Jambavanta motivating Hanuman to cross the ocean

Southern Sea near Mount Mahendra: Jambavanta motivating Hanuman to cross the ocean:

(Valmiki Ramayana - Kishkindha Kanda - 66)

• Meditation: I meditate on Bhakta Hanuman who was motivated by Jambavanta to cross the ocean.

• Jambavanta motivating Hanuman to cross the ocean: Jambavanta then motivated Hanuman. Jambavanta compared the strength of Hanuman with the strength of Garuda. Jambavanta told the story of the birth of Hanuman.

• Story of the birth of Hanuman:
While Jambavanta was awakening the strength of Hanuman to make him cross the ocean, Jambavanta told the story of the birth of Hanuman.

- Punjikasthala, an apsara, had to take birth on earth as a vanara due to a curse. She took birth as Anjana, the daughter of Kunjara and the wife of Kesari. She could change her form at will. Once, assuming a human physique, and decorating herself richly with silken clothes, she moved about on the top of a mountain. The Wind-god saw her and became attracted by her beauty. The Wind-god invisibly embraced and impregnated her. The Wind-god told Anjana that she will bear a child of great prowess equal to him in agility. Anjana gave birth to Hanuman in a cave. Once during childhood Hanuman tried to eat the Sun thinking it to be a fruit (and flown three hundred yojanas towards it). Indra became angry and hit him with a thunderbolt. Since his left Hanu (cheekbone) was broken he was known as Hanuman. The Wind-god became angry and stopped circulating in the three worlds. The gods supplicated the Wind-god. Brahma gave a boon that Hanuman will not be destroyed by any weapon. Indra then gave the boon that death will occur to him only by his will.

Narrating this story Jambavanta urged Hanuman to save the vanaras from this predicament by showing his prowess. Hanuman rose and assumed his huge form.

- Jambavanta motivating Hanuman to cross the ocean

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