About Life? {part - 2 }

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Dear Sudhaji,

With complete surrender to Acharya Ramanuja....

 

 

> Sudha wrote... A teacher wants a student to

> do his homewrok pefectly and not to praise

> him. Similarly a man should do his worldly

> duties perfectly. Does he need to praise

> the teacher again and again??

 

Why praise Lord?

 

 

Here is rough translation of of a discourse by

Acharya Ramanuja Jeeyar Swami

 

{Part 2- concluding part}

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ji:va has gyana and if one needs a:nanda one

should associate with paramatma. The closer

we get the more a:nandam we get. We will

become like Him. If we surrender to nature

we wont achieve this state.

 

Now gyana can't sit tight even if you force

it. Just like water flows, air flows, the our

gyana wants to 'flow'.If water does not flow,

stagnated water becomes impure and of no use.

If air does not flow in a room then it will

become life threatening.

 

gyanam should become action oriented as that's

it's nature. If we go towards God then we will

attain this a:nandam.

 

What does 'going towards God' mean?

 

Is it flying towards God in the sky, going to

the temple and sitting, is it praising lord

thousands and thousands of times, is it breaking

lots of coconuts, is it making large large

garlands and offering in the temple, is it making

a lot of food and distributing to everyone, giving

harathi to God and doing pallandu pallandu?

 

No, these are just means ( one of the several ) that

will channel us and condition us so that we will

attain this supreme state of a:nandam. We see a lot

of people doing rituals in the world. Even after

doing rituals if one does not experience this

channelization then it is of no use just like

'elephent taking bath' and like trying to mix water

with oil.

 

So if this supreme everlasting feeling which all

of us want, should be within then why do all these?

But if we really start chanellising our energies

towards paramatma and start attaining a:nandam then

it will automatically express itself in some form

or another just like if there is a lamp lit then

the light spreads around, if there is a nice

perfume sprayed the same will spread around.

 

Similarly the inner conditioning will express itself.

Love inside cannot be suppressed. A mother loves

the child. If a child is trying to walk and falls

in a swamp the Mother even though might be wearing

costly dress will immediately pick up the child and

tries to please and console the child. The Real

Mother does not say, Love should be inside, " I love

you kid but wash yourself, change your clothes and

stop crying. I can't touch you because I am wearing

costly dress"

 

Love instigates action. The action and the thought

should go in a mutually coordinated way. Only then

we can recognize there is true Love. If there is

something superficial then there is no guarantee

that it exists inside. But by putting things on the

top then there is chance that if one conditions

slowly there is a chance of inculcating the habit

of us depending on paramatma rather than prakruthi.

So one needs to do all the rituals and not give up.

If one starts doing such activities then the world

will start praising the devotee which we daily see

in day to day life. So atleast for the sake of

world and others to keep up to the impression, one

will start moving towards a:nandam slowly and

steadily.

 

One should Love Bhagavan, who is with us,

unconditionally and compeletely, chant His Nama

continuously, whole heartedly experience Bhagavan's

swarupa-rupa-guna-vibuthis and since Bhagavan is

everywhere everytime and we should realize that

we are a part of Him.

 

If one decides to enjoy a:nandam from prakruthi

which is visible, which makes one attract to it

easily, without realising and experiencing Lord

then instead of getting a:nanda then one will

end up losing a:nanda state and might get some

happiness which is very temporary.

 

 

So now everyone wants a:nandam. Everyone wants this

to be continuous and - nitya a:nandam and we would

love if we experience all the time - maha a:nandam.

If we seek maha a:nandam, then we need to

surrender to Paramatma say Upanishads.

 

 

Hope this answers your wonderful question.

Please feel free to ask more questions.

 

Jai Srimannarayana

Ramanuja Dasa

 

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