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Ramanujamma Mudumbai • Mon Jul 29 2002 - 23:13:42 PDT 


Srimathe Ramanujayanamaha!!!
Jeeyar Thiruvadigale saranam!!!

The purpose of Na:rada’s visit to Va:lmiki’s ashram
(hermitage) was to propagate SriRamayana in this
world. As he knew that the ‘para’ Bhagavan had come
down to the earth as nara SriRama and established
dharma and He was the only one who had all the
above mentioned ‘kalyana gunas’ that are enumerated
in the Upanishads, Na:rada is answering Va:lmiki’s
question glorifying the inherent Brahmathathvam and
the peripheral ‘Ramathathvam’.

He said, “The gunas you mentioned may be counted as
sixteen but there is a possibility that many more
gunas are concealed in each guna. It is outside our
capability to prove the scope of those gunas. They
are unlimited. It’s very difficult to find out.”

When Va:lmiki questioned as ‘sixteen’ , Na:rada's
reply as “bahavaha” (many), and when SriRama as a
human being is there with all these qualities (gunas);
his answer as “durlabhaha” shows that these gunas
refer to the ‘vedanthavedya-paramapurusha’ and
Naradamaharshi was very much aware of it.
One guna among them is ‘a:nanda’ and even this single
one cannot be described fully or its limits determined
properly.

‘Thaitthareeyo:panishad’ had started to determine the
extent of the Lord's 'a:nanda'in ‘A:nandavalli’ and
left concluding,

“yatho:va:cho: nivarthanthe: apra:pya manasa: saha”

‘Bhagavan’s a:nanda can neither be expressed in
words nor reached by ‘manas’(mind) . Hence Narada
said ‘durlabhaha’. As he understood the hidden vein
of Valmiki’s question he started telling about such
‘para’ and ‘nara’ ‘SriRama’.

“In Ikshwa:ku dynasty there is one famous person
named Rama, praised universally by one and all.
Ikshwa:ku was the eldest son of Vaivaswathamanuvu.
He worshipped SreeHari for long .The Lord blessed
him with the idol of SriRanganatha, the form
produced by His sankalpa and in which He presented
Himself. Since then the lord Ranganatha had been
worshipped by them. Hence that ‘vamsam’ was the most
suited for His incarnation and that is the reason
behind Narada’s mentioning of ‘Ikshwakuvamsa’.
The One who is the moolaka:rana for this universe
was born in someone’s vamsa. This is His ‘sousi:lyam’.
Valmiki referred this when he questioned, ‘gunava:n kaha’.
Na:rada answered, ‘Ikshwaku vamsa prabhavaha’.
The Lord is not known by a single name alone. The
Almighty has thousand divine names. One who has
innumerable names,has taken a single name,'Sri Rama’.

Vasishta maharshi meaningfully and perfectly named
him Rama as he gives a:nanda to all ,with his gunas. .

There are two ‘vyuthpatthys’

“ramayathi ithi ra:maha”

“ramanthe: asmin ithi ra:maha”

The yogis always keep experiencing the ‘sathya
jna:na:nanda swaru:pa’ and the ‘anantha’ the
“Parabrahma”.
So Rama means parabrahma. As He possesses ‘a:nanda’
and gives others a:nanda parabrahma is referred as
Rama. A human being should have this quality. A
human being should be pleasing to others because of
his qualities and he should give happiness to others
with his qualities. One who causes grief to others
and cannot be a source of solace is no human being
at all. Hence Rama is a ‘nara’.Every ‘nara’ should
be a Rama. To let us know that, when asked ‘who is
that ‘nara’, Na:rada answered as ‘Rama’. Rama is famous
all over the world because of his ‘gunas’.The
thathva that can be known like light and air is
only ‘brahmathathva’. There will be none who do not
know or who do not enjoy this. But they neither
attempt to behave so nor try to attain the same.


To be concluded.....

Jaisrimannarayana!!!

Ramanujamma Mudumbai,
Ramanujadasi


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