December 15, 2015

upadhEsa raththina mAlai – 13

December 15, 2015 by raghuram

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous (thaiyil magam inRu) pAsuram 13 mAsip punarpUsam kANmin inRu maNNulagIr thEsu iththivasaththukku Edhennil – pEuginREn kolli nagark kOn kulasEkaran piRappAl nallavargaL koNdAdum nAL 13 Listen Word by word meaning maNNulagIr – Oh residents of this earth! kANmin – Realize that inRu … Read more

SaraNAgathi gadhyam – 5th chUrNai: Part 1

December 15, 2015 by tnkrishnan

srI:srImathE satakOpAya nama:srImathE rAmAnujAya nama:srImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) In the 5th chUrNai, SrI rAmAnuja establishes the supreme being to whom one should surrender. He emphatically says that nArAyaNa is that supreme being . We have already seen that nArAyaNa is composed of two terms, nArA: (collection of various types of sentients … Read more

upadhEsa raththina mAlai – 12

December 15, 2015 by raghuram

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous (manniya seer mArgazhiyil) pAsuram – 12 thaiyil magam inRu thAraNiyIr ERRam indhath thaiyil magaththukkuch chARRuginREn – thuyya madhi peRRa mazhisaip pirAn piRandha nAL enRu naRRavargaL koNdAdum nAL 12 Listen Word by word meaning thAraNiyIr – Oh the residents of this earth! … Read more

Pronunciation Guide

A is used for “aa” sound – example: emperumAnAr, rAmAnuja

E is used for “yay” sound – example: EkAdhasi

I is used for “ee” sound – example: Iswara

O is used for “Oh” sound – example: Om

U is used for “oo” sound – example: Urdhva pundram

zh is used for very strong “l” sound – example: AzhwAr

L is used for strong “l” sound – example: muL (thorn)

N is used for strong “n” sound – example: nArAyaNa

R is used for strong "r" sound - example: puRappAdu (procession); its also used for "tr" sound in thamizh when there is double "R" - example: uRRAr (utRAr - relative)

d is used strong “d” sound – example: garuda

dh is used for meek “d” sound – example: gOvindha

t is used for strong “t” sound – example: ganta

th is used for meek “t” sound – example: vratham

sa, sha, ksha are typed as it is – examples: samskritham, shashti and kshamA

: is used for ha sound in samskritham words – examples: nama: to be said as namaha

Terminologies listing at Reader's Guide