MSS_CEP - Message of Sri Ram Chandra - Build Your Life on Powerful Cognitions
om nithyānandeśvara maha sadashiva samārambhām nithyānandeśvari adi shakti madhyamām | asmat āchārya paryantām vande guru paramparām ||
I welcome all of you with my love and respects. I welcome all the Inner Awakening graduates and Mahasadashivoham graduates, Sri Mahants, Mahants, Sarvanjnapeetha Yajamans, this batch Inner Awakening participants, visitors, viewers, sitting with us all over the world. I welcome everyone of you with my love and respects.
Today, Purushothama Paramatma Bhavana, Bhagavan Sri Ramachandra Prabhu’s birthday. Vishnu himself appearing as Sri Ramachandra and Adishesha appearing as Lakshmana, Chakra and Shankha appearing as Bharata and Shatrughna. Actually when we celebrate Rama’s birthday we forget today is the day four Incarnation landed together. No, during other Incarnations also the his samsahs have come, like even during Krishna Avatara - Adishesha came as Balarama but in a different day. This is the only day where all four appeared on the same day. Just little time different, but all four as per the official Ramayanam record on the same day. So all four Incarnations are happened on this auspicious day. Let’s first receive Sri Rama and Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, and all the parivaras of Ramachandra Prabhu their blessings.
(Prayer starts) 09:04 This is the place where Sri Rama lived best part of his life. Understand, never ever call it as exile. No! Best part of his life. All of you need to know the thirteen and a half years in the last six months of the fourteen years, Ravana kidnapped Sita. Thirteen and a half years was a beautiful, happy, blissful, devoted, the ideal grihastha life. He lived with Saptarishis and Sadashiva himself here in the Adi Kailasa. Understand the original description of Ramayana and the Upanishad matches perfectly geography, and the season, and seasonal changes. Birds, flowers recorded, and the birds which don’t come into this zone. Please understand, go round the whole Ramanagara hill you will not find a single crow. You won’t find a single crow. Crows don’t fly on that hill, because one demon came in the form of crow, Kakasura and try to hurt Sita and Rama killed that demon. From that time till now no crows.
And, even now monkeys come and worship our Dakshinamurthy. They don’t go to Venkateshwara and pull his clothes and all that. Every day I get report they come and sit on Dakshinamurthy. They worship in their own way! That’s all! Ha, under our Banyan Tree we have Venkateshwara, we have Dakshinamurthy, we have Muneshwara, we have Patanjali, all the deities. They don’t go anywhere else. They only come and sit in the feet or lap of Dakshinamurthy. They do puja in their own way. You cannot compare your puja and their puja. Hmm. No, they have their own method. They have their own way.
So this pilgrimage center not only for human beings, even for vanaras because Sri Rama give Muktikopanishad to Hanuman here under this Banyan Tree. Understand Agama records very clearly, Sadashiva gave Agamas, revealed Vedas, everything to Saptarishis south of the Kailasa parvata under Banyan tree. And Ramayana describes clearly, with Saptarishis, Ramachandra Prabhu stayed and realised all the Vedas, received all the revelations of Agamas, Vedas, everything from Sadashiva. So if you see both references - Agamic reference and puranic reference, both confirm this is the geography.
Understand, there is no geography matches both references. Some geography match one place, some geography match another place. Only this geography matches both the reference, both the references - references in Vedas, Upanishads and Agamas, and references in Ramayana. Both references matched. Only this geography, and, Rama is a great Shiva bhakta. So he always stays near Shivalayas to do his Shiva puja regularly. That’s the reason he chose this place to stay. And if you go to Ramanagara hill, you will see seven huge rocks representing Saptarishis, and under the each rock there is a huge cave where that Rishi lived, the residence of those Rishis. All the Saptarishis lived here.
Rama is symbol of everything best in the Universe. Purushothama, he’s a grand narrative of Hinduism. That is why he is attacked so much. Understand, the taller you are, more targeted you are because you are seen by more fellows who are down. The taller you are, more targeted you are because you are seen by more fellows who are down. Sri Rama targeted from that time he is born. Third day, Manthara was unhappy with Sri Rama. It’s only third day of the birth. It seems when she went to see the baby, third day only they allow people to see. Till three days only the parents and the doctors who attend the delivery can handled the babies. So third day when she went to see, it seems Ramachandra Prabhu closed his eyes and so she was angry with him. And of course she was waiting for a reason to get angry, nothing else. And, she always try to promote Kaikeyi and somehow see she was, she came as a maid for Kaikeyi. In those days that habit was there when you give a princess in marriage, you send maid also from father’s home to take care. Like how we send nowadays the grinder mixie, fridge, refrigerator and all that. And in those days, human maids are also send. So Manthara was gunin. Why she was called gunin? Because her back was bend.
