Dear Baagavathaas,
Aditeyn was fortunate to sight and hear a Gopika at Shri Mahalakshmi
Temple in Boston in the guise Of Shri. Vellukudi Swami.His talk on
the significance of Thru Venkadesa worship in Kali Yuga cativated
all.He also gave a brief hand out to take home and muse over his
talk.We all knew that his Tamil Vubanyaasams are so fleuent like
continous down pour of rain.Aazlvaar's paasurams,slokams from
Raamaayanna and Geethai as well as veda vyaasa's Baagavatham comete
with each other to come from his sweet tongue to illustrate the
points he was making.His english talk was also as fluent..Adiyen felt
that much larger audience-may be in one of the leading univercity
auditoriyams would have been more useful to convey his universal
message.
..He quoted the ancient Rig veda-arAyi KAne vikatEgirim gaccha
satAnvE sirim pithasya savabhi:ebhistva sAtayAmasi-puhal ontrum
ellatha naam- .Govinda Nama Sangeerthanam panni konndu,
baagavatharkalludan ezlu malai nokki sentraal porum-such simple
efforts will remove all our Vem-collection of sins,and will burn them-
kada-into ashes..Staying there for a while will sow bakthi in our
minds.Sugreevan cautioned all monkeys who went in search of Seethaa
Piraatti to avoid Thiru Vemkada hills--if they go there ,they will
straight away proceed to Parama Padam and they will not return back
to search Piraatti.. Such was the fiem belief of a monkey in those
days..We should also have such firm belief.
He also mentoined the clever way of Lord Srinivasa in granting us all
we wish so that we have faith in Him and continue to come to
Him.Gradually, He will succeed in His mission to take all of us in
His fold.. Untill He succeeds to complete His mission and bring
all "neesars and nirai ontrum ellaathors" also into his fold..He does
not sit or sleep but keeps on standing just for this purpose.That is
why He is "Ezlil koll Jothi"..Parama pada naathan is like pahal
villakku, but here in Thiruvemkadam He is Kuntrin mel erukkum
Villakku ..
He taught us seven simple steps to reach Lord Srinivasan.These are
easy to remember and represent the seven hills..The seven steps are
in the form of our offering seven pushbams.
1.Ahimsa prathamam pushpam...not doing himsai by body, speach or
mind..He illustrated the cruelty of bagavatha abacharam by narrating
oorath aazlvaan's saying that he might have thought about the konal
thirumann kaappu of some bagavatha to have lost his eye sight.
2.Pushbam indriya nigraha.controlling all our ten karma, gjana
enthiriyams and mind by channeling then to Him..Control of food
habits is essential to acheive this..
3..Sarva bhUta daYa is the next pushbam we should offer to
Him..Compassion towards all beings..The examples he naraated of Rama
offering to perform last rites to Ravanna, bringing all dead monkeys
back to life ,and feeling lost because he could not do so for all
dead asuras because Ravanna ordered all dead asura's bodies to be
thrown into ocean so that therir sight will not demotivate the
fighting asuras..Another moving example was Yudhishthira's svarga
arohaNa--evan as he was entering svarga, he heard a dog crying for
help to free it from biting insects..He offered himself to the
insects and helped both the dog and the insects..Koorath aazlvaan's
pleading to Lord varadar to grant motsham to NaloorAn is another
example he indicated .
..4.Kshama pushbam is the next one to offer..this is viseshata
pushbam..Rama's acceptance of Vibeeshanna,KAkAsura,and Samudra rAja
are examples of kshamA..
..5..GnAnam pushbam is the fifth step..Pireethiyudan, gnAnam
kalanthu, Bakthiyaha parimallikkanum..Swami gave the example of -this
bakthi roobamana gnAna as unfailing means -Vidura.. He offered the
pealings of the fruit to Krishna who gladly accepted the same.Vyasar
calls him as mahaa gjanavaan.Friut or the peals of the same is
nothing for the vulaham vunnda peru vaayan.. It is the preethi
kalantha bakthi, with which that was offered that pleases Him.
..6..Tapas is the sixth pushbam to be offered.. we need not go to
Himalaya to perform tapas..research and nyasam..puhal ontrum ellaatha
naam avan adikeezl puhunthu surrender seyvathey ethu."Kallaivaay
thunbam.. kallai kann mattru elen "yentru eruthal..
..7..DyAnam is the seventh one to be offered..We can make a humble
beginning with 15 minutes of meditation a day.. focussing on His
Divya Manngalla Vigraham.
..By offering these seven pushbams,He offers Himself-Satyam yenkira
8th Pushbam-to us..Satyam bhUta hitam proktam..He explained thar sat-
is sentinent - chit thathvam...and ti-is insentinent achit
thathvam....yam- the controller -easvara thathvam..
His talk for over 75 minutes brought out tears in our eyes.neer
malhum kanninaraahi, nenjam kuzlainthu nainthom..Entha Baagyam pera
arull thantha Srinivasanukku kruthagjanaraahi ..swamiyin pala pala
divya kainkaryangall melum melum vallara praarthippom..
Adiyey Raamanuja Dasan
Kasturi Thiruvemkadathaan.
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