FIELD EFFECT

[Guest guest]

FIELD EFFECT

 

What is Field Effect? Crudely defining,the adaptation-involuntarily-

of the nature of another material,by the area, in the vicinity is

filed effect. Sometime back, there was a discussion regarding the

observation of devotees while seeing the Lord. It was felt that their

standards of observation were far from normal levels. However, this

would have reached abysses of ignorance in such matters,had this

field effect not been existent . For instance, though I may be

entering Tirumala , my thoughts may go astray and I may not be able

to concentrate my thoughts on Him. Nevertheless, no sooner I board

the bus to Tirumala, than the crowd's ecstatic squeal "GovindA!

GovindA!" will automatically marshal our thoughts from several

directions into unified thinking of the Lord thiru vEnkatamudaiyAn.

The arrival at the thirumalA and the swAmi pushkaraNE would have a

sweeping effect on us and the fervor will inspire us into undivided

attention towards the Lord. The entrance through the mahA dhWAram

alongwith the fellow devotees will elevate us to levels of

exhilaration making us spontaneously muttering the words "GovindA!

GOvindhA" and fold our hands in awe reverence and devotion.

 

These experiences, ere meeting the Lord in the sanctum sanctorum gear

us up for the divine finale, climax into an unparallel divine

phenomenon-matchless indeed. It may thus be observed that, even a

person who undertakes an exclusive trip to Tirumala, finds it

difficult to integrate his thought process trained towards Him and

Him alone, voluntarily. The effect of the atmosphere in the grand

dhivya dhEsam makes us involuntarily concentrate on Him. Can this not

be termed as the field effect ?

 

True, we being mortals are bound by emotions and hence, such contagion

perforce occurs. In fact, these type of effects of shall we call it

vibration, make us indeed proud. Is the Lord subject to such type of

contagion effect?. He, who is the supreme entity and the ruler of the

souls,all sentient and insentient beings, presumably is above all such

elements. Is he also subject to such feelings/failings?

 

swAmi nam-AzhwAr and AndAL tend to think otherwise. The following pAsurams goes to prove this point.

 

nAchiAr thiru mozhi

 

"kOvai maNAtti ! nE vun kozhungani koNdu emmai Avi tholaiviyEal vAzhagar thammai anjudhum,

pAviyEan thOndRip pAmbaNai Arkkum pAmbu pOle nAvum iraNduLa vAithu

nANiliyEanukkEA" 10-2

 

 

This is the third pAsuram of kAr kOdal pUkkAL thiru mozhi. Here,AndAL

yearns for His arrival but he fails to show Himself. Frustration and

despair follow and these pAsuram-s emerge. AndAL sees Him in the

environment. In this particular pAsuram she sees similarity between

the kOvai fruit and Lord's lips. Having recalled Him so, she feels

that He has not come and failed in His promise to meet her. A person

with one tongue will always keep His word. Here, the Lord is not

keeping up to His word and He has two tongues. What! does He have two

tongues? How is it?

That is because of His permanent proximity with thiru ananthAzhwAn,

who is His bed . Not only that he his His bed but also they where

schoolmates during incarnations. Hence, He has imbibed thiru

ananthAzhwAn's quality of double tongue. swAmi periavAchAn piLLai's

vyAkyAnam will point out incisively this fact:

pAmbaNai Arkkum"....naduvE paLLith thozhamai palithadhu; adhuvEa

anRikkEa,vOdhiRRum oru kidaiyilEayiReA"

Field Effect - AndAL's thiru vAkku.

 

 

 

swAmi nam AzhwAr voices the same idea in the

second pathu of thiru voizhmozhi in 'vAyum thirai vugaLUm padhigam"

 

"naivaiya emmEA pOle nAn madhiyEA nE innAL,

mai vAn iruL agaRRAi mAzhAndhu thEmbudhiyAl,

ai vAi aravaNai mEAle Azhip perumAnAr,

meivAsagam kEttun mei nErmai thORRAyE?"2-1-6 of thiru voi mozhi

 

The beginning of second pathu describes not just AzhwAr's pangs of

separation from the Lord, but AzhwAr also stats correlating some

natural happenings that these are also due to His separation.

 

 

In this pAsuram, Azwar observes the waning phase of the moon.

AzhwArfeels that the moon is decreasing in size and shape due to His

failure to keep up His word that He would appear. Due to Lord's non

emergence, AzhwAr feels that the moon gets diluted.

AzhwAr expresses " Oh! moon, You get depleted since you believed His

words to be true. However, He has got this habit of not keeping up

His word from His bed- ai vAi aravu - Five mouthed serpent - and

since He has multi-tongue he can conveniently overtake His own words.

Edu -..avanukku paLLith thOzhamai palithapadi.paLLi enbadhu

padukkaiyum vOdhina idamum"

The fact here is that AzhwAr states that the effect of the bed-five

mouthed Adhi shEshan takes toll on Lord's credibility- and the field

effect occurs.

That is field effect from swAmi nam AzhwAr.

 

should we not get the field effect of AndAL and AzhwAr?

vanamamalai padmanabhan