Priya Bagavad Bhandhus Here is a recap of lastmonth's Upanyasamon Adhimanushasthavam : This weekend's Upanyasam is scheduled for Saturday March 20th at 8:00am CST Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha This week's Upanyasam on Adhimanushasthavam Sri.E.V.Bhoovaraga Swami recapped the Q & A from previous lectures, on SriRamavatharam from question 17 on. The questions so far asked were: 1) You say You are born a man, but how did You give Moksha as a man to Jatayu who was a bird, 2) A bird was not entitled for Moksha, so how did he attain Moksha? 3) Why did You choose Sugriva as a friend and his mighty brother Vali as a foe? 4) Why did You kill Vali from hiding? 5) As a Man how could You build a floating bridge to cross the ocean, that too only having monkeys to build it? This week the questions that were discussed are Question No 23: You! who is birth less, born a man out of pity for us, was able to conquer Varuna Raja to build the bridge, which is no small feat, yet You who is worshipped by Brahma and all the Devas!! how did You get bound by Indrajit?s arrow and let him claim victory over you? Question No 24: SriRama! You who haven't crossed the ocean, You who didn'tknow the strengths and weakness of Your enemy, still how did You crown Vibhishana as the future king ? Answer to question : 23) Srimanarayana in born on this earth because of kripa for us. In last question we saw that first SriRama surrendered to Samudra Raja, because Vibhishana told Him to (It worked for Vibhishana and without realizing SriRama'svelour he recommended this method to Him). In the beginning Samudra Raja didn't respond to You, and when You were ready to wage war against him, he came running to You and agreed to help You. Thus You won Him over. You are aSarvaloka Saranyan. After the war was over with Ravana, all the devas visited You, and they brought Dasaratha with them. Your father wanted to grant You whatever You wished, and because of Your KalyanaGunas You wanted Your father to take Kaikeyi back as his wife and innocent good natured Baratha ashis son. Though everybody told you that You were a GOD, yet You denied allof it and claimed to be man and Dasaratha?s son. But I know why You were bound by Indrajith's arrow, when You had shown so much mightiness so far.The answer was given in Sundarabhagusthavam--- Perumal, SriRama was putting on an act, at that time.He pretended to fall for Indrajith's arrow, and then recovered this to show Ravana that He was invincible, and create fear in his heart. Ravana is very proud of his son who has conquered Indra and thus called Indrajith. So when they are thinking that Rama is a mere mortal, but to recover from Indrajith's arrow, would certainly cause them concern and You were thinking that Ravana would return Sita without causing anymore bloodshed. Thus You pretended to fall prey to Your enemy's arrow. But I know Your parathathvam. Answer to question 24) The answer to this question is very divine. All of Rama's younger brothers basically had a shortcoming, none of them wanted to be a crowned King. That is why as soon as Vibhishana surrendered to SriRamahe was crowned. SriRama offered His kingdom first to Lakshmana, which was rejected very vehemently, and then we all know about how Bharatha took Rama?s Padukas to rule Ayodhya, and Sugriva also refused to be crowned. Rama did not want to go through this with Vibhishana again. As soon as he was accepted as a brother, he was crowned before he could change his mind. He wascrowned on the sea shores with grass seating and monkeys as witnesses. Also Rama is a Sathya Sankalpan whose Sankalpam doesn?t get wasted. Also Rama knew that Ravana will be sending spies to learn His strengths and weakneses and Rama believed that if the spies goes back and report that Vibhishanawas being crowned that might instill fear in Ravana?s heart. After Rama?s victory Vibhishana was duly crowned properly under pomp circumstances in front of all his subjects by Lakshmana. One might ask, so what happens if Rama didn?t win the war or Ravana had surrendered to Him, He is Paramathma and He is creator, maintainer and sustainer. He is not going to loose, but in case that happened He still had Ayodhya, and Vibhishana would have been king there. Srimannarayana is the only one who is not jealous of others fame and fortune. That?s why SriRama didn?t stand in front of Vali to kill him, because though He would have lost half His powers to Vali, Rama would have won eventually, in which case Indra?s boon would not have been effective. He didn?t want to undermine Indra, the same way he became bound to Indrajith?s arrow. How lucky we are to listen to such Kalyanagunas of Perumal, to be narrated so lucidly by Sri E.S.V.B.Swami . Don?t miss this wonderful opportunity to come and listen next month. The next few questions are: 25) At the request of Varuna Raja with one arrow You who could burn an island on the north, why didn?t you burn sriLanka like that? 26) How could You churn the ocean and get a horse, Apsaras (divine women), Nector, Chandra and Piratti Herself. ( Not related to Rama Avathar,but He was amazed at Perumal?s Adhimanushasthavam?) Adiyen Chitra Ramanuja Dasee Azhvar Emperumanaar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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