Why Rama is Worshipped?

There are very few human beings, no matter what the situation, they will be who they are, we must see this.

Now, why I’m bringing this up is – I want you to listen to this carefully, not reacting, to all the bhaktas. Rama’s life is a disaster, a continuous disaster. King, born as a prince, coroneted as a king, just married his young wife, some political stuff, and ends up in the jungle. Living in the jungle – some television show may be showing it as some kind of a romantic affair, okay! Living in the jungle is not a romantic affair, believe me.

So with a young wife – she is not a tribal woman, she is a princess – living with her in the jungle is not a romantic affair, it’s a tough life. Knowing that it’s very difficult, his brother also follows him to assist both of them.

Then as if that was not enough, his wife gets kidnapped – Sri Lanka. And then because the wife means so much to him, he walks all the way, despondent. Not a nice trek – not knowing whether she is alive or dead, or what is happened to her, he walks down all the way, builds up a Tamil army, goes across, burns down a beautiful city, kills many, many people, gets back his wife, goes home.

Now the wife is pregnant. No sonogram, so he doesn’t know whether it’s a boy or a girl or boys or girls or what. This is important for a king. For a king, it’s very important that he has a son because it has to continue. But then once again, in some political situation, he sends his fully pregnant wife to the jungle. She goes there and delivers two boys, he doesn’t know.

And then he gets into a battle with his own children. If at all there can be a true disaster in your life – in anybody’s life – knowingly or unknowingly you killed your own children, this is the worst thing that can happen to you. It almost happened to him. He almost killed them. Somehow by fate, whatever situation, he did not kill them. He almost killed them, he did his best to kill them without knowing who they were. Then Sita dies without ever seeing him again.

You call this a successful life? But we worship him. Why do you worship a failure like this? Because no matter what disasters happened, the man did not become angry, or hateful. He did not lose his balance, he maintained his balance one hundred per cent. He did not give up any of the values and ethics with which he lived.

A continuous disaster, a serial disaster he is, but unmoved, untouched. It is this quality that we’re bowing down to. We are not bowing down to him because he is a super success. He is a super failure. But within himself – do what you want, you cannot take away who he is. One of these incidents that happened in his life happened to most people – they would all be cracked up. Yes or no? Just one of these disasters happened in people’s lives, they will crack up in their minds. Serial disasters but total balance – we are bowing down to that quality because this is inner management.

If you go out to do things in the world, you cannot control what the world will throw at you. But what you make out of it is one hundred per cent yours. You wouldn’t mind stepping into any situation, facing anything in the world, because you are in a blissful chemistry. Rama is in peaceful chemistry, no matter how many troubles you throw at him. Similarly, if you have blissful chemistry, no matter how much nonsense somebody throws at you, you’re blissful.

Rama’s significance is not in his life situations, but in the way he conducted himself gracefully throughout his life.