Can you define what living means?

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Om Asmad Gurubhyo Namaha!

Sreemathe Ramanujaya Namaha!!

 

With great love and complete surrender to

the Lotus feet of my a:charya,

translation of Sarga 21 of U.Ve. Sriman Sri

Bhasyam Appalacharya Swamivaru's Sundara Kanda

Tattva Deepika continues..

 

Seethamma says,

"Ravana! If you don't want youself and your

kingdom to be destroyed, extend a hand of

friendship to Lord Rama. Even if you decide

you don't want to extend this hand of

friendship and decide to die instead, there

is still time for you to act as if you are

trying to be friendly. This will make sure

you won't die such a disastrous death"

 

Due to the concern our Mother has, she laid before

Ravana both his options " Extend your hand of

frienship or atleast act as if you intend to do it".

Knowing Ravana's Ahamkaram Mother knew that

he would never ask for 'Sarana:gathi'.

 

'Friendship' brings an equality between the two

parties but 'sarana:gathi' means one party is

is greater while the other party is helpless

and cannot exist without the first party's help.

 

Seethamma knows that Ahankaram will cause

people to forget who the giver is and how our

actions and reactions should be with respect to

the giver.

 

If one decides to cut a tree's branch he or she

should be on the tree while attempting to do

that. Similarly even if one decides to play

with fire like God, he should be dependent

on God himself.

 

Seethamma says,

 

"te:na maitri: te: yadhi ji:vithu mecchasi"

"If you have a desire to eagerly seek His

friendship."

 

There is a lot of significance to this

upadesam done by our mother.

What exactly is living or surviving?

We think if we are able to move with this

sareeram we possess, it is called living.

But that is not exactly what living means.

We (atma) not deserting our body (sareera)

is called living. Who is living? Not us.

But the Sareera ( body ) has life as long

us we (atma) don't leave this body. Ofcourse

do we have control to do that is a different

question.

 

Just like soul (a:tma) is for the body(sareera)

in a similar fashion God ( parama:tma) is for

us souls (a:tma). So we are considered

living as long as we are in constant association

with our Lord with extreme, incessent love.

 

.... to be continued ...

 

Om Namaha Parama Rushibhyaha namaha parama rushibhyaha,

Jai Sreemannarayana,

Raghu Ramanuja Dasa;

 

 

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