Mainaka

The first was a mountain.

The ocean, remembering that it had been filled by the ancestors of Rama's family, wished to help Rama's messenger, and asked the mountain Mainaka, which lay hidden in the depths, to rise up and give Hanuman a place to rest.

Long ago, the story explains, all the mountains had had wings and flew about the world, crushing everything they landed on, until Indra cut off their wings with his thunderbolt.

But Mainaka had been saved by Vayu, the wind, who had carried him into the ocean to hide.

So he owed a debt to Hanuman's father, Manaka rose from the water, golden and green, and invited Hanuman to rest on his peaks.

Hanuman thanked him and touched him gently with his hand.

Because as such, I think the question is, the answer that I've given, you could probably stop here and say that the answer is done.

But this particular, uh, episode I wanted to speak about in detail because it's, it gives a general idea of what we're supposed to do in the process of a spiritual journey when we find so many obstacles in our life, in the form of family, in the form of commitments that we have for work, or in the form of our own problems that we might face, right? So when Hanuman is taking this leap over the ocean, the first obstacle that he faces is a mountain by name Mainaka.

Now, this mountain has an interesting history, I'll not go completely into the detail of that, where, uh, this mountain has had a rift with, uh, Lord Indra, the, the master of the Devatas.

And because of which, he's taken refuge under this ocean.

I'm not sure whether it's a he or a she.

Let's say it's a he.

Mainaka is under the ocean.

The, the ocean has actually given refuge to, uh, this mountain, and it has also taken help from the wind god, or Vayu.