January 17, 2019

periya thiruvandhAdhi – 66 – sUttAya nEmiyAn

January 17, 2019 by tnkrishnan

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai In the previous pAsuram, AzhwAr told his heart to carry out service to emperumAn. In this pAsuram, he tells his heart that emperumAn is such that he destroys enemies, he is sweet and he is the ordained entity for us … Read more

thiruvAimozhi nURRandhAdhi – 30 – sanmam pala seydhu

January 17, 2019 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous Essence of thiruvAimozhi 3.10 Introduction In this pAsuram, mAmunigaL is following AzhwAr’s pAsurams of saying “for me who has my senses fully for the sake of bhagavAn, there is no shortcoming” and is mercifully explaining it. How is that done? AzhwAr … Read more

thiruvAimozhi – 8th centum

January 17, 2019 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full series Previous Centum Audio Focus of this centum – sathyakAmathvam – bhagavAn, the one with all his desires fulfilled Highlights from vAdhi kEsari azhagiya maNavALa jIyar‘s introduction AzhwAr mercifully highlighted the strong hurdle which is eliminated by bhagavAn in the previous decad;in this centum, … 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