Mumookshapadi -Thirumantra Prakaranam Part-II

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Sri Venkata Gurave Nama:

 

During the last post we discussed about superiority of Thirumantram

over

Dvayam and sarama slokam.

This post describes how Thirumantram was released to this World.

 

5. Sriman Narayanan stood himself as a Shisya as well as an acharya

and

gave the upadesam of Thirumantram due to his prama krupa (grace) after

seeing the samsaries suffering from repeated births out of their

ignorance.

These samsaries have lost knowledge about the lord and also

themselves(Their true self).

 

(The reference here is made to Sri.Narayana's upadesam to Nara in Sri

Badrikasramam )

 

6. Why he chose to become a Shisya?

 

It is because the statuses of jeevans were such that no one was

capable of

becoming a perfect Shisya than God himself.

 

(The attributes of a good Shisya is

1. He should be an asthika

2. a dharmatma

3. Should have reverence towards sastras and deep devotion towards

his

acharyan.

4. Should have willingness to serve.

 

Since all the above mentioned above attributes did not exist with a

single person,

Lord himself chose to beceome Nara, a prefect sishya.

 

7.The knowledge gained out of all sastras is like those earned by

one's hard labor.

The knowledge gained by Thirumantram on the contrary is like wealth

inherited from forefathers.

 

8.The Mantras on the Bhagavan are many.

 

9.they are classified as Vyapaka and Avyapaka mantras.

(Vyapaka Mantras describe the greatness or svarupam of the

Omnipresent God.

Avyapaka Mantras describes any one of His Avatars, leelas or Gunas.

 

10.Compared to Avyapaka Mantras,the three Vyapaka Mantras are

Superior.

 

(In Vishnu Gayatri, we have three Vyapaka Mantras namely,

a. Narayanan

b. Vasudevan

c. Vishnu

 

11. Out of the 3 Vyapaka Mantras, the Mantra 'Narayana' is supreme.

 

We will discuss why it is superior over other Mantras in the next

post.

 

 

Dasan

 

KM Narayanan