GLORY OF LORD RAMA by mcsharma राम रामेति रामेति रमे रामे मनोरमे - सहस्त्र नाम तुतुल्यम राम नाम वरानने - राम राम शुब रटी सब खान आनंद धाम - सहस्त्र नाम के तुल्य है राम नाम शुभ नाम___ मंगल भवन अमंगल हारी उमा सहित जेहि जपहि पुरारी
Jai Sri Ram,
Again, he bowed his head to the delusive power of sri Rama,
That has prompted Sati to tell a lie.
What has preordained by the will of sri Hari must have its way,
All the wise Sambhu thought within himself, Sati had assumed the disguise of Sita, this made Shiva much disconsolate at heart,
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Jai Sri Ram,
What you said cannot be untrue,
I am fully convinced in my heart,
Lord Shankara then looked within by contemplation,
And come to know all that Sati Had done,
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Jai sri Ram,
Having realized the greatness of the hero of Raghu's race,
Sati in her awe concealed the truth from Shiva,
I made no test my Lord,
I made obeisance just like you,
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Jai sri Ram,
Repeatedly bowing her head at the feet of Sri Rama,
She proceeded to the spot where the lord Shiva was,
When she came near, Lord Shiva smilingly inquired if all was well with her and then Said,
Tell me now the whole truth, how did you test sri Rama,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Her heart quivered and she lost all consciousness of her body,
Closing her eyes she sat down on the wayside,
When she opened her eyes and gazed once more,
The daughter of Daksha saw nothing there,
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Jai Sri Ram,
But while the gods who adored the Lord appeared in diverse garbs,
The appearance of sri Rama was the same in every case,
Although she saw Rama, the same Laxmana and the Sita,
Sati was struck with great awe,
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Jai Sri Ram,
She further perceived innumerable Satis, consort of Lord Shiva,
Consort of Brahma and consort of Vishnu that Laxmi, all peerless in beauty,
They conformed in their appearance to the garb in which Brahma and other gods appeared,
Each separate vision of Rama was attended by a whole host of gods with their feminine counterparts, as well as the whole animate and inanimate creation with its multitudinous species,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Sati Saw more than one sets of Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu,
Each set possessing a glory infinitely greater than that of the others,
She also beheld a whole host of gods at the lord's feet,
And waiting upon him in their different Garbs,
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Jai sri Ram,
As she went on her way Sati beheld a strange phenomenon,
Sri Rama was going ahead of her along with his consort Sita and younger brother Laxman,
She looked back and there too she saw the lord with his brother and Sita in an attractive garb,
Whichever way she turned her eyes, there was lord enthroned with the Siddhas that adepts and illuminated sages ministering to him,
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Jai Sri Ram,
What reply shall i give to my lord now,
The agony of her heart was most terrible,
Sri Rama perceived that Sati had vexed,
He, therefore, revealed to her a part of His Glory,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Sri Makar Sankranti today to enjoin the divine celebration of a celestial event,
An auspicious occasion to cultivate staunchness of feeling to realign with to truth and the cause,
Adoration of the may impart steadfastness unto truth of the cause on being planet,
So strong is the truth of celestial culture that for the cause of spirit on the planet, man may take advantage through respective oblations in spirit with,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Sati felt very uncomfortable,
When she heard these soft yet significant words of Rama,
She turned towards the great Lord Shiva with a feeling of awe and much dejected at heart,
I heeded not the word of Sankara and imposed my own ignorance on Rama,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Joining the palms of his hands,
He first made obeisance to her mentioning his name along with his father's,
He then asked her the whereabouts of Lord Shiva, who has a bull emblazoned on his standard,
