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Monday, July 20, 2020

Pooja for Grand Temple at Ayodhya for Sree Rama on Aug 5, 2020


ஜகம் புகழும் புண்ணிய கதை இராமனின் கதையே !


Ramayanam is the undiluted history – greatest Ithihasa Purana of Bhagwan Sree Rama.   In this Epic, Srimad Valmiki   narrates the journey of Virtue to annihilate vice. This epic poem Ramayana is a smriti which is translated as "from memory".  Sree Rama was born in the holy land of Ayodhya .. ..  Maryadha purush - perfect man’s adherence to dharma, Lord Rama is the epitome of all virtues and the perfect human being who abandoned the throne and served exile in the forest for the sake of honour of his beloved father.

அகில உலகங்களிலும் மிகச் சிறந்த குணவான் ஸ்ரீராமபிரான்.    கௌசல்யை பெற்ற மகன்,   சமுத்திரத்தின் காம்பீர்யமும்,  இமய மலை போன்ற தைரியமும்,  ஸ்ரீமன் நாரணன்  பராக்ரமும், சந்திரன் போன்ற பிரியமான தோற்றமும், கோபம் வந்தால் காலாக்னி போலவும், பொறுமையில் பூமிக்கு சமமாகவும் உள்ளவன்.

வடக்கே இமயமலையில் மானச சரஸிலிருந்து உற்பத்தியாகி இடைவிடாத நீரொழுக்கொடு கூடிய, சூரிய குலத்து அரசர்களின் நல் ஒழுக்கத்தைப் போல ஓடிவருகின்ற நதிதான் சரயு எனும் நதி,  உயிரினங்களுக்கெல்லாம் சக்தியளித்து  காப்பாற்றி வளப்படுத்துகின்றது.   இந்த  புண்ய சரயு நதி ஓடி வளப்படுத்தும் நாட்டிற்கு கோசல நாடு என்று பெயர். நீர்வளமும் நிலவளமும் நிரம்பிய நாடு கோசல நாடு. அங்கே இயற்கை அன்னை படைத்திருக்கும் அரிய காட்சிகளே கண்டும் கேட்டும் அனுபவிக்கத்தக்க அருமையான காட்சிகளாகும்.  சரயு நதி தீரத்திலே பெருமைகொண்ட மாண் நகரை அரசாண்ட மன்னன் தசரதன்  சக்கரவர்த்தி. ஏழு உலகங்களிலும் அவனது செங்கோல் சிறப்புற்று விளங்கியது.  இராம காதையின் நாயகனான ஸ்ரீ இராமபிரானை, இப்பூவுலகுக்கு அளித்த தருமமூர்த்தி, தசரத மன்னன்.

இவ்வாறு பல்வேறு வளங்களும் செழித்த காலத்திலே மக்கட்பேறு பெற்ற தசரத சக்கரவர்த்தி, புனித நீராடி, செல்வங்களை பலருக்கும் வழங்கினான். வசிட்ட முனிவரோடு சென்று மகன்களைக் கண்டான்.   ஏழு ஆண்டுகளுக்கு வரி இல்லை. கருவூலத்தில் உள்ள பொருள்களை ஏழைகள் அள்ளிக்கொள்ளவாம் என்று பறை அறையும்படிச் செய்தான்.  படையெடுப்பு இல்லை. அரசர்கள் தம் ஊர் செல்லலாம். அந்தணர் குறையில்லாமல் சடங்குகளைச் செய்யலாம். ஊரில் விழாக்கள் நடைபெறட்டும் – என்றெல்லாம் கூறினான். ஆலயங்களைப் புதிதாக்குங்கள். அந்தணர் வாழுமிடம், மன்றச்சதுக்கம் ஆகியவற்றைப் புதிதாக உருவாக்குங்கள். கடவுள் பூசை மூன்று வேளையும் சிறப்பாக நடைபெறட்டும் – என்று  ஆணையிட்டான்.  இவை கம்ப ராமாயணத்தில் இராமன் பிறப்பு ஸ்லோகங்கள்:

'ஆலையம் புதுக்குக; அந்தணாளர்தம்
சாலையும், சதுக்கமும், சமைக்க, சந்தியும்;
காலையும் மாலையும், கடவுளர்க்கு, அணி
மாலையும் தீபமும், வழங்குக' என்றனன்.



Thiru Ayodhya, also known as Saket is the ancient and holy city where Lord Sri Rama, the hero of Sri Ramayana was born.  Ayodhya  was the capital of the ancient Kosala Kingdom.  Ayodhya is on the  banks of the river Sarayu.  Valmiki is  believed to have begun writing the Ramayana in Ayodhya. Its opening chapters recount the magnificence of the city, the glories of its monarch and the virtues, wealth and loyalty of its people. Geographically it is in Uttar Pradesh closer to  Faizabad city.  Hopefully Covid fears would end soon and all devotees should be celebrating – there is more significant reason now !  August 5 has been finalised as the date for the Ram Mandir ‘bhoomi pujan’ in Ayodhya

                         Today (20.7.2020) is Aadi Punarvasu ~ masa thirunakshathiram of Sree Ramapiran -  generally on Punarvasu day at Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam there would be  purappadu of Sree Ramapiran with Sitadevi and Lakshmana at Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam.  In testing times, we pray to Sri Rama Piran for saving us all from Covid and all other troubles. Lord Rama descended on earth for the purpose of upholding righteousness and rewarding virtue.  A grand temple coming at the very place where He was born makes us feel mightily happy.

