Fw: Prapanna ParithrANam-3

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Rajagopalan, Ramanan (GE Advanced Materials, Consultant)

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Cc: sumivaradan

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:34 PM

RE: Prapanna ParithrANam

 

Are Brothers Our Saviours? Are son our saviours

 

 

Brothers

 

"braathAkkal rakshakargal allar enbathai vaali pakkalilum rAvanan pakkalilum

kAnalaam.."

 

Swamy PL takes the example of vaali and ravanan from Ramayanam to show that

borthers cannot protect one soul completely

 

1. vaali

 

After getting wounded by Rama and just before getting killed vaali throws an

arrow of questions at Rama. Rama answers each of his questions patiently.

Finally, when justifying the reason for killing vaali by hiding, Rama offers

following explanation:

 

" Oh vaali! I could have let you off for all your deeds but one. At one point of

time, Sugriva had surrendered to you completely to let his wife off. Still you

did not give any heed to that. When a person completely surrenders to you, you

are supposed to protect that person at any case even if he is an enemy to you.

But you have failed to adhere to this sAstra. Hence, I had to take this hard

decision."

 

2. Ravanan

This case scenario resulted in Vibishana Saranagathi. When Ravanan wanted to go

for a war with Rama, Vibhishana tried to prevent that and also warned him of bad

time influencing his bad action. Ravana was not ready to listen to his brother's

words, and hence Vibishana had to leave the kingdom. After this Vibhishana

surrendered to Rama. Despite the fact that he was from the arakkar kulam and

also the enemy group, Rama offered to protect him without a second thought.

 

Sons

 

"putrargal rakshakargal allar enbathai rundran pakkalilum kamsan pakkalilum

kAnalaam.."

 

Swamy PL takes the example of rudran and kamsan in explaining the incapability

of son to protect his father..

 

1. Rudran

 

piNtiyAr maNtai Enthip piRarmanai thirithanthuNNum,

uNtiyAn sApam theerththa oruvanoor, ulaka mEththum

kaNtiyUr arangkam meyyam kachipEr mallai enRu

maNtinAr, uyyal allAl maRRaiyArk kuyya lAmE? (Thirukkunthaantakam pasuram 19)

 

Thirumangai Azhwar talks about the story of Rudran (Paramasivan) in the above

pasuram. Rudran, because of the pride of killing Tripuram considered that he was

superior to even his father, Brahma. Hence, he plucked one of his father's head,

which got struck in his hand as a vessel (brahma kapaalam). In order to get rid

of this, he started to roam around all the places to get that filled with

biksha. Finally, Perumal sprikles his sweat from his chest and eventually the

vessel breaks in to pieces. Azhwar refers to this Perumal in Thirukkandiyoor.

HarasApavimOcanan is the Perumal's ThirunAmam in this Divya Desam. Here is

another beautifu reference to this incidence by Kaliyan. Azhwar sings on the

Perumal in SalagrAmam.

 

venNdhaarenbumsudunNeeRum meyyilpoosikkaiyagatthu, Or

sanNdhaar thalaikoNdulagEzhum thiriyumperiyOnthaansenRu, en

enNdhaay! saabamtheerena ilangkamudhanNeerthirumaarbil

thanNdhaan, sanNdhaarpozhilsoozhnNdha saaLakkiraamamadainNeNYchE! (Periya

Thirumozhi 1.5.8)

 

The above incident clearly explains that Brahma, the father was not protected by

his son Rudran.

 

2. kamsan

 

The story about kamsan is very well known. He imprisoned his father Ugrasenan

and also his sister. Infact, he is a glowing example for a bad element in all

aspects.

 

Let us look at how other reationships also fail to protect the soul caught up in

samsara in the following posting.

 

aDiyEn,

ramanan