And wondered what made her roam about all alone in the forest,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Sati sought to practise deception even on him,
See how deep rooted the nature of woman is,
Extolling in his heart the potency of his Maya,
Sri Rama smilingly accosted Her in a mild tone,
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Jai Sri Ram,
He was tongue tied and looked vert grave,
The sagacious brother was acquainted with the lord's glory,
All perceiving and the inner controller of all,
The lord of gods, sri Rama took no time to detecting the false appearance of Sati, Rama was the same omnipresent Lord whose thought wipes out ignorance,
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Jai Sri Ram,
After many anxious thought Sati assumed the form of Sita,
And moved ahead on the same route which the ruler of men sri Rama was passing,
When Laxman saw Sati in her disguise,
He was astonished and much puzzled,
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Jai Sri Ram,
After all, whatever sri Rama has willed must come to pass,
Why should add to the complication by indulging in further speculation,
So Saying, Lord Shiva began to mutter the name of Sri Hari,
While Sati proceeded to the spot where the all blissful Lord Sri Rama was,
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Jai Sri Ram,
She racked her brains to find out what step she should take,
In order to test the divinity of Rama,
On this side Shiva came to the conclusion that mischief was in store for Sati,
When the doubt did not yield even to my assurances, he said to himself, it seems the stars are unpropitious to her and no good will come out of it,
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Jai Sri Ram,
I shall be waiting in the shade of this Banyan tree till you come back to me,
Using your critical judgement you should resort resort to some device,
Whereby the stupendous error born of your ignorance may be rectified,
Thus obtaining leave of Shiva, Sati Proceed to her Mission,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Although Lord Shiva repeated this time after time,
His exhortation made no impression on the heart of Sati,
Then the great Lord Shiva smilingly said, realizing in his heart the potency of sri Hari's Maya,
If you have a grave doubt in your mind, why not go and verify the thing,
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Jai Sri Ram,
He who has bodied himself forth as the jewel of Raghu's race for the sake of devotees is no other than the supreme eternal,
Who is all pervading and ever free, who is ruler of all the worlds and the Lord of Maya,
Whom illumined sages, yogis, and Siddhas constantly meditate upon with their sinless mind and whose glory is sung by the Vedas as well as Puranas and other scriptures in Negative terms,
Not this,
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Jai Sri Ram,
My beloved deity, whose story was sung by the jar born sage Agastya,
Faith in whom was the subject of the talk,
I gave to him and whom illumined sages ever wait upon,
He who has bodied himself forth as the jewel of Raghu's race for the sake of devotees is no other than the supreme eternal,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Look here, Sati,
The woman is foremost in you,
You should never harbor such a doubt in your heart,
He is no other than Rama, the hero of Raghu's race, my beloved deity, whose story was sung by the jar born sage Agastya,
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Jai Sri Ram,
I revere the lotus feet of my Lord Sri Rama,
Greet the pollen like dust of the lotus feet,
That refulgent, fragrant and flavored with love,
Indeed a lovely powder of life giving herb, which allays the host of all attendant ills of mundane existence,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Everyone knows that he is all wise,
Thus her mind was filled with an interminable series of doubts,
Her heart could not be pacified by any means,
Although Bhavani did not open her lips, Lord Hara, who is inner controller of all, came to know everything,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Even Vishnu who takes a human form for the sake of gods, is omnipresent like Shiva,
Can he wander in search of his consort like an ignorant man,
He who is repository of knowledge, the lord of sri and the slayer of demons,
The words of Sambhu too cannot be false,
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Jai Sri Ram.
