Naam Ramayana 4 – Make the Lord your dearest treasure

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thank you kausalya sukhavardhana rama vishwamitra priyadhana rama naam ramayana kausalya sukhavardhana rama rama when he appeared he expanded immensely infinitely the joy of his mother kausalya normally we hear more of the pastime childhood pastime of krishna than of rama one of the reasons is that krishna exhibits the balyaras the vatsalyaras of his devotees much more prominently than does rama but lord rama through lord rama also grew through infancy through boyhood through childhood through boyhood through teenage to youth and in adulthood so among the various incarnations of the lord lord krishna and rama are the only ones who actually grow through the various ages starting from infancy other incarnations narsimhadeva appeared in a fully developed formidable form for him there were no parents he appeared through the walls the wall was his parent for vamana he was a child and he had parents aditya kashyapa but he just appeared as a child right from the beginning and parashurama also appeared as a infant but there is very little known about parashurama’s childhood and growth, parashurama is also a very fierce incarnation so in that sense the intimacy of god the child who has loving reciprocations with his parents especially with his mother the mother is much more closer to the child to the infant than the father after all the mother carries the child in her womb, mother feeds child her own breast milk and in fact in the early days for the infant the survival of the infant depends entirely on the mother so the bond between the mother and the child is among the closest bonds that there can be between two human beings two individuals at all and the lord who is the who is the reservoir of all mellows of all rasas he relishes the supreme rasa this sublime rasa by having reciprocations of love with his devotees so in these two forms as lord Ram and as Krishna he has parents and he relishes intimate love with his parents and so in contrast with Krishna who was a very mischievous and playful and naughty child Ram of course as a child he had his childhood nature but always he was the eldest Krishna could be playful he was the younger brother among the two brothers Ram was the eldest brother although the difference in age between them was not much but still Ram was the eldest brother and he was destined to be the heir, the successor to the king so there was always a reality, a dignity which had its own kind of beauty which endeared him to everyone especially his mother Kaushalya Sukhavardhana Ram Vishwamitra Priyadhana Ram Vishwamitra Priyadhana so when Lord Lord when Ram had barely entered his youth he was around 16 at that time Vishwamitra came to the city and Vishwamitra was such a renounced and famous sage that his presence was a matter of astonishment, even kings would go out to seek his audience to the forest, it was very rare that such a great sage would come to a king and he came because he wanted to take Lord Ram out Vishwamitra Priyadhana Ram so Vishwamitra requested, almost instructed Maharaj Dashrath to give his son to him and although Dashrath Maharaj was devastated by that request agonized at the prospect that his 16 year old son would have to face demons belong demons of Ravana but as Vishwamitra had wanted he acceded and Vishwamitra personally gave mantras which empowered Ram and he performed the sacrifices and Ram and Lakshman fought gallantly and defeated the demons and the demoness Tataka who had come there so when the sacrifice that was very dear to Vishwamitra and repeatedly interrupted by the shenanigans of the demons that sacrifice was completed Vishwamitra was very pleased and he offered profuse blessings to Ram now of course Lord Ram is the supreme lord, he is the blesser of everyone but in his Nara Leela he acts as a human being and human beings become very fortunate if they get blessings of the sages so Lord Ram accepted the blessings of the sages and thus he grew onwards in his life thus he blossomed so Vishwamitra Priyadhana Ram Priyadhana he was the greatest he was very dear wealth as a king as a former king who had enormous wealth, Vishwamitra had renounced all wealth but after renouncing all wealth he wanted the supreme wealth of the lord, the lord who is Lakshmipati who is the deepest treasure of every human heart and Vishwamitra attained that treasure and he served the lord in his own way as a sage who serves a prince and takes service from the prince also so the lord can appear lord, if we call out his holy names, if we meditate on him, pray to him and serve him then he can also increase the happiness in our lives thus Kausalya Sukhavardhana Rama, he can increase the happiness in our heart because he is himself the reservoir of happiness and the more we connect with him the more we will experience happiness and then we will realize that he is also our Priyadhana, instead of considering things of this world as a treasure we realize that Krishna and our devotion to him is our supreme treasure and to get that realization we need to treasure the opportunities to connect with Krishna that we have right now, every opportunity that we have to remember him chant his holy name to serve him we treasure that opportunity and thus that treasure will become more and more treasurable for us relishable for us and thus our life will become sublime, spiritualized and we will attain liberation in the abode of the supreme lord ultimately