Guest guest Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Is Wealth a Protection? We have seen how varios relations and devathas cannot protect us form this samsara. Wealth helps us accomplish so many things in this life. Even an uneducated person is well-respected if he is wealthy. Does this wealth has the capacity to protect us?Let us dwell into what Swamy PL has to say about this:"Artham rakshagam endru nirUbithAl kalvan kolluthal, kAmam kolluthal, kOpam kolluthal, nyAthi kolluthal, vyAthi kolluthal, pirarOdu ethirittu thannai thAnaE vishapakshanam seydhu mudithukkoluthal seykaiyAlaE, arthamum rakshagamAga mAttAthu..."Swamy PL discusses various case scenarios where wealth will create a lot of problem to the soul. kalvan kolluthalMore the wealth we have, more it is prone to be looted . It does not stop just with the case of thieves. In case, the government comes up with the rule that none of the citizen should save more than a stipulated amount of money, then there would be a necessity to surrender the money to the governement. Not just that. In those days, the amount of wealth was propotional to the amount of dhAyam one used to have from the fields. If one tried to store the extra dhAyam, there was a chance that mouse would eat them off.Swamy Vedanta Desikar wrote VairAgya PanchAsat when he was offered with wealth by his friend VidyAranyar. He points to Varadar as the one and only property. SImilarly, Swamy KUrathAzhwan left all his wealth to join Swamy Ramanujar's gOshti. Our AchArya Purushas considered jnAna, bhakti vairAgyam as the only property from their ancestors. kAmam kolluthalkondaattum kulambunaivum thamaRuRRaar vizhunNidhiyum, vandaar_pooNG kuzhalaaLum manaiyozhiya vuyirmaaydhal, kandaaRREn ulagiyaRkai...... (ThiruvAymozhi 4.9.3)kAmam has even worse impact than thieves. Azhwar points to the fact that this person will not even have the strength in his body, but will be a total slave to kAmam. He will get flowers for his lover. He will not be able to enjoy, but the fly that sits on her hair will be enjoying that. Still, he will not stop spending money for this insatiable desire despite the fact that he has become old.Instead, the same Azhwar recommends something else before he gets old..kiLaroLiyiLamai keduvathanmunnam, vaLaroLimaayOn maruviyakOyil, vaLariLampozilsooz maaliruncOlai, thaLarvilaraagil saarvathusathirE (ThiruvAymozhi 2.10.1)He asks all of us in samsara to visit ThirumAlirunchOlai before we get old. Similarly, Thirumangai Azhwar asks us to visit Badri before we get old.nYathi kolluthal, kOpam kolluthalThis aspect to refers to fight among brothers for the protperty. The consequence of this is very much evident form Mahabharata. Azhwar refers to the wealth as fire, and hence recommends us not to embrace it. vYathi kolluthalThis case is very much relevant to the current age. None of us can get treated for even a small ailment without paying for that. Thondaradippodi Azhwar pleads that his life gets wasted with all the aspects including vidyA, sleep, sickness, age factor and other materialistic aspects, and hence requests RanganAthar to take him away from this samsara.vEthanool piraayam nooRu manisar_thaam pukuva rElum, paathiyu muRankip pOkum ninRathil pathinai yaaNdu, pEdhaipaa lakana thaakum piNipasi moopputh thunpam, aathalaal piRavi vENdEn arankamaa nakaru LaanE (Thirumaalai 3)Visha paksham Seydhu mudithukkoluthalThis case scenario is also read about in present days in news papers. People sopmetimes get involved in increasing their materialistic lifestyle by borrowing money. Sometimes it might soi happen that the person may not be able to pay the interest and hence gets submerged in total liability. To escape from this situation, he tried ending up his life with poison.Here again, Azhwar suggests a way for them..adisEr mudiyina raagiyarasargaL thaamthozha, idisEr murasangaL muRRaththiyamba irunthavar, podisEr thugaLaayp pOvargaLaadhalin nokkena kadisEr thuzhaaymudik kaNNan kazhalgaL ninaiminO. (ThiruvAymozhi 4.1.3)Infact, Azhwar talks about the distress caused by wealth in all the ten pasurams in this pathikam. Even a king will come to a stage where he will become a dust , and hence asks us to grab the feet of Kannan before we actually get to that stage. Indra, because of his ahamkAra was turned to a beggar by DurvAsa. We saw this story while discussing about him.Thus, Swamy PL has shown us that even wealth cannot protect us from samsara. The only kadan that we as SriVaishnavas can have is also advocated by Azhwar in the following