Shri Hanuman - Biography of a Masterful Servant

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‘Jaya Hanuman jnana guna sagara, jaya Kapisha tinhu

loka ujagara,

Ramaduta, atulita baladhama, Anjaniputra, Pawanasuta

nama.’

 

Victory to thee, O Hanuman, thou art the ocean of

knowledge and virtue. Victory to thee O Lord of

Monkeys, thou art known in all three worlds. O

Emissary of Rama, thou art the home of unparalleled

might; Anjaniputra – Anjani’s son, and Pawanasuta –

son of the wind god, art thy names.

 

This Hanuman, who possesses ocean-like unfathomable

knowledge and virtue, incomparable might and

earth-like steadfastness, is known and worshipped

primarily as the redeemer in crisis : ‘Ko nahi janat

hai jaga mein Kapi Sankata-mochana nama tinharo’ – who

knows not in the world, O Monkey-god, redeemer in

crisis is thy name. And, the laudation is least

exaggerated. In theology or tradition of devotion, no

god of any pantheon in India is venerated so much for

redeeming in crisis as Hanuman. As occasions of

misfortune outnumber those of happiness in life,

mankind looks more to him who redeems from misfortune

rather than him who bestows happiness. Hanuman, the

redeemer, is hence more widely worshipped and has a

larger number of shrines dedicated to him than even

Rama, his master. Hanuman’s power to redeem is not a

mere theological conceptualisation or a believer’s

hypothesis, his life, as it reveals in different

sources, is its example. In Rama-katha – story of

Rama’s life, which is broadly also the story of

Hanuman’s life, this emissary and servant of Rama

often rises above his master at least in the face of a

crisis.

 

to read rest of article, & view pics:

http://www.exoticindia.com/article/hanumana/

 

Hanuman Jayanti is April 19 (or 20th, YMMV).. Pavana

Putra Hanumana Ki Jai!!

 

Keval

 

 

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