"Kurai Ondrum Illai"...

I have pleasure in reproducing some excerpts from Shri Mukkur Lakshminarasimhachariar's book "Kurai Ondrum Illai" with his blessings.

பக்தி விஷயங்க்ள் - "Kurai Ondrum Illai"...




Mukkur Sri Lakshmi Narasimachariyar, a devotee of Mattapalli Maalolan, was a great exponent in Vedas, Upanishads, Sastras, Puranas etc. Esp. his exposition of “Vishnu Sahasranamam” is marvelous and unique; his lectures held at Asthika Samajam at Chennai drew lot of crowds, people from all waks of life....young and old. His discourses have been compiled and published in 'Kalki', a tamil weekly, for 47 weeks under the heading “Kurai Ondrum Illai”. I do my best to translate & compile a few selected excerpts from that tamil book for the benefit of our friends (Lord forgive me if any mistake is found) :


Mukkur Swamiji commences his discourse :

The River Yamuna accumulated Punyas whereas the River Godavari earned a bad name. Do you know the reason? Sri AandaaL, the great devotee of Lord Krishna praised Yamuna by reducing the flow of water, level of water to give way to Vasudevar who carried Sri Krishna over his head in a basket on his way to Gokulam; thereby Yamuna attained the fame and glory. Whereas River Godavari did not help to the expected level. In the period of Sri Rama Avatar, Ravan takes away Sri Sita forcibly, she weeps & weeps and while crossing Godavari River, she says : “Hey Godavari....I am a woman and you too, but you are keeping silent when such an injustice is taking place to me and you are simply watching what is going on. However, my husband Sri Rama will come in search of me and at least please tell him that I have been forcibly taken by Ravan without fail.” But Godavari has not told anything to Sri Rama came when he came to the river bank in search of Sri Sita, owing to fear of Ravan.
The blemish happened to Godavari in 'Threthaa Yugam', disappeared only in 'Kali Yugam'. How? That has disappeared when Sri Aandaal was born in Sri Villiputtur and 'Periaazhwar' named her as “Godaa”.

Swamiji adds :

There is a reason for telling the above story. People should understand what is called 'Nama Samyam' ....'Agreement of Names'....That is the reason, our elders christened Lord's names to newborn - Rama, Krishna, Govinda, Mahesha, Muruga etc. - falling in line with this 'Nama Samyam' and when we call children with those names, it is believed lot of good things will happen to all members of the family.

'Garuda Puranam' says : 'PathEyam Pundareekaksha Nama Sangeerthanaamrutham'. This means that it is a very,very huge bundle which tells Lord's good qualities. [Kalyana Gunaas]

We need not worry when it is said 'bundle'. In those good old days, people who wish to go to far off places called Yathra walked only taking a bundle containing food packets and they use it on the journey sitting by the side of tanks under shady trees. So too, for everything to go smoothly in our life-journey, that 'Pundareekaksha Nama Sangeerthanaamrutham' bundle is essential to wipe out all our difficulties, tiresomeness & countless irksome feelings.

See what Periazhwar says -

'Ninainthirunthe chiramam

TheernthEn Nemi NediyavanE”, which means,

We should do Nama Sangeerthanam keeping Lord in our minds. Sangeerthanam means uttering Lord's names always and without break.

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