Thirumaalai-2

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

 

" Mattrondrum Venda Maname Madhilarangar

Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra

Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi Emperumaanai

Eppozhudum peesu"

 

" Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo yaamuna soonave

yetkadakshai kalakshyanam sulabha: Sridara: sadaa"

 

Pranams,

 

"Manisarukkai PadAdhana Pattu" - Emperuman undergoes number of

hardships for the sake of we Jeevatmas. Let us now see what all

hardships the emperuman undergoes. In the last posting we said that

PVP starts the avadharikai with a question. Who a samsari is? Sri

Periya vaachan pillai asks such a question because he doesn't belong

to that category and wants to keep himself away from them. But all

of us know who a samsari is. "Asaare Samsare Vishaya visha

sangaakudiyA:" The samsaris are always at the back of some vishayam

(matter). Whenever we call them to bhagavat vishayam they have some

way to say no. They consider many more things important and highly

urgent to be done when it comes to bhagavat vishayam. But saddhus

like PVP considered the samsaaric pleasures to be equal to a poison

which kills us little by little. Samsaaric pleasures are like a

disease and only medicine to this disease is Emperuman and bhagavat

vishayam. But leaving this medicine the samsaris prefer to drink the

poison. But can the Emperuman who is the father of all simply see

his children drink poison? So he by his apaara Kaarunyam tries to

pull us out of this.

 

But if he says don't go at the back of samsaaric pleasures instead

fall under my feet, I will protect you then there is not even a

single person to listen to him. When a child eats mud though we

condemn its act, next time it tends to eat but now without our

knowledge. So the mother now lets it to eat and also keeps the

medicine necessary handy. When the child suffers she gives the

medicine and teaches the child a lesson. Similarly we jeevatmas will

never listen to advices so the emperuman lets us in our own way and

then teaches us a lesson. But unfortunately even after a lot of

miseries the vaasana of the jeevatmas still pulls him only towards

the worldly pleasures and never turns his attention towards the

bhagavan.

So as Nammazhvar says "Maari Maari pala pirappum pirandhu" and Sri

Adisankarar says " Punarappi Maranam Punarappi Jananam" the cycle of

life and death continues. The jeevatma does papam or punyam in this

world and undergoes the svarga vaasam or Naraga vaasam and then comes

back to the world with the vaasanas of the previous birth. In

Vedanta such a jeevatma is called Anusayi. Vedantha also says "GathA

Gatham Kaama kaamA labhanthe" . Thus the jeevatmas do punyam or

papam in this world, both of which will ultimately bring them back to

this world only. You may all wonder why PVP is telling all these

things in the avatharikai to this Prabhandam! It is to increase our

Vairakhyam. Only when we get little detached from this world we can

think about the other world(Bhagavan and Bhagavat vishayam). Even

when we have to sit in a upanyasam for 2 hours we have to leave other

activities in this world, right? That again needs some vairakhyam.

Only to build this vairakhyam Sri PVP starts his vyakhyanam with such

an avadharikai. As our acharyas say when we see the world we cannot

see bhagavan and when we see bhagavan the world never enters our

vision.

 

The jeevan which has nullified its punyams in the Svargam and papams

in the naragam then returns back to the Mega mandalam from where he

reaches the bhoomi through the rain water and then he combines with

the annam (grains) which is grown in the soil and then from the Annam

he reaches the purusha sareeram, from the purusha sareeram (man) he

reaches the Stree Sareeram(women) and then he undergoes Garbha

vaasam. The child develops in the womb of the mother which is

supposed to be the Jail sentence for the Jeevan. It has to be inside

the womb for 10 months and undergo a lot of suffering. Even after

undergoing so much suffering inside the womb only a very few are born

as jnani's rest start enjoying life and get involved in worldly

pleasures. The child starts crying for milk, then for food and toys,

then for so many other things and then the crying continues till his

end. When a child is born his mother feeds it with milk and at the

last people put rice in the mouth of the dead so the improvement in a

man's life is only from milk to rice. For this In between he

undergoes such a lot of sufferings. Still people do not realize the

truth they do no get vairakhyam, they don't realize that everything

in this world is temporary and emperuman is only permanent. This is

the sad state of a samsari.

 

But does Emperuman enjoy seeing us suffer? No not at all. He is so

much pained by seeing our hardships that he keeps on doing many

things to release us from this samsaram. What does Bhagavan do? He

first does the creation to wake up the jeevatmas who where sleeping

in the pralayam. It is like a mother waking up a child to feed if

the child sleeps without eating. The child doesn't know about its

hunger but the mother knows. Similarly emperuman wakes us all up

after pralayam. After creating, emperuman gives the jeevatmas two

options to choose. The jeevans can either enjoy the pleasures of the

leela vibhuthi as per their wish or they can shed the miseries of the

leela vibhuthi and fall under the feet of the emperuman to grant them

the divine moksha where there is only `Anandam Anandam", from where

the jeevan never returns to the miseries of this world(`Na cha

Punaraavarthathe'). If we choose the sittrinbum(worldly pleasures)

he grants us them with stained mind and if we prefer the pErinbam

(moksha) then he grants us that with lot of joy. The shrusti, stiti

and samharam what ever the emperuman does is only for the welfare of

the jeevatmas.

 

After the creation he then gave us the sastras to show us the right

path. "Tene Brahmahrudhaya Adikavaye" says Bhagavatham and Nammazhvar

says "peedhagavaadai peraanaar parama guru vaagi vandu" that

emperuman delivered the sastras to the world as the first guru. A

man should have two types of knowledge. He should be capable of

differentiating between Dharma and Adharma and Nityam and Anityam

(nature of objects). If a man is not able to differentiate which

object will stay permanently and which will not and which is dharma

and which is adharma then he can be equated to an animal. Only this

knowledge differentiates a man and an animal. So a man has to act

according to the sastras. "Tasmat Sastram Pramanam te karya karyau

Vyavastitow" (only the sastras are the pramanas to tell the do's and

don't's). Still the jeevatmas refused to accept the sastras and act

accordingly. Then what did bhagavan do did he get angry with them?

Let's see in the next posting.

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan.