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Message to Bhakti Trader<br />
149<br />
On knowing this, Shri Ram sent a peace envoy to Ravan and<br />
requested to return Sita <strong>Ji</strong>. But Ravan did not agree. Preparations<br />
for the battle were done. Then the problem arose that how should<br />
the army cross the ocean?<br />
Shri Ramchandra, standing in knee-deep water for three days,<br />
with folded hands requested the ocean to give way. But the ocean<br />
did not move a slightest bit. The ocean did not listen to him. Then<br />
Shri Ram tried to burn it with a fire arrow (Agni baan). Frightened<br />
ocean appeared in the form of a Brahmin 1 and said, “Bhagwan (lord),<br />
everyone has its own limitations. Do not burn me. Who knows how<br />
many living creatures live in me. Even if you will burn me, you will<br />
not be able to cross me because a very deep crater will be formed<br />
here which you can never cross.”<br />
The ocean said, “Lord, do something so that snake also dies<br />
and stick also does not break. My bounds are maintained and your<br />
bridge is also formed.” Then Shri Ram asked the ocean that what is<br />
that way? The ocean in Brahmin-form said that there are two soldiers<br />
named Nal and Neel in your army. They have such a power from<br />
their Gurudev 2 that even stones stay afloat from their hands.<br />
Everything, be it iron, floats. Shri Ramchandra called Nal and Neel,<br />
and asked them if they had any such power. Nal and Neel replied,<br />
“Yes, even stones will not drown from our hands.” Shri Ram said,<br />
“Demonstrate it.”<br />
Those fools (Nal and Neel) thought that today they will earn a<br />
lot of praise in front of everyone. That day they did not remember<br />
their Gurudev Shri Muninder (God Kabir) <strong>Ji</strong> thinking this that if we<br />
will remember him then Shri Ram might think that we do not have<br />
any power and we have asked for it from somewhere else. They<br />
took a stone and dropped it in water and it drowned. Nal and Neel<br />
tried a lot but the stones did not float. At that time, Shri Ram looked<br />
at the ocean as if was trying to say that you were lying. They do not<br />
have any power. The ocean said, “Nal-Neel, you did not remember<br />
your Gurudev today. Fools, remember your Gurudev.” They both<br />
1 A race of sages<br />
2 Spiritual Teacher
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