Thiruvaaimozhi 6.3- Ponnappan, MaNiappan, Mutthappam...

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SrI "Madhavakkannan V" <srivaishnavan writes:

>

> 2.The sorrows and pleasure that one experiences in this world are all

> Emperumman only. The confusion and worry (that comes due to our not

> getting something that we wish) and the satisfaction (that we obtain

by

> accomplishing what we desire) is all He alone. The anger and the cool

> (mind) is He. Is that alone? He is the One who gives so much heat

while

> simultaneously He is the One who cools as a shadow.(like what He was

> during NrusimhAvataar as agni to HiranYakasipu and the cool moon to

> Prahlaada). Like that Emperumaan who is there in such opposite things

is

> A RARITY to be understood and seen. He is the One who rules me. that

> ruler of mine stays gracefully at ThiruviNNagarm. (Periyavaacchaan

> PiLLai interprest the confusion and worry as the anjnAnam (ignorance)

> and the satisfcation as the jnAnam (divine knowledge)). (Here AzhwAr

> says in this "kaNdu kOdarkaRiya Perumaan" -means the One who is not

> possible to be seen, while in the last pAsuram, he says "palvagaiyum

> parandha perumaan" means: The One who manifests in everything.

> i.e: Ther is nothing in which He does NOT exist.

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> If there is an object or any matter, He is in that.)

 

Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches something similar in His wonderful little

shikshAshhtakam:

 

"na dhanan na janam na sundariim kavitaam vaa jagadiisha kaamaye

mama janmani janmani iishvare bhavataad bhakti: ahaitukii tvayi "

 

"O Lord! I do not desire wealth, followers such as wife, sons, friends

and

relatives, or mundane knowledge expressed in poetic language.

My only desire, O Lord, is that birth after birth I may have ahaituki

bhakti unto Your Lotus Feet".

 

 

"Ahaituki Bhakti" is defined as having the following characteristics:

1. phalaanusandhaana rahita - it is devoid of all result seeking

mentality

2. cinmaya svabhaava aashraya - it is fully transcendental and

sentient

in nature.

3. krshhNaanada ruupa - it gives pleasure to shrii krshNa

4. shudhha - it is pure

5. kevalaa - it is exclusive

6. amishra it is unmixed

7. akincana - it is free from all material attachments.

 

ie Caintanya Mahaaprabhu prays -

Until the cycle of birth and death is terminated by the will of

Bhagavan,

let me have ahaituki-bhakti unto His lotus feet birth after birth,

regardless of my material circumstances - this is my only prayer.

 

 

King Kulashekara also expresses the same thing:

 

naaham vande tava craNayo: dvandvam advandva heto:

kumbhiipaakam gurum api hare naarakam naapanetum

ramyaa raamaa mrdu tanu taltaa nandane nabhirantum

bhaave bhaave hrdaya bhavane bhaavayeyam bhavantam

 

naathaa dharme na vasunicaye naiva kaamopabhoge

yad yad bhavyam bhavatu bhagavaan purva karmaanuruupam

etad praarthyam mama bahumatam janma jnamaantare api

tvat paadaambhoruha yuga gataa nishcalaa bhaktirastu

 

"O Lord Hari, I do not pray to Your lotus feet to obtain liberation.

I do not pray for deliverance from hell known as Kumbhiipaaka or any

other

dreadful hell. I do not pray to enjoy the company of exquisitely

beautiful

damsels in the Nandana-kaanana pleasure gardens of the heavenly

planets.

I only pray that life after life I can meditate upon you in the temple

of my heart with great love"

 

" O Bhagavaan, I have no regard for varNaashrama dharma, which consists

of

pious activities related to the body and mind. i have no desire to

accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy material pleasure. Whatever reactions

i am destined to suffer or enjor for the activities of my previous

life,

let them come. My only prayer is that in birth after birth I may have

unflinching prema-bhakti toward Your lotus feet"

 

 

 

 

-Ram