Rama took the blood with both hands, “But this is blood brother” said Lakshman, Rama took blood in his mouth and spit it back, but that did not change the lake.
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Would you please clean your mouth with it and spit back into it” they requested. Rama took a dip in it, but nothing changed. “Take a dip in it Lord” said the rishis gathered there. Rama walked into the lake but the blood still stayed blood. “Lord, touch of your feet will change this into water back” said the rishis. Rama came upon their request to Pama sarovar, it was red everywhere, rishis were all standing around him. Someone in the group said, “Lord Rama has come, he is wandering in the forest, he can help us, let’s go to him and pray him to turn this blood into water again”. They brought water from Ganga, it was of no use, thy brought Yamuna water, it was of no use. They started chanting purification mantras, doing Yagnas and Havanas, throwing holy powders into the lake but nothing helped. Rishis had no water to drink or to use for the sacred rites. Shabari went to her Ashram with her filled pot, still crying with pain. Rishi started shouting loudly “Look, a drop of this outcaste’s blood has turned the whole lake into blood, what should we do now?” He thought “This low caste woman is making the water impure for our use” he threw a stone at her in anger, it hit her leg and the blood came out, a drop of blood fell into the lake, with seconds all the water in the lake became blood. Shabari who is now very old went to the lake with her pot made up of mud to collect water, there was a rishi sitting there with long beard and matted hairs chanting mantras, he was old and was reciting mantras wrongly, he heard this outcaste woman filling the divine water of the lake. There was a beautiful and grand lake called Pampasar near her Guru’s Ashram. Shabari stayed alive in anticipation of Lord Rama, She would get up early morning every day and go to the forest to collect the berries to serve Lord Rama, she didn’t know when Rama would come, she would go to the forest and collect berries every day. Sage Matanga said “Dear, One day Lord Rama will come to see you, until then stay alive, after that you can come to me” Shabari prayed “Lord take me with you to the highest abode you are going. One day when Sage Matang was very old he called his disciple Shabari and said “My Daughter, I’m leaving this body, is there anything you want me to do for you?” Those rishis who were still ignorant rejected Shabari’s Guru, calling him an impure one.
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She was living peacefully in the Ashram, doing her daily duties, taking cows to the pastures and so on. “You have come to me seeking the greatest, I’ll give you shelter” Sage was firm in his decision.
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“But other rishis in the forest are not happy about you taking me as your disciple” says Shabari Sage Matanga told Shabari “Oh my daughter, stay in my Ashram, clean the place, take care of the chores, serve, it will do good to you.” Sage Matanga welcome her and took her as his disciples, other rishis and yogis condemned him for taking an outcaste as the disciple, they criticized him, called him fallen, impure. She went to many teachers and asked them to take her as their disciple and teach her ‘true wisdom’ (Brahma Jnana), all the teachers rejected her because she was of a low caste and wasn’t worthy to learn Brahma Jnana. She couldn’t bear to see those animals being killed, so she ran away into the forest in the early morning to avoid the killing of those animals. Before the day of her wedding she saw 1000s of goats and sheep that her father had brought to sacrifice, as it was a custom among the hunters of that time. She wasn’t a good looking woman, but her heart was pure gold.
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There was an young woman named Shabari who was a daughter of a hunter.