Sri Ramayana Tatthva Deepika - Ba:la Ka:nda (9)

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha!

Sri Jeeyar Thiruvadigale saranam!

CHITRA BHA:NU SAMVATSARA SUBHA:KA:NKSHALU!

 

With best wishes on uga:di, praying

Lord SriRamachandra to bless us all to serve

our Acharya in a much better and united way in

spreading our Sri Ramanuja Siddhantham

Sri Raghunandana parabrahmane: namaha!

 

 

Va:lmiki asked,"who is the veeryavan?”

 

‘Vika:ra’ means ‘ change’ or ‘transformation’.There may

be various reasons to get affected by our surroundings

or situations. Not to be disturbed (vika:ram) by any

such things is ‘veeryam’ The Lord is all pervading. He

is present in all the animate and the inanimate, in

the meanest of the mean. He is present in all the

substances that abound with ‘rajas’ and ‘thamas’.

Still He is never touched by any of these qualities.

He is always a Pu:rna with all the kalyana gunas. He

is always radiant with the supreme ‘jnana’ and extreme

‘ananda’. A human being should also be a ‘veeryava:n’

like that who can mix with all others without any ego.

(with sausi:lyam .) One should not allow one’s samska:ra

to be affected even while among the creatures with

mean qualities. One should not stay away from others

with ego and at the same time one should not be changed

staying with them. Even when we face a volatile situation,

our mind should be strong and undisturbed. SriRama

fought with fourteen thousand demons alone with a strong

and stable mind. .

 

This is the second necessary quality for any human being .

 

Dharmajna:

 

One who knows and practices dharma is a ‘dhamajna’.

Dharma is a means for eternal bliss. It is of two types:

‘Sa:ma:nya dharma’ and ‘Vishe:sha dharma’.

Striving for others’ happiness in the society and in

turn finding pleasure in their joy is ‘sa:ma:nya dharma.’

A son’s duty towards his father is to keep him happy by

behaving in a way that satisfies him and serving him as

per his wish and be able to derive pleasure from his

father’s happiness. Keeping the ‘devatha:s’ happy by

performing ‘yagnas’ and ‘ya:gas’ is ‘pa:ralaukika dharma’.

These two dharmas come under ‘sa:ma:nya dharma’.

For ‘Parama:thma’ these souls and ‘prakrithi’ are like

His Divine Body. The human beings should remember the

fact that they are ordained by the Lord to do only His

service but not to work independently towards their own

selfish ends and offer every act of theirs’ to Him as

His service and for His happiness. This is ‘vishe:sha dharma’.

Human beings should know these two dharmas. SriRama behaved

in such a manner that gave happiness to his father, mother,

brothers, elders and friends. This gave him immense joy.

SriRama pleased the devatha:s by performing ‘yagnas’ and

‘yagas’.(rituals and sacrifices) He performed his duties

according to the God ‘s wish and favour. So SriRamachandra

is a ‘dharmajna’.

 

SriRama is a ‘dharmajna’ not only as a ‘nara’(human being)

but as the ‘Para’(Lord) too….

 

Bhagavan’s main dharma is ‘srishti sthithi laya’ and

protection. Protecting those who surrender unto him ignoring

however they may be is His dharma. This is only ‘parathva’.

 

To be continued .............

 

Jai Srimannarayana!

Ramanujamma Mudumbai

Ramanuja dasi.

 

CHITRA BHA:NU SAMVATSARA SUBHA:KA:NKSHALU!

 

 

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