SrIH
SrImate raângarAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrImate SrInivAsa rAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrImate VedAnta rAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrI raânganAtha divya maNi pAdukAbhyAm namaH
AcArya rAmAmRtam - (from SrI raânganAtha pAdukA dt. October 08 Part 1)
English Translation of
SrImad rAmAyaNa upanyAsam in tamizh by SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavan
As published in SrI raânganAtha pAdukA by
SrI u.ve. nATTEri KiDAmbi rAjagopAlAcAriyAr (Editor of SrI raânganAtha
pAdukA)
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SrImad ANDavan tiruvaDi,
kalyANi kRshNamAcAri
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SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavanâs SrImad rAmAyaNa upanyAsam
katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena ekena tushyati | (ayodhyA. 1.11)
A person never went to pArthasArathy temple. He had a baby. That child had
the first birthday. He wrote a letter to his son's in-laws. His son's
father-in-law was a religious person. He had brought gifts like diamond
studded pin for piercing the ear, silk clothes, sari for his daughter etc for
the Ayush homam.
In the evening, they all went to the beach. The in-law also went. He called
the boy's father to come with him to visit pArthasArathy temple. The boy's
father was not very interested in doing that. But, he went with him, thinking
- 'he has brought so many gifts; he is calling me to go to the temple; if I do
not go, he may think something is wrong with me".
He went without any desire of his own. katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena ekena
tushyati - he went only for the sake of his son's father-in-law; otherwise, he
would not have gone.
In the temple, someone asked him, "What svAmi! You have come this far".
He replied, "He invited me! Otherwise, I would not have come. Who can come
here?" katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena ekena tushyati - bhagavAn is One who is
pleased with a kaimkaryam done even though it may be done without any desire.
katha'ncit, upakAreNa, kRtena ekena tushyati - this is one way of doing
anvayam [prose order of the phrase in the Slokam].
There is another person; he has never done any good to anyone. He is a
terrible ingrate as far as PerumAL is concerned. Even in this case, bhagavAn
will not think of him as an ingrate, but keep looking for anything good he may
do and bless him happily.
katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena - this is another anvayam. He is pleased with the
least goodness done.
There is another brahamaNa; he is used to taking bath only at 11 o' clock. He
will take the washing soap with him when he goes to take a bath. He will go to
the side bank [of the river] and wash his upper garment and lower garment.
Then, he will take a bath. He will not do Acamanam [washing mouth and hands
with water]. He will wring out the loin cloth and place it on his sacred
thread (audience laughs). He will come out of the bank and wring out his
garments. He will go home and eat. He will not do sandhyA or mAdhyAhnikam
[noon sandhyA].
He died at last. PerumAL asked His dUta-s to give him His lokam. When they
said that he had not done anything, He said, "Yes, he has done". What did he
do? He came out of the bank and wrung out his dhoti and upper garment. At the
spot where he was doing that, there was a tulasi plant that got water from his
dhoti and kept growing.
katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena ekena tushyati |
He did not water the tulasi. BhagavAn took his act of wringing water out of
his dhoti and treated it as a good act. He felt satisfied that the man had
offered water to tulasi. katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena ekena tushyati |
PerumAL went to the river bank for tIrttavAri [sacred water rite]. It was a
wonderful event. In that bank, a fisherman was fishing; he was asked to leave
to give way for PerumAL. He refused to leave saying there are a lot of fish
coming there to eat the dirt in the legs of men standing in the water and he
would be fishing only in that spot. And he did exactly that. tIrttavAri was
over.
That fisherman got old and died. VishNu dUta-s came to get him. Question was
- this person was causing disturbance during tIrttavAri; was he getting VishNu
lOkam?
Yes, he fished during tIrttavAri time. He caught a big fish in his net. In
order to make sure that the fish did not escape, he dived into the water and
held on to its tail. Exactly at the same moment, bhaTTar (high priest) dipped
PerumAL into the water.
PerumAL took account of who all took a bath when He was doing avabhRta snAnam
[done at the end of yAgam or festival]. He made a note that this fisherman
also was one of them. katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena ekena tushyati | Even if a
person commits a good act without even liking it, He considers it as an act
done with great desire.
A person's daughter was getting married. He went to buy silk saris etc.
Everything was costly. But, he saw an advertisement that kAncIpuram saris are
being sold at kAncIpuram price. He thought, 'it is very costly here; let me go
to kAncIpuram.' The city has stores like SrInivAsa silk, varadarAja silk etc;
so he went to kAncIpuram. He bought the saris and went back home. PerumAL
ordered that he should be credited with having come to kAncIpuram GaruDa sEvai.
When he was buying silk saris in the store, perumAL was taking His street
rounds in ADison pETTai. Even though this person folded his hands in respect
from the store itself and went home after finishing his purchases, tEpperumAL
calculated that he came for GaruDa sEvai and blessed him. katha'ncit upakAreNa
kRtena ekena tushyati |
There was a lawyer dealing with installment cases. He did not get any case at
all. He was looking for a good one. He was sitting in his front porch. A car
arrived. Four people got down from the car. The lawyer immediately became
alert and told his wife, 'clients are coming; give coffee; give raw banana
bajji [deep-fried snack]; bring them to eat'.
The people came close. He welcomed them, 'Please come! Be seated!' They all
washed their hands, ate bajji and drank coffee. The lawyer asked them what the
reason of their visit was. They said, "There is going to be kumbAbhishekam
[consecration ceremony] in the temple! We have to come to collect money".
(Laughter in the audience).
What was this man thinking originally? He thought they were coming to present
him with a case. Just as he thought of people coming to ask for donations for
temple consecration as those who came for giving a case for him, PerumAL
considers those who came for sari purchases in the store as those who came for
GaruDa sEvai.
Even though the person did not come to see Him [in kAncIpuram] and came only
for sari purchase, He saw him - katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena ekena tushyati -
He changed the purpose of his visit to one of coming to see Him and blessed
him. That is His nature.
rAghava's nature is like that.
There was a person who had a habit of drinking coffee at 6 o'clock when the sun
rose. What should he do? He has to buy milk. But, it was not available in
time. So, he bought a cow. The cow provided him with wonderful milk. One day,
he did not get his 6 o'clock coffee. He asked for it and found that the cow
had not been milked. So, there was no coffee.
He was angered that he had paid 500 rupees for that cow. He woke up the cow;
because of the speed with which he did that, the cow broke loose from the stump
and started running. He kept running and chasing after the fleeing cow and he
finally gave up and came back to his front porch. He decided to sell the cow
even if it ever came back. He was in extreme anger and did not feel the need
for the cow any more.
The time for him to die came. VishNu dUta-s came to get him. Why? When he
was chasing and running after the cow going around the temple, PerumAL took it
as this person circumambulating His temple. This person had done one mile of
running around the temple at that time. PerumAL ordered moksham for him.
katha'ncit upakAreNa kRtena ekena tushyati |
bhagavAn considers an act done by a person to have been committed for Him, even
though the person did not do it for that purpose. He looks for some act that
the person does and thinks of it as having been done for Him. katha'ncit
upakAreNa kRtena ekena tushyati | rAma has such kind of kalyANa guNa.
na smaratyapakArANAm Satam apyAtma vattayA | (ayodhyA.1.11)
Only these two Slokams; I will go faster after that. [SrImad ANDavan says]
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(To be continued)
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