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Subject: RE: Prapanna ParithrANam Sun and Moon may not be Powerful? What
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Indran
Swamy
PL's discussion on Indran's case is very interesting. He starts with the
following:
trilOkya pAlakanAi irundhu eppozhudhu nam padham
nazhuvappOgiratho endru anchi
sApathukku aatpattu...
Indran is the king of swarga loka, which
is third in hierarchy from bhoomandalam. Though he is the king of
all the devargal, he is always nervous not to loose his
position. He even gets into lowly acts to maintain his position. There
was a story of a king who succesfully completed a yAgam to get indra
padhavi. He used to do lot of dhAna dharma in his kingdom. When he went to
the swarga loka, Indra somehow wanted to prevent him from adorning the
throne. When the king answered indra's question on who was the great
dharmasali in the king's rajyam, the latter had to reply that it was the king
him. Indra immdietly quoted the king as self-boasting soul and pushed him
down back to the bhoolokam.
Once,
Durvasar had the garland prasadam of Sridevi nAchiyAr. He saw indra on the way,
and gifted it to him. Without showing any respect for that, indra put that
on his elephant. Unknown of the vaibhavam of the prasadam, the
elephant put the garland down and stepped on it. Sage Durvasar immediately
cursed indra to loose all the wealth. In other instance, indra got cursed by
sage Gautama for misbehaviour with his wife. That time indra got 1000 eyea
all on his body.
indrajit kaiyil
agappattu..
Indrajit, the son of Ravana had once
defeated indran. That instance is also quoted by
PL.
MahAbali pOlvar idathil Iswaryam parikoduthu kannum kanneer kondu
kazhuthum kappadaiyumAi...
Mahabali performed yAgam to get indra padhavi.
At the time when he was about to finish it succesfully, indran was horrified and
eventually went and fell at the feet of Perumal. kappadai here refers to the
torn cloth. A wealthy person, when he becomes poor, will always feel ashamed of
showing his poor status to the external world, and hence will try to hide the
torn cloth on his body. NammAzhwar refers to this state of a person in one of
his pasurams when describing the state of a person who will get protected by
Perumal. EmPerumAnAr has dedicated this pasuram for
ThirunArAyanapuram:
orunNaa yagamaay Oda,vulaguda
Nnaandavar,
karunNaay kavarntha kaalar sidhaigiya paanaiyar, perunNaadu kaaNa immaiyilEpichchai thaamkoLvar, thirunNaaraNan_thaaL kaalam peRachchindhith thuymminO (TVM 4.1.1) This
kind of person will not even be able to recognize the dog lying on the road, as
it would be dark when he comes out of his place.
The
fourth instance is about Govardana malai. People used to offer food to indra,
but with the command of Krishna they stopped it once and offered it to the hill
itself. That was consumed completely by Krishna. He himself is the hill, dam and
everything as qutoed in sAstras. Krishna specifically did this act to show the
people that indra is not a nitya
(eternal) entity.
Let
us look into the case of Brahma and others in the follwoing
postings.
aDiyEn,
ramanan Azhvar EmberumAnAr JeeyAr ThiruvadigalE Saranam http://www.vedics.net YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
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