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SrImate ra?ngarAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrImate SrInivAsa rAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrImate VedAnta rAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrI ra?nganAtha divya maNi pAdukAbhyAm namaH

AcArya rAmAmRtam  - (from SrI ra?nganAtha pAdukA  dt. Feb 08  Part 2)

               English Translation of 
SrImad rAmAyaNa upanyAsam in tamizh by SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavan

        As published in SrI ra?nganAtha pAdukA by
SrI u.ve. nATTEri KiDAmbi rAjagopAlAcAriyAr  (Editor of SrI ra?nganAtha
pAdukA)

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SrImad ANDavan tiruvaDi,
kalyANi kRshNamAcAri
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                    SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavan?s SrImad rAmAyaNa
upanyAsam

ViSvAmitra left that place also because of continued disturbance; he
went westward and did penance in Pushkaram.  He was doing very severe
penance.  devendran was worried (that ViSvAmitrar will become too
powerful).  . In order to obstruct his penance, he sent an apsaras
woman by name 'menakA'.

If someone on earth does meditation for four hours, devendran will
start getting uneasy; he will have butterflies in his stomach.  Why? He
will be afraid that the person is competing to get his position.  He is
scared of anyone who controls his breath for four hours, thinking he
may come close to his position. It is just to make sure that indran
does not get upset that we do not do too many prANAyAmam-s etc. 
(laughter in the audience).

He sent MenakA. MenakA came and did bharata nATyam dance in front of
ViSvAmitra's AStamam.  Birds are all making noise.  Cuckoos are cooing.
 Swan is making sweet sounds.  MenakA comes to the ASramam and does
bharata nATyam in front of the ASramam.  ViSvAmitra looked at her and
all his penance vanished.

Will it go like that?  nigamAnta mahAdeSikan, who is j~nAna vairAghya
bhUshaNam -  the treasure-house of j~nAnam and vairAgyam - says like
this:

kuvalaya nayanAnAm kUNite locanAstre
SaraNayati vivekaH kAm diSam kAndiSIkaH ||

kuvalaya nayanAnAm kUNite locanAstre - they have a very big weapon.
What was her weapon?

vizhiyallAl vElillai viNNin mAdar
mEniyallAl villillai mInavarkku

mInavarkku - for manmathan, who has fish in his flag, the physical
appearance of apsaras women is his bow.  The arrow he releases is in
the form of their eyes. 

mozhiyallAl amudillai enRu munnAL
  mukti vazhi munindaDainda mOgam tIrndOm
kazhiyallAl kaDal illai enbAr pOlak
  kAriyamE kAraNam enRu uraippAr kATTum
vazhiyallA vazhiyellAm kaDandOm maRRum
    vAnERa vazhi kaNDOm magizhndiTTOmE !
                                      (paramapada sopAnam 15)

mozhiyallAl amudillai enRu munnAL mukti vazhi munindaDainda mOgam
tIrndOm - MenakA's eyes fell on him.  Immediately, he took her inside
his ASramam. He spent time with her for ten years. She became pregnant.
 A child was born in the ASramam - a baby girl.  He heard the baby's
cry and asked why there was a baby's voice in the ASramam.  MenakA
said, "Yes, it is all your blessing; it is our baby girl".  "What? ?
Our child?  Did you deceive me?  I am going to curse you.  Because of
you, ASramam got defiled".  MenakA left that baby girl there itself and
ran away.

He called his disciple:  "It is time for doing mAdyAhnikam. Hey,
Sishya!  Look at the pancA'ngam - almanac.  I have to do sa'nkalpam for
mAdhyAhnikam.  I am not able to meditate. Wherever I go, I get
obstructions. I get roadblocks. What can I do?"

Sishyan said, " It is rAkshasa year, pa'nguni month 12th day -
Wednesday"!

"What? You are saying the year wrong! You are seven years over"!

Sishyan said, "Yes, svAmi"!

"What! Why are you saying yes"?

Sishyan said, "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"How did so many years go by? ahorArAtrApadeSena gatAH samvatsarA daSAH
- Ten years passed by like one daytime.

"Why didn't you remind me?"

Sishyan said, "Where was the time to come inside and remind you"? 
(laughter in the audience)

ViSvAmitrar started doing very severe penance.  BrahmA and other
devatA-s came.  They said, "maharshe! svAgatam te'stu"  He was a
rAjaRshi till then; they called him maharshi.

They gave him the title - maharshi.

ViSvAmitra looked.  "What is this!  After all my penance, I became only
a maharshi."  He started doing more severe penance. devatA-s sent
rambai [another apsara lady].  They had sent MenakA earlier. Now, they
sent rambai.  He got caught once; will he get caught again?

"Did you come to distract me?"  SailI bhaveti SaptvA (bAla.64.12) -  He
cursed her: 'You shall turn into a stone'. Immediately, she fell down
as a stone. 

He started doing penance again.  He did penance for a thousand years
without eating; then he decided he would do pAraNai (break the fast). 
After a thousand years, he took his bath in the morning, made some
small amount of food, and did mAdhyAhnikam (which should be done before
the pAraNai) and sat for pAraNai.   He had been fasting for a thousand
years.

At that time,

Indro dvijAtiH bhUtvA tam siddham annam ayAcata | (bAla.65.5)

devendran came there as a Brahmin and said, "I have to do pAraNai; I
have been hungry for a long time; it would be nice if I can have some
prasAdam".  If a person has fasted for a thousand years and someone
else asks for the food just as he was sitting down to eat, naturally,
the person will get very angry.  Even for a one-day upavAsam (fasting),
we get so angry; it feels very difficult if we starve for even one day.

