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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

 

 

 

 



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