Srimad Ramayana Tatva Deepika#75 (Ba:la Ka:nda)

12-22-2002, 04:28 PM

Srimathe Ramanujayanamaha!
Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!!

Later Valmiki took bath in the waters of Tamasa and contemplating on the sloka
of ‘ma:nisha:da’ which was giving out the purport of the entire Ramayana,
returned to his hermitage. Valmiki’s disciple Bharadwaja also followed him to
the hermitage carrying the kalas filled with water. After coming back to the
a:Sramam Valmiki finished his daily prayers and sat down recollecting this
sloka. Just then Chaturmukha Brahma arrived there to see Valmiki as he had
heard from Narada, who visited Brahmalo:ka, about Valmiki. Valmiki at once got
up from his seat with reverence, went forward to receive Brahma, stood there
spellbound with adjoined palms. He worshipped Chathurmukha with arghya, pa:dya,
a:chamana and offered him a seat. Then Valmiki enquired his well being.

Chaturmukha beckoned Valmiki to be seated. With his permission Valmiki sat down.
Valmiki was pondering over the events - the arrival of the Grandparent of
the worlds Brahma, the sloka unintentionally emanated from his tongue, Sage
Narada’s sudden visit there and his revelation of the story of Sri Rama - and
was puzzled and was meditating on them. Thus thinking in his mind he felt,
“Listening to that Krouncha bird’s cries my heart melted! That hunter killed the
bird without reason. I had some how submitted to the grief in my heart with out
my knowledge. This slo:ka emerged. Don’t know the reason!”

Seeing Valmiki in a confused state - not knowing the fact that He (Chaturmukha)
made his consort Saraswathi to be seated on Valmiki’s tongue and made him utter
the ‘slo:ka’, - told him smiling, “A slo:ka came out of your tongue. It is the
poem intended to sing the glory of Sri Ramachandra but not intended to express
grief. You need not worry about it in your mind. The sloka ‘ma:nisha:da’ was
emerged on my ‘sankalpa’ by Saraswathi. You author ‘Ramacharitha’ in detail as
an epic. Sri Ramachandra is Dharma:thma. Not in this world alone, in all the
lokas he is the ‘gunavan’. He is the radiant, resplendent, he is the giver of
‘A:nanda’, the erudite scholar, he is the One who can bear the whole expanse of
earth. You heard the story briefly from Narada. You render the legend of Sri
Rama. I bless you that you shall know all that is unknown to you.

In the story of Sri Rama, Lakshmana, Sita and the demons whatever happened and
what all happened either in public or in private knowingly or secretly will be
clearly visible to your mind’s eye. There will not be a single word which will
not be true in Sri Ramayana - the story of SriRama you are going to write. You
render Ramakatha in pleasant verses in the sloka format. The Ramayana you are
going to author will flourish in all the worlds as long as the mountains
flourish and the rivers flow on this earth. You will flourish in my Brahma loka
as long as Sri Ramayana is in propagation in the world,” and lord Brahma
vanished.

(In the next posting …)
Jai srimannarayana!
Ramanujamma Mudumbai, Ramanuja Dasi