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Statutory Warning:
1) Reading this episode is injurious to Husbands!
2) By mistake any one husband turns into modern Tulsidas, with or without the great saintly beard, Rajagopal cannot be held responsible!
Jai Shri Ram!
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I was reading the biography of Tulsidas.
Following is a small fraction from his life.
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Mr.Rambola married Ms.Ratnavali, who was a very intelligent and pious lady.
Rambola loved his wife, and could never stand even a moment’s separation from her.
Once he crossed a flooded river to see his wife, who was visiting her parents.
Ratnavali got angry and said "What do you get by loving this mortal body?
If you were to love Lord Sri Rama like this, you would get mukti."
These words rekindled Rambola’s love for Sri Rama, he renounced family life, metamorphosed into Tulsi Das and started traveling across north India, preaching Sri Rama’s life. In Chitrakoot, he wrote the masterpiece Rama Charita Manas. He wrote in one of the Hindi dialects known as Avadhi spoken around Ayodhya region. Tulsidas employed "doha", "chowpayee", "swaratae" and other meters in his poem.
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Following is a small fraction from his life.
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Mr.Rambola married Ms.Ratnavali, who was a very intelligent and pious lady.
Rambola loved his wife, and could never stand even a moment’s separation from her.
Once he crossed a flooded river to see his wife, who was visiting her parents.
Ratnavali got angry and said "What do you get by loving this mortal body?
If you were to love Lord Sri Rama like this, you would get mukti."
These words rekindled Rambola’s love for Sri Rama, he renounced family life, metamorphosed into Tulsi Das and started traveling across north India, preaching Sri Rama’s life. In Chitrakoot, he wrote the masterpiece Rama Charita Manas. He wrote in one of the Hindi dialects known as Avadhi spoken around Ayodhya region. Tulsidas employed "doha", "chowpayee", "swaratae" and other meters in his poem.
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The entire story is given as narrated by Siva to Parvati;
see the irony;
one ideal couple is chit chatting about the separation of another couple! Hey Ram!
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Following are my observations:
1) Tulsidas loved his wife passionately, which made him a saint
2) He became the devotee of Rama who struggled throughout His life because of his wife
3) Again if you read in-between the lines, the story is narrated to Parvati by Siva again a passionate lover telling stories to wife
My point is that even though Tulsidas quit his family, he got aligned with the appropriate team and his writing also reflects the love of a passionate husband only; he wrote about Sita and Rama, the so called ideal couple; it is possible he diverted his grand love for his wife towards Rama and Sita.
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see the irony;
one ideal couple is chit chatting about the separation of another couple! Hey Ram!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Following are my observations:
1) Tulsidas loved his wife passionately, which made him a saint
2) He became the devotee of Rama who struggled throughout His life because of his wife
3) Again if you read in-between the lines, the story is narrated to Parvati by Siva again a passionate lover telling stories to wife
My point is that even though Tulsidas quit his family, he got aligned with the appropriate team and his writing also reflects the love of a passionate husband only; he wrote about Sita and Rama, the so called ideal couple; it is possible he diverted his grand love for his wife towards Rama and Sita.
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Naradha Bhakti Sutram 5
Sutram 5
यत्प्राप्य न किञ्चित्द्वाञ्छति न शोचति
न द्वेष्टि न रमते नोत्साही भवति ----५
न द्वेष्टि न रमते नोत्साही भवति ----५
Transliteration
Word by word meaning
yat -- which;
prapya -- having attained;
vanchati – desires, hankers for;
bhavati -- becomes.
Meaning
Having attained which( here it denotes Devotion) one desires nothing, does not grieve, does not hate, does not rejoice, does not self-indulge for senses’ gratification
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A small doubt:
Was the Love of Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal wrong?
Would he have escaped the imprisonment at the hands of his own son, had Mumtaz told in one of their meetings to focus on Almighty instead of always rolling around her feet?
Probably we would have got a great saint like Bhakta Kabir Das?
Who knows?
Anyway thanks Ms.Ratnavali for giving us Tulasidas from Mr.Rambola.
धन्यवाद:
See you in the next episode
With lots of love
rajagopal
26 .03.2012
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