 Very happy and excited to be back With another Monday motivation Before I begin today, let me ask you a question. Do you know? There were times when Lord Rama went through a state of grief anger and helplessness Yes, he did When was that and what did Lakshman do to Rama at that time? Let me share with you an episode from the Ramayana During Aranya Vasa one day, Sita Devi spotted a beautiful golden deer in front of their hermitage And Sita Devi liked it so much that she wanted to have it and she asked Rama to get it for her So Rama went after the golden deer in the forest as the golden deer escaped appear and disappear And finally having lost his patience Rama shot an arrow at the golden deer The demon Maricha who actually came in the form of the golden deer Before dying screamed aloud Ha Sita Ha Lakshmana Rama immediately realized that it was active the demons And he rushed to the hermitage only to find Sita Devi missing from there He realized that she was taken away by the demons So Rama started crying uncontrollably Oh my brother Lakshmana See Sita now has been taken away by the demons. I cannot live without Sita. She's more to me than my life I will sacrifice myself if Sita Devi dies Why did you leave her? I told you to protect her till the time I returned. Why did you leave her Lakshmana? I didn't stop. He was continuing to cry like a child Lakshmana, there may not be a bigger sinner than me in this whole world I might have done so many sins in my previous birth Why am I hit by one sorrow after the other? I lost the kingdom My father died I'm detached from my mother and the distance from my relatives now Sita Devi has been taken away by the demons And you know Sita is very innocent. She's so Chased, she's sweet and innocent How much she might have wept when the demons were taking her away He was crying like anything. He was in total grief Looking at Rama in that state Lakshmana gained all the courage to give courage to Rama He wanted to inspire Rama to come out of that grief So in Ramayana, there were several slowcastes which describe how Lakshmana Tried encouraging and inspiring Rama to come out of that grief And let me present one of the slowcastes here Sita Devi What does it mean? Oh noble brother Rama Banish your anguish and brace yourself with fortitude and let you be with spiritedness in her searching in searching of Sita Devi Indeed in this whole world There's no backsliding for the spirited people And any kind of enterprise or any kind of difficulty or endeavor however impractic abilities it is possible Please Come out of your grief Let us go in search of Sita We will find her We will kill the demons and we'll get her Sita Devi back As Lakshmana inspired his elder brother Rama with great difficulty Rama took courage and set out with Lakshmana in search of Sita Devi So Did you see Even Rama even large Rama went through the times of distress in times of difficulties So if you are worried in these days of lockdown period confined to the home unable to go to the work Not sure whether your job will remain or very much worried about your business losses And not even certain today how long this lockdown period will continue And when this corona threat will be over It's quite natural if Rama had similar kind of feelings Why not you and me the ordinary mortals It's quite natural But one thing we have to remember is does it really help to continue to be in the same state for long No No There Lakshmana was there to inspire Rama So do you have a Lakshmana to inspire you come out of this period of stress Or can you become Lakshmana to somebody And inspire them to be spirited in these difficult times It is because Keeping the spirits up and moving forward with a brave heart in times of difficulties is the way to go When the heart is filled with enthusiasm instead of depression However big the difficulty is It can be achieved It's possible to achieve it While fear worry and humidity will drain your energy Your spiritedness will enhance your energy levels The difficulties come and go And the difficulties come to everyone It is how we react and respond in those difficult times That determines how successful we will be in dealing with those difficulties This incident from Ramayana should help you and me And all of the people out there To be able to learn and handle the difficult times we are passing through So You should keep your spirits up Because for the spirited Any difficulty is no difficulty This present difficulty too Is no difficulty It shall be overcome if you keep your spirits up So I want to ask you a question Would you like to keep your spirits up and also help others around to be inspired? Inspirited? Yes Yes or yes Yes, thank you And I want you to repeat and say aloud along with me The next few sentences I know These times too shall pass I know These times too shall pass I shall keep myself motivated I shall keep myself Motivated I shall help others around me To be motivated too Keep your spirits up Thank you Stay careful, stay healthy and stay happy I'll come back to you with a Monday Motivation But in the meantime, if you haven't subscribed to my YouTube channel Please do subscribe for it And also don't forget to press the bell icon there Thank you Take care, see you again next Monday You are awesome