tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post9029764513667584486..comments2024-03-18T22:56:06.696+05:30Comments on Jayasree Saranathan: Thoughts on Sri Rama Navami. (open letter to Sri Rama)Jayasree Saranathan http://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-41219821851796729782022-04-12T19:04:52.588+05:302022-04-12T19:04:52.588+05:30Adiyen a thurumbu in Bhagawan's scheme.
Namas...Adiyen a thurumbu in Bhagawan's scheme. <br />Namaskaram. Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-20175713555460992952022-04-12T17:42:44.479+05:302022-04-12T17:42:44.479+05:30Respected Madam,
It was very emotional moment to ...Respected Madam,<br /><br />It was very emotional moment to read your reply to HIM and HIS reply to you. Being Ekadeshi today, My smaranai towards HIM is enormous and could spend lot of time today various articles of the past.<br /><br />My respect in you grows and grows.<br /><br />Dasan<br /><br />cheekuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03302622569467833360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-39097583527460485442020-04-02T22:27:13.117+05:302020-04-02T22:27:13.117+05:30Dear Sri Annamalai,
I am glad to know that this ...Dear Sri Annamalai, <br /><br />I am glad to know that this article originally written more than a decade ago as an intellectual analysis, works as a balm in the current troubled times. I am a squirrel in the service of Rama. Pranams. Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-48961632722497631092020-04-02T21:26:55.942+05:302020-04-02T21:26:55.942+05:30Dear Madam, Good article circulated at the correct...Dear Madam, Good article circulated at the correct moment, passifies the troubled mind for not visiting temple today. Thank you.T.Annamalaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12892858388025334578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-61004939763105570522011-04-15T17:54:18.679+05:302011-04-15T17:54:18.679+05:30(contd from previous comment)
One school of Thoug...(contd from previous comment)<br /><br />One school of Thought of Srivaishnavism sees her as the first created one. But from the status that she enjoys as Will, we can not call her as a created being. She is an extension of Brahman. As lotus at the tip of the umbilical chord of Brahman, she is very much part of the Brahman. <br /><br />In Ramayana we find complete dominance of Lakshmi as the Will of Brahman - embodied in Sita. She only called the shots always. <br /><br />The dialogue of Sita which I liked and enjoyed most is "sthreeyam purusha vigraham" (2-30-3 Valmiki Ramayana). When Rama tries to dissuade her from coming along with him to the forest saying that the forest is full of dangers, she wonders why he can not protect her from the dangers. Is he meek that he can not safeguard her? Therefore she shot this astra that her father has got her married to him without knowing that he is a woman in male's garb ("sthreeyam purusha vigraham"). No one else can say such a thing about Rama and get away without being punished for it. Only Sita could say this. She as his alter self or manas can say like this. Like ordinary manas, she keeps thinking of this dialogue of hers during vanavasam and wonders whether she committed an apacharam by saying this to Rama. <br /><br />Sita's domination continues throughout. Her desire for the golden deer and asking Rama to get it is another prominent example of the Will of Brahman which the Brahman can not ignore. (It is has been written already) <br /><br />Again on agni pariksha, she only called the shots. I have written some features of that in the article on 'Why oil bath?' in the context of Sita as a Pancha kanya. Her domination is such that Valmiki originally called his book as "Sitayah charitam mahat" (The great story of Sita) and not as Ramayana. Ramayana was coined later by others.Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-23699934107921037682011-04-15T17:53:53.889+05:302011-04-15T17:53:53.889+05:30Dear Asthika, KRS, Mahesh and Kalaivani. My heartf...Dear Asthika, KRS, Mahesh and Kalaivani. My heartfelt thanks to you for the comments. <br /><br />Ramayana is a treasure trove of many philosophies of vedanta and also of life. Recently when I started "Thamizhan dravidanaa' blog, I found that it is a reliable document to trace the history of Bharath including the countries of Pandyna kings. It is a wholesome document that can analysed to get answers for different types of questions.