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Sitendra
495
"O Lord of my life! My dearest lord, o lord of my heart ! Kindly open your eyes and look at me. I have come...... I am your dearest queen...... Your beloved wife. O Lord! I have been experiencing anguish for a long time on account of the separation from you. Kindly accept your Sita. Receive her. I cannot live even for a moment without you.
Dear lord! I committed an unpardonable blunder at that time. On account of my false pride I discarded you and adopted the path of Charitradharma. But later I repented my action. My repentance knew no bounds. In the game of life I lost everything and I kept shedding tears day and night. I have been spending every moment of my life in thinking of you and so I have come to meet you today. Even now it is not too late to mend matters. Kindly pardon me and receive me back.
"Do you see these Vidyadhar damsels who are with me ? They too gave me the suggestion. “Give up your Diksha and be a Queen as before. By your commands we too shall be Queens of Shri Ram". Dear Lord. Acting upon their suggestion I discarded my Deeksha and I have returned to your holy feet and therefore do not disappoint me".
But Sitendra's appeals and entreaties had no effect on Shri Ram. He sat deeply absorbed in 'Shukladhyan' (Sublime contemplation) and was destroying his Karmas one by one.
Soon Sita accompanied by the Vidyadhar damsels began dancing on the Kothishila. It was a celestial dance absolutely captivating. The dance was accompanied with melodious songs. The dance and the music exercised a mesmeric impact, on the wild animals and birds in the forest. They thronged around Kothishila' and began watching the performance spell-bound.
But Shri Ramachandra did not at all show any reaction. How could the dance or the music have any impact on him ? He did not see the dance nor did he hear the music since his senses and his intellect were absolutely absorbed in meditation.
If a' Jiva engages all his senses, his mind and his intellect in a meditation on the supreme reality with an absolute con
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