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SrI UpakAra Sangraham - III (20)
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niryANa adikAram
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Section - 10: SrI NammAzhvAr reveals all these so far described, in the first
verse of his work, Thiruviruttham.
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Sub-section: 4 - The Main Message of this verse
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After showing the six messages that one gets from the AzhvArâs first
verse, SwAmi Desikan, reveals the main message of the verse in a nutshell:
purushOttama-vidyai-yil conna sarvAdhikkyatthai udaiyanAna Sriyah-pati,
jagadupakrutimartyam, âjagatAm upakArAyaâ ityAdikaLiR conna thannudaiya
divya-avatAra-prakAra-tthai, âbahooni mE vyateetAniâ enRu thodangi thAn
aRivitthapadiyE aRinthArkkellAm, adhikAra-anuguNa-upAya-poorti-yaip
paNNikkodutthu, ith dEham viTTAl ini oru piRavi vENdAthapadi sva-prApti-yaik
kodukkum enkiRa ivvupakAram ippATTukku pradhAna-tAtparya vizhayamAkiRathu.
The main purport of this verse is the favour the Lord does to the
jIvas, to enable them to attain Him, the ultimate goal.
We shall now study SwAmi Desikanâs words in detail:
âpurushOttamavidyai-yil conna sarvAdhikkyatthai udaiyanAna Sriyah-patiâ â
The Lord, Who is the Consort of Lakshmee, holds the sovereign control
over everything, as stated in the purushOttama-vidya. PurushOttama Vidya is the
15th Chapter of the Bhagavdgita. In this chapter, the Lord (SrI KrishNa) has
spoken that He exercises sovereign control over the destructible and the
indestructible entities; all the jIvas â both the bound souls and the free
souls; that He is the Supreme Person, (PurushOttama); His greatness is His
being the opposite to all that is evil and His remaining the sole seat of all
auspicious qualities. He is of a different kind from both the types of jIvas
â those who are bound in the prakruti which is non-sentient matter; and those
jIvas who have no connection with the prakruti. He pervades these jIvas,
sustains them and exercises sovereignty over them. He has been declared as the
PurushOttama (Supreme Person) in the vEdas, smritis, itihAsas and purANas. A
jIva attains mOksha by acquiring knowledge about
this PurushOttama and by adopting the means to attain Him.
âjagadupakrutimartyamâ, âjagatAm upakArAyaâ ityAdikaLiR conna
thannudaiyaâ â
SwAmi Desikan quotes from two SlOkas of SrI VishNu PurANa. The first
one, âjagadupakrutimartyamâ is part of the Sloka (5-30-81) â
âsakalabhuvana-sootir-moortir-alpAlpa sookshmAvidita
sakala vEdyair-j~nAyatE yasya na anyaih /
tamajamakrutam-eeSam SASvatam svEcchayainam
jagadupakruti-marttyam kO vijEtum samarthah //â
(Only those, who have well studied all the scriptures that have to be learnt,
will be able to know, and none else, the Lord as the source of the creation of
all the worlds and as of very subtle nature; He is eternal without being born;
He is the Sovereign Controller of everything. He takes incarnation as a human
being by His own will to help the people of the world. Who is capable of
winning Him?)
In this, we take note of the statement that He incarnates as a human
being to help the world.
The second quote, âjagatAm upakArAyaâ is also from SrI VishNu
PurANa:
âjagatAmupakArAya na sA karmanimittajA /
cEshTA tasyApramEyasya vyApinya-vyAhatAtmikA //â (6-7-72)
(The Lordâs birth is not due to any karma of His; He appears only for the
good of the world. He is beyond our knowledge; His actions are under any
bodyâs control.)
SwAmi Desikan continues:
âthannudaiya divya-avatAra-prakAra-tthai, âbahooni mE vyateetAniâ enRu
thodangi thAn aRivitthapadiyE aRinthArkkellAm adhikAr-anuguNa-upAya-poorti-yaip
paNNikkodutthuâ â
The Lord is born only for the good of the world. Such of His divine
incarnation is announced by the Lord himself in the Bhagavadgita in the fourth
Chapter in five SlOkas, beginning âbahooni mE vyateetAniâ, which we have
studied earlier in detail.
The Lord helps all those, who are aware of Him through the scriptures,
to complete the means adopted by them in accordance with their state and stage
of birth.
âith-dEham viTTAl ini oru piRavi vENdAthapadi sva-prApti-yaik kodukkum
enkiRa ivvupakAram ippATTukku pradhAna-tAtparya vizhayamAkiRathu.â --
They will attain Him, after leaving their present bodies so that there is no
need for another birth in this world (samsAra).
This favour of the Lord is the most prominent message of this verse of
the AzhvAr, concludes SwAmi Desikan.
(To continue)
dAsan
Anbil S.SrInivAsan
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