Velukkudi Sri Krishnan's lectures on Vishnu Sahasranamam

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Well,well,We the Dubaites were the lucky one's this time ! The ambience was

right & there was serenity in the air and everything seemed to be pefect.

Thanks to the organisers. As rightly said, the asthikas were anxiously waiting

for the opening of the lecture by Sri Velukkudi Sri Krishnan on Sri Vishnu

Sahasranama Mahimai. After the initial introduction,Sri Krishnan opened his

talk with guru vandanam, prayer to the beautifull tanjore painting of Lord Sri

Sita Ramachandra Moorthy & Lord Sri Balaji,which was kept in the hall.It looked

to me quite right because the entire lecture centred around importance of sri

rama nama mahimai,which is very important in this kali yuga & is the only way

for our salvation.

 

The talk opened with the question addressed to Lord Parameshwara by Godess

Parvati (on our behalf,if i may add) "Keno Upayena Laguna sloka",what is the

easy way or short cut to attain the benefit of chanting vishnu sahasranamam ? &

the Lord Parameshwara replies with the sloka "Sri Rama, Ramethy",that mere

chanting of the name of lord rama,krishna will give the great benefit of sri

vishnu namah parayanam. Druing the lectures Sri Krishnan highlighted the

importance of of namah smranam thru various examples,quotes from vedas,pasurams

etc. The talk was par-excellence,deep rooted,ex-temporal and if i am not out of

context,it was like Muthu Kulithal. We could see Sri Krishnan himself enjoying

his own words on namah bakhti,alongwith us.

 

To summarise,the value & importance of nama smaranam,Sri Krishnan give us the

example of a child burning the fingers by touching the lamp & anxious mother

questioning "Agni" for buring her child.Agni replies to her that it his nature

to burn anybody who touch it. So also the Bhagavan Namah Samaran gives,its

blessing immediately,whether it is uttered with bakthi or not. This can be kept

as a pointer to develop our bakthi towards sriman narayanan.

He leaves it us,how we would like to use this nama smaranam by another example

of having precious stone in the hands of a layman,who trades it cheaply,or a

merchant,who trades it for a profit or a collector,who keeps it permanently

with him & enjoys its beauty forever,meaning are we going to ignore nama

mahimai ? or use only for the worldly pelasures ? or to be one in the eternal

bliss of the Lord ? The choice was left us.

 

He then,took up the first sloka,the conversation between sri bhishmacharya &

yudhishtra,where in the later seeks the advice of sri bhishmacharya by posing

six questions to him.

Discourse started with questions of Mata Parvati Devi and ended with the

questions of from Sri Yudishtra !

 

Hari Om

 

chandar

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