Sri GuNa Rathna Kosam : Part XXVIII: SlOkam 19

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Dear Devotees of Sri RanganAyaki ThAyAr,

 

adiyEn will cover slOkam 19 in this posting :

 

kaalE samsathi yOgyathAm chithachithOr-anyOnyamAlingathO

BhUthaahmkruthi buddhi panchakaraNI svAntha pravrutthIndhriyai:

aNDaan-aavaranai: sahasramakarOth thaann bhUrbhuva: svarvatha:

Srirangeswara dEvi tE vihrudhayE sankalpamAna: Priya:

 

(Meaning : Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan): That day, the sentient

and the insentient ones were closely intertwined;it is just

then the Lord, Your consort ,decided to create.He created

the five elements , the ahankArA, the Mahath , the five

organs of perception , the mind , the motor organs,

the universe full of such things, the seven boundaries

around the world , the three worlds, BhU: Bhuva: and

Suva: ; the many universes containing all these --

HE CREATED ALL THESE FOR YOUR SPORT. He creates for Your

pleasure. The Lord's creative action is only to subserve

Your pleasure.

 

AdiyEn's additional observations

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Five verses ( SlOkams 19-23)extoll Sri MahA Lakshmi's

glories as "the Commander of this temporal world and

the other one beyond space and time and how these are

Her grounds of Divine Sport".

 

Our Lord creates everything with His sankalpam at

the time after PraLayam.During PraLayam , the sentient

and insentient are attached to the Lord in an avyakthA

form in tight embrace .Upanishad describes this act of

creation as:" sOakAmayatha bahUsyAm prajAyEyEthi" .

All of this creative initiative He undertakes just for

MahA Lakshmi's pleasure and enjoyment.

 

The chEthanam and achEthanam are in a shrunken state

embracing each other as part of the Lord's body during

the time of Pralayam. The Lord has them all in His

stomach as a small child floating in the waters of

primordial deluge. He decides to create to amuse

and entertain MahA Lakshmi.Naama Roopa prapancham

comes in to being with His sankalpam. Out of Moola

Prakruthi arises MahAn and from MahAn ,ahankAram

comes into being.AhankAram is of three kinds:

Saathvika, Raajasa and Taamasa AhankArams.

The Pancha bhUthams ( AakAsam ,Vaayu, Agni, Water

and Earth ) arise .SaathvikAhankAram assisted by

raajasAhankAram lead to the creation of Manas ,

five karmEndhriyams and five Jn~AnEndriyams .

 

Swamy NammAzhwAr summarizes this creation through

PanchIkaranam in one of his ThiruvAimozhi Paasurams

and makes a special appeal to Sriman NaarAyanan :

 

pongaimpulanum poRi-aiynthum karumEndhriyam aimbhUtham

ingi-ivvyuirEy pirakruthi maanankAra manangaLE

--ThiruvAimozhi X.7.10

 

This is a ThirumAlirumchOlai Paasuram . Swamy NammAzhwAr

requests the Lord of ThirumAlirumchOlai (Lord SundararAjan)

to do him a favor(Dr.V.N.V"s Translation): " Your sportful

action has spread a veil of MahA MaayA. What havoc it causes ,

I have known.The five senses like sound , which thrive from

their site and confuse the mind; the five sense organs

that are dragged by the former(manas) ; the five action-oriented

limbs ; the five elements like earth ; The prakrithi that unites

with Jivan and spoils its functions.The Mahath , that evoves

from Prakrithi , that makes the soul go after senses;

the ahamkArA , the next state of evolution , which will

make for a confusion between the physical body (as soul)

and the soul; The Manas , that then follows.Now , the play of

all these on me is to be arrested .Please therefore ,

efface them out of me now". (The Lord acceded to

Swamy NammAzhwAr's request in a moment).

 

All these Our Lord Created for the pleasure of

NahA Lakshmi and removed them from Swamy NammAzhwAr

at his request . Such is His Maayai !

 

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE saraNam,

Daasan ,Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan