SrIvaikuNta gadhyam 5th chUrNai

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) With the love born out of experiencing bhagavAn, the jIvAthmA, now feeling extremely happy, will always have dharSan (having bhagavAn as his focus) without interest in any other thing. thathaScha anubhUyamAna bhAvaviSEsha: nirathiSaya prIthyA anyath kinchith karththum dhrashtum smarthum … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam 3rd chUrNai part 4

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous In this final part of 3rd chUrNai, we shall see how the jIvAthmA approaches bhagavAn and submits himself unto him. kadhAham bhagavantham nArAyaNam, mama kula nAtham, mama kula dhaivatham, mama kula dhanam, mama bhOgyam, mama mAtharam, mama pitharam, mama sarvam, sAkshAthkaravANi … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam 3rd chUrNai Part 3

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous In the previous part we had seen how the jIvAthmA, who has been liberated from samsAram (materialistic realm) enters SrIvaikuNtam and views the grace and splendour of the place, the central maNdapam (hall) in which on the bed of AdhiSEshan (thousand … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam – 3rd chUrNai Part 2

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous  In this part, we shall look at the meanings of the following, which forms part of chUrNai 3 sarvadhA anubhUyamAnairabi apUrvavath AScharyam Avahadhbhi: krIdASailaSatha sahasrair alankruthai:, kaiSchin nArAyaNa dhivyaleelA asAdhAraNai:, kaiSchith padhmavanAlayA dhivyaleelA asAdhAraNai:, sAdhAraNaischa kaiSchith Suka SArikA mayUra kOkilAdhibhi:, kOmalakUjithai:, … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam – 3rd chUrNai Part 1

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) This chUrNai describes the archirAdhi mArga (the path which starts with archis, light) through which a  jIvAthmA, who has thus surrendered to bhagavAn and gets liberated from samsAram (materialistic realm) travels and attains SrIvaikuNtam. It also describes the many-splendoured … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam – 2nd chUrNai

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) Is it that we have to surrender once to bhagavAn and then forget about it? For getting the benefit (whether it is attaining mOksham (SrIvaikuNtam) or carrying out kainkaryam to pirAtti and bhagavAn), it is enough to do surrender once. … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam – 1st chUrNai Part 3

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous nammAzhwAr surrendering to SrIranganAtha Continuing from the previous part, we shall now see how bhagavadh SrI rAmAnuja describes what  upAyam (the “means” for reaching bhagavAn) is (starting from thasyaiva and ending with charaNAravindha yugalam) and how In the third and last … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam – 1st chUrNai Part 2

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous We have seen how the auspicious qualities of bhagavAn come as waves from a great ocean, in the previous part. We shall continue from there. Who is that entity, having such svarUpa rUpa guNas? He is … paramapurusham bhagavantham nArAyaNam – … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam – 1st chUrNai Part 1

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) Starting with svAdhIna thrividha chEthana and ending with nArAyaNam, this chUrNai describes the superiority of bhagavAn over the svarUpam (basic nature) of chEthana (sentient) and achEthana (insentient) entities and his qualities aligned to his svarUpam. svAdhIna thrividha chEthanAchEthana svarUpa … Read more

SrIvaikuNta gadhyam – pravESam

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous Let us now look at SrI periyavAchchAn piLLai‘s pravESam (introduction) for SrIvaikuNta gadhyam. bhAshyakArar (another name of SrI rAmAnuja which means the author of SrI bhAshyam which is a detailed commentary for vEdha vyAsa’s brahma sUthram) feels that the meanings that … Read more