Iramanusa Nootrandhadhi - Velukkudi Swamy's Upanyasam (English Translation)

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Volume XII :-

 

Volume Title :- Dhrishtaadhrishta Phalamaagiya

Iraamaanusa Thirunaamam (Contd..)

 

In the last issue we concluded with the question:

 

How do we get both the Drishta Phalam and Adrishta

Phalam when we chant the Raamaanuja Thirunaamam ?

 

 

Swamy Pillai Lokam Jeeyar explains this as follows :-

 

"Vaayamudham Parakkum Iraamaanusan enru sollumin.."

 

43rd Paasuram of Iraamaanusa Nootrandhaadhi says

this :-

 

"Sollpugil Vaayamudham parakkum, iruvainai

patraravodum.."

 

Which means, recite the Iraamaanusa thirunaamam which

will give immense happiness or sukham. Here swamy says

when we recite the Iraamaanusa Thirunaamam, it gives divine nectar

that gives us joy.This is similar to Swamy Madurakavi Aazhwaar's

Kanninun Sirudhaambu where swamy says :-

 

"Nanni then kurugoor nambi ennakkaal, annikkum amudhoorum

en naavukke.." which means- When adiyen take the name of "then

Kurugoor Nambi" (Nammaazhwaar), adiyen tastes divine nectar on the

tongue.

 

Initially when we keep sayin just on our tongue,

in course of time the "iraamaanusa Thirunaamam" will capture our

minds automatically and we will at one point of time get so immersed

in that thirunaamam that thereafter, whenever we recite, we will feel

a divine experience within ourselves and also we wil also start

experiencing the same feelings of Swamy Thiruvarangathamudanaar or

Swamy Madurakavi aazhwar. We do not even need to know the meaning of

the thirunaamam.

 

Emperumaan is considered to be a divine nectar by our

azhwaars. Emperumaan in his Koormaavathaaram helped devaas

to get amudham from the Thiruppaarkadal. Who gave the

amudham there ? Emeperumaan - who himself is another "amudham".

Hence source of "amudham" is only "amudham" and

not anything else. The taste of nectar can be obtained

only from nectar itself. The Iraamaanusa Naamam is

a divine nectar. Who gave this "Parapanna Gaayathri" which

has the Raamaanusa Thirunaamam ? Amudanaar. Hence the

thirunaamam itself is a "divine nectar" which has its source from

the "nectar" itself which in this case is "Amudanaar" - after all

Swamy's name itself has "amudam" in it!

 

Also, Emperumaanaar himself can be considered as amudham as

amudanaar says in 43rd paasuram as mentioned above. Hence his

words are also amudham which are nothing but the 9 works with full of

divine nectar that he gave us . Those works are called the

"navarathnams". Moreover emperumaanaar thirunaamam

itself is an amudham which came from another amudham who is

Amudanaar. Emperuman is amrutham who gave us an amrutham in the form

of "Emperumaanaar", Emeprumaanaar is an amrutham and hence he gave

us nine rathnaas which has amrutham in it. Amudanaar is an

amrutham who gave us the gift of "Iraamaanua Nootrandhaadhi" as

an amrutham which has 108 Iraamaanusa Thirunaamam in it.

 

Thus we do not have to worry if we chant Iraamaanusa Nootrandhaadhi -

it will give us both Drishta and Adhrishta Phalam.

 

 

Here Swamy Pillai Lokam Jeeyar quotes an incident from

Raamaayanam :-

 

Once emperumaan Sri Raaman along with Lakshmanan went to take

bath in a river very early in the morning. It was shivering

cold in the water when they were taking bath. At that time

Lakshmana says "Oh.. Raamaa!!, we have come during

later hours of the sunrise but still we are experiencing shivering

cold. Think of Bharatha who use to go to Sarayu River at

the early morning hours (say around 2:00 AM ) to take bath and

do his morning duties." After hearing thus Raamaa feels so sad

that he immediately tells Lakshmana "Let us now leave all our

vratham and immediately go to Bharatha as I cannot bear to think of

Bharatha who is struggling like this in this cold weather."

Immediately Lakshmana isworried that Raama should not break his

Vratham and consoles Raamaa thus :-

 

"Rama, if we go back now we are going to see the same

Kaikeyi. It is so unfortunate that Bharatha is her son!"

Hearing this Raamaa says, "Laskhmana, why are you talking about

her now? Why do you not talk about Bharatha for some more time as

it gives me immense pleasure when I hear his name who is the

king of Ikshwaku vamsa." Here Rama considers Bharatha as the King of

Ikshwahu vamsam and himself as a daasan to Bharata.

Not only here but even when He conversing with Vaali and

Sugreeva, Rama says that Bharatha is His master and He is Bharatha's

slave and that whenever He thinks of Bharatha, He experiences an

immense pleasure like that coming from Amrutham.

 

What connection does this incident have with our context? When

Bharatha was felt as Amrutham to Sri Raamaa, although Bharatha

was a younger brother of Raama, who can be called as "Ramanuja"

even though his actual name is Bharatha, our emperumaanaar is

also "Raamaanujaa" who makes us feel it is Amrutham when we chant

his thirunaamam. There Bharatha is just called as "Raamaanuja"

althouh his name was not that. Here our emperumaanaar's name IS

Raamaanujaa and he is Raaamaanuja himself. Hence when we recite

Raamaanuja Thirunaamam we can experience Amrutham flowing

on our tongue as felt by Raamaa while talking and hearing about

Bharatha. By this we can experience Drishta Phalam which in this case

is the feeling of Amrutham flowing in our tongue.

 

According to Nammperumaal, who ever has Raamaanuja Sambandham

will get moksha. Hence emperumaanaar is considered as

"mOksha hEthu" meaning - "responsible or reason for mOksha".

Now Swamy Pillai Lokam Jeeyar differentiates between Bharatha

and Raamaanuja thirunaamam. When Rama uttererd Bharatha's name

it gave Raamaa an immense happiness which is a Drishta

Phalam. But here when we recite Raamaanuja Thirunaamam we get both

Drishta Phalam and adrishta phalam. Because as emperumaanaar himself

is responsible to give us moksham, he can give us even the Adhrishta

Phalam which is Sri Vaikunta Praapathi which is Nithya Kainkaryam at

emperumaan's feet at Sri Vaikuntam.

 

Hence we do not need to worry about anything when we have

Raamaanuja Sambandham by chanting Raamaanuja Thirunaamam.

Swamy embaar says with all pride "Illai enakkedhir Illai enakkedhir

Illai Enakkedhire.." when praising emperumaanaar. This means "when

adiyen has the entire thirumeni of rAmAnuja in adiyen's mind, no

one can be against me..."

 

Will continue ...

 

 

RAAMAANUJASYA CHARANAU SHARNAM PRAPADYE. SRIMATHE RAAMAANUJAAYA NAMA:

 

 

Vedic Iraamaanusa Nootrandhaadhi Team

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