Naam Ramayana 3 – The illuminator of the universe’s illuminator illuminates our heart

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thank you the fifth and sixth names chandakiran kullamandan kullamandan is the ornament that ornament of the kul kula the kul whose kula the dynasty of chandakirana who has blazing rays that is the sun so lord ram is often called as suryavamshi or raghu vamshi and lord krishna is called as chandra vamshi so lord ram appeared in the suryavamsha and he is considered to be the greatest raghu vamshi or suryavamshi now krishna describes in the bhagavad gita also how the dynasty comes down how the spiritual knowledge came down from him so vivasvan the sun god and a dynasty that comes down from him is called as the dynasty of sun now in the traditional indian setting there are these two prominent dynasties and when the lord descends he can descend anywhere but sometimes he chooses to descend in a particular dynasty and in this particular case as kunti maharani says that chandana can appear anywhere but it appears in malaya quite frequently malaya chandana becomes famous so the lord can appear anywhere but he chooses to appear in that dynasty and normally the sun is the illuminator of the whole world but the lord is the illuminator of even the sun when we chant the gayatri mantra actually we are meditating the vaishnavas explain not just in the sun but not just in surya but in surya narayan the manifestation of narayan who is residing within surya who is the aradha dev of surya and it is to him we are asking for illumination so the lord is the illuminator of the universe’s illuminator and when he descended in that universal illuminator dynasty he became the illuminator of that dynasty also he became the greatest greatest jewel in that dynasty shiromani chanda kirana kulla mandana rama he became the ornament of that dynasty and shreemad dasharatha nandana rama so shreemad now in that dynasty how did the lord appear through a particular king that king’s name was dasharatha so dasharatha a person who was so valorous that he could fight with multiple warriors and he could fight on multiple chariots now nandana refers at one level to sun krishna is nandana nandana so here lord rama is referred to as dasharatha nandana but along with that nandana nanda comes from ananda so nandana is one who gives joy so dasharatha nandana when the sun is born the father becomes joyful similarly dasharatha became supremely joyful when he got the sun actually for dasharatha he had to do he was striving for a son which is the actual desire of a parent to have children and especially when the parent is the illustrious sire of a great sire of a great dynasty then there is a responsibility to beget children for continuing the dynasty and in fact among the various kinds of duties that debts that we have there are considered three kinds of debts so devas, rishis and pitras and debt to the pitras the ancestors is fulfilled by begetting progeny and continuing the dynasty and all the more so for dasharatha it was important because he was the king and not just a descendant of not just continuing the dynasty it was important but providing a virtuous son who would virtuously rule the citizens and take care of them as a father takes care of the son of his children was important for him as a responsibility so he desired and prayed and strived to get a son and eventually he did a great sacrifice and after that sacrifice he got a son he got four not one but four sons and among them the eldest was although he loved all his sons the eldest outshone everyone in qualities and virtue and beauty and everything and he was the greatest joy of dasharatha maharaj shreemad dasharatha nandana rama so that lord who chanda kirana kulla mandana who is the illuminator of the universe illuminator he can illuminate our heart and our life too often we get confused should i do this or should i do that sometimes good appears bad and bad appears good sarvarthaan viparitaam that is the characteristic of the mode of ignorance that the wrong appears right and the right appears wrong but when we become devoted to the lord then and when the lord manifests in our heart then he illuminates us from within and then we can understand clearly what is right and what is wrong and act accordingly and similarly when we when we invoke the lord present in our heart similarly he becomes nandana he won’t become our son but he will become the source of happiness for us also just as he became the source of happiness for his father such is the lord whose presence we invoke by chanting his sweet names