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Dear srivaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

We saw in earlier post that raamaa always treads the right path- 
"sathpathEsthithha"- the path of dharma, as stated by mother sumithra. Mother 
sumithraa continues consoling her elder kousalya saying -

maa sOkO dhEvi dhu:kham vaa na raaamE dhrushyathairashivam |
kshipram dhrakshyasi puthram thvam saseetham saha lakshmaNam || 

srimadh vaalmeeki raamaayaNam ayOdhyaa kaNdam sargam 44 slOkam 24

dhEvi = Oh, Kausalya! 
maa = do not have 
sOka: = grief 
dhu:kham vaa = or uneasiness 
ashivam = ill luck 
na dhrushyathE = is not being seen 
raame = in raamaa 
thvam = you 
drakshyasi = will see 
kshipram = soon 
puthram = your son 
sa seetham = along with seetha 
saha lakshmaNam = together with Lakshmana

meaning: Oh, Kausalya! Do not have uneasiness or grief. raamaa has no ill luck. 
You will be able to see, soon, your son, along with seethaa, accompanied by 
lakshmaNa.

Points: 
1.      See the assertion that raamaa has NO ILL LUCK. For a person who treads 
the right path no ill luck. 
2.      Further, for raamaa -yes, for the sooryasya soorya, the prime cause - 
how can he have ill luck - even if that ill luck comes near him it itself will 
turn too good.
3.      It is said - just can not be authenticated - that raavaNa wanted to 
comein the garb of raama and once he had the garb - the very thought of 
abducting seetha vanished from his mind. If such is the position for a 
vEshadhaari himself, how can ill luck act on original raamaa himself.
4.      From these points in this sargam, I wonder how much is mother sumithraa 
a realised soul about raamaa as paramaathman came in manushya roopam.

See one more slOkam -
aasvaasayanthee vividhaischa vaakyai:| 
vaakyOpachaarE kushalaan aadhyaa |
raamasya thaam maatharam Evam ukthvaa | 
dhEvee sumithraa aviraraama raamaa || 
srimadh vaalmeeki raamaayaNam ayOdhyaa kaNdam sargam 44 slOkam 30

sumithraa = sumithraa 
dhEvee = the queen 
kusalaa = skilled
vaakya upachaarE = in employment of words 
anavadhyaa = who is faultless 
raamaa = charming 
Evam = thus
aasvaasayanthee = consoled 
raamasya = raamaa's
thaam maatharam = that mother 
ukthvaa = by speaking
vividhai: = with various 
vaakyai: = words
viraraama = and stopped.

Meaning: Sumitra the queen, skilled in her employment of words, who is 
faultless and charming, thus consoled Rama's mother with various words and 
finally stopped speaking.

Points: 
1.      Yes - after talking so much - the truth- sathyam - about raama - how 
cansumithraa be a faulty person. 
2.      Also the skill of the person in suitably putting the message across of 
her realisation as well the consolation to her elder is brought out very 
nicely. Not only that, at the correct moment also.

This sorrow of mother reminds me of the father also - raamaa's father - 
dhasarathan - on being separated from his son. That is very nicely brought 
outby that great raama bhaktha - kulasekara aazhvaar in his perumaaL thirumozhi 
in 10 paasurams - titled dayarathan pulambal - with starting paasuram van 
thaaLiNai -

Here father - aazhvaar - enjoys the walking style of raamaa 

kaimmaavin nadai anna mennadaiyum kamalam pOl mugamum 
kaaNaadhu, pon peRRaar ezhil vEdhap pudhalvan - 9-8
I am unable to see my son, who is having the beauty of gold, he is also theson 
of all vEdhaas, he will walk like an elephant, but that walking at thesame time 
has the softness of a swan, the face will be like the lotus fully blossomed, 
such a raama I miss now. 

king addresses his son as
valvinaiyEn manumurukkum maganE - 9-3

valvinaiyEn manamurukkum vagaiyE kaRRaai - 9-4
I am a sinner and hard headed, but, oh my son, you know how to melt my heart, 
you learnt that art of melting my heart.

manam urukkum maganE - the meaning of that very name raamaa is - one who can 
make the heart enjoy - manathai ramikka vaippadhanaal avan raaman - that is put 
in different words as urukkum- santhOshaththinaal - aanandhaththinaal - manam 
urugum. Such is my son, oh raamaa.
 
Such is the king's reaction. As a lady mother will have more sorrow than the 
king will. So such kind of eloquent and high words - deserving and apt words 
are required to console kousalya.

A pulambal - an azhugai - weeping- becoming a masterpiece of paasurams- twosuch 
are from great kulasekara only. 

That other pulambal - on krishNa - by mother dhEvaki - is a super class which 
we have seen with the topic thollai inbam in the other list. 

With this I am completing the topic sooryasya soorya and thanks for sparingyour 
time in reading this series.

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g.




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