Guest guest Report post Posted April 11, 2008 Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer, We saw in the previous post, how the raagam 'vijaya sree' or sree vijayam is given by thyaagaraaja to the krithi 'vara naaradha'. It is because raamaayaNam is 'seethaayaas charitham mahath' – that also we saw. But this glory of seethaa, if said by vaalmeeki, that is somewhat 'not a great thing'. If the same thing comes from the enemy camp – say raavaNa's camp – one from raavaNa's men - then it is worthier. Maareechaa, while resisting the desire of raavaNa to abduct seethaa, says that she is great. apramEyam hi thath thEjO yasya saa janakaathmajaa | na thvam samarthah thaam harthum raama chaapa aasrayaam vanE || 3-37-18 Meaning: Which Raama's wife is Janaka's daughter that Raama is indeed of an inestimable resplendence. And it will be incapable of you to steal Seethaa, while such a Raama's bow safeguards her in the forest, besides the firewall called her own resplendence. [3-37-18] A note in the website is grand and quoted here or reproduced here – Quote-- This can be said 'Raama's resplendence is inestimable and Seethaa is his wife.' But keeping the import of Seethaa's words in 3-9-15 'if fuel is available adjacent to burning fire, the luminosity of the fire also enhances immensely,'. When the factor of resplendence is taken, it is not Raama's alone that is described, but Seethaa's also. Again, it is not that some part of Rama's resplendence is taken out and put into Seethaa. It is an indivisible radiance of that couple like that of Sun and his wife Prabha, as said earlier by Maareecha. [MGV brings in that slokam for information of readers -- katham nu thasya vaidhEheem rakshthaam svEna thEjasaa | ichChhasE prasabham harthum prabhaam iva vivasvathah || 3-37-14 meaning: Raama's proper resplendence is protecting VaidhEhi. How then you really wish to forcibly rob her off from Raama, as though wishing to rob the Sun of his resplendence.] quote continued -- Seethaa is not directly said by her name. Her father Janaka's name is brought in, because Janaka is both a raajarshi- Kingly-saint and brahmarshi - Brahman-sage, as well. And Janaka is capable of saying 'idam brahmam idam kshaatram shaapat api sharaat api' 'here is Brahma-hood and here is Kshatriya-hood, either by malediction or by arrow, whichever meetly of you, you can confront me.' This apart, it is said that 'a pertinent devotion to a god makes the devotee like that god alone.' shraddhayaa dhEvO dhEvathvam asnushE and Seethaa is the devotee of Raama and thus she became one with Raama. Thereby, there is twofold resplendence, namely, that of Raama and that of Seethaa, so it is not apt for you to make any useless effort when everything is firewalled. -- unquote point: Maareecha continues in his advise to raavaNa – thasya vai narasimhasya simha uraskasya bhaaminee | praaNEbhyO api priyatharaa bhaaryaa nithyam anuvrathaa || 3-37-19 meaning: That lady Seethaa is his wife, dearest than the lives of that lion-chested lion-man Raama, and in truth, she is avowed to follow him alone, in perpetuity. [3-37-19] Comment: dear bhakthaas, see the words of maareecha – seethaa is 'narasimhasya simha urakasya bhaaminee' – the lioness or the dear wife of 'narasimha' – the lakshmi of narasimha – maa of maalOla – and her glory is 'apramEyam' and she is 'nithyam anuvrathaa'. On this word 'anuvrathaa' the thilakam commentator says "nithya anuvrathaa ithi anEna thasyaah thath sakthithvam soochitham – by that word here, seethaa's power is indicated". To such a seethaa and her husband, it is desire of vaalmeeki to bless them. So it is 'maanishaadha' to 'kaama mOhitham' – maa nishaadha prathishThaam thvam agamaH saasvatheeh samaah | yath krouNcha mithunaath Ekam avadheeh kaama mOhitham || 1-2-15 Meaning: Oh, Goddess Lakshmi's abode, Oh! Vishnu, by which act of your killing one male demon named RaavaNa, who, in his passion abducted Seethaa, and thus you eradicated the vice from the earth, for that you get an everlasting divine sanctity, as Raama, for ages to come. " Point: It came so spontaneously – because what naaradha gave as abstract was rolling in his heart – that desire came out as a song – as a 'pallaaNdu' like periyaazhvaar. So son 'vara naaradha' gave the gist to vaalmeeki. Then father brahma came along with wife saraswathee and asked vaalmeeki to sing raama kathaa and asked him to keep whatever he has already uttered as the first slokam. That means the whole family naaradha, brahma, and saraswathee were the kickstarters for raamayaNam. Let us continue in next post dhasan -- Vasudevan MG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
