Prapanna ParithrANam 12

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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:03 PM

PP

 

 

Posting 12..

engirapadiyE than urukeduthu vErruru kondu thAi mukham kAttiyum insollu

solliyum brAthAkkalum barthAkkalum negizhakkandu thAn nErittukkondu

kazhuthilE Olai kattikkondu thoodhu pOyum, puruvam neritha idathilE thErai

nadAthiyum mArpilE anbEtrum sAvAmal nOkkiyum, sethArai meettum nArAyana

prayukthathAle udhara tharippAle agavAyilE nindru sathaiyai nOkki nirkaiyAle

rakshagan AvAn..

 

There are lots of instances where Sriyapthi has taken different forms to

protect a soul. Infact, he also has come down to live in Divya Desams in

various forms accepting the request of bhaktas. He is the one who shows

complete motherly nature to all the souls. Initially we saw that even a

mother cannot protect a soul. That instance refers to parental nature that

leads one in the wrong direction.

 

kazhuthilE Olai kattikkondu thoodhu pOyum

He has infact indulged in lowly activities to just protect his bhakta. He

went as a messenger for Panadavas by wearing the garland with olai. His

kalyana gunam is more visible in the fact that He resides as Panda Dhoothan

in a Divya Desam for current day bhaktas.

 

puruvam neritha idathilE thErai nadAthiyum mArpilE anbEtrum sAvAmal nOkkiyum

He did not stop with this act. He won the battle for pandavas just by

driving the chariot. Pandavas did not win the battle by their valour. He

protect Arjuna from the rain of arrows by accepting them on his body. Again

he shows his kalyana gunam with the same Thirumukhamandalm, as Parthasarathy

in ThiruvallikkEni Divya Desam. He satood by his promise of not taking the

weapon in his hand before the battle. Thirumangai Azhwar refers to this in

his pasuram as..

 

paRRalar veeyak kOlkaiyil koNdu

paartthanRan thErmunnNin Raanai,

siRRavai paNiyaal mudithuRanN dhaanaith

thiruvallik kENikkaN dEnE (Periya Thirumozhi 2.3.1)

 

Krishna also protected Arjuna from Agni asthram by making him get down the

chariot first. Initially, Arjuna was hesitant to get down first, but Krishna

requested him to get down.

 

sethArai meettum

He also protected the pandavas from yaksha and broght them back alive after

they had consumed poisonous water. In other instance, Krishna brought back

the son of his guru Sandipini from the clutches of an asura. This is

referred to by Thirumangai Azhwar in his pasurams on Srirangam Perumal...

 

Othu vaaymaiyum uvaniyap piRappum

unakku mun_thantha anthaNa Nnoruvan,

'kaatha lenmagan pugalidaNG kaaNEn;

kaNdu neetharu vaayenak kenRu,

kOthil vaaymaiyi Nnaanunai vEndiya

kuRaimu diththavan siRuvanaik koduththaay,

aatha laalvanthun adiyiNai yadainthEn

aNipo zhilthiru varangaththam maanE (PTM 5.8.7)

 

Azhwar refers to another instance where Krishna borught back the newborn

babies of a rishi from Thayar in Paramapadam. Thayar had took those babies

to just make Krishna come to paramapadam and show some of his leela.

 

vEtha vaaymozhi yanthaNa Nnoruvan

'enthai ninsara Nennudai manaivi,

kaathal makkaLaip payaththalum kaaNaaL

kadiya theyvangoN doLikkum,'enRazhaippa

Etha laarmunnE yinnaru Lavarkkuch

seythun makkaLmaR RivarenRu koduththaay,

aatha laalvanthun adiyiNai yadainthEn

aNipo zhilthiru varangaththam mane (PTM 5.8.8)

 

nArAyana prayukthathAle udhara tharippAle agavAyilE nindru sathaiyai nOkki

nirkaiyAle

His very name, Narayana refers to the fact that he is the one from whom

everything arises and he is the one who sustains and protects us all. Hence,

this relationship is similar to that of a baby's relationship with its

mother's womb.

 

Swamy PL continues with Akinchanyatvam and hence shows us that Narayana is

the one and only protector for all the souls. We will look at that in the

next posting, which will be the concluding one.

 

aDiyEn,

ramanan