HH Sri: Swa:mi:ji: reveals the secrets of Sri:mad_Ra:ma:yanam

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Jai Srimannarayana!

 

With the benevolence of HH Shri Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji

and His guidance, I would like to continue from

my previous posting on secrets of Sri:mad Ra:ma:yanam

as revealed by Shri Swa:mi:ji ..

 

 

There exists a DM (Doubt Master) in our minds, who always

raises doubts about practically almost any thing in the

world. Even if Lord Sri:manna:ra:yana appears before

us with Sankham, Chakram, Gada, Sa:rngam in His divine

form, our DM (doubt master) may not believe. It may

raise a doubt and ask for credentials. That is why

Lord appropriately said, that He needs to be certified

by an A:cha:rya. Not only that, He has to be prescribed

by an A:cha:rya, He has to be shown to us by

an A:cha:rya and we have to be led to Him by an A:cha:rya.

 

To perform all such functions, an A:cha:rya must have

gone through this process before, from His poorva:cha:rya:s.

How His poorva:cha:rya:s know, DM raises a question again.

>From their poorva:charya:s and so on. Who is the originator

of this chain ? Lord Srimanna:ra:yana himself. He is

A:cha:rya to mother Lakshmi. He has taken A:cha:rya, disciple

role models as Nara and Na:ra:yana. He became an A:cha:rya

to the whole world at large as recently as 5200 years

ago in His Sri: Krishna avata:ram.

 

DM raises another question again, how can you believe that

if one person declares himself as the Lord and prescribes

Himself as Lord and certify Himself as Lord too ?

It is not He who declares himself as Lord, it is Ve:da:s

declaring Lord Sri:manna:ra:yana as the supreme. How come

ve:da:s know, ve:da:s are not told by any. They are self

revealed. They are 'apourushe:ya:s'.

 

These kind of doubts started coming with

less and less divinity exhibited by humans in kaliyuga.

We have very less trust, faith and belief nowadays.

Our ancestors, people in past yugas had more belief and

faith in words and deeds so they stop needless doubting

at one point or other. But in these days as Swa:mi:ji:

said where "even pollution is polluted" it is hard to believe

any thing.

 

That is why Lord has become a disciple to a

great A:cha:rya "HH Sri Manava:la Maha:muni", as recently

as 6-7 centuries ago. Lord Himself from Sri: Vaikuntham,

whom even upanishat said it has no words to describe

("Yatho: va:cho: nivartante: apra:pya manasa: saha"),

has come down to this A:cha:rya and learnt from Him

the essence of all Ve:da:s (Divya prabandham). How great

is our A:cha:rya !

 

Our www.bhakthinivedana.org contains the pictures where

"Sri Manava:la Maha:muni Brinda:vanam" is believed to exist.

(Brinda:vanam is a place where the divine body of a saint

is kept after He attains mo:ksham) As per that story,

even now (after some centuries) only Tulasi grows there.

Lord himself has sung a thanian praising this A:cha:rya.

Shall we remember that thanian one more time,

 

Sri:saile:sa daya: pa:tram dhi: bhktya:di guna:rnavam |

Yati:ndra pravanam vande: ramyaja:ma:taram munim ||

 

Do we have a tanian sung by Lord praising Vasishta Maharshi

or Viswa:mitra Maharshi to whom he was a disciple in Sri:

Ra:ma avataram ? Do we have a tanian sung by Lord praising

Sa:ndeepani Rishi to whom he was a disciple in Sri: Krishna

avata:ram ? We do not know. When we have a whole Ra:ma:yanam

or Bha:ratam or Bha:gavatam describing every single act of

the Lord, how come we are missing the very important A:cha:rya

tanian ? This will lead us to believe that may be those Rishis

were just performing the function of 'guru' to Lord, and not

real 'A:cha:rya:s'. Let us request Sri Swa:mi:ji: to

enlighten us in this aspect.

 

However, we are very fortunate to have born after Lord has

shown to us such great A:cha:rya. Moreso, we are extremely

lucky to be disciples of that guru parampara which has

"HH Sri: Manava:la Maha:muni" as a bright jewel in the acha:rya

ratna ha:ram. In fact we are even luckier to be disciples

of Sri: Swa:miji from that great lineage. We are luckiest

that HH is showering us with His divine words week after

week committing Himself to uplift us from this vicious

circles of life. His attempt is the only one which matters

and all of us are blessed by such a kind act of our Swa:mi:ji.

So let us pray at the lotus feet of our A:cha:rya one

more time,

 

Visishta:dwaita siddha:nta pracha:raika viha:rine: |

Sri:manna:rayana:cha:rya swa:mine: nitya mangalam ||

 

Now, after listening to Sri: Swa:mi:ji's pravachanam about

Ahalya and Va:lmi:ki episodes of Sri: Ra:ma:yanam, the

Doubt Master has got few questions. Did you also get

some ? Let us examine those in our next posting.

 

Jai Sri:manna:ra:yana!

 

Adiye:n,

Ra:ma:nuja Da:saha

Murali Krishna Kalvapudi