Naam Ramayana 17 – Losing a battle within the world of illusion doesn’t matter if we win the battle against ilusion per se

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life eternally auspicious.
Thank you. Meanwhile Ravan abducted Sita and when lord Ram came back at that time he saw that Sita was missing he had rebuked Lakshmana for leaving Sita and both of them had rushed back and Ram fell to the ground in agony seeing Sita missing he called out Sita frantically and couldn’t see her anywhere and then as Lakshmana controlling his emotions looked carefully I noticed the signs of a scuffle of a struggle where Sita had tried to pull herself free of the grip of Ravana and he understood that someone has there has been a scuffle and then he also saw in the clearing Ravana had stood hiding while Maricha had allured Ram away so they realized from the signs of the scuffle that probably some Rakshasa had come and taken Sita so Ram regained his determination his composure and they started out searching as they were calling and searching they came to a clearing where again it seemed that some great battle had taken place and then suddenly they saw some creature lying on the ground so Ram there was also blood nearby so Ram initially thought that actually this is the Rakshasa who had devoured Sita and that’s why the blood was there and this Rakshasa was now resting in the form of a bird so he started chanting the names of he raised his bow to attack that demon or who he thought was a demon suddenly he heard the name Ram Ram Ram immediately he lowered his bow and ran and Ram’s heart almost stopped when he saw that this was actually Jatayu he asked Jatayu what happened and Jatayu told the whole story of how he had fought and how he had guaranteed to stop Sita and he told that Ravana has gone in the southern direction taking Sita away and then he with his head resting in Lord Ram’s lap having completed that last service of having given the message of who had taken Sita and where she had been taken he took his last breath and left his body and Ram was grief struck and he said to Lakshman I feel the same grief I felt when my father Dashrath the king Dashrath was killed had died and he said this great vulture has left his has sacrificed his life for our sake and after that he was unbending and Lord Ram with the assistance of Lakshman personally performed the last rites for Jatayu Gatidayaka means one who is the giver of Gati what is the Gati Lord Ram said may you attain the regions of everlasting bliss Jatayu lost the war against Maya but he won the lost the war against Ravana but he won the war against Maya he Jatayu won that battle he was by the because he got his last rites performed by Lord Ram because he died chanting the name of Ram and beholding Ram’s face being held affectionately in Lord Ram’s lap was permeated with remembrance of Lord Ram and thus he attained the destination eternal destination the kingdom of God the abode of Lord Ram and that is thus he got the supreme blessing losing life seems to be a devastating defeat for us but actually even if nobody defeats us still eventually all of us have to die Jatayu was already old and he would sooner or later have died but what is defining about this moment is not that he was defeated and mortally wounded by Ravana but that he was able to have the darshan in the shelter of the Lord personally when he departed from his body and that ensured his attainment of the supreme destination so that is what we too can get if we habituate ourselves taking shelter of Krishna that means if we remember that actually it is Krishna who is our Lord and it is this Lord who we have to attain no matter what happens in the various battles that we face in this world in the battle over illusion with the weapon of remembrance of Krishna we will always be successful and that is a battle which we have the opportunity to win everyday when we sit for our meditation every time we call out the holy name every time we absorb ourselves in remembrance of Krishna we too irrespective of whether we have won the battles in the world on that day on the previous day doesn’t matter this is a battle which we can always win and winning this battle will be supremely consequential it will grant us eternal happiness something winning no other battle can ever grant us thank you