Friday, July 10, 2009
SREE KRISHNA AVATAR AND LEELA & MUKUNDAMALA
Friday, June 19, 2009
KULADEIVATA PRAPATTI
Kuladeivata prapatti:
This sloka is for all those whose family deity is Lord Venkateshwara.(kuladeivam). Reciting this daily would bestow every one with all good, both materialistically and spiritually. Let everyone benefit out of this wonderful work by Late Sri K.R Subramanyam, former Principal, Hindi Arts College, Nallakunta, Hyderabad.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
SWAPADESA VYAKYANAMS - TIRUPPAVAI (INTRODUCTION)
First of all, I wish to thank Shri.Raghav veera(English meaning) and Shri.Sankarseenu(Tamil meaning as PDF click to view this) who have contributed this to my event on Tiruppavai Vilakkam.
THE ESOTERIC MEANING OF TIRUPAVAI BY SRI.D.RAMASWAMY IYENGAR (ADVOCATE); PUBLISHED IN 1957 - ( திருப்பாவை ஸ்வாபதேசம்)
We have now gone through the thirty verses of Tiruppavai in all their sweetness and beauty. They talk in a language which no one can fail to understand – the language of heart. After the obstacles created by their elder are put out of the way by their great good fortune, the girls of Gokulam make no error and seizing upon the Vratam or Nonbu as a ostensible cause, go straight unto HIM,- their hearts’ desire. They have realized that there is no straighter path to HIM and his CONSORT to take pity on their plight and give them the help and succor they stand in dire need of. They make known to Him that they are His eternal slaves and cannot brook separation from Him any more; and He, realizing the intensity of their love towards Him, gathers them to Himself. And they obtain the realization and the joy of the Muktas, those freed from the bondage of Samsara.
A simple story sweetly told. But it is not given to everybody to be satisfied with what appears on the surface. Some find it difficult to appreciate in its naked garb the language of love employed in these stanzas. So, they begin to delve for inner meanings and hidden indications. And, in Tiruppavai, they find what they want, in abundance. Right form the beginning, the song is a symbolic representation of the attempts of the Jivatma, the individual soul, to reach the Paramatma or the
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Briefly indicated, the spiritual idea behind the 30 songs of Tiruppavai is this:
1) The time and the hour being propitious, the Jivatma after age-long bondage begins to get a taste for release. Release is only the negative aspect and the SriVaishnava Siddhanta, which postulates God-realisation as the ultimate release and home for all the Jivas, insists upon a taste for God. This taste for God (நீராடப்போதுவீர் போதுமினோ) is the only pre-requisite condition for pursuing the means of realization. And when that appears in the individual, there appears in God what has always been present, in a dormant state, the will or the sankalpa to give the Jiva succour.( நாராயணனே நமக்கே பறை தருவான் ). It has already been said that Parai indicates Purushartha, that for which the human heart longs. So, Tatva, Hita and Purushartha are all indicated even in the first stanza.
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2) What are the actions which we can pursue and what are those that we have to eschew? The answer is given in the second stanza. Sing His glory (பரமனடி பாடி ). Don’t do what ought not to be done(செய்யாதன செய்யோம் ). The rigours and mortifications of not eating ghee, milk etc., which are set out in this stanza indicate the Vairagya or spirit of renunciation of the pleasures of the world which must be present in every Mumukshu desiring the pleasures of Moksha. No one can serve God and Mammon together. But, it will be seen that in stanza 27 all these objects of pleasure, - milk, ghee etc., are wanted. That is as part of God-realisation. We do not want it for us but with you we shall have all that and more. Just like Vibhishana taking up,at Sri Rama’s behest, the
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3) Here, they talk of the profit and pleasure that await those who help another in God-realisation. For having allowed them to go to Sri Krishna the elders are here promised prosperity in plenty.
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4) Seeing their God, the only God, in all the gods. (The rain god is equated to their
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