Dear srivaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
Many a times we say 'enjoy' that, this, etc. Further this enjoyment is simply
'exaggerated' to the extent that it is applied to certain routine things like
bathing, sleeping, eating - I enjoyed a good sleep, I enjoyed the food in this
hotel, I enjoyed bathing in that swimming pool etc.
In enjoying a 'good sleep' what is there? For once you have started sleeping
really sound, then you do not know or beyond the knowledge of comprehension or
understanding
- what are all around you ?
- where are you ?
- what is happening around you ?
- whether any thing is really happening at all
- or whether all are still ?
Then what is the meaning in that saying 'I enjoyed a good sleep'.
Similarly What did you really enjoy in 'bathing' ? Is it
- the pouring of water on your body, with a hydrostatic pressure which
the skin accepts without rejecting ? or
- the temperature of water at which it touched the skin that was neither
too hot nor chill, but the right one suiting the skin and the ambience around?
or
- that cleaning power of water, which removed the bad smell that
emanated from the body ? or
- the people around doing the same thing that created the enjoyment ?
really what is enjoyment - in bathing?
This way perhaps many a things can be classified
- when we say we enjoy what exactly is there to enjoy ?
- is it that creation of impact on the mind ?
- then what happens? When ? Where ?
Actually the mind compares with an earlier impact recorded by it or to the
benchmark level, it has already in store and says this is better than previous
and so this is "the enjoyment". If this 'earlier impact benchmark' lead to a
physical discomfort or suffering, then also it is a 'benchmark' for not being
an enjoyment, and then this new experience which just then had, becomes a new
benchmark. So 'enjoyment' is always in relation to some "benchmark impact"
already stored for an incident" in mind.
If the benchmark impact stored in mind is 'all exemplary' then what happens?
Where to find a better one? That too if it is on or about raama - the supreme
beuty and supreme in all - 'Evam vidham naram' of vaalmeeki - where to get that
comparison ?
Then what to say about that enjoyment? The answer can at best be - in 'raama'
only - for there can be none equal to Him. May be just for comparison purposes
we can have one, like how sage vaalmeeki also places in his work, which really
cannot come anywhere near to 'raama'. But for our perception a comparison is
required. So, to get or create an enjoyment in ourselves on 'raama' what to do?
See what saint thyaagaraaja has to say - 'consciously meditate on raama naamam'
- be a 'raama naama sukhi' - be a hanumaan - [ref - krithi geethaarthamu in
raagam surati - MGV's article in www.karnatik.com <http://www.karnatik.com/>
or recently in http://saptharathnas.blogspot.com
<http://saptharathnas.blogspot.com/> ] or as stated here -
raagam: poorNa chandhrikaa
29th mELam -- dheera sankaraabharaNam janya
Aa: S R2 G3 M1 P D2 P S
Av: S N3 P M1 R2 G3 M1 R2 S
thaaLam: aadhi Composer: Thyaagaraaja Language: Telugu
pallavi
thelisi raama chinthanathO naamamu
sEyavE O manasaa - [ thelisi ]
meaning: Oh mind! Tell the name of raama consciously by meditating on Him.
anupallavi
thalapulanni nilipi nimishamaina
thaaraka roopuni nija thathvamulanu - [ thelisi ]
meaning: Stop all your other thoughts for a minute and fix it on that lord
savior and the true principle of all, -- Oh mind! --- on Him.
charaNam 1
raamaayana chapalaakshula pEru
kaamaadhula pOruvaaru veeru
raamaayana brahmamunaku pEru
aamaanava jananaardhulu dheeru - thelisi
meaning: raamaa is the name of a lady with shying eyes - people indulge in
fighting associated with 'kaamam' - strong desire - and subsequent 'vipareetha
buddhi' - crooked ideas to get at that 'raamaa'. Raama means para-brahmam (the
supreme lord and the absolute in all respects), by remembering whom the desire
to get rid of the repeated birth and death of all souls of human beings is
fulfilled. Hence Oh mind! Tell the name of raama consciously by meditating on
Him.
charaNam 2
arkamanuchu jillEDutharu pEru
markaTa buddhi lElaa geedhEru
arkaDanuchu bhaaskaruniki pEru
kutharkamanu andhakaaramu dheeru - thelisi
meaning: arka is name of a plant [erukku in tamil]. Can this arka make us get
rid of our monkey kind of wavering nature? The real arka is 'bhaaskara' - the
sun [the enlightening Lord who came in that arka vamsam - soorya vamsam -
raama], who destroys the darkness or ignorance. Oh mind! Tell the name of raama
consciously by meditating on Him.
charaNam 3
ajamanuchu mEshamunaku pEru
nija kOrika lElaa geedhEru
ajuDani vaageesavaruniki pEru
vijayamu galgunu thyaagaraaja nuthuni - thelisi
meaning: Goat is called "aja". Brahma is also called 'aja' But does worshipping
a goat fulfill our desires? The real "aja" is the Lord vaageeswara viz - brahma
- praised by ST, by clinging to whom victory is ours. - Oh mind! Tell the name
of raama consciously by meditating on Him.
Variations in different versions - the three charaNam version is taken from
www.karnatik.com <http://www.karnatik.com/> . In A.K.Gopalan publishers book,
there are only two charaNams and that second charaNam reads
arkamanuchu jillEDutharu pEru
nija kOrika lElaa geedhEru
ajuDani vaageesavaruniki pEru
vijayamu galgunu thyaagaraaja thuni - thelisi
[which means the first line of second charaNam as given above and rest three
lines of third charaNam are combined and presented in the book as second
charaNam ].
[that 'nuthuni' also becoming thuni - a printer's devil for this 'nuthuni' ?]
May be we have to see the comments and points in next post [as usual]
Dhasan
Vasudevan m.g.
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