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Ramanujamma Mudumbai • February 24, 2002 


Jaisreemannarayana!
Sri Gurubhyo Namaha!!
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha!!!

With Manahpurvaka Padabhivandanas to our Sri Sri Sri
Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji here is a humble attempt to present
Sri U.Ve Sriman Sribhashyam Appalacharya Swamivari
Srimad Ramayana Tattvadeepika.

A:pada:mapahartha:ram Da:tha:ram Sarvasampada:m
Lo:ka:bhira:mam Srira:mam Bhu:yo Bhu:yo Nama:myaham

Srimad Ramayanam is the Veda given by Valmiki to
this world. Vedam contains two parts;Purvabhaga
and Uttarabhaga. The former explains the dharma
the mankind has to practise to attain happiness.
The later part enumerates how one should behave
to achieve one's goal. A human being has to
perform his duties to this world and possess
the knowledge of 'brahma'. That is one should
practice 'dharma' and aim to attain 'brahma'.
This human life has been blessed by the Supreme
to achieve these two. The Upanishad says
'a person who fails in these two, before his life
ends, is a "kripana", 'a miserable loser'.

We all do not know to make good use of this human
life. We are incapable of deciding what is
happiness for us or what is misery using our
commonsense or intelligence. It is impossible to
try to perceive this or try to understand this. Only
'VEDA' can enlighten us on this subject. But it is
not within the reach of everyone. So to bless the
mankind with the "Veda", the 'rishies' selected
'Ruksha', a hunter by profession, and
initiated him with the 'Rama Mantra' and transformed
him to 'Valmiki'

RukshaÂ’s sole aim in life was to earn his daily
bread and support his family. The Lord has taken
the incarnation of 'Rama' to establish in this
world the right practice for the humanity
('manavatthvamÂ’). Rishis thought an enlightened
person was necessary to present His story in the
form of a narrative.

Ruksha did a deep penance chanting Rama nama and
became unconscious of his surroundings. There grew
a great ant hill around him. The God of Rain known
as Varuna or Prachetasa, showered with all his might
and cleared the ant hill (Valmikam) and the sage
Valmiki appeared. Since the Rishi appeared from an
ant hill he started being addressed as Va:lmi:ki
and as the God of Rain was responsible for his
emergence he is also addressed as Pra:che:tasa.

Rama Nama is so powerful that it can change a
powerful ‘ra:jasa’ or a ‘tha:masa’ into a great
sa:twik just like the transformation of Ruksha
into Valmiki.

To be continued...

Jai Srimannarayana!
Ramanujamma Mudumbai

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