On that very auspicious occasion Sambhu saw sri Rama and excessive joy of an extraordinary type welled up in His heart, He feasted His eyes on that ocean of beauty,
But he did not disclose his identity as he knew it was no appropriate occasion for the same, The destroyer of cupid, Shiva passed on exclaiming, Glory to the redeemer of the universe, who is all truth, consciousness and bliss,
As Shiva went on his way with Sati beheld Sambhu in that state, a grave doubt arose in her mind, Sankara is a lord of the universe himself, and deserves universal adoration, gods men and sages all bow their head to him, yet, He made obeisance to this prince, referring to him as the supreme being, who is all truth, conscious and bliss, he was entrapped to behold his beauty and felt an upsurge of emotion in his heart, which He is unable to control even to this moment,
The supreme eternal, which is all pervading, begotten, without parts, free from desire, beyond Maya and beyond all distinction and which not even the Vedas can comprehend----can it assume the shape of a man,
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Jai Sri Ganesha,
He who knows neither union nor separation showed unmistakable signs of grief born of separation,
Exceedingly mysterious are the ways of Lord of Raghus,
The supremely wise alone can comprehend them,
The dull witted in their height of folly imagine something quite different,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Heaving killed the antelope Sri Hari returned with his brother,
And his eyes were filled with tears when he saw the empty hermitage,
The Lord of Raghus felt distressed at the lose like a mortal man,
And the two brothers roamed about in the woods in search of Her,
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Jai Sri Ram,
The Lord was thus lost in reverie,
Meanwhile the vile Ravana took with him the demon Marica,
Who forthwith assumed the illusory form of a deer,
The fool Ravana carried off Vedeha's daughter Sita by fraud, the lord's real might was not known to him,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Ravana, the demon king of Lanka had sought from Brahma the boon of his death at the hands of a Human foe,
And the lord would have the words of Brahma come true,
If I do not go to meet him,
I shall ever regret it, Shiva pondered, but found no solution to the puzzle,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Sri Mokshda Ekadasi today, a pious chapter to help the devotees varyingly unto subject of life and thereafter, indeed bestower of final beatitude,
Adoration of the day may help devotees to experience beneficial effect at both ends of the charter,
It help man to have better profile as being a true human to meet the motto of being man, add success to the truth of the spirit for eternal growth,
Adoration of the day in true spirit may helps man to grow in strength both ways, track inner stability, wisdom and the Liberation,
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Jai Sri Ram,
In Sankara's heart there was a great tumult,
However, had no inkling of this secret,
His Mind Says Tulsidasa,
Apprehended lest the secret might be disclosed while the temptation of obtaining a sight of the Lord made His Eyes Wistful,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Lord Hara that Shiva kept pondering as he went,
How can i obtain a sight of Him,
The lord has embodied himself forth secretly,
And if I visit him, everyone will know Who He Is,
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Jai Sri Ram,
During those very days, with a view to relieving the burden of the earth,
Sri Hari has descended in the line of Raghu,
His right to the throne at the word of his father,
The immortal lord was wandering in the Dandaka forest in the garb of an ascetic,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Thus narrating and hearing the tale of sri Rama's virtues,
The Lord Shiva spent some time there,
Finally, asking leave of the sage,
The slayer of demon Tripura, Sankara, proceeded to his home,
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Jai Sri Ram,
The great sage narrated at length the story of Rama,
And Lord Shiva listened to it with extreme delight,
The sage then enquired about devotion to sri Hari,
And Shambhu discoursed on it finding in the sage a fit recipient,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Once upon a time, in the age of Treta,
Shiva called on the Jar born sage Agastya,
His consort, goddess Sati, Mother of the Universe, accompanied him,
The Sage worshiped him knowing him to be the universal Lord,
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Jai sri Ram,
Sri Vivaha Panchami today, an auspicious chapter from the pastime of sri Rama, a divine day with truth of Purna tithi of lunar half of sacred Margshish, which host the marriage of Sri Rama,
Human beings are sensitive to feelings and sports of sri Rama sensitize them through varying sports at every junction of life and his marriage was a truth to cast over the love and truth,
It was more a Yajna than the conjugal event, sri Rama performed for a hidden cause to pave the path for gains both ways,
Indeed an eternal love which scripted in truth of Marriage to bless the most dedicated devotee and servant,
