THE ONE WAY
EXPRESS ELEVATOR
Yesterday's news item carried a
news 'Prices of elevators go up'.
Elevators are gadgets which take us
up and down.
We have to place ourselves in the
elevators and the elevator take us to the desired heights or
depths.
There are express elevators in high
rise builidngs where some elevators go non stop upto a particular
floor.
The elevators have a role to play
indeed but for a price. They have to be invested at a capital cost, need regular
maintenance and electrcity. These are shared by various
users.
More than all, the person desiring
to be elevated has to go and place himself into the
elevator.
Imagine an eleavtor which comes to
you, hoists you up and takes you through the sun and take you into the divine
path -the archirAdhi and finally place you in VaikunTam.
That would be wonderful. It would
be a fantasy and fiction , one may feel. Not possibnle even theoritically,
scientists may rule out.
Improbable, atheists may
disagree.
Well, we SrevaishNavties can take
pride in actually having such an eleavtor at our disposal. At our disposal? Is
there such a gadget which can lift us to such unimaginable heights. Then, one
may exclaim, why then are we not using such an elevator. Perhaps it is very
costly! We may not be able to afford it. No sir, it does not involve any outlay.
It just requires desire and acceptance. Then, why sir, are we not able to use
this?
It is too good to be true. This
elevator needs basic accptance and conviction from our side. We lack that
perhaps. The eleavtor comes on its own and tries to lift us. We have to express
our desire. No sooner we give our consent (madhiyAl
isaindhOAm) we are up in a jiffy.
The Great Elevator is none other
than EmperumAn Sriman NAryANaNA.
He takes us up through the divine
path to the highest abode.
Sri Kaliayan in the first
thriumozhi of the second ten ' AT koNdu pOI visumb yEARa
vaikkum enthai'
Sri PeriAzvAr clearly
points out this fact
'eri kathirOAn
maNdalathUdu poi yEthi vaikkum yEANi vAngi aruL koduthu..'
This elevator not only showers mercy on us, not only hoists us
through the divien path, not only reaches us to the eternal abode, but unlike
the earthly elevator, does not give us a downward movement. Indeed, it is a one
way elevator. It gives us only upward mvoement.Yes, the staircase after going up
is not needed. The same elevator becoems the desired One at that place.The means
becomes the end at that place.EmperumAn blesses us with kainkarya sAmRajyam there -aruL
koduth
The ladder/the
elevator becomes the sought out one there at the
vaikuntAm.
The means is the end
underlines periyAzvAr
yEathi vaithu
-yEaNi vAngi -aruL koduthu
dasan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org
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