Fw: Prapanna ParithrANam-4

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Rajagopalan, Ramanan (GE Advanced Materials, Consultant)

aazhwar

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:14 PM

RE: Prapanna ParithrANam

 

Are the close relatives our saviours or it is Him, as always?

 

 

mAthaa pithAkkal rakshakargal allar enbathai kaikeyi pakkalilum hiranyan

pakkalilum kAnalaam

 

Mother:

 

Swamy PL clearly highlights Kaikeyi in the case scenario where even a mother

cannot protect her son. Kaikeyi was the one who commanded Rama through Dasaratha

to go on exile. She also requested Dasaratha to make Bharata the king of

Ayodhya. Bharatan's vaibhavam in Ramayanam is even more than that of Lakshmanan

and Raman in some instances. Rama was the most dearest son of Dasaratha. He

always used to concern about his father's happiness. On the otherhand, Dasaratha

always used to concern about Rama and his happiness. Azhwars also were in the

same state with Perumal. They used ot joyously sing on Perumal with parivu, and

infact pongum parivu (PeriyAzhwar) whereas Perumal used to worry more about

Azhwars' happiness.

 

Rama though was an AgyAkAri putram, still was not able to satisfy Dasarathan as

he did not bother about himself. In this aspect Dasaratha used to be proud of

Lakshmana as Lakhmana used to completely take care of Rama. Lakshmana showed

complete ShEshatvam to Rama. Bharata's vaibhavam is much more than this one. He

showed complete pAratantra jnAnam. He behaved like an object without life in

front of Rama. He was ready to do whatever Rama commanded. At one point of time

in Ramayana, he said that "rAjyamum, naanum Ramanukku sondham". He combined both

the life-less object and himself in the above statement.

 

Kaikeyi was supposed to have facilitated ishta prApti and anishta nivrutti for

her son. Instead she acted the other way. Ishta prApti refers to the means to

nitya kaimkaryam where as anishta nivrutti refers to eliminating the obstacles

in the way of attaining nitya kaimkaryam. Considering the vaibhavam of Bharata,

even the son of that calibre was not protected by his mother.

"PeRRa thAyinum Ayina seiyyum..." 1-1-9 of Periya ThriuMozhi

 

Father:

 

The story of Prahalada is well known to everyone. He was tortured by all means

to recite Hiranya's name instead of Narayana mantram. Again, a son of the

calibre of Prahalada who showed complete bhakti on Perumal was not protected by

his father.

 

'mEAlAith thAi thandhaiyum avarEa ini AvArEa" ThiruvAiMozhi 5-1-8;

Husband:

 

sthrIgalukku bharthaakkal rakshakargal illai enbathai dharma putrargal

pakkalilum nalan pakkalilum kAnalaam

 

When pandavas went for the game of dice with kauravas, they lost everything.

During that time, Dharmaputra did not wan to accept the defeat. He wrongly

perceived Draupadi as his property and gambled with her. Eventually they lost

the game and Draupadi was ill-treated by kauravas before she was protected by

Krishna when she surrendered to Him.

 

Nalan was a great king. Due to some reason he had lost a war with the king of

another desam, and had to leave the entire kingdom to him. One night, he and his

wife were staying in a chowtry. Naln was very much disturbed and was not able to

sleep properly. He thought that he will no longer be able to protect his life,

and hence left her alone. Later he became a charioteer for a king. His made his

wife to leave in dire circumstances. He showed her the path to her parents'

house, thus leaving her is distress -neRi kATTi nEkkudhiyOA! Periya

ThriuvandhAdhi -6;

 

PL has clearly highlighted examples of how all the close relations fail to

protect a soul. Infact in all the cases, only Perumal has protected these souls

finally. Let us look into the aspect of how other devatas also fail to protect a

soul in the following postings.

 

aDiyEn,

ramanan