Sri:
Dear Members :
Srimathy Saroja is immersing us in the delight of
Swamy Desikan's MahA Kaavyam of Sri YaahavAbhudhaya .
On behalf of all of us , adiyEn would like to extend to Her our thanks
for this Kaimkaryam and pray to Sri DEvaki Nandhana JaganmOhana
KrishNan to visit our homes thru these delectable postings .
NamO VaasudEvAya ,
V.Sadagopan
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From: "sarojram18" <sarojram18@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:37 AM
Subject: [Oppiliappan] Yadhavabhyudhaya
> Chapter 2.
>
> Devaki appeared divine because she carried the
> krishnarasayana, the elixir which is sidhdha and sidhdhanishevitha,
> resorted to by the sages being sure of effect.
> Devaki ate the mud, symbolic of the earth, during her
> pregnancy as if she is showing buy her action, naatitham, that the
> one who has devoured the whole earth is inside her, ` bhukthaa puraa
> yene vasundharaa saa sa visvabhoktha mamagarbhabhoothah, ` says
> Desika. She dreamt that she was lying on Adhisesha and traveled on
> Garuda. Utthamur swami explains this as ` devakigarbhagantham
> bhagavanthamprthak paricharithum anishtvaa seshaadhayah
> devakeesthathvaveshenaiva paricharantheeva.' It looked as though
> Adhisesha and others carried devaki along with the Lord in order to
> do service to Him.She walked slowly as if not to burden the earth
> with the weight of Him who is visvaguru, the mighty Lord who has all
> the universe in Him. He is vidvaguru or jagatguru as He was going to
> impart the Gita to the world and also the greater than the greatest,
> mahatho mahiyaan. The word `guru ` contains a pun to mean preceptor
> as well as big.
>
> Then starts the description of the night of Krishnavathaara.
> The appearance of the dusk, sandhya, seemed to denote the advent of
> the Lord. Sandhy, personified as a damsel,a is compared to the form
> of the Lord, murdhvishah murthih dhvitheeyaa, on account of the
> attire of golden hue, suvarnapithaambharavaasinee, and hiding the
> Sun with the brilliance of own light, svadhaamasamchaadhtha
> suryamurthih. The Sun sinking in the ocean seemed to seek some
> support avalambhana, by his rays stretched out. He looked like a
> lotus plucked from the pond of the sky by sandhya and the crest
> jewel of a serpent plunging into the ocean afraid of Garuda in the
> form of sandhya. The richness of poetic imagination of Desika is
> illustrated by these words.
>
> At the setting of the Sun, the ay being ashtami 8th day of
> krishnapaksha, dark fortnight, no moon appeared and darkness spread
> everywhere. Stars looked like a garland of pearls to adorn the Lord
> on His avathaara prepared by His servant, the Kala, Time. Later when
> the moon rose the eastern direction looked like Devaki.
> Thamafprasangena vimuchyamaana gourprabhaa. The paleness of her is
> the white light,gouraprabhaa of the moon who has risen from darkness
> as she is going to be freed from her sorrow, thamafprasangena
> vimuchyamaana. The Moon being the first forefather of the Yadhuvamsa,
> looked like a purohitha, priest coming after bath from the ocean to
> do the samskara, the rites for the newborn.
>
> The darkness that first came was like the haalaahala, the
> terrible poison which came out of the milky ocean, namely the eastern
> direction indicative of the subsequent emergence of Lakshmi, the good
> fortune of Yadhuvamsa. Desika says later in describing Krishna that
> Lakshmi was always with the Lord which ever avathara he took because
> She is inseparable as the sloka goes ` Raaghavathve
> bhavathseetharukminee Krishna janamani anyeshuchaavathaareshu
> vishnoreshaa anapaayini.'It is said that even in Vamanaavathaara
> Lakshmi was in His chest to hide whom the Lord covered His chest with
> deerskin lest He could not take away the aisvarya of Bali if he gets
> the glance of Lakshmi, lakshmikataaksha.
>
> Then the auspicious time for the avathaara drew near. The
> wicked people like Kamsa were sleeping and the good were awake like
> Devaki and Vasudeva.Vadfyagosha of divine instruments could be heard
> everywhere. The lamps in the house of Kamsa became extinct for no
> reason and so did the anguish in the minds of devotees.
> Ashtami was chosen by the Lord for his avathaara as the eighth child
> and the next day Navami was going to be he day of the avathara of
> Yogamaaya. Hence, as Desika puts it, ashtami became prathama and
> navami, dvitheeya. Krishna appeared at vrishabha lagna when the five
> planets, Chandra, angaraka,bhudha guru and sani were in exalted
> position. Desika describes His manifesting Himself as Devaki ,the
> eastern direction produced the Lord , the moon implying that He was
> not born in the usual way but as He says in the Gita `sambhavaami
> aathmamaayayaa' He only made Himself manifest as the moon coming out
> in the East.
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