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Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer, 

In the management science across the corporate worlds, the yester 
days maxims were "customer satisfaction is our motto, 
customer satisfaction is our main focus" etc 
Now those have changed and now are said as "customer delight is our 
motto". 

But, here is one, who delights, whether we are his customers or not. 
He is raamaa ? on a raama navami day it is a delight to serve you 
raama saying - the very meaning of your name is "ramayathi ithi 
raama:" - since he delights without distinguishing as customers and 
non customers, religious non religious, knowledgeable not so much 
etc.   

In the sree vishNu sahasra naamam SVSN - there is naama `Om raamaaya 
nama:' - no. 396 in slOkam 43 Bhattar gives a meaning ? "he who 
delights". Whether we are his customers or servants or bhakthaas or 
for that matter his prapannaas or not, he simply delights everybody. 
RaamO ramyathaam srEshta: says mahaa bharatham sabhaa parvam 58.42 ? 
meaning - he is the greatest among all in delighting [others].  
The very next naama is Om viraamaaya nama: 397 meaning ? he before 
whom all become powerless. So he not only delights but also makes 
others powerless before him. Such a raama is no one else but vishNu: -
- Om vishNavE nama: the second naama in SVSN. 

Such a vishNu or raamaa is addressed by thyaagaraaja, the saint 
musician ? how can I understand you and your thathvam ? raama or 
viraama or vishNu - that `thathvamasi yani vaakyaarthamu neevani.  
See krithi in the raagaa garuda dhvani. 

On this raagaa garuda dhvani our respected sreeman anbil swamy writes 
in one of the SRS journals: "GARUDA DWANI - A UNIQUE MUSICAL 
INSTRUMENT! - As many as 16 auspicious musical instruments have been 
identified and grouped into what is known as `AadOthyam'. The sound 
of music emanating from these instruments in the form of a symphony 
is said to represent the sound vibrations of Saama Veda and is also 
known as `GaruDa Dwani". [got through a search in google with garuda 
dwani as search matter. However I failed to note the date or 
reference no. ? sorry for not noting that.]

The significance of this raagam is that when played with expertise, 
it will sound as though an army is performing a march past with 
music. garuda dhvani is a `march past' music. 
Analyzing why thyaagaraaja selected this raagam ? the conclusion I 
come to - is - The vaanaraa king sugreeva, and hanumaan, jaambavaan 
and others, keep a close vigil on raama and lakshmaNa after having 
been struck by indhrajith's naaga paasam ? the asthra with snakes at 
its athi dhevathaa - thinking about how to treat these two to get rid 
of that snake poison or binding effect of naaga paasam. Garuda, the 
son of vinathaa, appears on the scene with a bang. So garuda dhwani. 

Thyaagaraaja sings this krithi at that timely reference of garuda 
coming ? first let us see the krithi and then the slokams from 
vaalmeeki raamaayaNam connected. 
   
raagam: garuDadhvani 29 dheera shankaraabharaNam janya
Aa: S R2 G3 M1 P D2 N3 S
Av: S D2 P G3 R2 S 
taaLam: roopakam
Composer: Tyaagaraaja
Language: Telugu 
pallavi 
thathva meruga tharamaa para [thathva]

anupallavi 
thathvamasi yani vaakyaarthamu raama neevanu para [thathva]

charaNam 
thaamasa raajasa guNamula thannu kollu pOdayaa 
raama bhakthudaina thyaagaraaja vinutha vEdha saasthra [thathva]

Meaning:
hey raamaa, one who is worshipped by [this] raama bhaktha, named 
thyaagaraaja, is it possible to realize and experience the profundity 
of the vedic declaration, `thathvam asi' "You are that"? With the 
play of the thaamasa and raajasa guNaas on us, we cannot overcome 
that play and then understand you. 

Now the slokams ? sushENa, the doctor available in raamaa's army, 
said "let this hanumaan go to the hills dhrOna and chandhra where the 
milk ocean was churned to get nectar. In that sanjeevikaraNi and 
visalyaa the two herbs which can cure raama & lakshmaNa are 
available, let him bring these, then raama and lakshmana will be 
alright". 

At that time, with a bang, garuda appeared there why I repeat this 
bang is vaalmeeki describes there was a big wind, trees fell etc. 
At that instance of garudaa's appearance, all the snakes disappeared 
from bodies of raama and lakshmaNa and they woke from as though from 
a sleep. Then garuda did a healing touch on the faces of raama and 
lakshmaNa [as per vaalmeeki ? just to save some space I am not giving 
slokams. 
Now, says raama, "hey who are you, we feel comfortable as though we 
got back to father dhasaratha and grand father aja". 
  
Garuda replies
aham sakhaa thE kaakuthsthha priya: praaNO bahischara:|| 6-50 -46 
meaning: I am your friend, the life of you roaming outside.

na cha kouthoohalam kaaryam sakhithvam prathi raaghava |
krutha karmaa raNE veera sakhithvam anuvEthsyasi || 6-50 - 58
meaning: raama on the friendship front to know how why and all ? to 
know completely is not fit now. You will know that after you finish 
what is to be done. 

Point: you will now ask the question ? how is that what garuda says 
is relevant to what thyaagaraaja says as "thathvamasi" and 
parathathva meruga tharama? 
Is it that by seeing garuda, raama, that para thathvam, cannot 
understand who garuda is? Or for that matter, For what he has come? 
Then why this drama? 

That raamaa - para thathva meruga tharamaa ? is now covered with 
thaamasa, raajasa guNaas, just for other's sake ? as though he cannot 
get out of those naaga paasams, he covers himself and lies down - 
thaamasam. As soon as garuda appeared he comes out of the influence 
and asks "hey who you are? Wherefrom you are coming? Then enjoys his 
coming as though father has come" ? again expressing ignorance ? 
thaamasa guNamu kollu pOdayya.
 
garuda also plays a beauty of a role ? thaamasa role ? ignorant role -
 well - saying you will come to know when you have to ? sakhithvam 
anuvEthsyasi ? about this friendship. Is it really friendship? or 
that servitude ? dhaasathvam of periya thiruvadi? 

Also advises raama - no enjoying now of that - no recognition now ? 
when time comes you will know - till that time be ignorant ? thaamasa 
guNam kollu pOdayya 
?       for you have to do a raajasa kaaryam ? hey veera ? hey raama 
the fighter ? that is a raajasa kaaryam - raNe karmaa krutha 
anuvEthsyasi ? after you finish your work you know who I am.
?       Is it that then only raama can understand?  
?       Or is it all for us. 

To describe that act of raama and as well garuda what else 
thyaagaraaja ? that raama bhakthaa thyaagaraaja - can do or say - 
except ? raama neevanu para thathvamasi yani meruga tharama - hey 
raama you are that ? how to realize that `you are that' `that supreme 
philosophy' ?  which the vEdhaas and saasthraas say.
  
What this thaamasa guNa MGV can say except raamaa raamaa para 
thathvameruga tharama - on a raama navami day ? can he understand 
thathvamasi et al.
Dhasan
Vasudevan m.g. 









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