Jitendriya...
Sri k c subbaiah
Hanuman while searching for Sita in Lanka, he comes across several women in a
shabbily dressed state who while playing music to entertain Ravana had fallen
asleep over those very musical instruments in an intoxicated state. He had to
necessarily look at them to see whether Sita was anywhere there. He sees
Ravana there for the first time lying like a heap of black gram, hissing like
a serpent while breathing. Then he enters the anteroom and there he finds a
high class lady wearing all ornaments and sleeping comfortably. Looking at
her, he thinks that she must be Sita and feels happy that he has found Sita.
There was no one awake and he could not confirm from anyone whether she was
really Sita. Then he considered for a moment within himself and comes to the
conclusion that she cannot be Sita.
Na Ramena Viyukthasa Swapthumarhati bhamini
na bhokthum napyalankarthum
napanamapisevithum
aneyamithi nischithya pana bhomow chacharasaha
i.e., Having been separated form Rama, Sita cannot sleep like this, she would
not use ornaments or make up and drink and sleep like this. So she must be
someone other than Sita. So deciding, he moved on to search for her
elsewhere.
Then he thinks within himself that being a Naistika Brahmachari, he has
committed a mistake by looking at women lying in various postures. Then he
consoles himself that when he saw the women, his mind did not sense any evil
thought and he had remained unmoved and therefore no sin has accrued to him
because the mind is responsible to interpret the world and if the mind
remained pure in spite of looking at all those women, the sight of them has
not affected him in any way. Saying this he moves forward to search for Sita
elsewhere.
When he was moving in the region of Ravana's kitchen, the fragrance emanating
form the kitchen looked as though it was calling him into the kitchen to
enjoy the dishes which were getting ready. Any ordinary person would have
fallen a prey to it and would have ventured to enter the kitchen, but Hanuman
was a Jitendriya and so he moved away in search of Sita.
Total control of senses Hanuman had is seen from the above incidents.
Offering prayers to Hanuman the Jitendriya, He shall bestow upon us power to
control our senses.