raama mantra - maraaThii - 6-10

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>kaphe.n ka.nTha haa ruddha ho{ii}la jevhaa.n .

>akasmaata to praaNa jaa{ii}la te.nvhaa.n ..

>tulaa koNa tethe.n sakhe soyare re .

>hare raama haa ma.ntra sopaa japaa re .. 6..

>

>When your throat will get blocked by secretions,

>Unexpectedly will the life end;

>What friends and kinsmen will you have then?

>Why not at least recite this simple chant of ' Hare Rama '. .. 6..

 

 

This very nice. Who is the author?

 

Hare Krishna!

 

-- HKS

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> Krishna Susarla <susarla.krishna

> Re: raama mantra - maraaThii - 6-10

> Sat, 03 Jan 1998 13:11:48 -0600

>

> >kaphe.n ka.nTha haa ruddha ho{ii}la jevhaa.n .

> >akasmaata to praaNa jaa{ii}la te.nvhaa.n ..

> >tulaa koNa tethe.n sakhe soyare re .

> >hare raama haa ma.ntra sopaa japaa re .. 6..

> >

> >When your throat will get blocked by secretions,

> >Unexpectedly will the life end;

> >What friends and kinsmen will you have then?

> >Why not at least recite this simple chant of ' Hare Rama '. .. 6..

>

>

> This very nice. Who is the author?

>

namaskaar,

 

These are by svaamii raamadaasa ( 1608-1681 A.D. ) also known as raamadaasa

samartha.

> Swami Ramdasa (1608-1681), was the spiritual guru of Shivaji, both

> instrumental in the renaissance of Hindu Dharma and Polity,'nishreyas'

> and 'abhyudaya', in the manner of Krishna and Arjuna, or Buddha and

> Ashoka. He wrote prolifically in a vigorous poetic style, and his verses

> are to this day on the lips of young and old, as aphorisms for

> leading a god-centered life in the turmoil of the world.

 

You can see the following for a detailed biography. .tex file has the text

version, .ps file has the postscript version of the same.

 

ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/ramadas.tex

ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/ramadas.ps

> >Found it. Thank you for pointing to it. Very interesting to read - but

> >raamamantraache shloka seem to be very much 'vairaagya' oriented (I was

> >reading the meanings that you sent) while the write-up on jaguar seems to

> >paint a differnt picture. I read the .tex file which has the text, I am

> >sure the .ps is also there.

>

> Ramadasa tailored his teachings to appeal to the wide range of temperaments

> of the listeners.

> When Arjuna asked Krishna, it is as difficult to control the mind as the

> wind, Krishna's answer was:

> " abhyaasena tu kaunteya vairaagyeNa cha gR^ihyate ". The vey first mantra

> of Isha Upanishad says :

> cover everything with the essence of Truth(God), then enjoy it knowing it is

> God's and not yours.

> The point Ramadasa makes is that vairaagya has to be internal, not external!

>

 

Thanks for the feedback, I was wondering if anyone was reading them at all

:-) I shall continue to post the rest of them.

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Regards,

Shree

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