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Jai Sri Ram,
I shall repeat now to the best of my lights the dialogue between Uma and Shambhu,
Hear O Sage,
The time and the occasion of this dialogue ,
Your gloom will be lifted,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Appalling ignorance is gigantic demon Mahishasur, So called because he was endowed with the form of a buffalo, while narrative of Rama is the dread Kalika,
The story of sri Rama is like sunbeams that are drunk in by Cakora bird in the form of saints,
A similar doubt was expressed by no less than Bhavani,
And the great God Shiva than expounded the matter in detail,
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Jai sri Ram,
Listen, then, with devout attention, my child,
While i narrate the beautiful story of Rama,
Appalling ignorance is gigantic demon Mahishasur,
So called because he was endowed with the form of a buffalo,
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Jai Sri Ram,
You are a devotee of sri Rama in thought, word and deed,
I have come to know your ingenuity,
You wish to hear an account of the hidden virtues of Rama,
That is why you have questioned me as if you were quite ignorant,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Sri Somvati Amavasya today, an exalted day to help man to recover and realign self with truth and the cause to meet the truth of being man,
The Goal of being man is to liberate self from the unwanted bondage of Maya, and the path is adoration of respective discipline in tune with celestial culture,
In truth of sri Somvati Amavasya lies the fragrance of nectar to glorify self for eternal cause, and it needs mild adoration with respective oblations to make it,
Supreme personality that God has provide this provision to man to glorify self through realization with mild application unto truth of fair deals to meet the chart of virtues,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Tell me in detail, my master,
The story whereby my overwhelming perplexity may be overcome,
Yajnavalakya smiling said,
The glory of the lord of Raghus is already known to you,
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Jai Sri Ram,
Is it this very, Rama, my lord,
Or, some one else whose name the slayer of the demon Tripura, Shiva, ever repeats,
You are an embodiment of truth and omniscient,
So ponder well and give me your considerable reply,
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Jai Sri Ram,
One such, Rama is the prince of Ayodhya,
Whose exploits are known throughout the world,
Infinite was his sorrow due to the loss of his wife,
And flying into a rage he slew Ravana in battle,
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Jai Sri Ram,
This too marks the glory of sri Rama's name,
O chief of sages,
For it is the very Name that lord Shiva mercifully imparts to the dying soul in Kashi,
I ask you, My Lord, who that Rama is, pray explain to me, O storehouse of compassion,
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Jai Sri Ram,
The immortal Lord Shiva,
Who is the fountain of joy and storehouse of wisdom and goodness, incessantly repeat it,
There are four broad divisions of living beings in the world,
Such of them as die in the holy city Kashi attain the highest state,
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Jai sri Ram,
Remembering this i disclose my folly,
Dispel it,
Taking pity on this servant, , My Lord,
The saints as well as the Puranas and the Upanishads too declare that the potency of the name Rama is unlimited,
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Jai Sri Ram,
and The whole mystery of the Vedas stands revealed to you,
I am afraid and ashamed to utter the doubt,
And I lose a great opportunity if i keep it back,
The Saints lay down rule, and the Vedas as well as the Puranas and the sages too loudly proclaim, that pure wisdom cannot be dawn in the heart, should one keep anything concealed from one's spiritual preceptor,
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Jai Sri Ram,
He reverently washed the latter's lotus feet,
And installed him on a most sacred seat,
And extolling his fair renown with religious ceremony,
Bharadwaj Spoke in mild and reverential tones, a grave doubt haunts my mind-Holy Sir,
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Jai Sri Ram,
In this way they bathe for the whole month of Magha,
And then return each to his hermitage,
There is great rejoicing every year and having performed their ablutions while the sun stays in Capricorn the hosts of sages disperse,
Having bathed on one occasion for the whole period of sun's stay in Capricorn when all the great sages had left for their hermitages, Bhardwaj clasped by the feet and detained the supremely wise saint Yajnavalakya,
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Jai sri Ram,
At daybreak they all perform their ablutions with religious fervor,
And then converse together on the virtues of Sri Hari,
They discuss the nature of Brahma, the precept of religion and the classification of fundamental entities,
And expatiate on devotion to the lord coupled with spiritual enlightenment and dispassion,
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