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. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:SriRangaSri-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:SriRangaSri-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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