Thursday, January 22, 2015

Baba's Storytime - Two Letters Remained



There is a story in the classics to illustrate the worth of the name of Rama.

Sage Prachetas once composed a text with verses numbering a hundred crores!  The three worlds competed among themselves to take the entire text; the struggle assumed calamitous proportions and so God brought them together and persuaded them to accept a third each, that is to say, each world (Heaven, Earth and the Underworld) received thirty three crores, thirty three lakhs, thirty three thousand and three hundred thirty three verses each.

One verse remained undivided.  It had thirty two syllables in all; so when it too was allotted among three co-sharers, at the rate of ten syllables each, two syllables were left over.  How could two be divided among three?

So God decided that they be adored and received by all three worlds equally.  The syllables were "Ra" and "Ma", making up the priceless key to salvation: Rama!


(Quoted from the Divine Discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

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