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Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:
Sri Venkata Gurave Nama:

Respected Members,

In the previous post, it was mentioned that Thirumantram gives five
meanings .
they are

a. Nature of Atma
b. Nature of Lord
c. The Way (Upayam) to attain Him.
d. The Fruit or the Phalan after attainment.
e. the impediments here which blocks us to attain Him.

In this current post, we will proceed from there.

24. Poorvacharyas considered that they were not born till such time they
understood the meanings of thirumantram. Once, understood, they always
concentrated on this Thirumantram alone and none else.
(Swami quotes here a beautiful pasuram of thirumazhisaipiran, "Anru naan
Piranthilen, Pirantha pin, maranthelen)

25. Inspite of many benefits(Material benefits, Kaivalyam, Moksham etc..)
this thirumantram could give,
Poorvacharyas always preferred Lord alone as the phalan and none else.

26. The meaning of thirumantram could be understood in two ways.

a. 'OM NAMA:' and 'NARAYANAYA'(Split as two)

As per sruthi, OM is one single letter
NAMA: Two lettered,
NARAYANA- Five lettered word , and hence total Ashtaksharam. eight words.

b. 'OM' , ' NAMA:' , NARAYANA(split in to three words)

OM- Describes the servitude of the Jeevan
NAMA:- Describes that no other way except Him
NARAYANA- describes to be with Him and enjoy Him is the only the Phalan for
such jeevan.

27. the phalan of Thirumantram is already described in premeyasaram and
Archiradri.

(Sri Pillai Lokachariar refers to his other works, premeyasaram and
Archiradri, and says that how the jeevan enjoys the phaln is described
there)

With this information, we will close this post . we will discuss detailed
meanings of thirumantam in the next post.


Dasan

KM Narayanan





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