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Dear raama bhakthaas,

 

As already seen the very purpose all these dhEvaas including indhran 
coming to earth is to participate in the "mission kill raavaNan" and 
his team. People in the whole world, and other planets, were afraid 
of this aggressive community of raakshasaas and their king raavaNan. 
About raavaNan these dhEvaas who went to meet brahma and vishNu 
complained like this - 

 

nainam soorya: prathapathi paarsvE vaathi na maarutha: |

chala oorhmi maalee tham dhrushtvaa samudhrO~api na kampathE || 

sree madh raamaayaNam 1-15-10

 

meaning: The sun-god will not verily parch raavaNan, the air-god 
will not puff at his sides, and on seeing raavaNan, the lord of the 
undulating waves varuNan, namely the ocean, will not pulsate either. 

 

Point: The varuNan or ocean hides those undulating waves from 
raavaNan, [for the waves are his wives], thinking that raavaNan may 
abduct them as he has done with a number of ladies, [including 
seethaa at a later date].

 

tham udhDhatham raavaNam ugra thEjasam pravrudhdha dharpam 
thridhasEsvara vara dhvisam |

viraavaNam saadhu thapasvi kaNtakam thapasvinaam udhDhara tham 
bhayaaavaham || 

sree madh raamaayaNam 1-15-33

 

meaning: Oh! vishNu, he, that fiery one [raavaNan] is uprising 
furiously with his heightened arrogance, and he is a fright to sages 
and a thorn in the side of hermits, and he is the hater of indhran. 
Hence we pray you to redeem that raavaNan.

 

udhvEjayathi lOkaan threen uchchrithaan dhvEshti dhurmathi: |

sakram thridhasa raajaanam pradharsaayithum ichchathi || 

sree madh raamaayaNam 1-15-8

 

meaning: That malevolent raavaNan is tormenting all the three 
worlds, hating the functionary deities of cosmos, and always desires 
to assail indhran, the king of all the functionary deities of 
universe. 

 

Point: raavaNan, the hater of indhran, and had his desire to assail 
or attack indhran when he could get such a chance. A question may 
arise in the mind of bhakthaas, why these are referenced here? The 
answer is that, to such a hater, vaali the indhran's son or amsam, 
has befriended. This was a great mistake on vaali's part, and as 
such deserves a punishment from raamaa, the lord of indhran in dhEva 
lOkam. For vaali has missed his duty or his dharmam, of coming to 
earth for helping raama when raamaa comes to the bhoolOkam 
on "mission kill raavaNan". 

 

Just consider this aspect in present day circumstances. Suppose a 
highly placed officer in the External Affairs ministry or defense of 
first country reveals the secrets of his country to an enemy country 
[second country] and also gives an assurance of protection to the 
second country person [or persons] who receives such classified 
information. Then, in such a position, how can the first country go 
in war with second one? In a similar way when vaali has given 
friendship and thereby a veiled protection to raavaNan, how can 
raama proceed in war with raavaNan. [just do not consider here for a 
moment, he is the supreme lord, but an ordinary human king.] vaali 
just cannot be forgiven for this act of his.

 

Further `raama is vigrahavaan dharma' ? so whenever any one goes 
beyond his dharma, raama, as the protector of dharma, will punish 
the offender. That is what happened to vaali.

 

See raama is not directly saying the name of vaali even ? but says 
someone denoted by name vaali ? to sugreeva while making friendship 
with sugreevan ? and when he heard that vaali abducted the wife of 
sugreevan - to that extent raamaa got offended? Can we say? - 

 

vaali sajnam amithram thE bhraatharam krutha kilbisham |

sarai: vinihatham pasya vikeerNam iva parvatham || 4-8-24

 

meaning: You may see your malicious and intimidating brother, 
someone denoted by name vaali, eradicated with these very arrows and 
splintered down like a mountain, raama said so, to sugreeva. 

 

In his work Kavi chakravarthy Kamban sees vaali in three forms, 
which is beautifully explained as 

1.      vaali has a human  face

2.      vaali has a monkey face

3.      vaali has a divine face.

 

King vaali, 

?        as a ruler of kishkindha, 

?        as a husband to thaaraa, 

?        as a father to angadhan and 

?        as a brother to sugreevan, 

was unique and successful. He was a man of knowledge also. Vaali 
used to pay his respects to the philosopher class, the rishis. This 
picture points out the Human vaali. 

 

But whenever his physical power was challenged, especially in a one 
to one fight or a duel, he would get totally excited. He became so 
obsessed with terrible rage that he could not recognize anyone, 
whether be it his own son or brother. By going all out in fighting 
and defeating or killing the opponent only, was he able to get peace 
and relaxation. This shows the tenets of Monkey vaali. 

 

Vaali aska one boon from raama, "kindly do not use the arrow which 
you have used for me on  sugreeva, even if he forgets his vow of 
helping you in the search of seethaa. Here the divine vaali is 
projected.

 

How and in what verses the evidence for these are available. These 
we will see in next post.

with due respects

v.anjaneyulu, itarsi




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