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TEXT 15
kamam prayahi jahi visravaso vameham
trailokya-ravanam avapnuhi vira patnim
badhnihi setum iha te yasaso vitatyai
gayanti dig-vijayino yam upetya bhupah
SYNONYMS
kamamas You like; prayahiYou may go over my water; jahijust conquer; visravasahof Visrava Muni; avamehampollution, like urine; trailokyafor the three worlds; ravanamthe person known as Ravana, the cause of weeping; avapnuhiregain; viraO great hero; patnimYour wife; badhnihijust construct; setuma bridge; ihahere (on this water); teof Your good self; yasasahfame; vitatyaito expand; gayantiwill glorify; dik-vijayinahgreat heroes who have conquered all directions; yamwhich (bridge); upetyacoming near; bhupahgreat kings.
TRANSLATION
My Lord, You may use my water as You like. Indeed, You may cross it and go to the abode of Ravana, who is the great source of disturbance and crying for the three worlds. He is the son of Visrava, but is condemned like urine. Please go kill him and thus regain Your wife, Sitadevi. O great hero, although my water presents no impediment to Your going to Lanka, please construct a bridge over it to spread Your transcendental fame. Upon seeing this wonderfully uncommon deed of Your Lordship, all the great heroes and kings in the future will glorify You.
PURPORT
It is said that a son and urine emanate from the same sourcethe genitals. When a son is a devotee or a great learned person, the seminal discharge for begetting a son is successful, but if the son is unqualified and brings no glory to his family, he is no better than urine. Here Ravana is compared to urine because he was a cause of disturbances to the three worlds. Thus the ocean personified wanted him killed by Lord Ramacandra.
One feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Ramacandra is omnipotence. The Lord can act without regard to material impediments or inconveniences, but to prove that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and was not merely advertised as Godhead or elected by popular vote, He constructed a wonderful bridge over the ocean. Nowadays it has become fashionable to create some artificial God who performs no uncommon activities; a little magic will bewilder a foolish person into selecting an artificial God because he does not understand how powerful God is. Lord Ramacandra, however, constructed a bridge over the water with stone by making the stone float. This is proof of Gods uncommonly wonderful power. Why should someone be accepted as God without displaying extraordinary potency by doing something never to be done by any common man? We accept Lord Ramacandra as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because He constructed this bridge, and we accept Lord Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because He lifted Govardhana Hill when He was only seven years old. We should not accept any rascal as God or an incarnation of God, for God displays special features in His various activities. Therefore, the Lord Himself says in Bhagavad-gita (4.9):
One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna. The activities of the Lord are not common; they are all transcendentally wonderful and not able to be performed by any other living being. The symptoms of the Lords activities are all mentioned in the sastras, and after one understands them one can accept the Lord as He is.
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