Today is the blessed day - Sri Rama Navami.
Today is the blessed day - Sri Rama Navami. We are pleased to share a brief part of a discourse on Lord Rama by our own Sri Maha Periva, who was the Rama-avatara in our times and blessed us all with a true vision of how Rama lived all through his life in the most noble, truthful and Dhaarmic way. Let us get the nectar of His speech now: "Raama Taaraka Naama The derivation of words from their root syllables each of which is the root of a verb signifying an action, is, in the Sanskrit language a very instructive excercise. Hindu religious literature is replete with such derivations for almost every word that it uses. Each of the names of God like Rama, Krishna, Siva , Narayana, etc. -- in fact, each one of the names of God in the various lists of thousand names of God (= sahasra-naamas) has been assigned several derivations from their root syllables. 'The one in whose memory yogis revel in the bliss of brahman' -- is the meaning of the word Rama. ramante yogino-nante brahmaa...