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Srimate SrivanSatakopa Sri Vedanta Desika

Yatindra Maha Desikaya Nama :

Teliyatha Marai NilangaL Teligindrome-11

 

The Narayanopanishad continues cataloguing Paramatma's

attributes in the sixth mantra.

" tadEva ritam tadu satyam aahu: tadEva Brahma paramam

kaveenAm "

All-knowing sages and seers declare that the Brahman

(established in the earlier mantras to be the Supreme

Cause of the Universe ) is indeed ritam, satyam and

the Ultimate Reality or Parabrahmam.

Before we explore the purport of this mantra, a

sidelight on the Veda PurushA's humility-

We have observed, in the works of all poorvAchAryAs

and other great seers, that whenever they lay down a

principle or dictum, they invariably cite a " pramANA "

or textual authority therefor. And, more often than

not, the pramANA so quoted is the Sruti, which is the

ultimate in pramANAs ( " vEdAt shAstram param nAsti " says

Sri VyAsa).

However, the Sruti itself, ultimate as it is, quotes

sages whenever it says something especially

significant. The phrase " Brahma vAdinO vadanti "

(Knowers of Brahman say thus)

occurs at innumerable places throughout the Vedas, be

it the samhita part or the aaraNyakA. Perhaps this is

the Sruti's way of emphasizing BhAgawata Seshatvam?

 

Coming back to the purport of the mantra-the first

word

" Ritam " is interpreted in different ways-as moral or

spiritual laws or the universal order, and Satyam as

individual or social truthfulness ..These twin

words,which occur inseperably in several vEdic

passages,(' Ritam Satyam Param Bahma', " Ritamcha

swAdhyAya pravachanEcha, Satyamcha swAdhyAya

pravachanEcha " , Ritamcha SatyamchAbheeddhAt " etc.)

have also been defined as Right Thought and Right

Action.

Here are Kurugur Nambi's words-

" PAlengO nAngu vEda payanengO, samaya needi

noolengO " etc. Emperuman's satyatvam finds its echo

in Tiruvaimozhi thus " meyyanAgum virumbi tozhuvArkku

ellAm " , " tana meyyarkku meyyanE " etc. He is the Truth

and He is also true to His word,(RaMo dvir

nAbhibhAshatE " ). In Her rasAnubhavam,

Choodikkoduttha Nachiar disagrees with the

popular,vedic perception of Emperuman's rijutvam or

aarjavam, and donning the role of a jilted gOpi,

calls Him " ElA poigaL uraippAn " , " purampOl uLLum

kariyAn " etc. However, these are only the words of a

disappointed lady love, who promptly changes Her

opinion, once He favours Her with His attentions.

The next part of the mantra declares that the

entity described above is verily the Ultimate Reality

or Parabrahma, contemplated by Seers- " tadEva Brahma

paramam kaveenAm " . Here are Sri Nammazhwar's

sreesooktis-

" kalakkam illA nal tava munivar karaikandor

……tozhuvArgal "

" vizhumiya munivar vizhungum kannal kani "

" mAmunivar irainja nindra sEvadi "

" munikkaNangal virumbum tiruvengatthanE " etc.

 

to be continued-dasan,sadagopan.

 

Srimate Sri LakshmiNrsimha divya paduka sevaka

SrivanSatakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Maha Desikaya

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