The wife says, " No one asked you to fast yesterday and suffer this
much; who asked you not to eat?  You start yelling as soon as it dawns"
(laughter in the audience).

How will the person who has fasted for a thousand years feel if someone
asked for his food?  indran's thought was - "a brAhmaNan should not get
angry.  Let me ask for his food when he has fasted for a thousand years
and is ready to eat. Let me see if he gets angry. If he does, then he
is not a brAhmaNan.  Let me test him".

ViSvAmitra gave his prasAdam to indran and sat down to do penance
again.  It was a very intense penance.  Fire was blowing out of his
head.  The deva loka-s were burning from that heat.  deva-s went to
brahmA and told him they could not bear it anymore.  All the thirty
three crores of devatA-s came. BrahmA came, SivaperumAn came; only
VishNu did not come.  

brahmarshe svAgatam te'stu tapasA sma sutoshitAH |
brAhmaNyam tapasogreNa prAptavAn asi kauSika! ||
dIrgham AyuH ca te brahman!  dadAmi samarudgaNaH || (bAla.65.20,21)

They called him, "brahmarshi"! - brahmarshe svAgatam te'stu!  "We are
pleased with your penance.  You have obtained brAhmaNatvam because of
your intense penance." 

ViSvAmitra said it is no use getting brAhmaNyam if he is going to die
tomorrow. dIrgham AyuH ca te brahman!  dadAmi samarudgaNaH - "What is
the use if I die in the evening after getting brAhmaNyam, uncle!"

Some people will have an order to be under surveillance till the court
is adjourned for the day.  It will be in the record, but this person
will sit for a while and go away.

It should not be like that.  What if he dies as soon as he got
brAhmaNyam?  He should get brAhmaNyam, he should eat as a BrAhmaNa in
VasishTha's house.  He should get all that. 

So, they gave him a long life along with brAhmaNyam - dIrgham AyuH ca
te brahman!  dadAmi samarudgaNaH.

Immediately, ViSvAmitra said,

brAhmaNyam yadi me prAptam dIrgham AyuH tathaiva ca |
omkAro'tha vashaTkAraH vedAH ca varayantu mAm ||  (bAla. 65.23)

brahma putro vasishTho mAm evam vadatu devatAH || (bAla.65.24)

If I am going to have brAhmaNyam, let me also have omkAram,
vashaTkAram, and vaushatkAram to do yAgam, vedams etc.  That is not
enough.  This VasishThar must acknowledge that I am a brAhmaNan.  He
has to say that I am a brAhmaNan.  Earlier, he called me kshatriya
pAmsana (a loly kshatriyan).  He should address me as brahmaRshi.

"What is this!  He is saying VasishThar has to agree.  We have to go
and pacify VasishThar".  So, brahmA, SivaperumAn and the thirty three
crores of deva-s went to VasishTha's ASramam to appease him.

Look at how a brAhmaNar is.  Because of his tapas -  it is all gAyatri
- only 24 letters;  nothing more than that.  He has chanted this
countless number of times; and brahmA is sitting in his ASramam to make
a compromise.  SivaperumAn, one of the tri-mUrti-s, is sitting. Thirty
three crores of deva-s have come to see him. VasishTha's Sishyan says,
"He is doing japam. He is asking you to wait".  Look at him!

VasishThar completed his japam and came.  He said svAgatam to brahmA
and gave him arghyam, pAdyam, AcamanIyam etc., (water for washing
hands, feet etc.,) and asked him the reason for his visit.

BrahmA said, "We all acknowledged ViSvAmitrar as brahmaRshi.  He says
you should recognize that acknowledgment. That is why we have come
here".

evam astu iti ca abravIt (bAla.65.25)

VasishThar said, "So be it".  He did not say the word "brahmaRshi".

They told him, "We all have called him brahmaRshi.  You should also
agree to it".

VasishThar only said - "evam astu iti ca abravIt - let it be so".

ViSvAmitra said, "That is good enough".

SatAnanda tells rAma, "That is ViSvAmitra's story".

What is learnt from this story?  If one ends up fighting or disagreeing
with a person, it should be done with a virtuous person.

sadbhireva sahA'sIta sadbhiH kurvIta sa'ngamam |
sadbhiH vivAdam maitrIm ca nAsadbhiH ki'ncit Acaret ||
                                                                   
(subhAshita ratna.)

Friendship must be with good people and enmity must also with good
people.  Fighting should also be with good people.

A lot of people come to fight with me.  If you ask why, sadbhiH vivAdo
maitrI ca (laugher in the audience); if one has friendship or arguments
with good people, one can obtain better status.  If one fights with bad
people, nothing will be gained from it.  By fighting with a good person
like VasishTha, what did ViSvAmitra lose?  Nothing.  Instead, he got
brAhmaNyam. 

sadbireva sahA'sIta sadbhiH kurvIta sa'ngamam |
sadbhiH vivAdam maitrIm ca nAsadbhiH ki'ncit Acaret ||

No transaction of any kind should be undertaken with bad people.

SatAnanda told cakravarti tirumagan (rAman) and iLaiya perumAL
(lakshmaNa) the extraordinary story of ViSvAmitra, and said in
conclusion: "This is your AcAryan's story.  He is such a great
mahaRshi.  You have obtained such an AcAryan".  RAma was very happy to
hear the AcAryan's greatness.  "Our ViSvAmirtra is this famous!  We did
not know!  One should know guru's prabhAvam!  One should know guru
paramparA prabhAvam!"

svApadesam - the hidden meaning behind all this is that everyone should
know one's AcAryan's greatness.  They prostrated to their guru.  Then
all of them were taken care of with the traditional respects offered to
visitors.
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To be continued ?..






      
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