Hanuman – Monkey God in Hindu Mythology
In Hindu mythology, Anjana, wife of Kesari the monkey-ruler of Sumeru, was a celestial nymph reborn on earth. The wind god, Vayu (or Maurta), fell in love with her and through another ‘immaculate conception’ was born a son, Maruti.
Hanuman - Monkey God in Hindu Mythology
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Maruti was no ordinary child. Once, when Anjana was away, he felt hungry and, mistaking the red disc of the sun to be a luscious, ripe fruit, he leap up and grabbed it. With no sun, an eclipse-like darkness cloaked all creation. Rahu, who made eclipses happen by swallowing the sun and the moon, was puzzled. Who had swallowed the sun? He set out on a mission to nail the culprit. Maruti, still hungry, saw him approaching and mistook him for yet another fruit! Rahu fled.
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With the sun gone and Rahu on the runj, Indra, lord of indralok, under whose supervision the whole universe functioned, mounted his huge elephant, Airavata, to deal with the awesome child. When Maruti spotted the looming bulk of Airavata, he mistook it for a still bigger fruit and gleefully lunged for it. Indra had to use his divine thunderbolt (vajra) to strike Maruti. The child crashed down to earth and his jaw (hanu in Sanskrit, hence the name Hanuman in North India; in South India, Anjaneya, after his mother) was disfigured. A furious Vayu stopped blowing and ceased all life sustaining functions. Plants wilted, clouds stayed motionless. Without air and sunlight, life on the universe was paralyzed.
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Indra and his entourage appealed to Brahma, the creator, to make peace with Vayu. The gods finally appeased Vayu by granting a handful of boons to Hanuman that made the child more powerful than ever. Indra himself promised that lightning and thunder would never harm Hanuman while the sun god decreed that no fire would singe him.
However, the ascetics, whose profound meditations had been broken by Maruti’s escapades, feared the child would, in his innocense, cause more havoc wiht his powers. So they declared that Hanuman would remain ignoratn of his great powers until a great man in pursuit of a supreme goal sought his help. Thus it transpired that years later, Rama, the noble prince of Ayodhya, awakened Hanuman’s sleeping powers. Rama was banished by his stemother for fourteen years to the forest where hiswofe, Sita, was abducted by the demon king Ravana of Lanka. Hanuman becmae indispensable to Rama in his quest of a worthy goal, rescuing Sita and vanquishing evil.
Hanuman’s life symbolises true devotion and selfless service. At a purely philosophical level, the name ‘Hanuman’ means someone who has vanquished (hanan) ego or pride (maan). In the Hindu approach to spirituality, one can only progress spiritually and find a grue guru when one has surredered the individual ego to the supreme One.
