Fw: Prapanna ParithrANa-6

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:57 PM

RE: Prapanna ParithrANam

Sun and Moon may not be Powerful? What about-..

 

Indran

 

Swamy PL's discussion on Indran's case is very interesting. He starts with the following:

 

trilOkya pAlakanAi irundhu eppozhudhu nam padham nazhuvappOgiratho endru anchi

sApathukku aatpattu...

 

Indran is the king of swarga loka, which is third in hierarchy from

bhoomandalam. Though he is the king of all the devargal, he is always nervous

not to loose his position. He even gets into lowly acts to maintain his

position. There was a story of a king who succesfully completed a yAgam to get

indra padhavi. He used to do lot of dhAna dharma in his kingdom. When he went

to the swarga loka, Indra somehow wanted to prevent him from adorning the

throne. When the king answered indra's question on who was the great dharmasali

in the king's rajyam, the latter had to reply that it was the king him. Indra

immdietly quoted the king as self-boasting soul and pushed him down back to the

bhoolokam.

 

Once, Durvasar had the garland prasadam of Sridevi nAchiyAr. He saw indra on the

way, and gifted it to him. Without showing any respect for that, indra put that

on his elephant. Unknown of the vaibhavam of the prasadam, the elephant put the

garland down and stepped on it. Sage Durvasar immediately cursed indra to loose

all the wealth. In other instance, indra got cursed by sage Gautama for

misbehaviour with his wife. That time indra got 1000 eyea all on his body.

 

indrajit kaiyil agappattu..

 

Indrajit, the son of Ravana had once defeated indran. That instance is also quoted by PL.

 

MahAbali pOlvar idathil Iswaryam parikoduthu kannum kanneer kondu kazhuthum kappadaiyumAi...

 

Mahabali performed yAgam to get indra padhavi. At the time when he was about to

finish it succesfully, indran was horrified and eventually went and fell at the

feet of Perumal. kappadai here refers to the torn cloth. A wealthy person, when

he becomes poor, will always feel ashamed of showing his poor status to the

external world, and hence will try to hide the torn cloth on his body.

NammAzhwar refers to this state of a person in one of his pasurams when

describing the state of a person who will get protected by Perumal. EmPerumAnAr

has dedicated this pasuram for ThirunArAyanapuram:

 

orunNaa yagamaay Oda,vulaguda Nnaandavar,karunNaay kavarntha kaalar sidhaigiya

paanaiyar,perunNaadu kaaNa immaiyilEpichchai thaamkoLvar,thirunNaaraNan_thaaL

kaalam peRachchindhith thuymminO (TVM 4.1.1)

 

This kind of person will not even be able to recognize the dog lying on the

road, as it would be dark when he comes out of his place.

 

The fourth instance is about Govardana malai. People used to offer food to

indra, but with the command of Krishna they stopped it once and offered it to

the hill itself. That was consumed completely by Krishna. He himself is the

hill, dam and everything as qutoed in sAstras. Krishna specifically did this

act to show the people that indra is not a nitya (eternal) entity.

 

Let us look into the case of Brahma and others in the follwoing postings.

 

aDiyEn,

ramanan