Bhima was getting lotus for Draupadi when he found a monkey along his path.
The monkey was immovable.
Bhima tried to lift up its tail with all of his might but could not do it.
On his path, just for fun, Bhima killed elephants, lions, tigers.
He even was able to pick up dead elephants and use them as a weapon against other animals.
This monkey was no normal monkey.
Bhima demanded that the monkey to reveal his identity.
The monkey said he was Hanuman, fiend of Rama. He told Bhima some memories he shared with Rama.
Bhima repeatedly asked Hanuman to show his full, huge figure.
Hanuman eventually did it.
He said, at the beginning of time there was no performing religious acts, no malice or pride, no sin, and no gods or demons.
There was no caste system as everyone was a Bhramin. All were created equal.
He said that men became divided when men wrote the sacred books.
He said this books were made in passion and feeling. They distracted people from the truth.
When they fell away from the truth, evil came.
Disease and selfishness came about at this time.
True virtue was lost.
Now evil, famine, disease, sloth, and anger prevail over what is good.
The Brhamin became religious leaders.
The Vaishya became the farmers and business people.
The Kshatriya were the worriers. Their job was to protect.
The Shudra was the working caste.
The fact that Hanuman is never to leave the Earth until the Ramayana is no longer being told gives endless possibilities of stories. Where was he during during the Roman Empire, the British Invasion of India, WWII? Tracking Hanuman through this times in history could be really cool. I could even write a story about Hanuman in the present day.
Bibliography
Bhima and Hanuman from The Mahabharata, A Summary by John Mandeville Macfie
Image Information: Hanuman in his total form: Pixabay
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