SrI: SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah: Dearest Srivaishnavas, PerumAL appears to be asking AzhwAr ?why are you saying ?I am tempting and enticing you snatching my mind off my Lotus feet? ? Just because I am the Almighty I do not do to my whims and fancies ? though I can. It is all due to enormous karma and their fruits alone.. Isn?t it? AzhwAr responds here.. saadusaadu paathanE!sa lankalantha poykaivaay, aadaraavin vanpidarn^a dampayinRa naathanE, kOdun^eedu kaiya!seyya paathan^aaLu munninaal, veedanaaka meyseyaatha vaNNamen_kol? kaNNanE! (86) Og Most valorous One! The One who effortlessly kicked the wheel asurA with your toddler feet! [in your KrishNAvathAram] In the middle of the pond full of deep waters, You danced on the venomous snake kaaLingan and tamed him! SarvaSwAmi! My nAthA! The One who has divine Sankhu (Conch Shell) in Your resplendent Hand! KaNNA! Everyday, if one retains your most sweetest, divine beautiful red lotus feet in the heart, he can get rid if all sins accrued over the ages; why does he not do that sincerely and faithfully? It is Yiur nature to remove all hurdles and enemies if your Asrithars (devotees); Where is the proof ? You may ask. There very many. Here is few. As a toddler, You kicked the sakatAsura with your little cute foot making him roll to death. The venomous snake with thousand heads enjoying its time unchallenged in the pond making even the waters poisonous, You jumped into it playfully and then danced on each of its head when it raised the same to kill you with fiery fumes and poison and when it tried to tie you down making you choke, you caught hold of its tail and merrily showed Your self as great dancer. You thus destroyed the enemies of Gopas and the cattle. Similarly can you not remove my enemies ? namely, my own five senses, the accrued tons of paapams? Can you not destroy them? I am retaining these lotus red feet of yours inside my heart. It would start killing some asurA., dance on some snake and hurt itself; and hence I wish to protect its tenderness and beauty by hiding it from others inside my heart. Thus having the feet always in my heart, still why are You ignoring me ? is the underlying message- perhaps to the Lord. Veedanaaga- Removing all paapams ? sins; OR it may also mean- getting rid of this samsaaric births and attain Paramapadham. Thus with this verse, please bless by destroying all my accrued various paapams. AzhwAr pleads for the meditation of His lotus feet everyday- always. Thus when he claim that he retains the lotus feet in his heart, he implies that it is NOT poorNa dhyAnam. ? not full and complete, uninterrupted meditation. In order to perform that ceaseless dhyAnam, the destruction of enemies and hurdles need to be there and for that as far as possible think of His lotus feet and that would remove and cleanse all these enemies and hurdles. This also does not happen always as even kaivalyam [enjoying of one?s own jeeevathman- self], asishwaryam [wealth] fruits come to mind and they become the hurdles and thus even they need to be destroyed. Thinking of Your feet alone is enough for the paamams?s destruction? Is there any other praayaschittham that is required? Thinking of Kutti KaNNan?s little cure red lotus feet is implied and thus AzhwAr addresses KANNA! in the verse. Even Sage Pasarasara rishis have said, ?prAyaschitthAnyaSESHANi karmAthmakAni vai| yAni thEshAmaSESHANAM krishNAnusmaraNam param || anusmaraNam is thinking of Him everyday. Think of His lotus feet. NammAzhwAr also mentions the same in Thiruvaymozhi kaNNan kazaliNai naNNum manamudaiyeer eNNum thiru_naamam thiNNam naaraNamE. 10.5.1 Thirumazhisai Piraan ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam Regards Namo Narayana dAsan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/XUWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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