The Enormous Value of Name of God Ram

This is a tale from the Hindu spiritual epic ‘Ramayana’. But the message of the story will provide you the answer that a man (Who loves Lord Ram) searches for the whole of his life. During construction of the ‘Setu Bandh’, the mammoth bridge to Lanka, the monkeys were planting big boulders on the water and miraculously those were floating. In this way finally the bridge was constructed, over which the whole battalion of Rama crossed the sea at the English Channel, fought with Ravana and brought back Mother Sita.

However, during the construction of the bridge, once Lord Rama Himself put a pebble to the water, but astonishingly it sunk. He got surprised. Nobody was observing this event except Hanuman ji. Ram experiments for the second time and the same thing repeated. Now Hanuman ji went to the God and inquired whether His Lord wants assistance. Ram said “Yes, Hanuman, I want to know, when the monkeys are throwing the stones, it is floating over the water level, but when I am doing the same thing it is drowned, how?”

Hanuman answered, “My Master, I know you want me to answer in this context so that you can give an enormous message to the world for all the days to come and want that I should get the credit as you love me the most and want me to bless.

The answer is – the monkeys are bringing the stones, the engineers Nal and Neel are lettering ‘Ram’ on it and they are putting the stone on the water and those are floating. Means actually it is the power of your name that is working behind the screen. So Lord, when your pious name possesses so much influence that it makes a stone float on the water surface, when you yourself, the same great Ram will put the pebble, does that stone has any power to bear the power of your name? And so it gets drowned.”

Moral: Name of the God is tremendously powerful. Just we need to chant, utter, hum and repeat it to get the precious return. More than that, in this Kali Yug, chanting of the name of the God (in Hindu text) is sufficient to make one attain salvation, which is the cherished ambition of many saints and God-lovers.