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Hanuman Jayanti Celebrated in Canada
April 9, 2009

On Thursday April 9th 2009, the first full moon day of Chaitra-April equinox -the birthday of ONE who is revered and considered GOD a superman since millenniums by all across Hindu culture ...Hanuman Jayanti was celebrated for 5 days at Mississauga’s Shri Ram Mandir with traditional devotion and fervour lead by Pandit Roopnauth Sharma the spiritual leader, assisted by a well knitted harmonious Kirtan Mandli backed by our musicians and singers through out these 5 days.
A large number of devotees of Bhagwan Hanuman, kept a constant stream of visitors through the temple complex on all these 5 days on regular intervals, and whole heartedly participated in the Hanuman Jayanti celebration on 9th April.

There are so many legend stories of faith about Bhagwan Hanuman that one reads in ancient books and also sees now on NET and on TV serials .We respect HIS act of faith that has made our own eulogise the super hero of the past and who still resides within and around all of us.

Bhagwan Hanuman acted and overcame super human obstacles, completed herculean tasks he was asked to do by sheer faith in his ''deity ''Rama and inner and physical strengths, HE was naturally endowed with..It needed only a reminder from Rama or a need to do the job for the welfare of the most that HANUMAN came forward to accept the challenges that NO body else could. He did complete the job given to him in the fight between Dharma lawful existence and Adharma perpetrated by likes of Ravana (a Brahmin learned and powerful Chieftain) then.

This month as we celebrate birthday of a original superman --HANUMAN -full of immense strength of knowledge and physique with faithful timely guided right actions for benefit of the humanity, we continue to be inspired by his unique acceptance as a GOD by all Hindus in all the nooks and corners of the vast and 'varied looking' world.

As you hear recitation of Hanuman Chalisa or understand the various meanings of so many eulogising names HE has been called, you would understand his true significance THEN.
Bhagwan Hanuman has been pictured-captured in- fixed in, various IMAGES according to the wisdom faith and imagery of love by various artists of brush and sculptors ..but for me he is more than that above all the limitations imposed by these bound images of faith and love for him by so many..

Bhagwan Hanuman is a picture of a great superman and I bow to all those who follow the great Bhagwan Hanuman as HE acted and have potential to act on behalf of us all and successfully accomplishes super human efforts that benefit the society. My reverence to super hero THE HANUMAN MARUTA ...and his incarnates today and also in advance to those waiting in times to come to evolve into a ''Va Naara hero'' who acts accepting super human challenges overcoming un-surmountable looking obstacles for benefit of civilisation. .Jai Veer Hanuman Jai Siya Var Ram.
It is said Bhagwan Hanuman Ji, possesses ocean-like unfathomable knowledge and virtue, incomparable might and earth-like steadfastness, is known and worshipped primarily as the redeemer in crisis, and those who chant this Chaleesa with devotion get His blessings:

Bhagwan Hanuman, the redeemer, is more widely worshipped and has a larger number of shrines dedicated to him than even Lord Rama, his master. Hanuman's power to redeem is not a mere theological conceptualization or a believer's hypothesis, his life, as it reveals in different sources, is its example. In Rama-katha - story of Rama's life, which is broadly also the story of Hanuman's life, this emissary and servant of Rama often rises above his master at least in the face of a crisis. In theology or tradition of devotion, no God of any pantheon in India or else where in the world is venerated so much for redeeming in crisis as Bhagwan Hanuman by Hindus. As occasions of misfortune outnumber those of happiness in life, mankind looks more to him who redeems from misfortune rather than him who bestows happiness.

'Jaya Hanuman jnana guna sagara, jaya Kapisha tinhu loka ujagara,
Ramaduta, atulita baladhama, Anjaniputra, Pawanasuta nama.'

Victory to thee, O Hanuman, thou art the ocean of knowledge and virtue. Victory to thee O Lord of Monkeys, thou art known in all three worlds. O Emissary of Rama, thou art the home of unparalleled might; Anjaniputra - Anjani's son, and Pawanasuta - son of the wind god, art thy names.

'Ko nahi janat hai jaga mein Kapi Sankata-mochana nama tinharo' –

Who does not know in the world, O Monkey-god, redeemer in crisis is thy name. And, the laudation is least exaggerated. Whatever Rama's attributes as the supreme God or Vishnu's incarnation, when broken hearted he wandered in search of Sita, Hanuman came to his aid.
He not only pledged to this cause himself, Kishkindha's monkey king Sugriva, his entire army and ministers, and discovered Sita but also initiated efforts for her recovery by waging a psychological war against Ravana. He put Lanka into flames leaving Lankans panicky, and brought to Rama's fold Ravana's brother Vibhishana without whose aid Rama's victory over Ravana would not be so easy.

When struck by the 'shakti' - divine weapon of Meghanatha, Ravana's eldest son, Lakshmana swooned and helpless Rama only wailed, Hanuman not only brought Ravana's personal physician Susena competent to cure Lakshmana along with his house but also the mountain Dron from the Himalayas with Sanjivini on it, and Lakshmana's life was saved. He rescued Rama and Lakshmana from Ahiravana's custody almost when Ahiravana was going to behead them for sacrifice. Bharata had pledged to end his life by immolating himself if Rama did not return to Ayodhya before sun-set on the day his fourteen years of exile ended. Rama was delayed, but before Bharata entered the pyre in full flames and immolated himself Hanuman rushed to Ayodhya, assured him that Rama would reach there in minutes and therefore saved Bharata's life.

Lord Rama himself narrated Hanuman's glorious deeds, but more notably, he recalled him specifically for redeeming him and his brother from crisis. When Ahiravana asked Rama and Lakshmana, before beheading them, to commemorate anyone they held in reverence, Rama asked Lakshmana to invoke Hanuman who alone could rescue them.

The Protector

This redeemer of scripts is the protector of common folk. He is invoked by common masses also for redeeming them but more often to protect them from everything untoward. His images are installed and worshipped invariably as the protector and patron deity having power to ward off misfortune. He is Kherapati, the patron deity of 'khera' - village, and Ghatoria, the protector of 'ghats' - valleys, to include river-crossings, descents, ascents, forts and village boundaries. As Balaji, he keeps evil spirits and maladies away and exorcises ghosts and ills from within. His name by itself has the status of the 'mantra' - hymn, which, being commemorated, dispels evil, evil spirits, ghosts: 'Bhuta pishacha nikata nahin abein' - ghosts and evil spirits dare not come around. As Bajaranga - with body made of 'vajra', or Bajrangabali - having 'vajra'-like strength, he presides over gymnasiums and wrestlers' rings infusing into wrestlers' bodies his own might, and in the bodies of gymnasts and acrobats, his own agility and swiftness.

It is only Hanuman who wards off adverse influence of planets like Saturn and Rahu, protects from business failures, failure in examinations, politics, sports and other fields. In a strange fusion of the machine and the faith, which reveals when a road-roller, truck, locomotive engine, or a ship, painted with an icon of Hanuman or simply his name, passes across in many parts of India, Hanuman is believed to avert mishap at sea, rail-track and roads, and protect machine and treasures it contains.

Kanayalal Raina

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