nam-piLLai 9

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nam-piLLai 9 -avathArigai Contd.

 

Continuing on nam-piLLai's avathArigai for "pathudai adiyavaRku

ELiyavan' 1-3 of thiru voi mozhi:

He is the person who beheaded vAnasura then. He incarnated here and

became easily accessible to one and all. Those who opposed Him like

sisupAlAdhigaL, bhUdhanai, sakatAsuran ,yamaLArjunargaL were vanquished

by Him and those who desired Him thrived on HIm.

 

Azhwar mentions several times " worship Him" . Unless, He is in one's

vision one is unable to worship. Unless worshipped, He is not in the

vision. Then how to surrender unto Him?............

The Lord being the supreme entity, is it possible for Him to come down

to such a level?

Being, omnipotent it is indeed possible. In fact, He Himself has

mentioned this as :

"My births are not due to kArmic effects but due to my volition. Even at

that low level His supremacy is attained. ....Hence , in rAmakrishNAdhi

avathArangaL He is sulabhan and Hence easily accessible, surrender unto

Him, is AzhwAr's counsel.

Among avathAram-s krishNAvathAram is the extreme end of this simplicity

Even, in that the episode of butter mouthed Lord makes AzhwAr faint for

six months exclaiming

"ethiRam" .

First, AzhwAr submerged in Lord's supremacy. He adjusted himself and

preached to the world in the next thiru voi mozhi. In this thiru voi

mozhi, AzhwAr submerged in His simplicity and fainted.

Thus swAmi nam-piLLai's introduction for this padhigam visualises and

brings in front of us the Lord with butter in His hand, in His mouth in

the simplest of the simplest state. That, this is the reflection of the

supreme is explained.That, this simplicity cannot be taken for granted

is also mentioned by those opposing being demolished. That many are

enjoying this simplicity while some who oppose fall, is explained

through illustration like water-pond, lamp. That, though a supreme

entity cannot be reached by ordinary mortals like us being the question

raised by one and all is answered by mentioning that it is possible to

reach Him, if He lowers Himself to our reach. That, He cannot be

worshipped as He is not in our vision is answered by the fact that He

has indeed given vision in the incarnations and these are out of His

volition are explained.

Last but not the least, the fact that AzhwAr was able to retrieve

himself from the impact of supremacy and preach but fainted on turning

his thoughts on His extreme simplicity is emotionally spelt out.

This grand introduction, will take anybody into levels of ecstasy and

automatically push us into the spirit to dwell into the micro

vyAkyAnam-s of each pAsuram-s to follow.

Is that not the greatness of swAmi nam-piLLai?

 

(to be continued)

vanamamalai padmanabhan