Chinna Katha - Rasas

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Chinna Katha - Rasas

 

Man is becoming slave to five senses Sabda, sparsa, rupa, rasa and

gandha. He is ruined by the temptations of these five senses. Here

is an episode narrated by Brahmasri Chaganti Koteswara Rao garu in

his Pravachanas on Devi Tatvam in Hyderabad recently.

 

A studious intermediate boy prepared for EAMCET thoroughly. He kept

a stop clock and wrote mock tests for one hour each. He evaluated

the papers himself. He secured centum in all his mock tests. His

preparation was so thorough, he was cock sure of getting a rank

within the first 100.

 

Finally the day of the EAMCET examination dawned. He sat in the

examination hall with his pencil, pen, eraser, hall ticket and all.

Invigilator gave him the question paper booklet and answer card. The

bell rang indicating the start of the examination. The boy opened

the question paper book let. All the questions were known to him. He

was ecstatic. He was ready to start solving the problems and mark

the answers.

 

Suddenly a melodious film song broke out from a nearby speaker in a

marriage pandal. It was his favourite song. The boy was immersed in

the song. The speaker was playing, song after song all his favorite

songs. The boy was totally lost in his favorite songs.

 

Suddenly, he remembered he was in an exam hall writing the EAMCET

exam his hopes and aspirations were pinned on. He came to his senses

and realized he had spent half the available exam time listening to

film songs. In a state of panic he furiously attempted answering the

paper in the remaining time but was unable to. He got 96623rd rank.

He finally secured an engineering seat in a college not of his

choice and only on payment.

 

Why did an unusually intelligent and hard working boy fail to secure

a good education on merit? Because he became a slave to rasas, his

life was ruined. Having surrendered to Sabda, Sparsa, Rupa, Rasa and

Gandha (the five senses), the deer, elephant, locust, fish and

butterfly lose their lives. That is why sastras prescribe control of

panchendriyas as the first step to Sadhak.