SRIMAN NARAYANA, SRI LAKSHMI AMMA (DAYA DEVI) AND THE HOLIEST OF HOLY WORKS OF THE REVERENTIAL AZHWARS ( MYSTIC SAINTS ) OF THE SOUTH OF INDIA.
SRIMAN NARAYANA, OUR SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD
Part 1 of 21
Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,
At the very beginning , would like to make a honest submission in all humility that this entire write-up , am writing with only one sentiment and that is total prapatti, meaning unconditional voluntary surrender unto the divine lotus of Lord SriKrishna and Lakshmi amma and hence want to completely stay away from technicality and exact sciences, for am of the opinion that if one gets into too much rationale, scientific validation, reasoning and perfect arithmetic logic and an accuracy which is like the exact sciences, then pure devotion gets permanently lost for we are constantly in search of a perfect foundation in each and every aspect which one cannot look for in our spiritual journey towards the supreme personality Lord Sriman Narayana/ Lord Sri Govinda/ Lord Sri Krishna. When our countless srivaishnavite saints, mahatmas and learned gurus have personally experienced him, spoken with the divine consort face to face and have conveyed to us of his complete supremacy with total conviction we need to totally accept their divine experience and make it a part of ours too.
Who is Sriman Narayanaya?
Sriman Narayana is the one and only supreme personality of godhead who has created the entire cosmos and is known as "PARMATMAN". Rest all are to be treated as Jivatmas, who are his creation and need to be subservient to him . The entire world , the sentient (living ) and the in sentient (lifeless) moves only on his directions and none else. He is the super supreme ultimate authority and master of all his creations. His powers are unlimited and matchless. Each and every entity in all the worlds are his divine design, wholly dependent upon him and at the end of every yuga ,each of us has to reach him for he would absorb all his creations back unto him. Having understood that our most beloved Lord Sri Krishna is the only ultimate master of each one of us , without wasting one billionth of a second we need to unconditionally, wholeheartedly surrender unto his divine lotus feet.
THE EASIEST ROUTE/PATH TOWARDS OUR MOST ADORING SRIMAN NARAYANA/ LORD SRI KRISHNA- PRAPATHI- UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
As uttered through his holy lotus mukhakamalam in our highest scripture Srimadh Bhagavadh Gita, we can attain him through Karma yoga, Gyana yoga, Bhakti yoga and last but not the least prapathi.(total unconditional surrender). Each of his devotee can take the path towards him as they deem convenient but the most easiest, fastest and sure shot successful path towards him is Prapathi- total unconditional surrender. The other paths surely will lead us to him but would not nullify the debit credits of our Karma, for example in Bhakti yoga , the credits of our karma could supersede the debits and hence the jivatma once again has to take birth to reap the benefits of the good karma of the past but in total unconditional surrender unto the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna there is no rebirth at all for one has lovingly caught on to his holy feet with the greatest devotion conveying to him a situation of utter helplessness, of total faith in him and him only and a mindset that the individual jivatma cannot leave him and sustain itself for even a lightening second, exactly like a situation of a new born baby who is fully dependent upon its mother , similarly each of the jivatma cannot live without him at all. Also, no matter how evolved one is yet to know his glories fully is just not possible , it is mentioned in our holiest of holy scriptures what is known of him is only a smallest tiniest bit which itself is like a deepest of deep ocean , please imagine how it would be to know his glory in its entirety.
The king of the cosmos, our very known Lord Sri Krishna has kept within himself so many aspects of his divine personality which even the most evolved saints are unable to decode for the very simple reason , one of our lords most holy trait is his utter humility , he does not know to blow his own trumpet unlike us jivatmas who would love to at every interval, feel that we are the very best in all what we do. Another reason, he wants to keep his highest of high state all to himself because if we come to know of his fathomless stature , in fear ,each of us at our atom like existence, will start moving away from him in utter awe , just like Arjuna in the eleventh chapter of Srimad Bhagavadh Gita , when he sees the universal form of our dearest of dear, he is frightened beyond a point and begs our lord to once again regain his normal beautiful , compassionate and highly endearing form which all of us so much love and are so familiar with. This one quality itself, amongst his countless other sterling qualities qualifies only him as the creator who wants to be so very close to his creation. WHAT A MARVEL!
