గురు బ్రహ్మ గురుర్ విష్ణుః గురుర్ దేవో
మహేశ్వరః
గురు స్సాక్షాత్ పరబ్రహ్మ తస్మై శ్రీ గురవే నమః
శుక్లాం బరధరం విష్ణుం శశివర్ణం చతుర్భుజం
ప్రసన్న వదనం ధ్యాయేత్ సర్వ విఘ్నోప శాంతయే
శ్రుతి స్మృతి పురాణానాం ఆలయం కరుణాలయం
నమామి భగవత్ పాదం శంకరం లోక శంకరం
ఓం నమః శివాయ
After learning that Sita got abducted,
Sri Rama and Lakshmana started in the south direction. They encountered a
raakshasa by name Kabandhudu. After killing him, he became a devatha and before
leaving advised Sri Rama and Lakshmana to meet Sugreeva who would help their
cause.
Sri Rama and Lakshmana went towards the
Rushyamooka parvatham (a hill) where Hanuma welcomed them and assured Sugreeva
of their good intentions. When Sri Rama mentioned to Sugreeva about the help
that he required from Sugreeva and his army, Sugreeva sought a help from Sri
Rama. He wanted his brother killed so that he can regain his wife, kingdom and
army post which he can help Sri Rama.
Though Sri Rama consented to help,
Sugreeva conducted some tests to know the strength of Sri Rama, post which Sri
Rama killed Vaali.
Sugreeva got everything back and he
completely forgot about the promise he had made to Sri Rama. Sri Rama asked
Lakshmana to remind Sugreeva about his overdue promise and Lakshmana could not
control his anger. Sugreeva gets shaken knowing the arrival of Lakhsmana and
requested his wife Tara to help. Tara spoke to Lakshmana in an extremely
composed fashion and resolved the issue and Sugreeva immediately fulfilled his
promise.
Sri Rama helped Sugreeva regain his
wife, kingdom and army and Sugreeva helped Sri Rama wage a war against
Raavana’s lanka and helped Sri Rama regain his wife.
Let’s talk about another situation now.
Hanuma being a minister in Sugreeva’s
kingdom abided by his kings words and wanted to help Sri Rama. But then it took
a different turn altogether because of his realization about Sri Rama and Sita
and he developed enormous bhakthi towards them. As they say, after that its
history.
Single handedly he crossed the ocean
and went to Lanka. Searched for Sita everywhere. When he found her in a
position to commit suicide, he used all his intelligence and persuaded her that
he infact had come on behalf of Sri Rama and gave her courage to continue
living assuring that Sri Rama would kill Raavana and liberate her.
He killed 84000 raakshasas in Lanka
before returning. He was instrumental in Lakshmana’s survival through
Sanjeevani and the list goes on.
After the war got over and Sri Rama and
the entourage reached Ayodhya, Sri Rama felicitated everyone. During that time,
he thus spoke to Hanuma.
“The help you have extended to me is
something that cannot be repaid. I would not want to get into a position of
repaying it as it would mean that you need to get into a position of seeking
help from me. I would never want you to get into that position and I would like
to be indebted to you eternally.”
Because Sri Rama had an
expectation, Sugreeva made him help him first, undergo tests to prove his
strength and after all that could forget to repay. He did make amendments and
later got the accolade from Sri Rama that Sugreeva is the best friend that one
can have, but whenever there is an expectation during helping it is not going
to be healthy all the time.
If you take Hanuma, he
never had any expectations and he got Sri Rama indebted to him eternally.
So, whenever we help
someone we should do that without any expectations. For some reason if we have
to take help from someone, we should pray that the other person should never
get into a position of seeking help from you. But if at all the other person
seeks help, we should help without any consideration of the magnitude of the
help offered to you earlier. Ofcourse, that has to be bound by certain
limitations as per our abilities and capacities, but complete effort should be
put in to repay.
సర్వే జనాః సుఖినో భవంతు
PS: There could be typos and other mistakes
in telugu and english, kindly pardon me with big hearts.
