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DEATH OF THATAKI: STORY OF NEUROTIC PERSON FROM RAMAYANA

  Continuation of the last part........ STORY OF A NEUROTIC PERSON FROM RAMAYANA          They entered into thick forest  which was quite fearful. Vishwamitra told them that was the place where Indra killed vrithasura . The place then became a kingdom with suketu as its king. He got a daughter as Thataki who was strong as thousand elephants  after her son Maricha's birth ,her husband died .Thataki was young beautiful and strong but alone with her son . She had no one to console or comfort or advice her .          Her lonliness , lack of education and direction in life and easy availability  of riches made her mentally weak , frustrated and mad ; she lost her awareness of the surroundings  and clothes and started roaming naked taking her son maricha also along with her .People were afraid of her elephantine and lunatic strength  and used to run away fron her .Their behaviour enraged her even more and she became desponent having lost her all sense.           When she came bef

Realization of the true self

   Shree Rama exhibited his extraordinary qualities from his childhood .He had his early education from vashistha .Dashratha became fond of him and never allowed him to be out of his sight .But fate is the master we are its Instruments ,it came in the person of sage vishwamitra !.        Vishwamitra was born as kshatriya king and became a great warrior .He visited once the ashram of vashistha muni as his guest and he saw the divine cow nandini there ,(some say it was kamadhenu, name of the cow may vary) ,because of his kshatriya buddhi he wanted that divine cow in his palace so he tried to take it forcibly but vashistha was not like rishi jamadagni (parshurama's father) .He resisted that greedy king .vishwamitra used all his resources ,military ,weapons etc all failed before the spiritual powers of Rishi vashistha .         unlike kartaveeryarjuna ,he realized that physical strength is inferior to spiritual strength which accrues only by virtuous contol over the mind .He saw w

Nature of the seeker and the birth of shri Ram

The story continues    Dashratha visited personally this great rushi on the advice of vasistha and requested him to perform putrakamekshi yaga in his kingdom .The vanga king also joined Dashratha in his request .Rushyashrunga sage agreed readily and came to ayodhya and performed the yagaa...After successful completion of the yaga ,Agni the fire god came out of the sacred fire personally and handed over a vessel containing a magical portion to Dashratha . He gave half to his eldest queen Kaushalya Devi and balance in equal proportion to his second and third queens Sumithra Devi and kaikeyi but kausalya Devi gave a little quantity  from her portion to sumitra devi .     After the portion of nine months ,vishnu incarnated as Rama in womb of Kausalyaa devi on chaitramasa shuklapaksha Navami wednesday under punarvasu nakshatra and karkataka lagna (cancer ascendent).Aadishesha ,the original serpent in which narayana sleeps was born as lakshmana along with his twin brother shathrugna in w