Srimad Ramayana Thathva Deepika(36)--Ba:laka:nda

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Srimathe: Ramanujaya Namaha !

Sri Jeeyar Tiruvadigale: Saranam !!

 

One should primarily cultivate the nature to view everything in this world

equally ( sarva samathvam ). Unless one realizes the fact that Lord dwells

in every being as 'a:thma', this realization is impossible. This entire

universe is Bhagavan's Divine Body - as one would not love one part of his

body and hate another, one attains the mentality to love everything in this

visible universe 'equally'. When one realizes that all the a:thma:s in all

the bodies are 'entities of knowledge' and hence are equal, one would

surely be able to view ALL with 'sarva samathvam' (equally), irrespective of

the colour ,caste or creed of the body. A human being should be like this.

 

Bhagavan is 'Sarvasama'.

 

The Lord says in Githa : "name: dve:sho:sthina priyaha".

 

We drift away from surrendering to His lotus feet out of hatred or

indifference but the Lord's nature is to rescue anyone who surrenders to

Him. Bhagavan has 'si:lam'. Srirama considered a crow, an eagle, a villager,

a tribal, a va:nara and a ra:kshasa equally and protected them. So a human

being should cultivate Bhagavan's quality of 'sarva samathvam'.

 

SriRama's presence was always lovable and likeable to all. Srirama was loved

by the illiterate and the learned, by men and women, by trees, animals and

by the rivers solely and all the time.

This is Bhagavan's attribute too. Men should cultivate this quality.

Bhagavan is a 'suddha sathva swaru:pa' with out being polluted by 'rajas'

and 'thamas' and hence gives only 'a:nanda' to the ones that look at him and

never gives unhappiness, grief or passion. Thus Bhagavan descended as 'nara'

and taught us the right qualities and the right practice.

 

For Valmiki's question,"Who is that Bhagavan who has come as nara'?"

Narada answers, "Srirama is the one 'with all the qualities'. Hence no one

can quantify the qualities He possesses". A hunter who is shooting arrows

into the sky has to stop when all his arrows in the quiver are exhausted -

he can never claim that he ran out of space in the sky.

Likewise, people who attempt to describe His Kalya:na 'guna:s' cannot

proceed beyond a point due to their inability to comprehend but NOT because

they have exhausted all His guna:s. In this world every guna has a unique

attribute associated with it . SriRama has all such guna:s in Him.

 

 

 

To be continued ....

 

JaiSreemannarayana!

 

Ramanujamma Mudumbai

Ramanuja Dasi.