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27.05.2026

POST NUMBER 4

VALMIKI RAMAYANA

BALA KANDA

CHAPTER NUMBER 4

AYODHYA

The line of Ikshvaku commences from the Divine Ruler, Manu. Since that far-off times the mighty kings of the Ikshvaku line held victorious and undisputed sway over the land. It included the broad Earth and the islands that guard it around.

King Sagara came in that line. The Ocean itself was dug at his command. He had sixty thousand sons. They dug the dark and deep Ocean.

And this grand Epic, the Ramayana, sings the lives and deeds of those mighty men. The devout reader thereof secures the four Aims of Life – Righteousness, Wealth, Happiness and Liberation. So give ear to it with heart filled with devotion.

Kosala is the name of the land. The broad realms of Kosala extend far away on either banks of the Sarayu. It has rich flock and herds, fertile fields and broad pastures. It forms the happy home of countless millions.

And Ayodhya is the capital of that Kingdom. It was famous throughout all the worlds. It was fashioned in past ages by the royal hand of the Divine Manu.

Well-watered and fertile groves and broad fields adorn the level stretch of ground on which the city is built. Excellent roads, lined with branching trees, connect it with every part of the world. Her lofty walls measure twelve leagues from end to end and three from side to side. Her ramparts are high and massive. It is lined with every death-dealing machine the ingenuous human mind devised. And all around are wide and deep moats. The city gates are large and strong and of exquisite workmanship. And the impregnable fortifications justify its name, Ayodhya.

The high roads are planned perfectly straight to the very gates of the city. They are kept clean and well-watered, and strewed with fragrant flowers. The broad and well-kept roads branch out from the royal homes that grace the centre of the town. Long lines of palatial shops adorn the merchant quarters, stored with the rarest works of nature and of art.

Charming villas and pleasure-grounds peep out from every lovely hill. Splendid mansions, flashing with gold and gems, rise in row and meet the eye at every turn. Numerous flags and banners gaily wave over the roofs of the towering houses built on lofty platforms. They give one the idea of the radiant aerial cars of the happy ones who have won the mansions of the gods by the force of their religious merit.

Ayodhya is rich in horses and elephants, sheep and oxen, mules and camels. From every street are wafted to the ear the sweet sounds of lute or flute, drum or tabret, fife or clarion, Veena or Sitar. It is the happy home of bards and minstrels, poets and genealogists, sculptors and architects. And in the streets you are jostled at every step by the teachers of the art of dance and song. And also, in the streets, you come in contact with the envoys of foreign kings and tributary princes and by princely merchants from far off lands that come here to buy and sell. Art and science find there its best and brightest exponent and highest authority.

And Brahmanas who are straight of speech and pure of heart, bless the city with their presence. They form the living stones in the Guardian Wall of Humanity. They are profoundly versed in all the sacred lore. They ever tend the Fires and keep the observances. And they rank saintly Vasishtha and the like in self restraint and holy fervor.

Great car-warriors and god-like heroes, skilled in every art of war and chase, keep the city from the foe. With sharp weapons, but more often with their strong hands, they rid the woods of many a wild beast, lion and tiger, boar and bear. Masters of every weapon, human and divine, they never strike the solitary foeman. They never attack anyone from behind nor harm the only son of a family.

And, over this best and fairest of cities reigned Dasaratha, even as the great Indra holds high sway over the Regions of the Gods.

BLOGGER’S COMMENTS:           

Blessed are the subjects who live in such a well-planned and well-cared for city. It has the cleanliness and the flavor of a fertile village in the modern times. But, in grandure and excellence, it transports the readers of the epic to a far-off place in far-off times. Because even well planned cities of America and Europe cannot stand comparison to such a city as Ayodhya.

Leave out the descriptions about the gold and gem encrusted mansions. But in almost every respect, the description of Ayodhya far-excels even modern cities of the developed countries. No doubt people must have felt and experienced a heavenly life.

We should not discount the lofty descriptions of the capital city of Ayodhya as just a fertile-mind’s figment of imagination. Well, there are much that are fancy and wondrous. But can we build in India a city that can compare with Ayodhya?

In the State of Andhrapradhesh, India, the new capital city Amaravati has come up. It is the brain child of its Chief Minister. The design and concept are lofty. It needs to be seen that how clean and livable the city will be kept once the initial ardour wears out. Why I am telling this is, we the people of India are singularly incapable of keeping the precincts of our cities clean. In Chennai Metropolitan city we have the Couuam river, the bearer of the night soils, running through its vastness.

We are not dirty people by our DNA. We are the proud offspring of the great Indus Valley Civilization! There, many thousand years ago, our forefathers had built wonderful cities with great and ingenuous scheme to use and manage the water resources. The streets were well laid out. On the side of the street ran the covered trenches carrying waste water to a tank to a place well outside the city. And another channel supplied water to the kitchens. The waste water from the kitchens found conduits to be taken out of the city limits. And there was that Great Bath! While we think of the descriptions of Ayodhya City we cannot help comparing the greatness to the city in Mohanj jo Dhara!

Something has gone somewhere wrong along the long line of influences of the foreign cultures over the centuries ranging from cultureless desperados, milecha to organized cultures. We as a people have lost our habit of cleanliness. We have come to think that keeping our bodies and houses clean is enough. We dump our streets with the kitchen and other wastes. Our rulers, before Narendra Damodhar Modi, did not think it fit that we must have a well laid water management plans and supplying even the rural households clean portable water. As and when the monsoon occurs, the streets of cities of ours become a nightmare. We don’t pester our Rulers to look into all these rudimental things of safe hygiene. Indeed there is much to learn, not from the foreigners, from our own forefathers, how to plan a city and build it. Our Municipalities and Corporations are hopeless mess. We have not learnt the lessons Nature teaches to keep our streets clean. And the mosquito menace simply terrorize our people all over India. The country’s capital, New Delhi’s air pollution is making normal life a nightmare. We need the town planners who had worked to keep the city clean and livable several thousand years ago in the Indus Valley!                  

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POST NUMBER 4

THE MAHABHARATA

ADI PARVA

PAULOMA PARVA

CHAPTER NUMBER 4

 The illustrious Brahmanas were sitting around the dead body of Pramadvara. Ruru, sorely afflicted, retired into a deep wood and wept aloud. And overwhelmed with grief he indulged in much piteous lamentation.

 Remembering his beloved Pramadvara, he gave vent to his sorrow in the following words, “Alas! The delicate fair one that increases my affliction lies upon the bare ground. What can be more deplorable to us, her friends? If I have been charitable, if I have performed acts of penance, if I have ever revered my superiors, let the merit of these arts restore to life my beloved one! If from my birth I have been controlling my passions, adhered to my vows, let the fair Pramadvara rise from the ground.”

And while Ruru was indulging in these lamentations for the loss of his bride, a messenger from heaven came to him in the forest. And the messenger addressed him thus, ‘The words you utter, O Ruru, in your affliction are certainly ineffectual. For, O pious man, one belonging to this world whose days have run out can never come back to life. This poor child of a Gandharva and Apsara has had her days run out! Therefore, O child, you   should not consign your heart to sorrow. The great gods, however, have provided beforehand a means of her restoration to life. And if you comply with it, you may receive back your Pramadvara.”

 And Ruru replied, “O messenger of heaven! What is that which the gods have ordained? Tell me in full so that (on hearing) I may comply with it. Let it be your will to deliver me from grief!”

And the celestial messenger said to Ruru, “Resign half of your own life to your bride, and then, O Ruru of the race of Bhrigu, your Pramadvara shall rise from the ground!”

On hearing this Ruru let out a cry, “O best of celestial messengers, I most willingly offer a moiety (a half) of my own life in favour of my bride. Then let my beloved one rise up once more in her dress and lovable form.”

  Then the king of Gandharvas (the father of Pramadvara) and the celestial messenger, both of excellent qualities, went to the god Dharma (the Judge of the dead) and addressed him, saying, “If it be your will, O Dharmaraja, let the amiable Pramadvara, the betrothed wife of Ruru, now lying dead, rise up with a moiety of Ruru’s life.”

 And Dharmaraja answered, “O messenger of the gods, if it be your wish, let Pramadvara, the betrothed wife of Ruru, rise up endued with a moiety of Ruru’s life” And when Dharmaraja had said so, that maiden of superior complexion, Pramadvara, endued with a moiety of Ruru’s life, rose as from her slumber.

 This bestowal by Ruru of a moiety of his own span of life to resuscitate his bride afterwards led, as it would be seen, to a curtailment of Ruru’s life.

 And on an auspicious day their fathers gladly married them with due rites. And the couple passed their days, devoted to each other. And Ruru having obtained such a wife, as is hard to be found, beautiful and bright as the filaments of the lotus, made a vow for the destruction of the serpent-race.

 And whenever he saw a serpent he became filled with great wrath and always killed it with a weapon. One day Ruru entered an extensive forest. And there he saw an old serpent of the Dundubha species lying stretched on the ground.

 Ruru thereupon lifted up in anger his staff for the purpose of killing it. Then the Dundubha, addressing Ruru, said, “I have done you no harm, O Brahmana! Then for what reason will you slay me in anger?”

Ruru, on hearing those words, replied, “My wife, dear to me as life, was bit by a snake; upon which, I took, O snake, a dreadful vow, viz., that I would kill every snake that I might come across. Therefore shall I smite you and you shall be deprived of life.”

 And the Dundubha replied, “O Brahmana, the snakes that bite man are quite different in type. Let it please you not to slay Dundubhas who are serpents only in name. The Dundubhas should not be slain by you under any misconception.

 And the Rishi Ruru hearing these words of the serpent, and seeing that it was bewildered with fear, did not kill it. And Ruru, comforting the snake addressed it, saying, “Tell me fully, O snake, who are you thus metamorphosed?”

 And the Dundubha replied, “O Ruru! I was formerly a Rishi by name Sahasrapat. And it is by the curse of a Brahmana that I have been transformed into a snake. And Ruru asked, “O you best of snakes, for what were you cursed by a Brahmana in wrath? And how long also will your form continue so?”

 The Dundubha then said, “In former times, I had a friend Khagama by name. He was impetuous in his speech and possessed of spiritual power by virtue of his austerities. And one day when he was engaged in the Agni-hotra (Fire-sacrifice), I made a mock snake of blades of grass, and in a frolic attempted to frighten him with it.

 “And immediately he fell into a swoon. On recovering his senses, that truth-telling and vow-observing ascetic, burning with wrath, exclaimed, ‘Since you have made a powerless mock snake to frighten me, you shall be turned even into a venom-less serpent thyself by my curse.’ O ascetic, I well knew the power of his penances.  Therefore with an agitated heart, I addressed him thus, ‘Friend, I did this by way of a joke, to excite thy laughter. Let it please you to forgive me and revoke your curse.’ And seeing me sorely troubled, the ascetic was moved. He replied, breathing hot and hard. ‘What I have said must come to pass. Listen to what I say and lay it to your heart. O pious one! When Ruru, the pure son of Pramati, will appear, you shall be delivered from the curse the moment you see him. You are the very Ruru and the son of Pramati. On regaining my native form, I will tell you something for your good.”

And that illustrious man and the best of Brahmanas then left his snake-body, and attained his own form and original brightness. He then addressed the following words to Ruru of incomparable power. “O you first of created beings, verily the highest virtue of man is sparing the life of others. Therefore a Brahmana should never take the life of any creature. A Brahmana should ever be mild. This is the most sacred injunction of the Vedas. A Brahmana should be versed in the Vedas and Vedangas.*1 He should inspire all creatures with belief in God. He should be benevolent to all creatures. He must be truthful, and forgiving. It is his paramount duty to retain the Vedas in his memory. The duties of the Kshatriya are not yours. To be stern, to wield the sceptre and to rule the subjects properly are the duties of the Kshatriya. Listen, O Ruru, to the account of the destruction of snakes at the sacrifice of Janamejaya in the olden days. And you should also know the deliverance of the terrified snakes by that best of Dwijas,  Astika, profound in Vedic knowledge and might in spiritual energy.”

Ruru then asked, “O best of Dwijas, why was king Janamejaya bent upon destroying the serpents?–And why and how were they saved by the wise Astika? I am anxious to hear all this in detail.”

The Rishi replied, “O Ruru, the important history of Astika you will learn from the lips of Brahmanas.” Saying this, he vanished. Ruru ran about in search of the missing Rishi, and having failed to find him in all the woods, fell down on the ground, fatigued and exhausted. And revolving in his mind the words of the Rishi, he was greatly confounded and seemed to be deprived of his senses. Regaining consciousness, he came home and asked his father to relate the history in question. Thus asked, his father related all about the story.

BLOGGER’S NOTES:

*1.  The word Vedanga means “limbs of the Veda”. They are six auxiliary disciplines designed to ensure the correct preservation, pronunciation, and execution of Vedic rituals.

. Shiksha (Phonetics): Focuses on correct pronunciation and accentuation of sounds.

.. Chandas (Meter): Regulates the poetic metrics and verse structures of hymns or songs. 

… Vyakarana (Grammar): Analyzes linguistic structure, made famous by Panini’s rules.

…. Nirukta (Etymology): Explains the origin and meaning of complex words.

…..Kalpa (Ritual Canon): Provides practical instructions for performing ceremonies.

……Jotisha (Astronomy): Calculates the auspicious times and dates for rituals.

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POST NUMBER 4

THE  UPANISHADS

Isha Upanishad or Ishopanishad

CHAPTER 1  

VERSE 1

 We saw, dear readers, in Post 3 that we have to develop a vision. What is that vision? Everything in this universe or world is pervaded or enveloped by God. So we cannot see individual persons and things around us. We have to see in the individual persons and things not those individual persons or things; we are enjoined by the Rishi to see God, Isha in everyone; and everything.

We get up in the morning and we see our spouse lying next to us, we have to see in him/her God. Not because he/she is next only to God. Because he/she is God Himself/Herself. We take the bed sheet and fling it aside. It is a daily used article. An inanimate thing like a mat, a door jammer, a doormat. We have to see God in each and every person and thing.

We leave home for office. The traffic is full of God in His great motion. Thankfully there is a huge tree at the bus terminal. We have to see God in the motherly shady tree. It’s trunk is God. Its branches are God. Its leaves are God. The way in which it sways in wind must make us not think about but actually see in front of us the Shiva dhandava, the Dance of Shiva!

But the Dance of Shiva can be seen not only in the swaying tree, but in anything and everything. There is nonstop movement in everyone and everything. And inside the atom there is Shiva Dhandava, the Dance if Shiva. Nothing is static here. And in everything we are enjoined to see God.

So this is the vision we are enjoined to watch and see in this world. Not because it is good for us, but because it is the Truth.

Here another question crops up.

You say you approve of what is enjoined by the ancient Rishi that we must see God in everything. But you say that you tried to see God in everything and everyone, but it is singularly impossible to you. What must you do?

Well, the answer is TRY. KEEP TRYING. NEVER LET THIS CONSCIOUSNESS SLIP OUT OF YOU. 

Because, that has its own goodness and usefulness!  If you earnestly try your level best, whether you are a grown-up teenager, or a youth, or a university student, or a father, or a mother, or an older person, the result will be remarkable and transforming. The enjoinment is never let it slip. That is the thing. And another thing is to keep trying it for an umpteenth number of times every single day.

You might ask, what is the use?

Well, from personal experience, I can tell you one thing. Keep trying to see God in just about anyone and everyone and anything and everything and this will soon start to show results. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna the internalized Yoga gives immediate benefit. You need not wait till the final success is achieved. This yoga, he says, gets you freed from great fear. It assuages your heart. It gives you a power. What is that power? We will see soon.

Yes, dear readers, this thing about trying to see God in all and in everything is YOGA. No doubt about it. It is Budhi Yoga. It immediately starts to give you benefit. It gives you much solace of mind. You see, I have been living in this mode for many years. And I am simply incapable of hating anyone. You can’t hate even your worst enemy. See, that’s a great improvement, no? AND IT HAS GIVEN ME POWER OVER MY ENEMIES. 

You would love, you will start to love even your contenders in the game of life.

You can’t hate anyone. You will become incapable of hating anyone. And then you will become for the first time in your life completely aware of a sense of peacefulness that has come stealing into you soon and that gives you a sense of fulfillment besides purpose in life.

Life will stop from boring you. You do the same thing every single day and that can be tedious. But, except the fellows who write stories and or poetry, we all end up in life repeating the same thing we did yesterday.    

This can be very tiresome. This can be very boring. But once you have started on this new way of seeing God in everyone and everything, you will start to feel great relief immediately. And a heavy wait will have been lifted off your shoulders. You become a better person to live this ordinary mundane life as a daily enterprise, as an adventure. Life will stop boring you. You will see it has immense potential to live and continue to live every single day as a great adventure.

Yes, every venture is an adventure!

And, readers, that is the kind of achievement I have come to show in my life. See I am full of verve and vigor. At sixty-six I am putting in more than ten hours of intense writing besides my other day-to-day activities like reading, and this and that. I don’t feel any ennui. I am full of enterprise. I want to share my happiness with all of you. Even my staunchest enemy can’t put me out, you know.

All you have to do when life gets really trying, and even your trusted friend or spouse fails to see things the way you want him or her to. Or when you see that your enemies try their level best to get the better of you in your vocation or profession. At any level you feel peer pressure.

At any trying time of your life, hereafter, you just tell yourself, please see only God in him/her/them/it. That would be all! You would feel immediately rested and replenished. That focus would become natural for you. You can get everything, issue, trouble in focus, in proper perspective, and you will have already started to solve your problem.

So you guys, never give up. Cultivate this habit. When the goings get tough, get tough and try to see God   in your enemy, problem and or issue. Abracadabra! The most insurmountable problems could be solved by the resultant unhurried focus and perspective you will get.

SO TRY TO CULTIVATE SEEING GOD IN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE. THIS IS THE UPANISHADIC VISION.

OK. NOW COMING BACK TO THIS GUY, tena tyaktena bhunjeethaa = enjoy by that renunciation.

Tena tyaktena bhunjeethaa: Enjoy by that renunciation.

Now what is this humbuggery? How can you enjoy with renunciation!

It sounds self contradictory. No doubt about it. For, how can one enjoy something with renunciation? This is like saying, “Ok, sir, please eat the cake and have it too!”

Is it possible? To enjoy something with renunciation?

The moment you are allowed to enjoy something, you are given freedom to earn it, possess it and partake of it and thus ENJOY IT. OK? NO NONSENSE ABOUT RENOUNCING IT. SEE?

But the Rishi says enjoy with that renunciation. Now what could be the meaning? It was the same Rishi who enjoined that nothing belongs to us here. Everything including ourselves belongs to God. Every little or great thing is pervaded and enveloped by God. Since God is pervasive, we can’t say even a toothpick belongs to us. Nothing belongs to us in this great universe! But now the Rishi turns around and says ENJOY WITH THAT RENUNCIATION!

Here, what is meant by Renunciation and what is meant by enjoyment?

Tena = By that:

By what? By the vision. What is the vision? That everything and everyone is God, everything here is enveloped and pervaded by God. Thus we get to see God in everyone and everything. And that is the vision.

The Vision of God is our mission. We have resolutely resolved not to see the individual persons and things. We will only see God in everything. And the Rishi says enjoy BY THAT RENUCIATON.

BY THAT means by that Vision. The vision is very clear and so liberating. The Vision makes and enables us to see only God in everyone and everything or in all in this world. Here BY THAT means by that Vision only.

Yes, By That means by that Vision. That is a great asset. That is a new property. We didn’t have it before. Now we are in full and absolute possession of it. This Vision is liberating.

We will come to the liberating part at the proper context. Now why does the Rishi say BY THAT? In other words, what is the significance of the words BY THAT?

Well, by that means the vision. And whatever the Rishi is going to enjoin on us and ask us to do cannot be done but for this vision, that is, BY THAT VISION!

YES, YES! HOW CORRECT! NOW…

NOW WHAT DOES ENJOYMENT MEAN?

Tyaktena = Renunciation:

Before that, what is the renunciation? Why the vision incorporates renunciation! Really?

Yes. The vision involves great and intense renunciation! No doubt about that!

Yes, you are correct! The Vision involves intense and original renunciation.

But how, can you explain it?

Of course, I can. If I see a person who is my enemy and refuse to see the enemy in him but only God, well I have renounced my right to consider him as my enemy. I have given up some vital thing I was holding to all my life, all these days and years. Now I see only God in Him/Her. And that’s renunciation!

