Page 10 - Ramayana - Eng
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Rāmāyaṇa
abhyutthānam adharmasya
tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ
vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām
dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya
sambhavāmi yuge yuge
“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious
practice, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time
I descend Myself. To deliver the pious and to annihilate the
miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion,
I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.”
When the Supreme Lord comes to this world, He does
so out of His own sweet will. Unlike the conditioned souls,
He is not forced to take a body according to previous karma.
Being far above the laws of karma, and never even slightly
under their jurisdiction, the Supreme Lord descends in His
eternal sac-cid-ānanda form.
“Although I am unborn and My transcendental body
never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living
entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original
transcendental form.” (Bhagavad-gītā 4.6)
When the Supreme Lord descends, He shows His
sublime nature by performing incomparable activities.
When He came in His original form as Kṛṣṇa, He killed
many apparently unconquerable demons; held the
Govardhana Hill on the tip of His little finger for seven
days (when He was apparently only a small child); made the
sun rise again after it had set; and took His friend Arjuna
on a journey Introduction beyond the edge of the universe.
When He came as Vāmanadeva, He assumed the form of