(Note: Please ignore the numbering for this submission as part 15-
19. This has been done to take care of some administrative problem I
got myself into because of inadequate planning on my part. The
sequence numbering will be correct from the next write-up -
kRshNamAcAryan).
tri-mUrti in tiruvAimozhi ? Part 15-19.
tiruvAimozhi ? SRS Part
19. (Ramanuja Mission ? Part 15-19).
3.10.9 (28):
duhkam il j~nAnac cuDar oLi mUrti tuzhAi ala'ngal perumAn
mikka pan mAya'ngaLAl vikirutam Seidu vENDum uruvu koNDu
nakka pirAnODu ayan mudalAga ellArum evaiyum tannuL
okka oDu'nga vizhu'nga vallAnaip peRRu onRum taLarvilanE.
In this pASuram, AzhvAr again emphasizes the Supremacy of emperumAn,
and points out that He is One endowed with blemishless knowledge, a
tirumEni that shines with divine luster and decorated with the tirut-
tuzhAi garland, and One Who takes different forms as He chooses and
performs different actions that are not normally encountered amongst
us. He is the same One who swallows everything in this world
including rudra and his creator brahmA during pralaya, and keeps them
all in His stomatch safe until the next cycle of creation. AzhvAr
declares that by surrendering to Him as the only Supreme Deity,
AzhvAr does not have the slightest concern about his choice.
duhkam il ? As One who has no sorrow or unhappiness of any kind
j~nAnac cuDar ? As One who is the all-knowing; sarvaj~nan
oLi mUrti ? As One Who is resplendent with the tejas (effulgence)
that is natural to Him
tuzhAi ala'ngal ? As One Who is uniquely identified by His tirut-
tuzhAi garland
perumAn ? The Lord of all
mikka ? exceeding everyone
pal ? (with His) countless
mAya'ngaLAl ? powers
vENDum uruvu koNDu ? assuming whatever form He needs for the
particular actions
vikirutam Seidu ? performing extraordinary actions
nakka pirAnODu ayan mudalA ellArum evaiyum okka tannuL oDu'nga
vizhu'nga vallAnai ? (such as) the capablility of swallowing
everything and everyone starting from rudra and brahmA and containing
them in a small corner of His stomach
peRRu ? by choosing Him as My Lord
taLarvu onRum ilan ? I have the least concern.
One of the rahasya-s of bhagavAn's incarnations that is referred to
here is that He assumes whatever form He wishes out of His own free
Will, and He is not subject to the effects of karma. His tirumEni is
not made of prakRti the way our body is made of (His tirumEni is
naturally effulgent, free of any defects, made of suddha sattva that
does not undergo any modifications of any kind whatsoever, etc.).
duhkam il ? "without any sorrows" resulting from His actions:
BhagavAn performs all His wondrous acts without having to suffer
sorrow of any kind in the least. When He steals butter from the
gopis' houses and gets bound to the mortor, or when He gets into
trouble with the gopi-s by stealing their bangles etc., these are all
His plays, and He does not in the least undergo any sorrow because of
whatever He does. By resorting to this Lord, His devotees attain
equality with Him in all respects, and so they also are totally free
of any sorrow by surrendering to Him completely. This is the message
given by AzhvAr in this pASuram ? peRRu taLarvu onRum ilanE ? by
resorting to Him as the Supreme Deity I do not have the slightest
cause for concern of any kind.
As an example of bhavavAn's extraordinary actions, AzhvAr gives the
example of BhagavAn swallowing the whole of cetana-s including rudra
and brahmA, and all the acetana-s, and keeping them in a small corner
of His stomach - "nakka pirAnODu ayan mudalA ellArum evaiyum okka
tannuL oDu'nga vizhu'nga vallAnai". This incident also brings out
BhagavAn's main concern for all the jIva-s ? one of protection. At
the time of praLaya, He keeps them safe in His stomach so that they
can be given a body in the next cycle of creation to enjoy the
effects of their karma. He is the Protector of even the deva-s,
rudra, brahmA and indra.
AzhvAr reflects the same thought in another pASuram ? in
tiruvASiriyam (7).
naLir madic-caDaiyanum nAn-mugak kaDavuLum
taLiroLi imaiyavar talaivanum mudalA
yAvagai ulagamum yAvarum agappaDa
?????????.Or Alilaic-cErnda em
peru mA mAyanai alladu
oru mA daivam maRRuDaiyamO yAmE.
(Lord SrIman nArAyaNa hid everything and everyone - including the one
who has the crescent moon as an ornament on his head - a reference to
rudra, the four-faced god (brahmA), the chief of all the deva-s
(indra), all the five elements, and everything else in all the
worlds, and then lied down in a small banyon leaf as a small child.
Why would I ever consider anyone other than this Lord with such
wonders beyond imagination as the Supreme Deity? Never ever).
In his dramiDopanishad tAtparya ratnAvaLi, svAmi deSikan captures
this pASuram through bhagavAn's guNa of taking whatever form He
wishes whenever He chooses, for the benefit of His devotees, through
the words "chandavRtteH" ? One Who has the habit or vyApAra of
choosing whatever form He wishes". This is expressed by nammAzhvAr
in the second pAda of the pASuram - mikka pan mAya'ngaLAl vikirutam
Seidu vENDum uruvu koNDu.
-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan
(To be continued)
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