Daily Ramayana Parayanam 8PM CST: Part 1

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Humble Pranam to all Devotees:

Srimath Valmiki Ramayana Parayanam and pravachanam

Duration: 45

Minutes

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O:m Asmath Gurubhyo Namaha

""

A:pada:m apahartha:ram da:tha:ram sarva sampada:m

lo:kabhira:mam sri:ra:mam bhu:yo bhu:yo nama:myaham

 

mano:javam ma:rutha thulyave:gam

jithendriyam budhimatha:m varishtam

va:tha:thmajam va:narayu:dha mukhyam

sri:ra:ma du:tham sirasa nama:mi.

 

ve:dave:dye: pare: pumsi ja:the: dasara:thmaje:

ve:dah pra:che:thasa:da:si:th sa:ksha:d ra:ma:yana:thmana:

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Sri:rama:yana is called as Itiha:sa. Itiha:sa is one of the

vedo:pabrumhana:s.

upabrumhana means one which elaborates the meaning of Veda.

So Sri:rama:yana elaborates the meaning of the Veda .

It reveals the secrets of Veda and equivalent to the Veda.

Veda establishes the form and attributes of the Supreme one.

Our Lord is called as Ve:dave:dya. When that Ve:dave:dya

incarnated Himself

as Srirama being the son of Dasaratha, Veda took the form of Sriramayana

and

came into this world through the sage valmiki .

Veda contains two parts. The first part is

called as pu:rvabha:ga which deals

with the Dharma:s to be practiced by the mankind. The second part of the

Veda is

called as uththara bha:ga or upanishathbha:ga and reveals about the Para

Brahman.

One has to practice one’s dharma and has to do upa:sana by gaining

knowledge

about Para Brahman. These two things are literally shown by Sri

Rama.

Being the nara he showed how to practice one’s dharma and got the credit

to be

called as Ra:mo: vigrahava:n dharmaha. Being Para Brahman He was

worshipped

by everyone .Even today we are worshipping him. One has to possess

the inner

knowledge in order to practice one’s dharma.

How? Let us come to Sriramayana.

Before entering into the grandha it is customary to do

pranama to the author so

that we can get his blessings and understand the grandha well. Let us

pray to sage

valmiki before entering into Sriramayana.

Ku:jantham ra:ma ra:me:thi madhuram madhura:ksharam

A:ruhya kavitha:sa:kha:m vande: va:lmi:ki ko:kilam.

In this poem sage Valmiki is compared with a nightingale. It sings

sweetly by sitting

on the branch of a mango tree. Sage valmiki is singing the letters

"Ra" and "ma" which

are sweet in nature by sitting on the branch of poetry.

I think all of you know about the sweet voice of a nightingale. Madhura

means sweetness.

He is taking the support of poetry to reveal the greatness of Rama.

To such Valmiki maharshi I am doing pranama.

 

If we take Sriramayana as a kavya it is a

beautiful poetry with so many beautiful

words and chandas. And if we go deep into the meaning it can reveal about

the inner

self and Para Brahman. If we take the outer meaning only it will be like

a simple cinema story.

There will be Hero (Rama), leading lady (Sitamma) and villain (Ravana).

As usual villain kidnapped

Sitamma and hero saved her at last. If we see the story like this we need

not study Sriramayana.

But our Ramayana is not a simple cinema story. It is a great kavya. It is

a great dharmasasthra.

It is a great Neethi sasthra (morals). It is the incarnation of Veda for

spiritual seekers.

It reveals so many things which are necessary for all levels of mankind

or in other words

we can say it is the story of the mankind.

Valmiki reveals so many dharmas through His characters

of Sriramayana.

Through Rama, Valmiki wants to convey the message how to enjoy the

purusharthas.

We are having four purusharthas. Dharma, artha, kama and moksha.

Among the four everybody knows artha and kama only.

Few more people will think about dharma and rarely some one will think

about moksha.

So let us leave about the moksha at present and know about the other

three purusharthas.

Among these three “ Dharma” is the important one to be practiced by

everyone.

But most of us like artha and kama (desire to get anything). While

getting these two we

don’t care about the dharma. So we have to face so many obstacles.

Rama practiced and showed us how we have to earn artha(wealth) and

kama according to

dharma only. Then only we can enjoy them. According to puthra

dharma he left kingdom to keep

Dasaratha’s words true and later he ruled His kingdom along with Sita

without any obstacle.

So we need not crave for artha without dharma. Like this we can learn

many things from Ramayana.

Before going into the Ramayana let us know how Ramayana came into the

world?

 

Jaisrimannarayana!

(To be Continued in next part)

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,

in HIS Service,

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