Sita devi and Bharata ,king Dasarath their glorious seperation from Lord Ramachandra

[Paramananda das]

 

dear devotees 

please accept my humble obaisences

all glories to the lotusfeet of my Gurudeva and of Srila Prabhupada 

 I wrote an article about the washer man in Rama lila that caused Lord Ramachandra to banish Sita to the asrama of Valmiki Muni , we can not understand why Lord Ramachandra does so many lilas but they are all for our benefit and serve many purposes at the same time 

tam īśvarāṇāṁ paramaṁ maheśvaraṁ
taṁ devatānāṁ paramaṁ ca daivatam
patiṁ patīnāṁ paramaṁ parastād
vidāma devaṁ bhuvaneśam īḍyam

na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate
na tat-samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate
parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate
svā-bhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca.

"The Supreme Lord is the controller of all other controllers, and He is the greatest of all the diverse planetary leaders. Everyone is under His control. All entities are delegated with particular power only by the Supreme Lord; they are not supreme themselves. He is also worshipable by all demigods and is the supreme director of all directors. Therefore, He is transcendental to all kinds of material leaders and controllers and is worshipable by all. There is no one greater than Him, and He is the supreme cause of all causes.

"He does not possess bodily form like that of an ordinary living entity. There is no difference between His body and His soul. He is absolute. All His senses are transcendental. Any one of His senses can perform the action of any other sense. Therefore, no one is greater than Him or equal to Him. His potencies are multifarious, and thus His deeds are automatically performed as a natural sequence." (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.7-8)

This sloka described Lord Ramachandra so nicely .Sometimes I feel like a great fool trying to glorify the Supreme Lord:

 

 

मूकं करोति वाचालं पङ्गुं लङ्घयते गिरिं ।
यत्कृपा तमहं वन्दे परमानन्द माधवम् ॥
Muukam Karoti Vaacaalam Panggum Langghayate Girim |
Yat-Krpaa Tamaham Vande Param-Aananda Maadhavam ||

Meaning:
1: (I Remember with Devotion the Divine Grace of Krishna Who can make the) Dumb speak with Eloquence and the Lame cross high Mountains,
2: I Remember and Extol that Grace which flows from the Supreme Bliss manifestation of Madhava.

I pray to the lotusfeet of my Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada and all vaisnavas that what I may write  now may give the vaisnavas happiness.

 

SB 9.10.30

tato dadarśa bhagavān
 aśoka-vanikāśrame
kṣāmāṁ sva-viraha-vyādhiṁ
 śiṁśapā-mūlam-āśritām

Word for word: 

tataḥ — thereafter; dadarśa — saw; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; aśoka-vanika-āśrame — in a small cottage in the forest of Aśoka trees; kṣāmām — very lean and thin; sva-viraha-vyādhim — suffering from the disease of separation from Lord Rāmacandra; śiṁśapā — of the tree known as Siṁśapā; mūlam — the root; āśritām — taking shelter of.

Translation: 

Thereafter, Lord Rāmacandra found Sītādevī sitting in a small cottage beneath the tree named Siṁśapā in a forest of Aśoka trees. She was lean and thin, being aggrieved because of separation from Him.

  Sita devi felt transcendental seperation from Lord Ramachandra and so did Bharata :

 

 

SB 9.10.34

go-mūtra-yāvakaṁ śrutvā
 bhrātaraṁ valkalāmbaram
mahā-kāruṇiko ’tapyaj
 jaṭilaṁ sthaṇḍile-śayam

Word for word: 

go-mūtra-yāvakam — eating barley boiled in the urine of a cow; śrutvā — hearing; bhrātaram — His brother Bharata; valkala-ambaram — covered with the bark of trees; mahā-kāruṇikaḥ — the supremely merciful Lord Rāmacandra; atapyat — lamented very much; jaṭilam — wearing matted locks of hair; sthaṇḍile-śayam — lying down on a grass mattress, or kuśāsana.

Translation: 

Upon reaching Ayodhyā, Lord Rāmacandra heard that in His absence His brother Bharata was eating barley cooked in the urine of a cow, covering His body with the bark of trees, wearing matted locks of hair, and lying on a mattress of kuśa. The most merciful Lord very much lamented this.

Later Sita was again separated from Lord Ramachandra, it brakes the heart of a devotee thinking of the Lords separation , but we can learn from those who are near and dear to Lord Ramachandra how much pain they are feeling in His separation .So when we hear and read of Sitas separation from Lord Ramachandra we also feel for her separation and that purifies us ,the more we can enter the mood of separation from Lord Ramachandra  as described in Ramayana the more we will be able to meet Lord Ramachandra as the mood of seperation from the Lord will make us forget about this rotten material world and just want us to meet the Lord of your heart .How fortunate are King Dasarath to have died  in seperation from Lord Ramachandra , how blessed are Sitadevi to love Her Lord Ramachandra so intensely , how blessed are Bharata the exalted brother of Lord Ramachandra.We must bow down to the  lotusfeet of the associates of Lord Ramachandra and pray for their mercy .

your servant

Paramananda das