Prapathi is an extremely simple path where our dearest of dear lord SriKrishna , himself will guide us towards his abode, the holiest of holy parmapadam, a place of no return, a state of permanent salvation. How can one forget and miss the direction of the route where the owner (PARMATMA) himself accompanies the traveler (JIVATMA). NO CHANCE AT ALL. Also , when the king and queen are with us in our journey towards them, is there even a smallest of small reason to be frightened, doubtful or unsure of the destination. He is govardhanagiridhara, who in his tiniest little finger carried the entire mighty govardhan mountain, he who showed the entire universe in his small beautiful mukhakamalam as a baby to his most beloved mother and ours too Yashoda amma , can he forsake us , even if we forget him, will he leave us behind ?..NEVER not in one billionth chance.
His mercy, compassion and memory is so strong that each of his creation are forever shielded in his heart and become an integral part of his divine self, no matter whether one is good or bad as he himself mentioned in our divine gita "I am an impartial friend to all , to friends and foes alike". HE IS THE ONELY ONE WHO DOES EXACTLY WHAT HE SAYS AND NEVER EVER FAILS IN HIS COMMITMENT . He behaved with the evil Duryodhana in the same manner as our virtuous Arjuna. HE WILL NEVER EVER FORSAKE HIS CREATION AT ALL, LET EACH OF US REST ASSURED THAT NONE BUT HIMSELF ONLY CAN REDEEM US . THIS IS THE ONLY AND THE HIGHEST TRUTH OF OUR EXISTENCE AND IF THIS IS WHAT WE TOTALLY BELIEVE IN HIM THEN WHY FEAR? PLEASE THROW AWAY EVEN A MOLECULE LIKE FEAR OR A HIMALAYAN DOUBT TOO BOTH HAVE NO PLACE WHEN WE ARE BEING CARRIED BY OUR DIVINE FATHER AND MOTHER. A DOTING MOTHER, EVER CARRIES HER ALL CHILDREN IN HER BOSSOM EVER, NO DOUBT AT ALL.
WE HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE EASIEST OF EASY PATH, MORE SIMPLER THAN BHAKTI , GYANA AND KARMA YOGA THAT TOTAL PRAPATHI IS THE BEST AND MOST EXCELLENT PATH TOWARDS HIM. YES, SURELY WITH PRAPATHI, BHAKTI AND OTHER QUALITIES DEFINITELY WILL ALSO BE PRESENT OTHERWISE WITH THE ABSENCE OF PURE DEVOTION AND SPOTLESS ATTACHMENT TOWARDS HIM HOW CAN WE EVEN THINK OF SURRENDERING UNTO HIS LOTUS FEET? ONLY ONE THING HAS TO BE BORNE, THAT HE IS THE KING WHO IS LEADING US , WE HAVE TO ALLOW HIM TO CARRY US AND IN THIS STATE OF TOTAL PRAPATHI ONE SHOULD NEVER ASK HIM "WHY ME?" WHEN THINGS ARE UNFAVOURBALE FOR US INSTEAD WE SHOULD THANK HIM ETERNALLY, COUNT OUR BLESSINGS AND CONVEY TO OUR MOST BELOVED LORD SRI KRISHA" WHY NOT ME, THE BEST IS HAPPENING TO ME BECAUSE MY BELOVED CREATOR IS WITH ME NULLIFYING MY PRARABDHA KARMA ( ALL THE PREVIOUS ACCUMULATED KARMAS) BECAUSE OF WHICH MY SOUL IS GETTING CLEANSED THOROUGHLY OF ALL ITS PAST RESIDUE GOOD OR BAD AND AM REACHING VERY CLOSE TO MY LORD TO BE HIS FOREVER.
QUALITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO ATTAIN SRIMAN NARAYANA AND LAKSHMI AMMA
The only traits required to attain the divine are compassion, goodness, pure heart which knows for sure he is with us all the time and will never ever leave us no matter in what state we are in, whether at the foothills or the tip of the peak, whether a saint or a sinner. Our dearest Lord SriKrishna himself has conveyed to us towards the concluding chapter of our most divine Srimad Bhagavadh Gita that even if the nastiest of the nasty sinner were to surrender unto him, he would be accounted for as a saint for he has rightly resolved to reach the one and only one. Does any one of us want a further validation , after hearing from his own lotus mukhkamalam?. PERMANENT CONFIRMATION FROM THE ETERNAL KING OF THE ENTIRE COSMOS HIMSELF.
