Srimad Ramayana Tatthva Deepika - Ba:la Ka:nda (11)

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Jaisrimannarayana!!!

Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!!!

 

Satyava:k:-

Who is a ‘satyava:k’?

One who makes it a point to speak truth always, however

difficult

it may be,

is a ‘sathyava:k’. SriRama as a human being followed

this principle

 

strictly.He is a ‘sathyava:k'.

King Dasaratha had to order SriRama’s exile binding to

his word

given to

Kaikeyei and bowing before dharma. Nobody liked the idea

of sending

Rama to

the forest. Even the king’s priest Vasishta,the other

purohiths,

the

ministers and the people were reluctant to this. The

king Dasaratha

himself

was not wishing that Rama should oblige him and go to

the forest.

But

SriRama was determined and kept up his word given to his

father before

Kaikeyi. When Bharatha came to the forest and begged and

prayed to him to

take back the crown, Rama did not yield. That’s why

SriRamachandra is

mentioned often as‘sathyapara:krama’ in SriRamayana. His

courage was His

righteousness. It earned Him thewhole world. All the

people fell at His feet

for His uprightness. This is an important quality for

any human being.

SriRamayana enumerates how Rama exemplified in it.

The Lord as ‘para’ is a’sathyava:k’ ‘Va:k’ means

‘something that conveys

meaning. One who has ‘sathyam’ as the ‘vakya’ (meaning)

is a ‘sathyava:k’.

The word ‘sathyam’ refers to the God. He is never

changing. Always the same.

So He is known as ‘sathyam’. These ‘jeevas’, (souls)

because of their

connection to this ‘prakrithi’ keep chaging their nature

The ‘prakrithi’

changes into bodies of human beings or animals or trees

according to the

‘karma’ (deeds) of these ‘jeevas’. The Lord being

present in all these

beings never transforms. So His name is ‘Sathyam’.

The Upanishad gives another meaning for this word.

It splits the word as three units. They are

‘sath’,’thi’, and ‘yam’. Sath is

the ‘jeevathathva’ that never changes. ‘Thi’ is the

‘prakrithi’ that keeps

on altering. The :Lord binds these two ththvas together

and He enters into

that and directs it. and He is called ‘yam’. The one who

supports the whole

universe that consists of the ‘chethana and achethana’

(animate and

inanimate) can be none else than the ‘Supreme’.So He is

the ‘satyava:k’.

Thus this quality suits for ‘nara’ and ‘para’ too.

 

Mudumbai Ramanujamma

Ramanuja dasi