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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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