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desire of His wife. Again this shows the blind love of Rama for His
wife. If you were in the place of Lakshmana, you would certainly leave
Rama saying “I have left my wife in Your service. But You are blind in
the love of Your wife. In such a case let me also go back to live with my
beloved wife”. But Lakshmana did not even think like this. Thus, Rama
behaved like a person very much blind in the love of His wife. The
entire Ramayana is only the personal service to Rama done by His
devotees and there is no trace of welfare of this society.
Generally we expect the Lord to come down to this world to uplift
humanity. We join the Lord in such a mission. We treat the Lord as a
political leader who is in the service of the society and we support His
mission. We donate to the politician expecting him to spend for the
welfare of the society. But if he spends for his family we will
immediately criticize him because our support is not for his personal
work. But in the Ramayana you see that all the devotees served Rama in
His personal affairs. Everything was for the sake of the protection of His
wife alone. Such protection is only the personal duty of Rama.
Lakshmana stood outside without food and sleep like a watchdog
when Rama and Sita were enjoying inside the hut. Sita insulted
Lakshmana blaming him that he was interested in her. In spite of such a
horrible insult, Lakshmana did all his best to get her back for Rama.
Hanuman did all the work and service for the protection of the wife of
Rama. Such protection was the personal duty of Rama and had nothing
to do with the welfare of the world. Therefore, the essence of all this is
that you should not think of yourself as the Lord by merely doing some
miracles. Hanuman never thought like that. Similarly, you should not
recognize the Lord in human form through miracles. Hanuman
recognized Rama as the Lord even without any miracle. Hanuman never
claimed to be the Brahman (God). The present Advaita scholars who
claim to be Brahman are perhaps greater scholars of the Upanishads
than Hanuman! Hanuman did not worship photographs and idols.
Hanuman did not worship energetic forms of God like Vishnu, Shiva
etc. He recognized the human form of the Lord and this is the main
essence of Ramayana.
The path of Hanuman to please the Lord was simply service to the
Lord. He never praised the Lord through bhajans. He never chanted the
name of Rama using the string of prayer-beads. He never did any
penance or other form of worship. All these are theoretical tricks to
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cheat the Lord. Service alone is the real path to please the Lord.
Hanuman sacrificed even married life and even left His parents in
search of the Lord in human form. If you were in the place of Hanuman
you would certainly think like this, “How foolish I am! Rama is craving
for His wife and is not worried about the welfare of this world. If He
gets His wife back, He will leave Ravana free and allow him to continue
his mischief to the society. If His wife is so dear to Him, why should I
remain unmarried?” Even Hanuman’s mother Anjani should have
advised Hanuman similarly. Instead she encouraged Hanuman to seek
and serve the Lord. This means that after recognizing the Lord in human
form, logic should stop. You have to use the torch-light on the way
only; not after reaching home. Similarly you have to use all the logic to
recognize the human incarnation, because several false human beings
also claim to be human incarnations. However once you have reached
the Lord, your ultimate aim should only be to please the Lord and not to
analyze the Lord.
The Lord knows how and when to uplift humanity. His ways are
beyond your logic and imagination. You do not know your own welfare
and you cannot uplift even yourself. Welfare of the society is the
outlook of the Lord. Hanuman was working with King Sugriva as his
prime minister. Vali forcibly took the wife of Sugriva, called Ruma.
Hanuman could have killed Vali just by one stroke. But he did not do
so. The same happened in the case of Rama. The wife of Rama was
imprisoned by Ravana. The case was exactly the same as that of
Sugriva. Hanuman did all his best in the case of Rama but never did
anything for Sugriva. Sugriva represents the society. Hanuman could
have killed even Ravana for the welfare of the society. But he waited till
the Lord came so that the Lord could give the punishment Himself. You
can punish any human being only by the Lord’s instruction. The Lord
alone is the final judge and without His judgment, the punishment
cannot be executed by any human being. Therefore, Hanuman waited
for the Lord to punish Vali and Ravana.
Your duty is only to serve the Lord and you should not
differentiate between personal service of the human incarnation and the
service [in His mission] for the society. You have to act according to
His wish and pleasure only. He will test your faith by exhibiting Maya.
Therefore, Ramayana gives the essence of spiritual knowledge
regarding important points like the recognition of the human
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Lord as an ordinary human being. This is one extreme end like a flood.
The other extreme end is a drought. Without even a little association
with the Lord, you cannot have love practically develop in your heart.
By studying the Ramayana, the Gopikas could not develop love on the
Lord. You cannot develop the love on the sweet just by hearing an
explanation about it.
Krishna wanted to develop [and intensify] the devotion of the
Gopikas and so He left Vrindavanam permanently. They tasted a small
cup of sweet and got a long gap. This is the correct middle golden path.
By this, their level of devotion rose to the climax and the Gopikas
reached the highest abode. In the absence of Krishna, the Gopikas tried
to get satisfaction from the drawings and statutes of Krishna. But they
could not get any satisfaction. This means that the worship of statues
and photographs cannot be the perfect path. Uddhava, a messenger from
Krishna came and preached to the Gopikas that they should meditate on
the all-pervading formless aspect of God. The Gopikas refused and
laughed at that suggestion. In their previous births, these sages did lot of
penance on this formless aspect God and could not get satisfaction.
Radha became mad in the devotion of Krishna. You cannot take
Radha as an example because madness does not come by any effort and
it can only be spontaneous. Therefore, for anybody in this world, the
example to follow is Hanuman, who sacrificed everything and
everybody in His service. Service is the only real path and is the climax
for any human being in this world. In the state of madness, everything
disappears including service and you can never become mad by any
effort. Therefore, you cannot blame Radha for not doing service to the
Lord.
It is said that Adishesha, the head of the serpents is the bed of the
Lord. According to Ramanuja, Shesha means the soul. Any soul is a
shesha, who attends to the responsibility of the Lord in human form.
Lakshmana never slept and did not take even food in protecting Sita and
such protection was the duty of the Lord. Hanuman searched for Sita by
jumping over the sea. Searching for one’s lost wife is the duty of the
husband. Thus, the duties of the Lord were taken by the devotees and
this indicates the Shesha acting as the bed, bearing the weight of the
Lord on his head. Several heads of Shesha indicate several devoted
souls.
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asked for was the propagation of the fame of the Lord. The lowest step
is certainly better than the pit, which is lower than the ground level.
Thus the beginner is certainly better than the atheist, who does not
believe in God at all. Even though the beginner is selfish, atleast he
believes in the existence of God.
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