NOTE: Readers having difficulty in reading the text may need to change their encoding to UTF-8. --------------- srI: SrI UpakAra Sangraham - III (20) -- niryANa adikAram -- Section - 10: SrI NammAzhvAr reveals all these so far described, in the first verse of his work, Thiruviruttham. ---- Sub-section: 4 - The Main Message of this verse ---- 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 ---- DELETE button is history. Unlimited mail storage is just a click away. Go to https://edit.india.yahoo.com/config/eval_register ------------------------------------ Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org Yahoo! 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