All powerful Narayana

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Our scriptures assert that Sriman Narayana is the cause of all worlds and he

is all powerful. Then why do the various stotras and writings including

Prabandham praise him for vanquishing His enemies? That is really no

achievement for Him. Can kindly enlighten me?

 

Please pardon me for asking this question which may appear silly to most of

you.

 

Adiyen D balasundaram Ramanuja Dasan

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Srimathe Gopaladesika Mahadesikaya Namah:

Dear Sri Balasundaram,

 

You asked:

Our scriptures assert that Sriman Narayana is the cause of all worlds and he

is all powerful. Then why do the various stotras and writings including

Prabandham praise him for vanquishing His enemies? That is really no

achievement for Him. Can kindly enlighten me?

 

That is nice loaded question.

 

This reminds me of Sri Velukkudi Krishnan's Vishnu sahasranamam upanyasam,

wherein he describes very beautifully Sri Rama avataar. Sri Rama fought with

rAvaNA, whose strength sent shivers through everyone on the earth as well Deva

lOkam. RAvaNan was extremely strong, and the fight was quite terrific in the

battle field. One can compare this yuddham between Rama and rAvaNan to only

that. It is incomparable to any other. Such great battle, and Rama sent rain of

arrows to let all head simply fall down on the earth to emerge victorious. One

can imagine the valour of Rama with this backgorund.

 

Now look at Sri ANDAL's Thiruppaavai, "pollaa arakkanaik kiLLi kaLaindhaanai.."

He simply plucked the head of the rAkshasan (rAvaNan) effortlessly, and she doe

not elaborate any further. Why? Sage Valmiki describes so greatly about the

battle and AndAL briefly mentions about it, in three or four words, as a passing

statement.

 

Sri Velukkudi Krishnan describes very touchingly and beautifully: The Queen and

the King walk through the beautiful gardens, during their evening stroll, and

the king while talking sweet nothings to the queen, and spending a joyful time,

he also plucks a nearby leaf from a plant and throws it on the ground. Will the

Queen immediately call for a press conference and announce that Raja has

successfully plucked a leaf from the plant and thrown it on the ground..? That

will be silly. That is how BhUmi PiraaTTi (AndAL) considered the valour with

which Rama killed rAvaNan; As far as She is concerned, this is nothing for Rama.

For us, (the ants on the ground,), Raja's plucking leaf and throwing is great...

Hence, we praise- we talk a great lot about His acts of killing demons and

asurAs.

 

That is His achievement, as you rightly said. It is OUR BHAGYAM and fortune that

such acts of His give us an opportunity to praise Him.. It is not that

mentioning of such events /acts please Him; It is our getting excited in

praising and in mentioning of such acts please Him.

 

Just adiyEn's yet another rambling for giving me an opportunity to praise Him.

 

Regards

Narayana Narayana

adiyEn Narayana dAsan Madhavakkannan