Yes, yes! Cent percent correct! All these days you were considering him/her as your enemy. Now the person continues to live, and he/she continues to be my detractor. BUT I HAVE STARTED TO SEE ONLY GOD IN HIM/HER. SO HE / SHE HAS STOPPED TO BE ENEMY MINE!

O GOD! THIS IS TRUE RENUNCIATION. AND THIS IS INTENSE RENUNCIATION! NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT!

All these years I considered him/her to be my enemy. Now he/she has become God. Golly! This difference in perception has made me superior to him/her. Because he / she has stopped to worry me! See! He/She can no more be my master or mistress. That person can’t dictate terms and things to me. And, O God, this is more than just renunciation. I have been freed from that person’s past, present and future determined detractions! So what is this? Now only that. I have renounced my EGO!

HOW COME?

Very simple, before this vision, whereby I am able to see only God in HIM/HER, I was filled with the sense he/she was MY enemy. So, previously this EGO predominated everything. He/She was MY enemy. Now He / She has become God. I have renounced MY EGO also!

Very good. You couldn’t be more correct. And what more have you renounced?

Even before the MY ness, I have renounced the I ness. The best part of my EGO!

Bhunjeethaa = Enjoy!

Now what does the Rishi say?

The Rishi does not say anything. He commands us!

You are not saying!

Yes I say, the Rishi enjoins on all of us to positively enjoy.

What is there to be enjoyed? See, everything here belongs to God?

Yes, but the same Rishi enjoins upon us to enjoy.

What is there to be enjoyed? Just about everything here belongs to God!

Yes, quite right. And He is the Master of this universe. And now the master has created a Trust and given us not limited properties or absolute right over limited properties. The Master has given us, His children by way of the Trust a distinct right to ENJOY! But not just a house, a bangallow, an estate, a car, etc. He has given this, His whole universe to enjoy. After making us understand that just about everything here belongs to Him only, He conveys the whole universe, of which He is the proprietor and Master and Owner, to us for a limited number of years spanning our lifetime the right to enjoy, that is ENJOY INDEED! AND THAT IS AN ENJOINMENT. WE CAN’T DESIST FROM SUCH ENJOYMENT. AND NOT JUST A HOUSE, A VEHICLE AND A PARCEL OF LAND. THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. AND IT IS A MUST.

Freedom New:

Yes, very good. So consequent upon your Vision, You have renounced and that renouncement has put you in a position of strength. Before now he/she was able to spell hell for you just about anything and everything. Now he/she cannot dictate to you. You are not subjugated to him/her. You are not his/her servant anymore any longer. You are your own master/mistress. And this is something more desirable and in direct consequence of that VISION. But can you give this new thing a name, possibly?

Why this is something more than just renunciation. It is renunciation. Intense. But not just renunciation. More than that. I can feel this in my every tissue and every living part. Yes, this is a new way of life. This is a great sense of relief. This is a new way of living. This is really, this way of life is…

A Freedom?

Yeah. That is the thing. Yes, this is a new freedom. God, I have been freed myself from all that damned sense of being at the receiving end. Now he/she can no more dictate terms to me! For I am my own master/mistress. Just nobody can dictate terms to me. Not even my sworn enemies! Wow! This is a new way of life. Yesss! This is Freedom. I have at long lost attained and achieved that freedom. That state of mind that is both invigorating and releasing and liberating. It has released me from all those sense of persecution. Nothing he/she can do hereafter   that can really make me go through hell. Because, you see, I have found my freedom.

You haven’t just found your freedom. You have achieved one. A great achievement, indeed!

Yeah, yeah, you could say that again!

So that is freedom. And that is the real and direct consequence of the renunciation. Your inner renunciation. You have not just refused to hate him/her. You have learnt to find God in him/her. And this new inner way of life surely represents a new Freedom!

Not just FREEDOM! Inner Peace, Purity and the resultant Expansion.

How come?

This new freedom gives us an inner sense of peace. This sense of peacefulness is not born of any worldly things. It is born of the spiritual side of our personality. And this peacefulness does not lull us into sleep. It invigorates us. We feel we have been rejuvenated. And we start to live our remaining days here on the Earth in our new capacity as the owner of the whole of this universe with an intense sense of Peacefulness!

