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Srimad Ramayana Tattva Deepika (28)-Ba:la Ka:nda

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Ramanujamma Mudumbai • Fri Aug 23 2002 - 16:23:59 PDT 


Sreemathe: Ramanujaya Namaha!!

Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!!


Now he is mentioning the ‘gunas’ necessary to attract
devotees. SriRama knows what is ‘dharma’ and knows to
practice that dharma. SriRama can take a vow and can keep
it up too. Sri Rama’s foremost ‘dharma’ is ‘sarana:gatha
rakshanaÂ’. One should have this quality primarily. One
should be capable to keep up oneÂ’s word. The two wheels of
the chariot of human life are dharma and truth. Dharma is
to be practiced. ‘Sathyam’ is to be known and observed in
oneÂ’s speech. Dharma is the means to happiness and bliss.

Pleasure is of three types. The house,the wealth,wife
children rain etc. enjoyed in this world are
‘earthly-pleasures’.(mundane) (aihikam).
The others are ‘eternal pleasures’(A:mushmikam).The second
is hevenly bliss in the upper loka:s. The third is the
perpetual bliss without this chain of birth and death ; to
be in the Bhagavan’s ‘sannidhi’enjoying the‘nitya a:nanda’
(ever lasting joy) . Dharma is the means to attain these
three states. To accomplish these position what is to be
done and practised while in this body is called 'dharma'.
To show us these dharmas the ‘Dharma Swaru:pa Vedavedya’
‘Bhagavan’ had taken incarnation as Rama , Lakshmana,
Bharatha and Satrughna.

To achieve the worldly bliss:

(a) what should be observed in this world with this body,
(b) how should one behave and
(c)what type of ‘karma’ should be done,
have been shown by Sri Rama to this mankind.

What should one know and what is to be practised with this
body in this world to attain the permanent eternal bliss
without another birth has been established by Lakshmana,
Bharatha and Satrughna through their practice. Hence
SriRama is a ‘dharmajna’. As the four brothers are the
counterparts of ‘Sri Mahavishnu’ the four together
established the ‘sathyam and dharma’ as detailed by Vedas.


To be continued....

Jaisrimannarayana!!

Ramanujamma Mudumbai,
Ramanujadasi.




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