Manthara was the human maid sent by Keikaya along with Kaikeyi to Dasharatha home as a gift. She always try to put Kaikeyi in the front and she somehow wanted only Kaikeyi should have child. So naturally Kaikeyi’s son will be the next king and she will have power over the whole thing. The lady play a big role in whole Ramavatara. Hmm. And, of course negative role she played. She play a major role.
Even though he was targeted so much, I tell you the kind of a powerfulness he demonstrated. I tell you, highest powerfulness is not using your powers even while you are attacked and waiting for the law of karma to do its job. Not at all becoming silly in the inner space. Not at all becoming silly in the inner space, and enjoying the whole game. Rama is something extraordinary. Extraordinary!
The way he demonstrated the ideal. You also need to know Rama is the most non controversial Incarnation who are accepted and worshipped even by Shaivites. In many Shiva temples I have seen Ramayanam is carved in the temple and lot of Rama deities, Sita, Hanuman. You won’t find so much Narasimha, so much Parashurama, so much Krishna. I think somehow Shaivites can’t tolerate Krishna. And, that’s a unfortunate thing. It should not have been, but unfortunately that the sectarian Shaivites, not the real Shaivites, that sectarian Shaivites can’t tolerate Krishna.
But, somehow Rama become a non controversial grand narrative. He has demonstrated all the great qualities to be a grand narrative. His tyaga and powerfulness in front of all the situations. You cannot expect Krishna being asked to give up his rights and keeping quiet. No! You can’t expect Krishna to walk out of his kingdom because somebody says something. He will tell Dasharatha has committed to Kaikeyi, “As long as it does not come to my rights and my powers, and boundaries and limitations. It’s all okay! If it comes near mine, forget about it!”
Rama is a different material all together. He’s…( a pause) Actually the whole that Incarnation series demonstrates the various ideas needs to be demonstrated during each situations. You can see that fish, the Matsyavatara where the life is having the biggest breakthrough in the form of independent existence. Then comes tortoise, kurma who can live in water and land, both. Then comes Varaha, evolved body. Then comes Narasimha, half animal and half man. Then comes Vamana, short man. Then comes Parashurama, a wild, ferocious, raw - physically fully grown but still retaining all the wildness of the animal and ferociousness. Then comes Rama, a complete cultured ideal for a stable human civilisation. I think that is the time the human civilisation has started becoming a reality. Till then we were only a small forest gangs. Till Parashurama, we were only small forest gangs. Small small settlement in various forest and remote regions.
It is only the Rama’s time the human civilisation has become a regular lifestyle. So ideal leader to demonstrate all the principles of coexistence. Somebody have to have that kind of a tyaga to demonstrate the power of the values - giving courage and confidence to people on the power of dharma. People need to be given courage and confidence to practise dharma. So each Incarnation has a reason. I should say Rama’s was the most difficult. Most difficult. Remaining within the boundaries of human frame, has to demonstrate the grandeur of the dharma. He has done something extraordinary. What an Incarnation!
Whole beautiful narration of his life, I think largest number of times the story I heard in my life is Ramayana only. For any Bharatn village boy, this will be the truth! You will not, you may hear Shiva Purana, Bhagavatam, all that once or twice, but Ramayana is the one regularly every village sings, reverberates, vibrates.
Every year they will tell the story of Mahabharata in Tiruvannamalai but every two month there will be Ramayana recitation. Still now the largest translated book is Ramayana. It is not Bible or it is not Mahabharata, it is not Bhagavad Gita, it’s Ramayana. Google it! Large, largest number of versions and translations. If you google, you will find it is not Bible, it is not Bhagavad Gita, it is not Mahabharata. It is Ramayana. He continues to remain as the grand narrative of Bharatn civilisation, the Hindu civilisation, Sanatana Dharma, Purana Purushothama.
See, you being attacked is not something big. Everyone gets attacked. Whether you are a beggar or king, you get attacked. How you respond makes, that decides whether you are great or not. Everyone is attacked, whether you are a beggar or a king. For your range you are attacked. Being attacked does not make you unique. How you respond makes you unique.
Thousands of kings have lost the kingdom. Now almost all kings have lost the kingdom because it is democracy now! But nobody has become part of the history. Losing kingdom does not make you part of the history. How you respond when you lose the kingdom makes you part of the history. His kinghood was not taken away when the kingdom was taken away is the reason why he remains as Raja Rama. Understand, his kinghood is not taken away when his kingdom was taken away, that is the reason he remains as Raja Rama, forever. He remains as Raja Rama forever.
