Swamin What is this? Narayana Smaranam swamin. Fall in love with this great name and hear it every second. ay it every second. Mind will rest easy. If you (or we feed) more feeble and transitory, it is then mind is uneasy and we become subject to what follows. Om Namo Narayanaya namah! Everything else will fade sometime or other. Except this "petra thaiyinum aayeena seyum namo narayana ennum namam" When we reach a stage where we see and feel this great name, then we are at the end of all things transitory! we should never engage in distractive discussions. Let us have faith in the intelligence of Swamy Nammazwar and Swamy Desikan. Why should we even question what they have generously given us. There is no need to prove which name is better, what will happen if I did this...etc. All these questions are beginner and useful at that stage. Once we lock on to Narayana Smaranam then there is no debate. Nor should we engage in those. When we do we end up tearing beautiful children amongst us who are born in different circumstances and are not able to follow everything that we "promulgate" to be part of their family. We are offending them. What we must focus on and nothing else is this love affair with Sriman Narayana. Get our mind wedded inseparably to Sri and Sriman Narayana. Then it does not matter if I am wearing a symbol or not much less what symbol I am wearing. Furthermore, it does not matter if I go to Church or a mosque or any place of worship..while being focussed on Sriman Narayana. And this great bhaktavatsala will appear in the form we desire HIM. I am not saying this. Swamy Nammazwar has said so, thanca maagiya thanthai thaayodu thaanu maayavai allanaay, enca lilama rarku lamudhal moovar thammuLLu maathiyai, anci neerula katthuL LeergaL! avani vanenRu koozEnmin, nenci Nnaal_ninaip paanya vanavan aagum neeLkadal vaNNanE. --3.6.9 TVM More learned members can further beautify this Pasuram. All our blemishes by choice or without choice HE overlooks. adiyen did not choose to be born in a utthiramerur Srimad Andavan parampara. Nor did my parents and my sweet mother choose to stuff me in my windbag. Being so why should we attribute any significance to anything that goes with such a chance event. Everytime a question comes to our mind questioning these sort of fundamental notions, then we ought to ask do I know more than Swamy Desikan? Can I ever know more than Swamy Desikan. The answer is obvious. If not convinced then we ought to seek Swamy Nammazwar and ask the same questions. We ought to be convinced at this point. All human contrived procedures are to be discounted. Symbols, ways of dressing, are all ephemeral and are not so consequential to maintain our love affair with Sriman Narayana. HE is not looking for it. We make this up here and make a big fuss. It is our limitation. adiyen cannot forget the people in ecstasy in Badri, Rishikesh and Haridhwar. None of them would qualify for anything for my village priest. One must see to get an idea of the enjoyment and communiion with the great one. In saying this adiyen definitely has ventured into a questionable land. Worse yet my words might even be taken for disrespect or misguidance. I have met and I have many friends who are born in non Iyengar environment showing much more reverence and love for Lakshmi Narasimha. I am writing this not to offend the elderly and the learned amongst us but to salute these others. Share my friendship with them. That is the community I want to be with. I do not know how to write this in a less insinuating way. All please find room to forgive me for saying all these, this afternoon. tvayi raxati raxakaiH kimanyaiH tvayi chaaraxati raxakaiH kimanyaiH. iti nishchita dhiiH shrayaami nityaM nR^ihare vegavatii taTaashrayaM tvaam.h oM naaraayaNaaya vidmahe vaasudevaaya dhiimahi | tanno vishhNuH prachodayaat.h Om Namo Narayanaya Om Namo Bagavade Vasudevaya Om Namo Vishnave What we fail to see and derive out of these great vakyams is not worth it. There is not such a thing. We can get everythign from these great vakyams, like Thirumangai Azwar has said. Namo Narayana! adiyen -- anandavalli dasan --- sukumar <sukumar@xxxx> wrote:
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