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Posting 9..
Rudran
continued...
thannai thozhudha bAnanai thalai poo vAdAthu nOkkugirEn endru
prathigyai seidhu kalli kattu sItrampOle kai sIrrkka kandu uyir undAgil uppumAri
unnalam endru netrikkannai pudhaithu
nazhuvinapadiyAlum,
loka pithAvAna brahmAvin thalaiay thirugi kaiyum kaithalmumai
kondu thirivAr pOle kaiyum kapAlamumai thirandhu kidantha vAsal thorum pugunthu
thannai veliyittukkondAn AgaiyAlum rakshagan
AgamAttan
Banasuran was a great siva bhakta. Pleased with his devotion, rudran had
promised to protect him at any cast. Once, the asura's daughter ushai fell win
love with Krishna's grand son, Anirudha in her dream. Ushai's friend knew the
trick to trace Anirudha's face from Ushai's dream. Anirudha was secretly
transported from his place by asura kumari. Learning this at a later stage,
Banasura went on war with Krishna. That time, none including rudran's relatives
were able to win the war for the asura. This instance was referred by
ThiruArangathamudhnAr in Ramanuja NootrandhAdhi as:
kaartthikai
yaanum karimukath thaanum kanalummukkaN
moorththiyum mOtiyum veppum muthukittu moovulakum pooththava NnE!enRu pORRita vaaNan pizaipoRuththa theerththanai yEththum iraamaa NnuchanenRan chEmavaippE (22) In the
end, Banasuran's hands were cut by Krishna. Krishna purposefully left few heads
and hands for him so that he can perform his pitru karma. Also, he had already
promised to Prahlada that he will not kill anyone in his vamsa. This act of
cutting the hands was compared by Swamy PL to cutting down the cactus plant.
Looking at the situation of the asura, rudran and his relatives ran for their
life so that they could enjoy some pleasure by being alive. Even during the
escape time, rudran wanted to hide his third eye with the thought that none
could ecognise him.
The
other story was the plucking of his father's head that has already been
discussed by Swamy PL. With the kapAlam in his hand, he entered all the open
places for bikshA. Finally, Perumal was the only one who could make that kapAlam
burst with his bikshA. That bursting is referred to dissipation of one's dream
of having plenty of welath after one has woken up of sleep. Such was the speed
of reaction after Perumal's biksha.
With
all the above instances, Swamy PL clearly shows that even rudran cannot protect
a soul in samsara.
To
summarize:
We
have looked at relatives, devatas including sun, moon, indra, brahma,
rudran.
Will
wealth protect us?
Let us
look at how Swamy PL answers this part in the follwoing
posting...
aDiyEn,
ramanan
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