Dear sri vaishnava perunthagaiyeer,
Continuing the discussions / study on the hunger, we saw five levels of hunger
[needs] and 5 paasurams expressing how the hunger [need] gets satisfied. Now
let us see one more dimension of the hunger. Just suggest what way this hunger
[need] can be classified or can be placed in which of the 5 category we
discussed.
aayiram kaNNudai indhiranaarukku enRu aayaar vizhaveduppa
paasana nalla bandigaLaal pugappeidha adhanai ellaam
pOi irundhu angu oru boodha vadivu koNdu un magan inRu nangaai
maayan adhanai ellaam muRRavaari vaLaiththu uNdirundhaan pOlum
10 -7- 7 thirumangai aazhvaar in periya thirumozhi
See here - the food is prepared for some body. That food was offered to some
body else. The third person eats all that food. Fourth person observes these
and complains to the third person's mother that your son had eaten even though
he is a child [at that stage] all those large quantities of food.
What kind of hunger is this? What kind of need or what a way to satisfy?
Perhaps the answer lies in that one word - available in the fourth line -
"maayan". Oh krishNa - what can we say more.
When you want some food to eat, someone arrives at your door with food in his
or her hand. But he throws the food at your head, or dashes it in front of you
insultingly. Will you eat that food? I hope the answer will be a definite 'NO'
from all without exception.
For there are 3 ways or types of satisfying the hunger is presented now.
1. First type - The food may not be delicious, but because you are
very hungry you gobble it up. Thus and then you feel satisfied.
2. Second type - You are not actually hungry, but the item is your
favorite one, as well item is deliciously prepared and courteously served to
you. You still eat it because of the taste.
3. Third type - You are really hungry. Also the food is
deliciously prepared according to the rules of purity, delicacy, also offered
to the lord and then served to you as prasaadham. While serving a motherly love
is added and with a lot of respect also. You naturally have a go at that food
[or prasaadham] with all relish.
Life should not be lived inconsistently, chaotically, or blindly and for the
sake of food. It should be disciplined in such a way that the neutralization of
the hunger - energy through satisfaction can result in a more evolved state of
life. The result of an evolved state of life is the rise of another type of
hunger, the hunger of the mind.
Since human beings are not just bodies, there is another dimension to it. Along
with the body, the mind, intellect, heart, and soul also exist. For physical
health, first the real physical hunger has to be recognized. This real hunger
has to be fed by right food, full of nourishment, with appropriate vitamins.
More important than this, it should be sathvic.
In the same way for psychological health, the hunger of the mind and intellect
have to be satisfied with materials produced by those who have attained a
reasonably good level of god realization or saakshaathkaaram in their life. [I
feel the lists through which you read this mail serve that purpose in a good
measure to provide these materials from realized souls].
If you don't have hunger of the mind, you are not actually healthy. It was the
goal of the life and the realized souls were working hard for it. This is like
sattvic food for the mind. If you do not relish such literary materials from
these minds, then, can you be considered psychologically healthy? How one
relishes the food offered with love and respect, similarly this wanting of
'love and respect' is also the reflection of a healthy state of 'hunger' of the
mind. Enlightenment is the perfection of psychological health.
Now we will see a point of hunger connected with hanumaan. Sri Hanuman as a
child leaps into space, conceiving the rising sun to be a beautiful, palatable
fruit. That shows the childish hunger, that natural instinct of a vaanaraa to
think of a 'fruit', jump for it with its physical mite. But same hanumaan
became wiser and his hunger for knowledge became great and finally he is
remembered for his hunger of the soul - that food called raama kathaa or raama
naamam.
yathra yathra raghunaathha keerthanam
thathra thathra krutham hasthaka anjalim
baashpa vaari pari poorNa lOchanam
maaruthim namatha raakshaasa anthakam
meaning: where all raama's naama is being sung [or told or spoken], there
maaruthi [the enemy of raakshasaas] [or] who annihilated raakshaasaas, stands
bowing to raamaa with folded hands in anjali mudhra, eyes completely filled
with tears.
Please recall sukhi evvaro raama naama sukhi evvarO of sri thyaagaraaja giving
answer in krithi geethaarthamu as hanuman is the sukhi - satisfying his hunger
with raama naamam.
seethaapathi charaNaambujamulu idukonna
vaathaathmajuniki baaga thelusuraa
seethaapathi - the husband of seethaa
charaNaambujamulu - the lotus feet
idukonna - keeping or having
vaatha aathmajuniki - the son of vaayu or wind god
baaga thelusuraa - knows very well
meaning: The son of wind god [that vaayu puthran hanumaan] knows very well, who
has the lotus feet of seethaa's husband, the great raamaa in his mind always.
Please have the hunger to relish raama and eat that food again in the form of
raama.
Dhasan
Vasudevan m.g.
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