<br /><br />In this article(s), one major derivation I am giving is on the status of Lakshmi vis a vis Brahman. I am making a departure from the existing schools of thought on the status of Lakshmi,who I see as the Will of God. <br /><br />In the pre- creation model she is one with the Brahman as Brahman is one without a second at that time. Creation begins when the Brahmin Wills that It may become many. The person and the Will are inseparable. The Will does not exist without the person and the person does not exist without Will. The Will directs the person. The Will tells what to do. In the manifest world, the Will carries out Creation. <br /><br />In what way the Will is manifest can be ascertained from a dialogue in Shanthi parva in MB between Brighu and Bharadvaj. I think I have said about this dialogue somewhere in one of my old posts. The dialogue is about the first creation. One of them says that it is the four faced Brahma seated on the lotus of Narayana's naval. The other asks should that not mean that the lotus was the first created entity because it existed before the four faced Brahma was created. For this it is replied no. <br /><br />This shows that lotus is part of Narayana - the uncreated Being. The lotus is the out stretched umbilical chord which is pumping sap into creation. This becomes synonymous with the Will of Narayana that facilitates limitless creation. <br /><br />The personification of the Will is the lotus and the one entity connected with that lotus is Lakshmi. Lotus also stands for heart, manas and thought in tantrics. <br /><br />In the created world, the inseparable Brahman looks as 2 separate identities as Vishnu and Lakshmi. The etymological root of Lakshmi is that it is she who shows the lakshyam (goal) - the goal is that of reaching the Brahman or Paramathman. As the Will of God she also directs Brahman. Thus she becomes the medium between the created world (chetahnas) and the Paramathman. That is why we go to her for recommendation to the Lord. <br /><br />(contd)Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-59066787244171373382011-04-13T15:57:22.050+05:302011-04-13T15:57:22.050+05:30As a spectator in this creative poetical analysis,...As a spectator in this creative poetical analysis, I am double happy.One happiness is to have imbibed great philosophies.<br />Second happiness is to have read an letter addressed to another person.:) <br /><br />The knowledge told by Krishna meant for Arjuna, in bagawath geeta was potrayed as 2nd hand information that sanjaya saw from his vision, 'eavesdropped' and told blind Yudishtra. Like that,reading the letter meant for the daughter, the answer of Sri Ramar addressed to his daughter embodying great philosophies, is enriching and valuable.Kalaivanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13106243467388224209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-49872986400233536612011-04-13T08:27:28.762+05:302011-04-13T08:27:28.762+05:30Hi Jayashree
kudos for this brilliant imagination....Hi Jayashree<br />kudos for this brilliant imagination. it was excellent to read. thoroughly enjoyed it. incidentally even while reciting sri rama sahasranamam yesterday, a strange question came to my mind. why did beloved Rama made himself putin to a situation that he could not be at the side of His father King Dasaratha at his last moment. HE decided to play so that HE being the first son could not do the last rites for HIS dear father. Being a man, I was thinking only about the suffering self inflicted by the paramporul in HIS human avatar. Never thought about Sita. (you know as a child assumes all is well with mother always.) As you rightly said, Almighty is above all good, evil, pavapunniyam! how foolish this mortal mind to think like that:-). regards, MaheshMaheshwaran Ganapatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05545329698522103628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-89794844365318628372011-04-12T22:25:55.621+05:302011-04-12T22:25:55.621+05:30just
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Have read the first part and half of second....mam,<br /><br />Have read the first part and half of second.<br /><br />reading the first and mention of sukra and sita, i thought it as play between bargavan bargavi<br /><br />The second part and first part mention of sita goading rama and mentioning it to hanuman and your subsequent comment on all couples having it and children wont interfere, somehow reminded me of udal utsavam.<br /><br />know the reason for this funny udal utsavams in few temples,think even shiva temples have them,<br /><br />what will rama temples have? do they even have udal utsavam, if so what could be the udal utsavam reason? These questions come to my mind.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14402102367309341411noreply@blogger.com