Srimad Ramayana Tatthva Deepika - Ba:la Ka:nda (7)

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[Editorial comment] Respected Ramanuja Bhaktas,

 

This posting discusses what our Teachers feel is the one of most

beautiful qualities of Sri Rama. For me, meditating on the Lord and his

relationship to Guha is a source of both devotion and inspiration.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

Mohan

 

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Jai Srimannarayana!

Sri Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!

 

 

Va:lmiki asked Na:rada:

Who is the gunava:n?

 

Though guna:s mean qualities, as Va:lmiki has questioned

 

who is the gunava:n, we can understand that, only one

quality can be regarded as a guna: (quality). That is

sausi:lyam. A person with a good character is a susi:la

and his dharma is 'sausi:lyam'. If a person who is

uncomparable to anyone with regard to his birth or

knowledge or wealth, mingles with all others, without

any

inhibitions, is said to have sausi:lyam.

 

Sausi:lyam is defined as:

" mahataha manddaissaha ne:randhre:na samsle:shaha

sausi:lyam " .

 

 

Though Rama was most superior by his birth, lineage,

knowledge and wealth he mixed with all others freely

never giving them a feeling of inferiority. This is

the main characteristic required for a human being. A

person without this quality need not be considered a

human being at all.

 

A common being feels that He (the soul) is his body and

attributes all the good things of his body to himself

and takes pride in them. This miscnoception is termed

as 'asurathvam'. 'Ma:navatvam' is NOT to take pride in

the greatness that has been blessed to one's body. This

quality ( ma:navatvam ) is the most essential requisite

for a human being.

 

SriRama belongs to the great royal lineage of Surya

(surya vamsam); a great scholar in all the Vedas and

upa-vedas like archery; a son of a great king of kings.

Nobody can match him in these, but his three dear

friends were such that one was a simple tribal boat man,

 

the second was not even a human being, a va:nara and

the third was a ra:kshasa (a demon). The first one was

Guha, the second one was sugri:va and the third was

vibhi:shana. When we observe how SriRamachandra

behaved or carried on with these three, we will

understand what this quality'sausi:lya' really is.

 

SriRamachandra along with Seetha and Lakshmana came to

Sringiberapuram, the village where Guha lived On the

banks of Riven Ganges while going to the forest.

Guha wanted to welcome SriRama offering arghya-pa:dyam

(water). SriRama goes forward to meet the approaching

Guha and tells him:

" archita:schaiva hrustha:scha " ,

" We have been worshipped. We are happy " . The reason to

say that He had already received the worship before

being actually worshipped is:SriRama said,

" padbya: abhi ma:ga: chchaiva sne:ha sandarsane: nacha " .

 

" Guha! You came forward walking to me. You showed great

love what more is required for a worship? " . SriRama

embraces Guha and says " Oh, friend, you are dear to my

heart; you are a true friend to me. "

 

Is Guha equal to SriRamachandra in any respect? But

SriRama regards him so, mingles with him without any

reservations and ackowledges the fact to the world.

That is Sausi:lya.

 

 

To be continued...

 

Jai Srimannarayana!

Ramanujamma Mudumbai

 

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Ramanuja dasi

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