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IGNORANCE IS
BLISS
Our faith rests on the premises of
knowledge and devotion. The ripening of knowledge into devotion is the zenith-
AzvArs have reached this great point -gnAnam kanindha nalam-ààààà àààààà àààà
The AzvAr-s who are blessed with
full of knowledge bereft of forgetfulness by The Lord Himself, indulge in some
weird acts not behoving this status.
SvAmi PiLLai LokAchAryAr analaysis
these actions and explains these.
Instances of AzvArs engaging
emissaries (dhUthu vidal) or looking up at other
deities to reach Him or publicise in palm leaf with pictorial representation the
betrayal of EmperumAn (maDal OOrdhal) are a few of
these.
Having very well known that it is
His look out to come for their refuge and also preaching so, AzvAr-s however
have entangled themselves in such indulgences.
Sri PiLLai lOkachArar categorises
the agjnAnam/ignorance into two. Those which
occur due to ones sheer ignorance and those whcih occur due to
overpowering of devotion over knowledge.
(bakthi
pAravasyam).
In fact he goes a step ahead and
proclaims that
'gnAna vibAgamanA
kAryamAna agjnAnathAlEa varum avai ellAm adikkazhanju
perum'
'ààààààààààààà ààààààààà àààààààààà
ààààà ààà ààààààà ààààààààààà ààààààâ
Srivachana bHushaNam
-91.
The strange acts emanating out of
extreme devotion resulting in acts of ignorance, unlike acts of sheer ignorance,
are extremely valuable and priceless.
Drawing the same analogy, we can say
that EmperumAnar falling at the feet while chanting the 18th pAsuram of
TiruppAvai or Sri Periya Nambi recalling His spiritual guide Sri ALavandhAr or
veNdar/sundars falling at jain temple and so on and so forth all spring from the
extreme devotion or immense knowledge ripening into
devotion
(gnAnam kanindha nalam-ààààà àààààà
àààà)
If we go by normal earthly standards these may
appear like acts of ignorance or forgetfulness. However, measuring these with
the highest benchmark, these are but acts of
extreme devoiton and invaluable and
priceless.
and therefore adikkazhanju
perum.
dasan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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