The Ramayama and Iyengar

Reading the Ramayama I am finally getting to know Rama and Sita.

Rama is an incarnation of Vishnu (the powerful creator of all) in human form. He wins Sita's heart by pulling a sword that belonged to Shiva. No other man had been capable of such achievement. Yes, we heard that story in the West too, thanks to King Arthur, funny how they repeat. Sita was born out of the earth, not through a mother, she is, well, divine.

As the ways of yoga begin to mix and flow within me, and I go deeper into the vast body of knowledge and what that might mean, and how it all works, I come accross Iyengar's Light on Pranayama again.

It starts with an invocation to Lord Hanuman, whom as Iyengar tells me "reunited Rama and Sita". Oh well! he is giving the story away! he is telling the the end I suppose... Then again, I am only on page 54 of a 400 page book and there have already been at least 3 wars between the four directions of the universe, anything can happen.

Here is the beginning of the invocation as written by Iyengar:

I salute Lord Hanuman, Lord of Breath, Son of the Wind God-
who bears five faces and dwells within us
In the form of five winds or energies
pervading our body, mind and soul,

Who re-united Prakrti (Sita) with Purusa (Rama) -
May He bless the practitioner
By uniting his vital energy -prana-
With the Divine Spirit within.