AYodYA - Sita Rama in / Out Hanuman
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Sunday, June 19, 2022
lifetimes
Padma Purana not only says all people are happy about Rama, it gives interesting details of the conversations among Rama’s subjects at night, reported to Rama by his spies [all collected from their homes and not from the streets.
For instance, in one home a mother, suckling her infant asks him to drink as much of her milk as possible – for he is not going to get it in his coming lifetimes. There will no future lifetimes for him – those who live in Rama’s city will have no future lifetimes, they will attain liberation [moksha] in this life itself.
In another home, a wife compares her husband to Rama and the pleased husband denies the comparison – where is Rama the sun in the sky and where is he a mere moth; where is Rama, the sacred Ganga and where is he, but a mere pool on the road ?
In yet another house, there is a game of dice going on between a love-intoxicated young husband and wife. The wife beats her husband quickly at the game and declares herself the winner, making her bangles dance as she speaks gesturing with her arms.
The husband, laughing, refuses to take the beating and declares he is not yet beaten and is going to beat her in an instant, by remembering Rama, as the Devas in the past defeated the Daityas. And he does exactly that and the delighted man and woman give themselves into each others arms in a tight embrace.
Aswamedha Yagna episode also narrated story of a divine person, whose soul was trapped in horse’s body and got liberated with tough of Lord Rama.
That divine person was cursed in past by sage Durvasa to become an animal, as he was fooling around and not respecting elders.
He was however told that when Rama touches him, he will be liberated and will ascend to the heaven.
Padma Puran
