Naam Ramayana 9 – Offer the Lord the garland of our heart’s love

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in the naam ramayana trambhaka karmuka bhanjaka rama sitar pitavara malika rama so in the naam ramayana the narration of the past times of lord ram continues here and lord ram has now entered into mithilapuri and he has come into the arena of disayamvar and for other people even lifting up the bow was very difficult and several dozens of people sometimes had to lift the box in which the bow was contained and they could barely push the box leave alone lift the bow that was inside it but when lord ram came there and he circumambulated the bow and bowed down to it and then he bent down and just in one smooth action he lifted up the bow the whole assembly with the courtiers of maharajan with the attending guests with the kings from various places they all fell silent seeing this amazing feat and then the bow has to be not only lifted but it has to be strung the strength the speed with which an arrow is shot is critical the force with which the arrow is shot force and speed with which the arrow is shot is critical in the arrow having an impact and the force and speed with which the arrow will go will be discharged will depend on how tight the string is that when the string is pulled back and then released the arrow just shoots ahead so the string has to be tied very tightly and to ensure that the string is tight often the bow is normally kept in a spread state and through the string when the string is to be tied it is to be bent and then that bending of the bow for tying it creates tension in the bow and the bow string and that helps the archer so because the bow has to be bent for stringing it stringing the bow is not considered very easy because it requires great physical strength to bend the bow so that the string will go through it so very few candidates have been able to lift up the bow of Shiva the bow of Shiva it is said why the bow of Shiva? long ago Shiva had used this bow to fight with and defeat the enemies of the gods and then that bow had been given to one of the ancestors of Janak Maharaj and that’s how it had come to Janak Maharaj now so in her childhood Sita had just once effortlessly lifted up the bow and Maharaj Janak had seen it oh my big big well built guards and soldiers are not able to lift this bow and this girl has lifted it so she has such within her frail seeming body if she has so much power then her husband needs to be more powerful than her so her husband should be able to not only lift the bow but also string the bow so that was the condition and Ram started stringing the bow the silence became even more astonished eyes the whole assembly was watching Ram do this incredible feat and then Ram as he bent and tied the bow his force was so great that actually the bow broke apart under the force of tension and something is always objective if you try to bend it too much then it breaks apart that’s what happened to this bow it just broke apart and that itself was a stupendous feat because the bow that could not even be lifted the bow that could not even be bent by anyone if somebody can break apart that bow break that bow that was a stupendous achievement on the part of Ram and then after that Sita Arpita Varamalika Rama so Sita is Sita as per the condition of the swayamvar then offered to Ram the garland which was to be given to the person who would win the swayamvar now a similar thing happens in the pastime of the amrutmanthan where Ramadevi comes and then she beholds all the men over there who are like her prospective suitors and she chooses among them all the Supreme Lord Vishnu he says that no one is as there are many other people who have good qualities but no one is so rich with qualities as is Ram so the important point is that we need to use our intelligence not just get carried away by externals a man looks at the complexion of a woman the external beauty and then things that I fall in love with her a woman often looks at the wealth of a man and falls for him and thinks that I am in love with him and in this way we get carried away often by externals and the externals don’t last for long and then there is disappointment that results so we need to direct our love towards the one person who is rich with, who is unlimitedly rich with all attractive, all auspicious qualities and that Lord when we learn to love him our hearts longing attains the supreme fulfillment so we may be in male bodies or female bodies but that is only our bodily gender in terms of our spiritual nature we are all Prakriti and Krishna the Lord is the supreme Purusha and we all the heart’s affection that we have which we offer that is like our Varmala, it is the garland of our heart’s affection and when we offer it to Krishna we offer it to Ram, we offer it to Krishna when we offer it to the supreme Lord then that garland that offering of our love to him returns to us manifold because Krishna is unlimited and he can love us unlimitedly and all our longing for love becomes eternally and completely fulfilled by that therefore we need to choose intelligently whom we love sometimes people say that I just fall in love but actually we need to use our intelligence because love is no small thing, it is one of the most important things that we will do in our life and we need to do it carefully whom we develop a relationship with and how we develop that relationship and what destiny we will attain by that so the Lord is eminently worthy of our love and it is to him that we should offer the garland of our heart’s love thank you Sita is Sita as per the condition of the swayamvar then offered to Ram the garland which was to be given to the person who would win the swayamvar now a similar thing happens in the fast time of the amrutmanthan where Ramadevi comes and then she beholds all the men over there who are like her prospective suitors and she chooses among them all the Supreme Lord Vishnu and he says that no one is as there are any other people who have good qualities but no one is so rich with qualities as is Ram so the important point is that we need to use our intelligence not just get carried away by externals a man looks at the complexion of a woman the external beauty and then things that I fall in love with her a woman often looks at the wealth of a man and falls for him and thinks that I am in love with him and this way we get carried away often by externals and those externals don’t last for long and then there is disappointment that results so we need to direct our love towards the one person who is rich with who is unlimitedly rich with all attractive all auspicious qualities and that Lord when we learn to love him our hearts longing attains the supreme fulfillment so we may be in male bodies or female bodies but that is only our bodily gender in terms of our spiritual nature we are all prakriti and Krishna the Lord is the supreme purusha and we all the hearts affection that we have which we offer that is like our varmala it is the garland of our hearts affection and then we offer it to Krishna we offer it to Ram we offer it to Krishna when we offer it to the supreme lord then that garland that offering of our love to him returns to us manifold because Krishna is unlimited and he can love us unlimitedly and all our longing for love becomes eternally and completely fulfilled by that therefore we need to choose intelligently whom we love sometimes people say that I just fall in love but actually we need to use our intelligence because love is no small thing it is one of the most important thing that we will do in our life and we need to do it carefully whom we develop a relationship with and how we develop that relationship and what destiny we will attain by that so the lord is eminently worthy of our love and it is to him that we should offer the garland of our hearts love thank you