pasuram..vEnga dangaLmeym mElvinai muRRavum, thaangaL thangatku nallana vEseyvaar, vEnga datthuRai vaarkku namavenna laanga damai,a thusumanN thaarkatkE (ThiruvAymozhi 3.3.6)adiyEn,ramanan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 thAnaE vishapakshanam seydhu mudithukkoluthal seykaiyAlaE, arthamum rakshagamAga mAttAthu..."Swamy PL discusses various case scenarios where wealth will create a lot of problem to the soul. kalvan kolluthalMore the wealth we have, more it is prone to be looted . It does not stop just with the case of thieves. In case, the government comes up with the rule that none of the citizen should save more than a stipulated amount of money, then there would be a necessity to surrender the money to the governement. Not just that. In those days, the amount of wealth was propotional to the amount of dhAyam one used to have from the fields. If one tried to store the extra dhAyam, there was a chance that mouse would eat them off.Swamy Vedanta Desikar wrote VairAgya PanchAsat when he was offered with wealth by his friend VidyAranyar. He points to Varadar as the one and only property. SImilarly, Swamy KUrathAzhwan left all his wealth to join Swamy Ramanujar's gOshti. Our AchArya Purushas considered jnAna, bhakti vairAgyam as the only property from their ancestors. kAmam kolluthalkondaattum kulambunaivum thamaRuRRaar vizhunNidhiyum, vandaar_pooNG kuzhalaaLum manaiyozhiya vuyirmaaydhal, kandaaRREn ulagiyaRkai...... (ThiruvAymozhi 4.9.3)kAmam has even worse impact than thieves. Azhwar points to the fact that this person will not even have the strength in his body, but will be a total slave to kAmam. He will get flowers for his lover. He will not be able to enjoy, but the fly that sits on her hair will be enjoying that. Still, he will not stop spending money for this insatiable desire despite the fact that he has become old.Instead, the same Azhwar recommends something else before he gets old..kiLaroLiyiLamai keduvathanmunnam, vaLaroLimaayOn maruviyakOyil, vaLariLampozilsooz maaliruncOlai, thaLarvilaraagil saarvathusathirE (ThiruvAymozhi 2.10.1)He asks all of us in samsara to visit ThirumAlirunchOlai before we get old. Similarly, Thirumangai Azhwar asks us to visit Badri before we get old.nYathi kolluthal, kOpam kolluthalThis aspect to refers to fight among brothers for the protperty. The consequence of this is very much evident form Mahabharata. Azhwar refers to the wealth as fire, and hence recommends us not to embrace it. vYathi kolluthalThis case is very much relevant to the current age. None of us can get treated for even a small ailment without paying for that. Thondaradippodi Azhwar pleads that his life gets wasted with all the aspects including vidyA, sleep, sickness, age factor and other materialistic aspects, and hence requests RanganAthar to take him away from this samsara.vEthanool piraayam nooRu manisar_thaam pukuva rElum, paathiyu muRankip pOkum ninRathil pathinai yaaNdu, pEdhaipaa lakana thaakum piNipasi moopputh thunpam, aathalaal piRavi vENdEn arankamaa nakaru LaanE (Thirumaalai 3)Visha paksham Seydhu mudithukkoluthalThis case scenario is also read about in present days in news papers. People sopmetimes get involved in increasing their materialistic lifestyle by borrowing money. Sometimes it might soi happen that the person may not be able to pay the interest and hence gets submerged in total liability. To escape from this situation, he tried ending up his life with poison.Here again, Azhwar suggests a way for them..adisEr mudiyina raagiyarasargaL thaamthozha, idisEr murasangaL muRRaththiyamba irunthavar, podisEr thugaLaayp pOvargaLaadhalin nokkena kadisEr thuzhaaymudik kaNNan kazhalgaL ninaiminO. (ThiruvAymozhi 4.1.3)Infact, Azhwar talks about the distress caused by wealth in all the ten pasurams in this pathikam. Even a king will come to a stage where he will become a dust , and hence asks us to grab the feet of Kannan before we actually get to that stage. Indra, because of his ahamkAra was turned to a beggar by DurvAsa. We saw this story while discussing about him.Thus, Swamy PL has shown us that even wealth cannot protect us from samsara. The only kadan that we as SriVaishnavas can have is also advocated by Azhwar in the following pasuram..vEnga dangaLmeym mElvinai muRRavum, thaangaL thangatku nallana vEseyvaar, vEnga datthuRai vaarkku namavenna laanga damai,a thusumanN thaarkatkE (ThiruvAymozhi 3.3.6)adiyEn,ramanan India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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