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

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Jaisrimannarayana!!!

Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!!!

Satyava:k:-

Who is a ‘satyava:k’?

One who makes it a point 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 Rama 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 SriRamachandra is

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

righteousness. It earned Him thewhole 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 chaging 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 ththvas 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.

 

Mudumbai Ramanujamma

Ramanuja dasi

 

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