Apoorva Ramayanam - II
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• January 18, 2002
Apoorva Ramayanam- II GunAnubhavam of “Ko gunavAn?” The first question put forth by Valmiki to Narada was “ka: gunavAn?”. Many take it to mean “who is the person who has the best gunas?” or “good gunas?”. However it is not so. Valmiki means sowshElya guna here. SowshElya means the quality of a high person who mixes with not so privileged without showing his qualitatively higher nature.- “kolgai kollamai illathan, elgal iragam illathan, vilgai villAmai virumbi ull kalalthArkku or amuthe!”. Sri Rama’s avathar in this world is the highlight of the sheela guna of Sriman Narayana. Koorathalwan in his Athimanushasthavam – 10th sloka says “sheela: ka Esha thava hantha” – meaning “ha! Who can talk about this sheela guna” “athravathErya nanu lochanagocharObhu:” – when the Supreme God, who is not visible to this lowkeeka eye, comes down to this world in front of our eyes, instead of melting like Nammalwar “piranthavArum valarnthavArum” for six months, these menfolk fight with him. His sheela guna is not understood by such people. The Supreme who is referred to as “ nEray nilanAy thEyay kAlAy neduvanAy chErAr chudarkal irandAy sivanAy ayananAy” “thayAy thanthayAy makkalAy maRRumay muRRumay” come down as being able to be referred to as “Rama”, who is at Ayodhya, at Chitrakoot, at Panchavadi, at sea shore etc. Thus forgetting his high qualities – “oppAr mikkArai ilatha mAmaAya” coming down and being with us is the best of the gunas – it is his sheela guna. To be continued Adiyen Sri Vaishnava Dasan- Selva naranan. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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