"Visrujya Lajyaam" - without shyness!

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

pranams,

One other reason is that in those days, the chatur vEdis, high class brahmins

well versed in the 4 vedas regarded bhagavan nAma keertanam to be for the low

people who are incapable or ineligible to learn the vedas and practice it. So

due to their ego they shun to do bhagavan nAma sankeertanam and didnt accept its

importance. But actually bhagavan nAma keertanam is for all which the brahmins

in those days didnt accept. This is the base behind the purana slokam you have

quoted.

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

Pradeep Janakiraman

wrote:"Visrujya lajjãm yodiite Mannãmãni nirantaram" - this sloka is

chanted by Bhãgavatas.

 

This purãna slokam says that one should perform Nãmasankirtanam

without shyness or embarrassment.

 

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Dear pradeep,

Adiyen absolutely accepts what you say. The purpose of my mail was not to

contradict your view. Without any doubt Nama sankeertanam is for all. For

someone with less talents, ego is less and hence leaving his shyness is easier

but for someone with higher talents he will surely feel shy to do a thing which

he thinks is inferior to his status. So when adiyen said the sloka referred to

EVEN the haughty brahmins, it means that there is no exclusion.

In geetha, bhagavan says that women and sudras can easily attain his feet doing

just their duty and namakeertanam but this doesnt in anyway convey that nama

sankeertanam is not for brahmins or men of first three varnas. When even a

highly talented person has to do nAma keertanam and when even a less qualified

person gets the same result due to nAma keertanam then where is the barrier to

stop each one of us from doing Hari nAma sankeertanam.

Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan.

Pradeep Janakiraman

wrote:dear Varadarajan

 

agreed that in olden days, some brahmins were haughty and they

thought that mere bhagavan-naama in comparison to the vedas was

inferior.

 

But if the idea(basis) of this slokam was to mean "visrujya lajjyam"

(leave your shyness) then it seems to interpret as if this was meant

only for those haughty brahmins. but its not like that.

 

This is meant for anyone and everyone, whether he has read the vedas

or not. Whether its a man or woman, whether its a child or a old man,

whether its a king or pauper. Also for those who have committed sins

and think they have no hope at all.

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