Lord Hanuman - A Reminder of Human`s Potential

Hanuman is a valiant monkey god. He has stupendous power. Soon after his birth, he flew towards the sun and attempted to gallop him considering a red fruit. Uprooting the trees, tossing the boulder and teasing the sages were his favorite childhood play. He was absolutely uncontrollable. Those activities of Hanuman were annoying and disrupting the sages meditating there in the forest.

Infuriated, a sage cursed Hanuman to forget his all power and strength. On the request of others sages and his parents, the sage reduced the intensity of his curse saying that in his dire need, his power and strength can be used by reminding him his unparalleled power and strength. 

Until and unless the capacity of Hanuman is reminded, his potential remains latent. A situation occurred when someone was required to cross a huge ocean to reach Lanka in the search of Sita, who was abducted by Lanka king Ravana.

Everyone was a hush in silence including Hanuman. Yamavant, a bear warrior, knew the potential of Hanuman and the curse was imposed on him. He reminded Hanuman that the crossing that ocean was nothing before his power and strength. After realizing his power, Hanuman easily crossed the ocean and located Sita, not only this, he incinerated Lanka into ashes when Ravana tried to capture and incarcerated him.

Hanuman Chalisa is nothing but the reminder of the power and strength of lord Hanuman for protecting the humanity from the evil.

We as a human have also such kind of stupendous power and potential to make impossible to possible, to be significantly great, to reach the pinnacle of the chosen profession and make the mountain bow. Not one, two or few people are the owner of such kind of power and potential, rather all of us are blessed with this blessing.

But unfortunately, those power and potential remain dormant. It remains dormant like an atom bomb. The power of a dormant atom bomb cannot be anticipated merely by its size and shape. Its real power manifests when it is activated and explodes. Our power and potential remains latent and useless like Hanuman until and unless someone reminds us about our own capacity. You do not have any idea what the potential you are possessing as a human.

 Most of us are surrounded by people of average tendencies - they talk average, they think average and they do average. They have caged their own potential by their limited thoughts and deeds, and whoever comes in their association, they ensure them to think and act like them – an average and frustrated. Being in the association of such kind of people is a curse for you. You have forgotten your astounding potential. This curse has overshadowed your blessings.

There is only one difference between successful and futile people. The successful people have realized their potential hidden within them. They know – nothing can stand before their potential. And a futile people cannot think than being a slave to someone because they do not have realized their potential.

Like Hanuman Chalisa, human potential is to be reminded again and again until it converts into a firm belief, and what human mind believes can do.

This mythological story is the indication of the latent power hidden in every human. There are power and potential of Hanuman is hidden within everyone that should be reminded and acknowledged to cross the ocean of obstruction of life to meet the set goal as Sita for Hanuman and burn the impurities like Lanka, and break the bondage of limitation as Hanuman did when Ravana tried to bind him.