[Advaita-l] Raama and advaita - a mocker

[V Subrahmanian]

Thanks Sriram ji for sharing this humorous note. I have heard something
like this with regard to Mārīcha - his fear of Rāma and even the sound of
the two letters there.

vs

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

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> alli nODalu rAma illi nODalu rAma |
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> ellelli nODidaralli shrIrAma ||
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> Hither Rama, thither Rama, wherever I look, I see Sri Rama there.
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> rAvaNana mUlabala kaMDu kapisEnE AvAgale bedari ODidavu|
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> IvElE naranAgi irabAradendeNisi *dEva rAmachaMdra jagavella tAnAda*||
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> Seeing the frightening power of RavaNa the vAnara army took to flight
> immediately.  Rama thought ‘Now I should not remain a human any longer’ and
> He ‘became’ the entire world.  And see the consequence of this:
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> I am reminded of a joke which my rAmAyaNa teacher used to tell me.
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> Ravana was observing the valour and strength of Rama and His fighting
> techniques all through out the war.  When his turn of fight came, he
> observed
> the Rama's prowess in the battlefield.  Since then, Ravana was so
> frightened
> that he used to see Rama everywhere and whenever the two words "rA" & "mA"
> were heard by him, he used to flee from that place.
>
> One the 1st day of the battle, after returning to his fort, he was having
> dinner
> and his wife Mandodari was serving sumptuous food.  She recollected that
> she forgot to add "asafoetida" (hing) in sambaar and asked whether she
> should
> serve it.  The question was in sanskrit (as in those days, people used to
> converse
> in that language !)
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> सूपे रामठं परिवेषयामि वा ?  (राम​ठ = asafoetida)
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> The moment Ravana heard the name राम ; without even letting the Mandodari
> completing
> the letter ठ, ran from the Kitchen and hid himself :))
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> This is how the rAma-nAma works !!
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> regs,
> sriram
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