Still we worship him only in the throne. His pattabhisheka scene is the most worshipped scene. Even though he has done so many wonderful things, his pattabhisheka scene is the most worshipped scene. The way he held himself, you can’t call him he was exiled, his padukas was rolling the Ayodhya. When your chappal is on the throne of the kingdom, how can you call you have been exiled? How can you be called as you’ve been exiled? No. He was not in exile.
I should say that he was spending happy times, vacation. Understand, when you are not in your home, if somebody else’s occupied it - you can say you have been kicked out. When you are not in your home, your home is rule by your padukas, then how can you call you have been kicked out of your home? You have gone for vacation, that’s all. I only interpret Rama came here as a vacation, just to enjoy little longer honeymoon, that’s all. Normally fourteen days honeymoon, so he has fourteen years honeymoon, that's all. Maybe because he came here for the honeymoon only this place is call Bidadi. Bidadi means rest house. Actually in Kannada and in Tamil the word Bidadi means guest house or rest house, vacation home. Both language the word Bidadi. Bidadi is rest house, vacation home. So, he just wanted to spend some time with Mahadeva and came here as his rest house, guest house, that’s all.
When his kingdom was removed from his king, even after that his kinghood was not removed from him because it was built from his powerful cognition. He was king because of his powerful cognitions, not because of his external powers. So build your personality with your powerful cognitions. That is what is the message from Ramayana.
If I have to say one line message of Sri Rama - build your whole life on powerful cognitions, constantly. Actually I was reading Guru Gita where Sadashiva explain the greatness of Guru to Devi, Parvati. Anyway, it’s like his own dimension of Guru, he’s explaining about it to Devi. I could see throughout the whole thing, it was all very powerful cognition. Very powerful cognition. The message of the whole Guru Gita is nothing but building powerful cognitions in you which makes you manifest the highest Oneness with Guru. I should say the message of whole Rama’s life is nothing but manifesting powerful cognitions.
You can call it as tyaga. He does not even feel he has done tyaga. And I tell you, the same thing with me - I don’t feel I have done any tyaga. I don’t want to say I have not done any tyaga. I don’t feel I have done any tyaga because of powerful cognitions. I don’t want to say I have not done any tyaga. And this statement is not for the dumeel atheist, dubakoor dumeel atheist.
The powerfulness he demonstrated when everything was taken away from him, became his message. Or I should say usually people build their brand when they are great kings, queens, powerful people. Rama is the only person, he build his brand when he lost everything! No one can use the opportunities like Rama. The worst opportunities he has used best.
Actually, the way I stood when my reputation was stolen away has become my new reputation for me. Understand, thousands lose reputation. Every day front page is nothing but failures and losing reputation. Last page is success - sport news, in all newspaper. Front page is failures, last page is successes, victories. Victories is always in last pages - sport news. Front page is always for failures. To remove somebody’s reputation, to remove somebody’s credibility, to finish off somebody only is always first page is used. So all first page is nothing but somebody losing reputation. That’s not a big thing. How you stand when reputation was stolen away from you, that builds the real reputation! That builds the real reputation.
Whether you feel it is easy, or you feel it is difficult, or you feel it is impossible - the only thing you need to do is building powerful cognitions. If you feel easy, just do it. If you feel difficult, do it. If you feel impossible, do it! Build powerful cognitions about life, understandings about life. Understand, your powerful cognition acts like a magnet and attract situations and persons of that same calibre in your life, manifest that same calibre experiences in your life.
Essence of today's satsang: Build powerful cognitions in your system whether you feel it is difficult, easy or impossible. Whether you feel it is easy or it is difficult or it’s impossible - build powerful cognitions!
So with this I welcome all of you to come and be part of this grand Golden Temple project. Temple to Maha Sadashiva, the deity which was directly worshipped by Ramachandra Prabhu himself with Sita and Lakshmana. And later on worshipped by Hanuman also after he was given Muktikopanishad by Sri Ramachandra Prabhu.
All of you need to know Rama is the first compiler, Vyasa of Vedas. Veda has many Vyasas, compilers. Veda Vyasa was last one. After Veda Vyasa, we don’t accept anybody as a compiler, he’s the last compiler. The first compiler is Sri Ramachandra Prabhu. If you see, Rama organised and compiled all the hundred and eight Upanishads. It is Muktikopanishad which tells all the hundred and eight Upanishads name. Rama is the first compiler, Vyasa is the last compiler of the Vedas. Even though nobody remember the Acharya dimension of Rama, it blossom here in Bidadi.
So with this, I bless you all. Let’s all radiate with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, Enriching, Causing, Living Shuddhadvaita Saivam, Sadashivoham, Mahasadashivoham, The Eternal Bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you. Be blissful! 48:22
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- Date
- 25 March 2018
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- Bengaluru Aadheenam
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- English
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