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Women in Sri Ra:ma:yana -3
chalam | towards our negative traits. Let us contemplate on
auspicious qualities of God and have detachment
abhya:se:nathu kaunthe:ya vaira:gye:na cha towards the unreasonable desires for objects of senses.
gruhyathe: || Let us learn lessons from the episode of Kaike:yi and

(Bhagavadgi:tha, 6th Chapter, 35th slo:ka) Mantthara!

“Undoubtedly, O Arjuna, the mind is difficult -Translated by Ramakrishna Tupurani from
to restrain but by practice and by detachment it can Telugu BN article of Dec 2021.
be tamed!”

Let us practice virtues and have dispassion

- A:rthi Prabandham continued form page 16 feet of Sriyahpathi Sri:mathsundaraja:ma:thrude:va

A:rthi Prabandham #13 (Azhakiyamanava:lan) and get unshackled from the
shackles of this samsara.

Those who live devotedly at the lotus feet of pu:magal ko:n thennarangar
those who do three times mangala:sa:sanam to pu:ngazharkuppa:dugama:y
Emberuma:na:r will be greatly blessed and graced by
all the a:zhwa:rs whose devotion to the Lotus Feet of tha:m magilum selvachchadako:par – the:n
the Lord is unsurpassed. malartha:tku |

ethira:san va:zhi yethira:san va:zhi ae:yndiniya pa:dugama:m endai ira:ma:nusanai

yethira:san va:zhi yenrenre:ththi – sadira:ga | va:yndenadu nenjame:! va:zh||

va:zhiva:rgal tha:linaikki:zh va:zhva:rgal
peththiduvar
“Hey! Manas! Take refuge in the divine lotus

a:zhva:rgal thangalarul. || feet ofYathirajasa:rvabhowma and attain enormous
eternal comforts and be happy. Yathira:ja, regarded
(A:rthi Prabandham # 13) as the most endearing, soft and sweetest ‘pa:duka:s’ of

Manava:la Ma:muni says in A:rthi prabandham ‘prapannaku:tasttha’ Sri:Namma:zhwa:r whose divine
feet are enchanting like the nectar filled beautiful
Those who live blissfully in the shade of those flowers and who represents the divine pa:duka:s
persons who pray, eulogize and do mangala:sa:sanams of the divine lotus feet of Lord Sri:Rangana:ttha,
thrice to Yathira:ja would receive the divine grace of - the epitome of beauty - the divine consort to
the ten a:zhwa:rs in full. SriMaha:lakshmi who has emerged from a lotus and

A:rthiprabandham # 10 who dwells in the lotus.”

Jai Ramanuja! Jai Ramanuja!! Jai Ramanuja!!!
Manava:la Mahamuni is entreating his manas-
“Oh!Manas! Dwell at the sweet divine lotus feet of - Translated by Ramanujamma Mudumbai from
Bhagavad Ra:ma:nuja whose place of dwelling is Telugu.
in the divya pa:duka:s of Sri Namma:zhwa:r who
in turn is the divine pa:duka:s of the divine lotus

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