshipped her feet, I can recognise this item which is the toe ring she wore on one of the fingers in her foot.’”

Swami continued: “Rama knew how bad things would be in the Kali Age. Hence, two Yugas earlier, He made Lakshmana, give a reply that would set an ideal for the young men of today. This is the way the Lord operates. What Lakshmana was saying was really a piece of advice for today’s young men, and that includes you students!”

As we celebrate Rama Navami, let us carefully recall the various incidents in the life of Rama Avatar and try to understand, appreciate and assimilate their deeper meaning. This, we submit, would be the best way of celebrating the festival. If we look carefully, we would find that Rama as the individual set a benchmark concerning the manner in which all individuals must adhere to Sathya and Dharma. In addition, Rama as the Ruler gave mankind its first taste of an Ideal Society or Utopia, traditionally referred to as Rama Rajya.

Swami says that the individual and Society are tightly interlinked; if the individual is the microcosm, then Society is the macrocosm. If all individuals adhere to Dharma, then Society as a whole would be Dharmic; in turn, the individual would enjoy all the security that he is now desperate for, but is not able to get.

Ramayana is all about Dharma. If the individual pays “tax” by leading a Dharmic life, then he will get the “social benefit” of Rama Rajya. No tax, no security!

That is what we think. Do you agree? Why don’t you write and tell us what you feel?