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Ramanujamma Mudumbai • Fri Apr 26 2002 - 12:04:36 PDT 


Srimathe: Ra:ma:nuja:ya Namaha!
Sri Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!

Satyava:k:-

Who is a ‘satyava:k’?

One who is determined 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 SriRamaÂ’s exile binding to his
word given to   Kaikeyei and  bowing before dharma. Nobody
liked the idea of sending SriRama  to the forest. Even the
kingÂ’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. ThatÂ’s  why  Sri Ramachandra  is
mentioned often as ‘sathyapara:krama’  in  SriRamayana. His
courage was His righteousness. It earned Him the whole 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 changing 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 'thathva:s' 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.

Jai Srimannarayana!

To be continued....
Ramanujamma Mudumbai
Ramanuja dasi




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