The people in this mortal world, whom we love we trust unconditionally, then so much so for the creator who has created, sustained and is blessing us every second so unconditionally, we need to love , respect , care and shower our highest of high adoration for him. How simple he has made our path to attain him , here in the mortal world one needs to be highly qualified to earn his bread but in the holiest of holy parmapadam neither do we have to possess highest qualification nor do we need to hold powerful positions, all that is needed is a pure heart filled with immeasurable love for our most beloved father and mother , the one and only one. Also, please note, no distinction is made in his abode with regards to caste, creed, gender for the immaculate soul does not have a gender , it is pure and indestructible.
Its only purpose and mission is to reach him into a land of no return filled with pure bliss and happiness. After knowing this principle, none of us need to worry about our social , financial and emotional status , they do not matter to him at all, we are his children and every child no matter whether successful or not is equally loved by its mother, so also , please rest assured, all the irrelevant distinctions in this mortal world does not hold water in his abode, all that is sacrosanct here , does not have authenticity in his abode, for all the equation in this mortal world is subject to contamination whereas in his abode the purest of pure , the kindest of kind and humblest of humble only reside and we can relate to each one of them for none will laugh at our weakness, our innumerable flaws for yatha raja thatha praja ( as the king so the subordinates), just like our Lord Sri Rama is known for ages across all the yugas to be the most compassionate king , and all his subjects were the happiest of happy under his rule for truth, honesty and humane values are the epitome of his personality.
My dear loving sisters and brothers , after knowing who our SRIMAN NARAYANA is , the only easiest of easy route towards him is total unconditional surrender and the only few traits that we need to possess are kindness, humility, purest love , we need to make a communication to him that WE KNOW NONE, WE NEED TO KNOW NONE, WE ENDORSE NONE, WE ARE YOURS AND ONLY YOURS IS THE ONLY PERSONA WE NEED TO CARRY WITH US WHEN WE ARE SO LOVINGLY CARRIED BY HIM....IS IT REALLY VERY DIFFICULT? IF YOU WERE TO ASK ME, THE SIMPLEST OF SIMPLE THING IN THE ENTIRE COSMOS IS OUR LORDS DESIRE TOWARDS US, CAN'T WE IN RIGHT EARNEST GIFT HIM THE SIMPLEST OF SIMPLE OFFERING HE IS REQUESTING FROM US , WHEN HE HAS IN HIS IMMENSE GLORY, LOVE , MERCY AND COMPASSION GIFTED US WITH THIS HUMAN FORM OF OURS. CAN WE CONDUCT OURSELVES AS HE WANTS US, THAT TOO IN OUR OWN INTEREST? AREN'T WE ALL , IN SEARCH OF THAT PERFECT HAPPINESS, PEACE AND BLISS THAT ONLY HE CAN BESTOW ON US?
Let each one of us ,firmly resolve just now, that we will do exactly what he wants of us, let the path towards him be filled with thorns and difficulties, we will surely tread on the complexities of the route , all for him, even the worst of worse suffering will be burned to ashes by him, please let us give it a try, for this path has no failure at all, not even one exception case, let us learn to trust the one and only PARMATMAN for only he CAN DO IT FOR US , HE IS OUR ONLY ONE WHO WISHES THE VERY BEST FOR US,OUR TRUEST WELWISHER. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS WITH US 365 24 7 AND ONLY HE CAN FREE US OF ALL OUR KARMAS , NULLIFY THE BALANCE SHEET OF OUR LIFE AND LOVINGLY CARRY US IN HIS WARMTH HERE AND HEREAFTER.....
SRIMAN NARAYANAM CHARANAM SHARANAM PRABHADHYE, SRIMAN NARAYANAYA NAMAHA.
OM TAT SAT
HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAAMA HARE RAAMA RAAMA RAAMA HARE HARE.
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