'NArAyananE namakE parai tharuvAn'

[Guest guest]

Narayana! Narayana!

 

Dear friend:

 

Oh! How true is your writing!

 

When I read it, I remembered a famous story. The story goes like this:

 

There was a unique exhibition, with all exceptional expensive

stones, jewels and treasures. Uniqueness of this exhibition was

that any visitor liking any particular item would be gifted the same

by the king who was organising the exhibition.

 

A lady visited the exhibition and claimed that what she wanted was

not available there. The King was upset because of the dissatisfaction

of a subject and asked her to communicate her request and promised

to give her what ever she wanted.

 

She then told the king that she wanted the king himself and nothing else.

When she got the king himself, all the treasures became hers.

 

I am sure you would have read / heard this story earlier. The parallel to

this simple story is that our aim should be big, like that of the girl, and

we should seek only the feet of the lord and everything else matters little.

 

Praveena nAmine Ramanuja dAsi28th Feb 1999

Dear bhAghavadhOthamals,My humble obeisance to the devotees of Lord

NarAyanA.SriAndAl addressesthe “selva sirumeergal” first.

“Selvam” is wealth, wealth, spoken interms of money power, then

there is the wealth of knowledge. All of usposses this wealth in both forms to

a certain degree. “You girls may bewealthy but do you know what true

wealth is ,who can give the eternalwealth of parai”.“swAdhu swAdhu

padhE padhe” –Sri AndAl would not send a chill down thespine asking'

don’t you all know that Paramapurushan of that magnitudewho will give that

parai to that evolved souls'. Instead AndAL gentlysays, the cub like boy, the

son of Y ashOdhA and Nandan whom we are sofamiliar with is the NarAyanan the

SwarAt who will give the wealth. Socast away your fear and doubts.The first

step in “farming” is the tilling of the land. This is a

toughprocess because of the “deposits” deep rooted in the human

mind- fear,doubt, clinging, the beasts of passion raging like war. Will we,wont

we,should we,shouldn’t we,can we, cant we -this perplexity is a

fixedfeature.Now that the weeds of doubt and fear are wilting slowly, theseeds

of “faith” are introduced.For the seeds of faith to

germinate“avanE tharuvAn” - He will give, is the food, water and

air supply givenin ample doses.SriAndAl thiruadigalE charanam,With highest

regards,Subadra