Arthi Prabhandham-7(Part-2)

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha | Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha |

But the Vedas were very complex (as the meanings were hidden) and hence the

people ignored the Vedas and went on in their own ways. But God the father of

the world couldn’t keep quiet seeing his kids suffer. So He himself came down

taking rAma Krishna avatars. The state of perumal in Srivaikuntam while all his

kids, the jeevatmas suffered in the leela vibhuthi, is explained by our Sri

maNava:La maha:muni as follows:

 

Arthi prabhandam –5

Oh! EthirAjA can a father enjoy a sophisticated life when his son is away and

doesn’t join him in his enjoyment?

 

This we visualize even today. Many of us are in the US and our parents in India.

When a function or a festival like deepavali comes even though the parents join

to celebrate with their other sons and daughters still their minds linger in the

thoughts of the son/daughter in a far of land many miles away from them. Same

thing happened to God. He was in the moksha mandalam along with the nithya

sooris but his mind was constantly thinking about how to uplift, we jeevatmas to

his abode. So one fine day when the nithya sooris were doing pooja to him with

the dhoopam (smoke from camphor and agarbaththi) he escaped from there and came

down to this world says nammAzhvar (thiruviruththam-21). Nithya vibhuti is a

land of divinity and leela vibhuti is the most filthy and dirty place. God due

to his care for the jeevatmas came down. Can we all leave our houses and go and

live in a slum? We will immediately say “nay! I will rather die than live in

such a nasty place” But God has come down from his divine abode to the worst

slum. Why? Sri maNava:la maha:muni answers in Arthi prabhandam-9 "like the

mother who jumps into the drainage to save her kid which has fallen into it

accidentally"

 

We are all the kids who have fallen into this drainage of samsAram (samsAra

sAkkadai). So God, who is the mother of this whole world with the vAtsalyam of

all the mothers in this world put together, came down to save us all from the

miseries of samsAram.

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But did perumal succeed? If so why are we all still suffering in this world?

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Let us find out in the next posting.

Jai SrimanNarayana l Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai, Sumithra Varadarajan

 

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