Posted Date : 19:38 (05/04/2017)   Sakthi Vikatan

Last updated : 10:30 (06/04/2017)

 

Let us Chant Rama’s Name…Receive Benefits Every day!

#SriRamaNavami

 

#SriRamaNavami

Let us Chant Rama’s Name…Receive Benefits Every day!

Today (April 5, 2017) is the birthday of Avatara Purusha Sri Rama. This day is joyously celebrated all over the country as SriRama Navami. Ramayana and Mahabharata are the two eyes of Bharat (India). As the great rivers of India flow, their alluvial soil and water support our sustenance. Likewise, these two Great Epics bring people together and are our cultural legacy.

Though Rama and Krishna are the Avatars of Tirumal, small basic difference exists between the two great epics. Rama does not know what comes next in his life. Krishna knows what comes next. Since they incarnated on earth to defeat, degrade and destroy the evils of the Asuras, Rama was born in Navami and Krishna in Ashtami.  Navami = the ninth Lunar day after the new or full moon.  Ashtami: The 8th day of the lunar month.

King Dasaratha and princess Kosala begot no children. To rectify that deficiency, they performed Putrakāmeṣti (sacrifice performed for obtaining sons) and Rama was the product of the sacrifice. Rama is the epitome of Virtuous Life.

 

He is the peerless son, brother, husband, savior, king, warrior according equal respect to his enemies, and a holy person leading a life of Dharma without remiss, remaining an exemplary roll player and grantor of grace.

As, on the first day, preparations for coronation were taking place and on the second day, his step mother Kaikeyī’s earlier boon created the condition to banish him to the forest, SriRama accepted them with equipoise and smiles. The trials and tribulations of banishment to the forest, the separation from Sita resulting from her abduction by Ravana, and rescuing Sita from Ravana caused untold miseries to Rama.  Not perturbed by anything and emerging victorious, Bhagavan SriRama, born among men, lived an exemplary and impeccable lifestyle.

 

This day being the birthday of SriRama, we should observe a vow, perform Puja and chant his holy name to remove unhappiness from our lives and obtain prosperity and the grace of Lakshmi.

In the evening, participate in the Rāma Nāma Saṅkīrtana Bajanai (group singing of praise of Rama’s name) in the nearby Perumal Temple.  Wherever there is recitation of Rama’s name, therein remains Anjaneya conferring grace to the devotees.