Hanuman Jayanti 2010
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by Madhavendra Puri dasa, Paris
To Sita Ram, in Vedic lore,
You are committed to the core.
Your open heart, on images,
Reveals their beautiful faces.
When your master playing wounded,
To bring the herbs that were needed,
To heal the Lord, being hurried,
A mountain top you have carried !
When the goddess was abducted,
By a fallen who had lusted,
In her prison, full of anger,
Using your tail, you spread fire.
To allow Ram, from the main land,
To take his troops to the island,
Using your strength superhuman,
You threw mountains in the ocean.
Although some make fun of this feat,
The devotees do believe it.
From satellites today we may
See from the sky what the seers say.
With Sugriva you both headed
Monkeys to fight the Ten-headed.
Stones and tree trunks were their weapons
Against highly equipped demons.
Your jungle folks had one asset
To Arjuna not a secret:
By siding with the Almighty,
One is assured of victory.
Having entered Ravana’s den,
Like elephants in a garden,
Such a havoc you created,
The city was devastated.
As usual bad association
Leading one to degradation,
Ravana’s friends all lost their lives,
And were lamented by their wives.
Proving the rule, an exception,
Having undergone conversion,
Ravan’s brother Vibhisana,
Was made the new king of Lanka.
“One who provokes others to cry”
Was a name Ravan was known by.
His twenty eyes could have used tears
To face the great ocean of fears.
Of fortitude having no lack,
You get credit for bringing back
Dear Hanuman, as a duty,
To Narayan, Lakshmi Devi.
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