Naam Ramayana 10 – The Lord destroys arrogance and bestows transcendence

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thank you bhargava dharpa vinashaka rama krita vaivahika kautuka rama so this is namaramayan going on and in the the conclusion of the balakanda is being described with the marriage of lord ram the soyamvar in the soyamvar after lord ram won the hand of sita the marriage was soon to be performed but then jannat maharaj thought that this is such a wonderful alliance that can occur between the two parties that it would be best if the they come together and they that there were four sisters and there are four brothers so they can all get married and then the family can be joined in a fourfold bond with that in mind a message was sent to dashrath maharaj dashrath maharaj came with his family and other sons and then a grand marriage was performed of course all the four marriages performed together one by one but then it was the center of this is of course the marriage of ram and sita and sukuta vaivahika kautuka ram it is a magnificent marriage where the two kings got united together the two hearts got united into not just a union of two hearts it was the union of the lord with his eternal consort in their manifest pastimes on earth and then bhargava dharpa vinashaka parashurama bhargava refers to parashurama dharpa vinashaka dharpa vinashaka refers to the point of dharpa is pride or arrogance and vinashaka is destroyer so parashurama was was a previous incarnation and as he was still there on the earth and as an incarnation in fact it is described that he was there even when krishna came and he was a teacher of bhishma and he fought with bhishma and he was also there when krishna came as shanti doodh and he also tried to give good advice to durodhana but durodhana was incorrigibly obstinate now here till now bhargava parashurama had remained undefeated and when he heard that there was a kshatriya who had not only lifted but broken the great bow of lord shiva then he felt this must be a great kshatriya and it will indeed be worthwhile to face this kshatriya to fight with this kshatriya and to test his actual prowess so accordingly he challenged lord ram to the fight and when they when the groom’s party were returning back from mithila to yodhya suddenly they found inauspicious signs everywhere and then suddenly they saw that fierce looking sage appeared and dasyat maharaj trembled and bowed out to him but neglecting him parashurama faced towards ram and he said you are the person who broke shiva’s bow i would like to see your prowess here there is vishnu chaap let us see how you can fight with this and lord ram was very humble and gentle and he said oh venerable sage you being a brahmana are respectable for me and i cannot fight with you please accept my respects and please give me your blessings parashurama was not too pacified and he said you are a kshatriya and i am challenging you to fight must fight with me so then ram humbly said but as a service to you i will fight and then he picked up the bow and he pointed it to parashurama and parashurama realized that he had become motionless leave alone fight back he couldn’t even move and when he was completely overpowered like this then parashurama understood that actually this was the supreme lord himself who had descended and he understood that now his time as the lord was over now of course parashurama is the lord ram is the lord and both of them are at one level one in the same person but the important point is that when they perform a leela they often act differently they act as two distinct persons and that’s how they can have reciprocations and they can have wonderful extraordinary pastimes so then parashurama was actually humbled by lord ram thus and parashurama said now i will renounce my weapons and i will renounce fighting and i will go to the sea and perform austerities please release me from the mystic power by which you have immobilized me so then lord ram released parashurama and then parashurama offering his respects to ram departed from there so this was a stupendous feat by ram because parashurama had defeated kshatriyas 21 times and no one had come anywhere near matching him what to speak of surpassing him what to speak of defeating him but ram had done that in this world we may become specialists in something and we may become expert we may become so good at that thing that we may think that i am the champion now if we have talents we have skills we can use them and we should use them for constructive purposes but then if our talent makes us arrogant then that arrogance will keep us in ignorance ignorance about our real identity as souls who are parts of god and ignorance of the eternal spiritual bliss that awaits us as parts of god so by so when we come in contact with the lord when we come just as parashurama came in front of ram when we come in front of the lord in his manifestation is the holy name and we try to call out his name then one of the things that he does is he destroys our arrogance by which he destroys our arrogance and then we can taste transcendence we can relish transcendence and we can get transported to transcendence so although the destruction of our pride of our arrogance may seem painful the result is joyful supremely joyful because along with that arrogance is destroyed the ignorance that keeps us away from transcendence and transcendence is supremely joyful