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Published on Thu, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:30.00 Hrs.IST

DIVYA PREMASHRAYAM

Convocation Drama 2008

Anand,

an alumnus of Sri Sathya Sai University, rejects offers from many top

companies and decides to dedicate his youthful years in uplift of

villages. He chooses a village called Ramanathapuram for this endeavor.

There he joins forces with an educated and hardworking youngster named

Krishna for the hard task at hand.

Anand gets a

glimpse of the difficulty ahead at his first meeting with the village

elders. During his arrival there is an altercation between two brothers

on a property issue. Anand attempts to resolve the issue by various

means and having gained their goodwill narrates the story of the two

great brothers of Ramayana, Sri Rama and Bharatha.

 

Sage Vasishta and King Janaka are the arbiters between the two

brothers. On one hand there is Sri Rama who having got the command from

His father is firm that he will not return to Ayodhya till He completes

14 years in the forest. On the other side is Sri Bharatha who

emphatically states that only Lord Rama has the right to ascend the

throne and that he will take his brothers place in the forest. Sage

Vasishta raises his hands in surrender and says that he is incapable of

judging in this confrontation not between two brothers but between

Dharma (Righteousness) and Prema (Love) itself. He requests King Janaka

to do the honours.

 

The RajaRishi then delivers a landmark judgment. He informs Rama that

in a battle between Dharma and Prema, Prema has to be the victor. He

then instructs Bharatha that though Prema is the victor, Prema by

definition is Selfless and hence he should ask what his brother desires

and act accordingly. The scene ends with Bharatha taking the Padukas of

his brother and agreeing to rule the kingdom as the caretaker but not

the king.

 

Moved by the story, the brothers decide to set aside their differences

and work together. What follows is a golden period for the village when

Ramanathapuram becomes a model village enriched with development and

communal harmony. However, the wheels of fortune turns and the village

is engulfed by ravaging floods and epidemics. The same people who lived

peacefully during all these years changed in the face of crisis.

Selfishness became the order of the day. Anand is devastated and in a

moment of severe introspection cries aloud to his Lord. He opens a book

of Bhagawan’s message to his students and reads about the enthralling

story of Emperor Shivaji.

 

Faced with a severe crisis wherein his kingdom was becoming weak

internally and power of his enemies where growing exponentially,

Shivaji longs to call it a day and renounce his kingdom. At that

moment, Shivaji’s guru, Sri Samartha Ramadas enters and offers to give

Shivaji renunciation. Shivaji surrenders his crown and sword to the

sage and accepts the ochre robes. On the enquiry of Sage Ramadas he

reveals that he feels extremely peaceful now. Content with the answer,

the holy one commands Shivaji to rule the kingdom on His behalf and

returns the crown to Shivaji.

Having

learnt this lesson in non-doership, Anand is now the very embodiment of

peace and he feels confident that Bhagawan will take care and sets

aside the burden from his shoulder. No sooner had he done this, he

learns that Bhagawan has sent a contingent to the village to rebuild

the houses. The whole village gathers together again in gratitude to

Bhagawan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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