Hanuman Chalisa - Verse 8 And 9

Verse 8

Sankar suvan kesri Nandan
Tej pratap maha jag vandan

Verse 9

Vidyavan guni ati chatur
Ram kaj karibe ko aatur

Verse 8 Meaning:

As a descendant of Lord Sankar, you are a comfort and pride of Shri Kesari. With the lustre of your Vast Sway, you are propitiated all over the universe.

Verse 9 Meaning:

You are the repository of learning, virtuous and fully accom-plished, always keen to carry out the behest's of Shri Ram.


Commentary By Prasanth Jalasutram

In Verse 8 Tulasidas describes Lord Hanuman as the descendant of Lord Sankar(Shiva).

In Nan Yaar PARAGRAPH SEVEN Bhagavan Guru Ramana says,

That which actually exists is only atma-svarupa [our own essential self]. The world, soul and God are kalpanaigal [imaginations, mental creations or fabrications] in it [our essential self], like [the imaginary] silver [that we see] in a shell. These three [basic elements of relativity or duality] appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. [Our] svarupa [our 'own form' or essential self] alone is the world; [our] svarupa alone is 'I' [our mind or individual self]; [our] svarupa alone is God; everything is siva-svarupa [our essential self, which is siva, the absolute and only truly existing reality].

'I am' is Siva or our essential self(atma) is Siva.

This is very important as known we see un-necessary conflicts between Vaishnavaits and Sivaits which occur as they lack proper understanding and imagine Lord Shiva Or Vishnu as human beings.

So ramana maharshi suggests one to attain self-reliasation and see for ourselves whether still these conflicts occur or not.

In Sankara Vijayam it is stated that Adi Sankara witnessed bitter infights between Saivites and Vaishanavites and below is his suggestion to them.

Sankara witnessed bitter infights between Saivites and Vaishanavites. He told the King to renovate both the temples and also told the subsects to pray to their Ishta Devata, their pet god but not have fight with other sects and ill-speak about someone's else's faith.Siva will definitely not allow an ill-speaking Saiva into Kailash and Vishnu will definitely not allow an ill-speaking Vaishnavite into Vaikunta.If you do Atma Vichara, then, you will understand that both reside in your Heart, as nameless and formless, as One Principle!

Shri kesari mentioned in Verse 8 is the father of Lord Hanuman.Kesari was a powerful vanara.

In Verse 9 greatness of Lord Hanuman is described by Tulasidas and it also describes how hanuman was a great bhakta of Lord Shri Rama.

Bhagavan Sri Ramana has made it quite clear that people who have had no literary education could also attain the highest knowledge but people of an emotional nature will benefit themselves more by bhakti and people of a reflective mood will have better appeal to jnana.

Sources:

1. http://www.hanuman.com/cha.html

2. http://prashantaboutindia.blogspot.com/2009/06/nan-yar-who-am-i-from-original-tamil.html

3. http://prashantaboutindia.blogspot.com/2010/04/part-11-sri-sankara-vijayam.html

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesari_(Ramayana)

5. http://prashantaboutindia.blogspot.com/2009/08/two-categories-of-teachings-of-bhagavan.html