O, and what about purity?

This purity is an enabling one. This sense of purity is not a fake one. This is real purity. For I have become bereft of ownership to any individual house, vehicle, etc. I have become the owner of the universe. And the resultant purity is an ennobling one. It makes my remaining days here on earth with a sense of great, great, great…

And ultimately that is all about the sense of Expansion. You have become expanded. You can no longer be confined to a house, vehicle, a parcel of land, a bank balance, a few friends and a few enemies. No. you have expanded exponentially. You are no more a limited owner. You now own the entire world. You now possess the galaxies. You have expanded in proportion to this universe! And all this has been enabled by the kind of renunciation I subjected myself in accordance with the words and counsel of the Rishi of this Upanishad.

Amen!

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POST NUMBER 4

THE BHAGAVAD GITA

CHAPTER  1 :

VERSES  4, 5 AND 6

Arjuna Vishada Yoga

OR

THE DESPONDENCY OF ARJUNA

TEXT IN TRANSLITERATION

atra sooraa maheshvaasaa bheemaarjunasamaa yudhi

yuyudhaano viraatas cha drupadas cha mahaa rathah

SANSKRIT WORDS AND PHRASES AND THEIR MEANINGS IN ENGLISH:

atra = here

sooraaah = peers

maheshvaasaah = mighty archars

bheemaarjuna samaah = equal to Bhima and Arjuna

yudhi = in battle

yuyudhaana = Yuyudhana

viraatah = Virata

cha = and

drupadah = Drupada

cha = and

mahaarathah = of the great car

TEXT IN ENGLISH

Here are mighty archers, peers in warfare to heroic Arjuna and Bhima; Yuyudhana, Virata and Drupada the great chariot-warrior.

VERSE 5

TEXT IN TRANSLITERATION

dhrshtaketus chekiraana kaasiraajas cha veeryavaan

purujit kuntibhojas cha saibyas cha narapumgavah

SANSKRIT WORDS AND PHRASES AND THEIR MEANING IN ENGLISH:

dhrshtaketu = Dhrshtaketu

chektitaanah = Chekitana

kaasiraaja = King of Kasi

cha = and

kuntibhojah = Kuntibhoja

cha = and

saibyah = son of Saibya

cha = and

narapumgavah = the best of men

TEXT IN ENGLISH

Dhrshtaketu, Chekitana and the valiant King of Kasi, Purujit, Kuntibhoja and Saibya, the best among men.

VERSE 6

TEXT IN TRANSLITERATION

yudhaamanyus cha vikraanta uttamaujaas cha viryavaan

saubhadra draupadeyaas cha sarva eva mahaarathaah

SANSKRIT WORDS AND PHRASES AND THEIR MEANING IN ENGLISH:

yuyudhamanyuh = Yudhamanyu

cha = and

vikraantah = the courageous

uttamauja = Uttamauja

cha = and

veeryavaan = the brave

saubhadrah =  the son of Subhadra

draupadeyaah = the sons of Draupadi

cha = and

sarve = all

eva = even

mahaarathaah = great car-warriors

TEXT IN ENGLISH

The courageous Yudhamanyu, the brave Uttamauja, Saubhadra and the sons of Draupadi – all being great chariot-warriors.                                                                                           

COMMENTS BY THE BLOGGER

Absolutely there is no necessity for Dhuryodhana to introduce to the older person, an old warrior of master class to go to the extent of introducing the important warriors and car-warriors on the Pandavas side. This only shows the showmanship of Dhuriyodhana. Dhrona being his teacher, as he was to all the Pandava brothers, it did not lie in the mouth of Dhuriyodhana to speaking like this. But he can be arrogant, discourteous and silly to one and all.

Here is his very own teacher, in some way unsurpassable and peerless, and in other matters next only to the old warrior Bheeshma, and the young Dhuriyodhana thought it fit to introduce the important warriors arrayed against them in war at Kurukchetra. Next thing he might start speak about the greatness of the battle field to that Brahamana that the field had been party to many a mighty sacrifices and other religious activities and how it was only fit that the great war must be waged at this place!

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