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What does Lord Hanuman represent? || Acharya Prashant (2020)
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Video Information: 26.02.2020, Shastra Kaumudi, Rishikesh, Uttarakand
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Pranam Acharya ji.
00:09
Can I ask what does Hanuman ji represent?
00:13
In fact, the audience can contribute to this.
00:20
Which virtues does he stand for?
00:26
Which all virtues rather.
00:28
One each from the different members.
00:33
Devotion.
00:34
Not merely devotion.
00:35
Don't just say devotion.
00:38
Devotion is a double edged sword.
00:40
Devotion to Ram.
00:44
There is nobody who is not devoted, mind you.
00:46
But we are devoted to all the nonsensical things.
00:53
Devotion to Ram.
00:54
Yeah, right.
00:56
Now you must ask, what does Ram stand for?
01:01
What does Ram stand for?
01:04
Yes, and?
01:08
Strength.
01:09
Well said.
01:10
And?
01:11
One pointed devotion.
01:12
Absolute commitment.
01:14
To?
01:17
Ram.
01:20
We are committed.
01:26
It will be difficult to find someone who is not committed.
01:37
With all my verbal ammunition, you know, I find it so difficult to convince people who
02:03
are already committed and I feel utterly helpless, very helpless.
02:13
I try to talk, I try to tell, I see the fellow rushing towards his own destruction, but he
02:24
is committed, what do I do?
02:37
I feel I am talking to a wall, I cannot penetrate, my words come back to me, it's a very dangerous
02:52
word, commitment.
03:01
Remain without a centre, remain without an anchor, fly loose, but don't commit yourself
03:16
to nonsense and when you commit yourself, your commitment must be like Hanuman's.
03:32
I am committed only to Ram, I will not look at anything, I mean, I could have as well
03:44
offered Ravan a great deal, Ravan had all the gold in the world, no?
04:01
And he would have welcomed Hanuman, cutting a deal with him, he had already seen his prowess,
04:10
with a stroke of his fiery tail, he had already once put Lanka to fire, but that's what,
04:21
I am not committed to money, I will not be tempted by the one with money, that's Hanuman.
04:31
I curse my memory, there is a beautiful one by Kabir Saheb on this and I cannot recall
04:47
it, Kabir Sang Sadhu Ke Rukhi Sookhi Khaye, Kheer Khand Bhojan Mile Saakat Sang Na Jaye,
05:11
that's commitment.
05:25
Yes what else about Hanuman?
05:33
Now unless you can look at Hanuman in this way, it's very futile worshipping him, very
05:42
futile and that's why religion has come to such a degraded state because we are worshipping
05:51
symbols without knowing at all what they stand for.
06:04
Anything else about Hanuman, you want to, love, yes of course, and at some point you
06:13
will see these things necessarily go together, don't they, love, devotion, strength, commitment,
06:19
you can't have one without the other, and that goes with that, commitment, nice, that's
06:37
a very important thing, that innocence, almost animal like innocence.
06:49
That's a reason he is represented as Vanar.
06:52
Now the historic person who would have actually assisted Ram was obviously not a monkey but
07:04
the representation is that of a Vanar and there is a great reason behind that.
07:14
What you are showing is that here is someone uncorrupted by all social influences just
07:22
as animals are.
07:27
Animals may not have an enlightened mind but they also don't have a perverted mind.
07:38
In that sense and to highlight that aspect, Hanuman is represented as a Vanar, that he
07:49
is not a social being, not at all social, he does a lot of things that the society would
07:55
probably not look favorably at.
08:00
Would you like someone who for example blows away your power station, but that's what Hanuman
08:08
does, he goes and gobbles the sun itself.
08:14
That's in today's terms akin to a brash teenager blowing up the power plant and all the energy
08:27
is gone.
08:28
What's the sun?
08:30
The source of energy.
08:33
So here is a boisterous teenager and what does he do?
08:38
Blows up the power plant and the world is without any power or light or heat or some
08:42
and he doesn't marry.
08:49
Society doesn't quite like that, does it?
08:51
By some accounts he did marry, but then you still call him Brahmachari in popular parlance.
09:03
Doesn't care for rules, before he puts Lanka to fire, what does he do with all the fruits?
09:10
What does he do to the Ashok Vatika?
09:15
First of all, he satisfied himself with all the fruits, goes with his physique, so all
09:31
those things.
09:34
The beautiful combination of lot of virtues, but you have to decode and if you're not deciphering
09:43
the symbolism correctly, then you are just misreading the message or not reading the
09:49
message at all, just worshipping something very hollow, whereas it really carries a great
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