Dear Sri MadhavakaNNan svAmi and Sri Balaji,
Here is yet another reason for sparing the life of mahabali.
dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan.
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From: Padmanabhan
To: ramanuja ; Oppiliappan ; vanamamalai ; divyadesams
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:44 PM
Subject: Magnanimity 5
thrivikramA towards mAvali
A person gets property in possession of the other by doing some con tricks.
What happens/ The whole world abuses the trickster but never goes into the
background. The fact that the possessor of the property is not the legal owner
is never considered at all. The trickster is blamed. The giver to the trickster
is left unassessed.
Here the trickster is none other than the Almighty and the tricked is
'mahA-bali'
This is what poizhgai AzhwAr opines 'koNdAnai allAl koduthArai yAr pazhippAr?"
mudhal thiruvandhAdhi 79;
What is the real background? one may ask. Well. As everyone would agree the two
thathvam-s namely chith and achith are subservient to the third -Eswaran. This
being so, mahA-bali overlooking the subservience of the worlds to the Lord
started taking possession of the land and in the process made indhrA landless.
The real snatcher of the property was thus was mahA-bali and not the other way
round, as is perceived. What happens to a person who steals the property of the
Almighty. He is bound to get death sentence. Did this happen?
No. Why? The Lord felt that since, this mahA-bali had a good attitude of giving
to one and all, his life should be spared.
'vATTamilA vaN kai" says nam-AzhwAr in the thiruvoizmohi 7-5-6 ; The tireless
giving arms is considered as the saving grace for otherwise he is posessed with
egoism and egotism. Akin to rAvaNA who took away the property of perumAL,
mahA-bali also took away the property. Hence, similar to rAvaNA he was also to
have died.
This is what is mentioned in the Edu to the vyAkyAnam to the aformentioned
pAsuram
" rAvaNAdhigaLai p pOle thalaiayai aRuthup pogadavoNNAmaikku
nibandhanamuNdAgaiyAlEa, azhiyach seidhilan"
Therefore, we should realise that though mahA-bali should also have attained
death like rAvaNA, he was spared due to his 'audhArya'guNam
which again highlights the Lord's
'audhAryam"
dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan
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