Sri Ramayana Tatthva Deepika - Ba:la Ka:nda (11)

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Srimathe: Ra:ma:nuja:ya Namaha!

Sri Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!

 

Satyava:k:-

 

Who is a ‘satyava:k’?

 

One who is determined to speak truth always, however

difficult it may be, is a ‘sathyava:k’. SriRama, as

a human being followed this principle strictly. He

is a ‘sathyava:k'.

 

King Dasaratha had to order SriRama’s exile binding to his

word given to Kaikeyei and bowing before dharma. Nobody

liked the idea of sending SriRama to the forest. Even the

king’s priest Vasishta,the other purohiths, the ministers

and the people were reluctant to this. The king Dasaratha

himself was not wishing that Rama should oblige him and go

to the forest. But SriRama was determined and kept up his

word given to his father before Kaikeyi. When Bharatha came

to the forest and begged and prayed to him to take back the

crown, Rama did not yield. That’s why Sri Ramachandra is

mentioned often as ‘sathyapara:krama’ in SriRamayana. His

courage was His righteousness. It earned Him the whole world.

All the people fell at His feet for His uprightness. This is

an important quality for any human being.

 

SriRamayana enumerates how Rama exemplified in it.

 

The Lord as ‘para’ is a 'sathyava:k’. ‘Va:k’ means ‘something

that conveys meaning'. One who has ‘sathyam’ as the ‘vakya’

(meaning) is a ‘sathyava:k’. The word ‘sathyam’ refers to the

God. He is never changing. Always the same. So He is known

as ‘sathyam’. These ‘jeevas’, (souls) because of their

connection to this ‘prakrithi’ keep changing their nature.

 

The ‘prakrithi’ changes into bodies of human beings or

animals or trees according to the ‘karma’ (deeds) of these

‘jeevas’. The Lord being present in all these beings never

transforms. So His name is ‘Sathyam’.

 

The Upanishad gives another meaning for this word. It splits

the word as three units. They are: ‘sath’,’thi’, and ‘yam’.

 

'Sath' is the ‘jeevathathva’ that never changes. ‘Thi’

is the ‘prakrithi’ that keeps on altering. The Lord

binds these two 'thathva:s' together and He enters into

that and directs it. and He is called ‘yam’. The one

who supports the whole universe that consists of the

‘chethana and achethana’ (animate and inanimate) can be

none else than the ‘Supreme’. So He is the ‘satyava:k’.

 

Thus this quality suits for ‘nara’ and ‘para’ too.

 

Jai Srimannarayana!

 

To be continued....

Ramanujamma Mudumbai

Ramanuja dasi

 

 

 

 

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