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Video Information: 26.02.2020, Shastra Kaumudi, Rishikesh, Uttarakand

Context:

~ What does Lord Hanuman represent?
~ Which virtues Lord Hanuman stands for?
~ What does Ram stand for?
~ What is Devotion?
~ What is commitment?


Music Credits: Milind Date
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Transcript
00:00Pranam Acharya ji. Can I ask what does Hanuman ji represent?
00:13In fact, the audience can contribute to this.
00:20Which virtues does he stand for?
00:26Which all virtues rather?
00:28One each from the different members.
00:33Devotion.
00:34Not merely devotion.
00:35Don't just say devotion.
00:37Devotion is a double edged sword.
00:40Devotion to Ram.
00:44There is nobody who is not devoted, mind you.
00:46But we are devoted to all the nonsensical things.
00:53Devotion to Ram.
00:55Now you must ask, what does Ram stand for?
01:01What does Ram stand for?
01:05Yes, and?
01:10Strength, well said.
01:14And?
01:20You could say one pointed devotion.
01:25Absolute commitment to Ram.
01:30We are committed.
01:31There is, it will be difficult to find someone who is not committed.
01:34But we are committed to, with all
01:53my verbal ammunition, I find it so difficult to convince people who are already committed.
02:07And I feel utterly helpless, very helpless.
02:13I try to talk.
02:14I try to tell.
02:17I see the fellow rushing towards his own destruction.
02:24But he is committed.
02:25What do I do?
02:37I feel I am talking to a wall.
02:41I cannot penetrate.
02:46My words come back to me.
02:52It's a very dangerous word, commitment.
03:01Remain without a center.
03:04Remain without an anchor.
03:09Fly loose.
03:13But don't commit yourself to nonsense.
03:25And when you commit yourself, your commitment must be like Hanuman's.
03:32I'm committed only to Ram.
03:38I don't look at anything.
03:40I mean, I could have as well offered Ravan a great deal.
03:48Ravan had all the gold in the world.
04:01And he would have welcomed Hanuman, cutting a deal with him.
04:04He had already seen his prowess.
04:10With a stroke of his fiery tail, he had already once put Lanka to fire.
04:17But that's what.
04:21I'm not committed to money.
04:22I'll not be tempted by the one with money.
04:25That's Hanuman.
04:26I curse my memory.
04:43There is a beautiful one by Kabir Saheb on this, and I cannot recall it.
04:51Kabir sang sadhu ke rookhi sookhi khaaye, kheer khand bhojan mile, sakat sang na jaaye.
05:11That's commitment.
05:25Yes, what else about Hanuman?
05:33Now unless you can look at Hanuman in this way, it's very futile worshipping him.
05:41Very futile.
05:43And that's why religion has come to such a degraded state.
05:50Because we are worshipping symbols without knowing at all what they stand for.
06:04Anything else about Hanuman?
06:05You want to?
06:06Love.
06:07Yes, of course.
06:08And at some point, you will see these things necessarily go together, don't they?
06:16Love, devotion, strength, commitment.
06:19You can't have one without the other.
06:26And that goes with that, commitment.
06:32Nice.
06:37That's a very important thing, that innocence.
06:44Almost animal-like innocence.
06:49It's a reason he is represented as vanar.
06:52Now the historic person who would have actually assisted Ram was obviously not a monkey.
07:03But the representation is that of a vanar.
07:08And there is a great reason behind that.
07:14What you are showing is that here is someone uncorrupted by all social influences, just
07:22as animals are.
07:27Animals may not have an enlightened mind, but they also don't have a perverted mind.
07:38In that sense, and to highlight that aspect, Hanuman is represented as a vanar.
07:48That he is not a social being.
07:51Not at all social.
07:52He does a lot of things that the society would probably not look favorably at.
08:00Would you like someone who, for example, blows away your power station?
08:08But that's what Hanuman does.
08:09He goes and gobbles the sun itself.
08:14That's in today's terms akin to a brash teenager blowing up the power plant and all the energy
08:27is gone.
08:28What's the sun?
08:30The source of energy.
08:33So here is a boisterous teenager and what does he do?
08:38Blows up the power plant and the world is without any power or light or heat or some.
08:44And he doesn't marry.
08:49Society doesn't quite like that, does it?
08:51By some accounts, he did marry.
08:54But then you still call him brahmachari in popular parlance.
09:03Before he puts Lanka to fire, what does he do with all the fruits?
09:10What does he do to the Ashok Vatika?
09:15First of all, he satisfied himself with all the fruits, goes with his physique.
09:31So all those things.
09:32It's a beautiful combination of a lot of virtues.
09:39But you have to decode and if you're not deciphering the symbolism correctly, then you're just
09:47misreading the message or not reading the message at all.
09:54It's worshipping something very hollow, whereas it really carries a great meaning.

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