Naam Ramayana 11 – Imbue devotion with desire to relish divine symbiosis

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thank you Ram so aganit is naam ramayan going on now the ayodhya kaal is starting from here lord ram has come with his consort sita and they have settled in ayodhya as a married couple and it is seen that lord ram has so many cherished qualities aganit guna gana bhushita rama aganit guna aganit uncountable qualities this is a theme that comes often in the bhagavatam for example it says that one may be able to count the number of stars in the sky the number of the atoms in the universe but one cannot count the number of qualities of the supreme lord he is infinite infinitely quality filled and infinitely attractive aganit guna gana bhushita rama so all these qualities bhushita they were his ornaments he was all attractive and his innumerable qualities were a part of his attractiveness and everybody around him was charmed by him and most charmed of course was his most intimate associate his consort sita devi avani tanaya kamita rama avani, avani is earth tanaya is the daughter so sita is called as janaki because she is the daughter of janak maharaj but she was not a daughter who was born in a normal way by the union of janak maharaj with his wife rather once janak maharaj was plowing a field as a part of a sacrificial ritual while performing a yagya and he was using a golden plow to plow the field and at that time the plow hit a treasure trunk under the ground and there they found this effulgent beautiful young baby, female baby and this janak maharaj it was revealed to him that this was the daughter that he was aspiring for and he accepted her as his own daughter who had been given by bhumidevi to him, so she was simultaneously the daughter of avani earth and the daughter of janak, so she was janaki and avani tanaya tanaya is son, tanaya is daughter so avani tanaya kamita rama kamita kamita means desired so often in arranged marriages it is when two people with cherished qualities come together and live together then by living together and living in a same mode of service with each other, their love for each other increases, so sita and ram, sita desired ram, she wanted to be with him serve him, love him, avani tanaya kamita rama kamita rama so actually the perfection of our desire is to desire the supreme lord, in this world we desire so many things but those desires bring at the best disappointment none of the objects that we desire live up to our expectations none of them grant the satisfaction that they promise and some of them far from giving satisfaction give tribulation instead but when we desire the lord, just as sita devi desired over here, avani tanaya kamita rama so when we direct our desire towards the lord and when we practice bhakti not because it’s a scriptural rule, not because of any extraneous reason but because we desire the lord, we want to love the lord, we want to serve him then our desires bring us not tribulation but the supreme satisfaction because the lord is aganita guna gana bhushita rama in this world people appear very attractive from a distance but when we come close to them we often find that their attractive qualities are covered over by many not so attractive qualities but the charm that appears to be there initially that weakens substantially later on but when we come to know the lord, the more we come to know him the more we fall in love with him because his qualities are infinite and the closer we come to him not that we discover blemishes in him but we discover more and more of his qualities and we discover deeper and deeper levels of his known qualities in this way both way by discovering deeper levels of his known qualities and by discovering his unknown qualities both ways our attraction to him increases our love for him deepens and satisfaction that we get in loving him and getting his reciprocation intensifies and the whole process of bhakti is to direct our desire towards the lord to desire him to love him and to become absorbed in him eternally and that is what we try to do when we chant his names and practice bhakti so to the extent we infuse whatever desire we have for the lord right now into our devotional activities to that extent those devotional activities will become animated and they will give us experience of Krishna and when we get experience of Krishna our desire for him will intensify and then with that intensified desire when we practice bhakti then we will get greater experience of Krishna and in this way the desire for Krishna and the experience of Krishna will increase symbiotically infusing our life with excitement and ecstasy