Hindu article-Personification of bliss

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from today in tamilnadu, the chanting of

thirupalliyezuchi starts. this was composed by

manikkavachagar on lord shiva.

 

Personification of bliss

 

 

CHENNAI JAN.5 . The objective of human birth is

Self-realisation, which puts an end to rebirths. To

achieve this end it is necessary to be devoted to God

and remember Him constantly while engaged in

day-to-day activities. A person will develop devotion

only if he had earned merit by performing good deeds

in his previous lives. Likewise, an individual takes

to spiritual life and strives to realise the Self due

to the tendency acquired by engaging in devotional

acts and study of scriptures in an earlier birth.

 

In his discourse, Sri B.Sundar Kumar said inclination

for spiritual life was only due to Divine grace and

one of the methods to elicit it was by recitation of

hymns in praise of the different deities. A hymn

recommended for daily prayer, which is capable of

enhancing devotion and also enables the aspirant to

progress spiritually, is Sri Rudram. Both devotees and

monks peruse it as it is a devotional tool and also

aids meditation. Sacrifices are conducted by chanting

this hymn for which there are certain prescribed

procedures because it occurs in the Vedas unlike hymns

in praise of other deities which usually are in the

Puranas and the epics. The Sri Rudram embodies 300

names of Lord Siva and hence is a Trisati. It is part

of the Taittiriya Samhita of the Krishna Yajur Veda

and also called Namakam because each name begins with

the appellation "Namah".

 

The names, by which Siva is addressed in this hymn,

encompass all life forms in creation and thus indicate

that the Lord indwells in every being. Siva literally

means auspiciousness and Nataraja is the

personification of bliss. Dakshinamurti is the form in

which He imparts spiritual knowledge. The primordial

sound, Om, emanated from Siva and Saint Thyagaraja in

one of his compositions refers to Parameswara as the

essence of the Vedas. So He is the presiding deity of

music. The seven notes of music emerged from the five

faces of Siva (the two notes "Sa" and "Pa" being

basic) when Nataraja danced out of ecstasy.

 

The devotee certainly will be eager to know the

benefit of reciting the Sri Rudram. As the forms of

Lord Siva, Nataraja and Dakshinamurti, face south and

this direction associated with Yama, recitation of

this hymn is believed to remove the fear of death,

which every living being has. Lord Siva destroys evil

and bestows the bliss of Self-realisation on one who

propitiates Him by chanting this hymn.

 

 

 

 

copy right: The Hindu daily

 

 

 

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