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धर्मो धीपरिशुद्धिसिद्ध इतरत् कोलाहलं केवलम्।।
Tirukkuṟaḷ 0034
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Replying to @longhandnotes @hhrobbstark
Besides lokasaṅgraha, the Bhagavadgītā, by calling those who accomplish yajña as "kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ"/"they whose impurities are destroyed" (4:30 tinyurl.com/BhG430), gives another purpose of yajña so to speak, commonly called citta-śuddhi in Śāṅkara Vedānta.
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Replying to @tawnyUwU @Aprameyah_
I'm curious for rasika-s'/vidvān-s ' views on whether justice is best done to the spirit of this song I heard sung twice live this Navarātri, on an Ābherī...
youtu.be/u1oUvLp9JQs
or Rañjanī...
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or Amṛtavarṣiṇī kind of night.
youtu.be/Brc4pgDKatk.
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Tirumantiram verse 762 can be heard here from Svāmī Śivayogānanda, speaking of what is eternal lying hidden beneath all that is ephemeral and apparent, in the context of Bhagavadgītā 07:05.
Tirumuṟai 10.03.14.23
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Replying to @AgentSaffron
There was no embargo on the use of green in iconography in Tamil Siddha or Bhakti traditions.
Tirumūlar's Tirumantiram 29:
bit.ly/2FRecou(Mother as green-hued)
Kambar's Rāmāvatāram 2.6.1(Gaṅgaipaṭalam):
youtube.com/watch?v=DAZaTcjJ… (Rāma as emerald-hued, 53m1s-1h0m43s)
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Replying to @Gopalee67
Occasion to recall Tirumantiram 65
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From That God, we are told, emerged two one-of-a-kind languages...
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The Tirumantiram verse (bit.ly/3cLDpU3) is cited contextually in this Saṃskṛtam lecture which is part of the ongoing Gītāmṛta Śrutivarga by Saṃskṛta Bhāratī Uttara Tamiḻ Nāḍu.
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Speaking of the Tirukkuṟaḷ in the context of Śaiva texts, a Tirumuṟai text with which it shares headings is the Tirumantiram, on abstinence from meat (ytamizh.com/thirukural/chapt…; bit.ly/3gpZmKx) and alcohol (ytamizh.com/thirukural/chapt…; bit.ly/3xo0X9C) to name two.
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Such hymns of infinite glory alluded to decimally have had exponents as illustrious as Tirumūlar...
thevaaram.org/en/thirumurai_… Tirumuṟai 10.01
...and Jñānasambandhar..
thevaaram.org/en/thirumurai_… Tirumuṟai 01.079.03
...and Aruṇagirināthar.
kaumaram.com/thiru/nnt0607_u… (Kollimalai)
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Replying to @Anand_Venkatram
Case in point: What links the 'anchor points' of an ūrdhva-puṇḍra and the gaze instructions for dhyāna everywhere from the Kṛṣṇārjuna Saṃvāda to the Tirumantiram?
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Replying to @VokkalaO
Another "tip-top" variation seen throughout the Yoga-Vedānta continuum of discourse and praxis...
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Shown further were the humbling of Laṅkā by Hanumān and Rāma, Sītā's first trial by fire and second exile, and the instruction of Rāmakathā by Vālmīki to Lava and Kuśa.
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A Rāma-paṭṭābhiṣeka scene in gilded majesty juxtaposed with a Ṛṣabhārūḍha-somāskanda-mūrti at the main Golu at Tirumayilai Śukreśvara/Veḷḷīcuvarar temple served as a cue to revisit Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 03:16:43.
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Replying to @longhandnotes @TIinExile
The form now called Yoga-āñjaneya, evoking Bhagavadgītā 06:10-15*, seems Hanumān's in Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 4:65:35 to the daunted search party at the seashore.
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archive.org/details/Ramayana… 05:28
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Replying to @longhandnotes @hsraghav
Tulasīdāsa begins his Rāmakathā recalling devotees redeemed by Rāmanāma, recapitulating their appearance in the Ādikāvya and serving as a Rāmāyaṇa pravacana in miniature evoking the grace of Rāma-darśana in each instance.☀️🪷
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Replying to @longhandnotes @Anand_Venkatram
In the Ādikāvya, Mataṅga is shown as one who accepted such a one as Śabarī (seen by some as of Śabara antecedents) under his care, and after whom not just a hermitage but a forest is named.🌳🐘🕉
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 03:74:21
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Replying to @minjitr
This conversation thread is in a way on poetry pervading the inanimate with animate sensibilities, from the Ādikāvya itself.
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How come it took this long for us to add to this thread this instance from the start of the Ādikāvya itself, of the pellucid waters of the Tamasā likened to the minds of the righteous? 🙂
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Such reticence at its best may merit classing with that shown in Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 4:33:39(valmikiramayan.net/kish/sarg…) and count for godlinesses of mārdava & hrī (gitasupersite.in/read/srimad…), if grounded and backed by abhaya(not dambha!xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1…).
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If often find myself thinking that abhayam appearing foremost in the list of divine inheritances here isn't coincidental, since it seems to be a pre-requisite for all other virtues to become fully manifest.
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The man to be looked up to is famously a pūrvabhāṣī (without being at odds with the distinction of being a mitabhāṣī! xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1…).
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 02:01:13
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अत्र श्रीरामचन्द्रस्य किञ्चन नाम दृष्टं पूर्वभाषी इति ।
पूर्वभाषिणे नमः ।🙏
बुद्धिमान्मधुराभाषी पूर्वभाषी प्रियंवदः।
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#वाल्मीकिरामायणम्
#संस्कृतम्
#रामनवमी
पूर्वभाषी - आगतान् प्रति प्रथमभाषणेन स्वाभिमुख्यप्रदर्शकः ।
अपि पूर्वभाषिणो वयम् ?😊
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Capping the battlefield climax of the epic, occurs one more "virtue list" that reads like it could well be from a sahasranāma, in the testimony by Mandodarī of her understanding of who Rāma is.
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...and controls not just what's on the water but the water itself in the seven-fold Strait of Bindusaras!
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1:43:09-12
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निर्वाच्या न हि सप्तभङ्गिसरणी वाग्भाजनाद् आहवे॥
//The Strait is Schrödinger’s waterway: simultaneously passable and impassable depending on which Iranian institution you ask and which flag your tanker flies.//
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Replying to @longhandnotes @karatalaamalaka
Śrī Rāma keeps āhāra-niyama in his tapas checklist even in his inquiry to Śabarī for whom sheer age may have made it a given, Svāmī Ramaṇacaraṇatīrtha notes.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3:74:08-09
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Replying to @longhandnotes @srupana
Rāma being shown as both Dharma-vigraha and Brahma-vigraha in the Ādikāvya seems in keeping with the understanding of how Brahman has Dharma as a prabhāva or vibhūti (and Kāma too: xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1…).
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Śatāvadhānī Dr R Ganesh notes how the Jīvanadharmayoga promotes a view of the jagat as a prabhāva (expression of grandeur) of Brahman and hence as much of Brahman as sunlight is of the Sun, and Dharma as nothing but this expression undistorted.
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