RamarpaNam-91

File 91.

Dated: Aug. 3^rd, 2012.

Jai Sri Ram.

KannanukE Aamadu cAmam.

Of the four objectives cAmam or Bhakti or love of God is not objectionable, as it will fetch the other three effortlessly.  Hanuman is the first among the Rama bhakta sevaks. Sita, the recipient as well as demonstrator of such a bhakti perform it with a difference of Her claim to Rama’s heart and we Their feet.

The Alwars and Acharyas loved God and lived in God. Their bhakti blossoming in to jnana and that turning into intensified bhakti was a spontaneous affair, a fruit of divine grace.

This gives rise to ecstasy in union and agony in separation.

These are more pronounced when the Alwars assume the female attire and for Sita it comes natural. Love of worldly matters or of opposite sex is alienable and not the one aimed at God.

Night time is the most disturbing one to those separate of Love. The Moon, who otherwise a pleasant radiant of cool rays, switch act to that of a hardship monger. The blue waters of the ocean reminding the complexion of Rama enhance the hardship in courtship with the Moon, Her parent place.

ERu sevakanaarku ennaiyum uLaL enminkaLe (Thiruvoimozhi 6-1-10)

Alwar unable bear the delay longing for instant union surrendered to the Lord at Vanamamalai, Kumbakonam and Tiruvallavazh. The Lord did not response caring for the welfare of the world. Then He surrenders to Krishna in VibhavA avataaram.  Realising His bygone days, He surrendered to the Lord of TiruvaNvaNdur. Here again unable to go physically, He in Nayikaa bhavam, resorts to birds in flight to carry His message that

The Lord has one more of His love mate, waiting to be protected.

Sri Andal, in Her Nachiyar Thirumozhi (12-1), similarly pleads with Her relatives that She be carried to Mathura, Aaipaadi, Poigai karai, Pathavilochanam, Govardhanam, or Dwaraka, the place where Krishna will be available.

Similarly Sita prays for proximity with Rama rather than fashioning a thorny bed of roses. For that matter, a leaf, stem, root or the earth that housed a Tulsi plant will suffice to the exclusion of any other thing un-connected to Rama. As Sita sufferings continued;

In the mean time Rama with LakshmaNa were taken to Janaka’s palace and made acquaintances with Sage Sadaananda. 

This episode espouses that Loukika cAmam is thiyajyam and Bhagavad cAmam is ati udEsyam.