ஆடினர் அரம்பயைர்; அமுத ஏழ் இசை
பாடினர் கின்னரர்; துவைத்த பல் இயம்;
‘வீடினர் அரக்கர்’ என்று உவக்கும் விம்மலால்.
ஓடினர்,  உலாவினர்,  உம்பர் முற்றுமே.]

Kavi Chakravarthi Kambar hails the birth of Yuga Purush Sri Ramapiran thus .. the divine dancers danced merrily; mellifluous songs were played in instruments, Devas and others danced celebrating that the evil would vanished once for all ~ there was merriment everywhere celebrating the birth of Sri Rama. Here are some photos from Sree Rama Navami Uthsavam day 1 on 17.3.2018.

On 9th Nov 2019, came a happy ending for all and more specially for the devouts in the Ayodhya case by the Supreme Court of India.  The Apex Court ordered the disputed land (2.77 acres) to be handed over to a trust (to be created by Government of India) to build the Ram Janmabhoomi (reverred as the birthplace of Hindu deity, Ram) temple.  Now more is set to happen.  Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modiji  and a host of other VIPs, including Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, will attend the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ram temple in Ayodhya on August 5, the temple trust said. Grand preparations are on the ceremony, which will revolve around the installation of a 40 kg silver brick as the foundation stone by the Prime Minister, said the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra, which has been tasked with the temple building.

Nritya Gopal Das, president of the the trust mandated by the Supreme Court, said the "bhoomi pujan" will be performed by placing the silver brick at the sanctum sanctorum. Three-day-long Vedic rituals will be held before the main ceremony, which will begin on August 3, reported news agency Press Trust of India.  More than 50 VIPs will attend the event, which was delayed by more than two months due to the coronavirus outbreak. Now, in keeping with the safety rules, the guest list has been kept limited. Giant CCTV screens have been put up across Ayodhya so the devotees can watch the programme, the Trust said.

All senior  leaders associated with temple movement have been invited, the Trust said. The list will include BJP veterans Lal Krishna Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi and senior leaders like Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar and Sadhvi Ritambhara..Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aadityanath will also join the "bhoomi pujan" ceremony, along with seniors in the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, including its chief Mohan Bhagwat.   Uddhav  Thackeray -- who ended his party's 35-year alliance with the BJP recently -- visited Ayodhya after taking oath as the Maharashtra Chief Minister. "Shiv Sena has removed the obstacles in the path of construction of Ram Temple. No invitation is needed to visit Ayodhya," said Sena MP Sanjay Raut.

The Trust -- set up on the directions of the Supreme Court to facilitate the construction -- met on Saturday to set a date. Initially it had mentioned two dates -- August 5 and 9 -- as auspicious and later zeroed in on August 5. The makeshift temple built in Ayodhya opened on June 8 after the Centre allowed the opening of religious places as Unlock2 was rolled across the country. In March, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had presided over a ceremony to move the idol of Lord Ram from a tin structure where it was kept for decades to a new fiber one.  

According to authentic sources, “Since a bulk of the stones required for the temple were sculpted and ready, the construction of the temple could be completed between 36 to 42 months.” So sooner devotees can have darshan of Lord Shri Rama in a beautiful temple in His birthplace.

Strange are the ways of people !  -  the  politics of Nepal has been bewildering and rather messy  in recent times.  Nepal’s  Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has irked many a devout Hindu Indians by claiming that Shri Rama — contrary to the Indian belief — was Nepali, and the site of his birth, Ayodhya, lies in the Nepalese territory. In doing so, Oli seems to have irked many of his own country men and women as well. In a perplexing speech, he stated that Ram’s birthplace is in Thori, not far from the city of Birgunj.

For centuries -  Ramayana, the names of its characters and the places associated with them have been a lexicon  of power. Oli’s remark is less about the fact that Ram might have been Nepalese and appeared to be more of a covert attempt to assert cultural and economic independence and different alliances, at a time when the power dynamics of the region are shifting. Oli was duly slammed. His future looks uncertain. In a damage control mode, couple of days later, the  Nepalese Foreign Ministry  sought to clarify Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s statement claiming that they  were “not linked to any political subject and have no intention at all to hurt the feeling and sentiment of anyone”.

This isn’t the first time a political leader has sought to gain traction — or assert power — by claiming kinship or association with Ram and his birthplace. Across millennia stories, names and places of the Ramayana have been used and reused, and cropped up in places thousands of kilometers away, to produce and reflect great political changes. In the fourteenth century, an epidemic forced King U Thong of Lavo Kingdom to shift his capital and build a new capital city of Ayutthaya, a city in Thailand, and to establish a kingdom there. U Thong came from a city and a capital that also had associations with the Ramayana — Lavo Kingdom’s capital was Lopburi — that is, a derivation of ‘Lavapuri’ — the city of Lava. This isn’t the only city or kingdom to be named after Ram’s son. Lahore in Pakistan and Laos, the South East Asian kingdom, also share this distinction.  U Thong not only  referenced the birthplace of Ram in his new capital, he went a step further than Oli and gave himself a new title — Ramathibodi I, that is, “Lord Ram.” This title remains in use today — even though a different dynasty now rules Thailand, the Chakri dynasty, which displaced the rulers of Ayutthaya. But the Chakri kings, monarchs of a Buddhist country, continued the tradition of adopting Rama as a name and title. The  present king of Thailand, known as Maha Vajiralongkorn, is also styled as  King Rama X. 

Jai Sreeram !

adiyen Srinivasa dhasan
Mamandur Veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar
20.7.2020









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