Arthi Prabhandham-8 (Part-1)

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha l Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

 

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam

Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramyajAmataram munim

 

Did perumal succeed fully in his avatara mission? No. Perumal wasn’t able to

correct people totally. Sri Rama says, “These people consider me to be a man

equal to them and cease to accept my supremacy”. Mother Sita advised ravana and

tried to even threaten him but he never got down from his stands. Then Sri Rama

sent hanuman to advise ravana but again it didn’t work. Vibheeshana tried

correcting ravana, as a result he was chucked out of lanka. Inspite of all these

Sri Rama never got angry with ravana and even said, "Oh! sugreeva, bring not

only vibheeshana to my feet, even if ravana changes mind and comes then get him

immediately to me". Perumal due to his divine krupa waited even for ravana to

change. Even at the last moment during the war Sri Rama says, "Go! come back in

your chariot with bows and arrows" to give ravana more time to think and change

his mind and surrender. Inspite of that ravana refused to change and hence Sri

Rama had to kill him.

 

Then Sri Rama returned back half mindedly to Srivaikuntam. He once again took

avatar as Sri Krishna. Again kamsa and sisupala considered Sri Krishna to be

their rival. Bhagavan laments in Gita saying, “avajAnanthi mAm moodhA:” (these

stupid fools never understand me) and till the end Sri Krishna was not able to

find a single person who considered God as everything “vAsudEva sarvamithi sa

mahAtma su durlabhaha:” So with a heavy heart he returned back to his divine

abode.

 

The next day after perumal going back to his divine abode kali started and on

the 43th day of kali the great mahan, Sri saTakOpa took avatar. Our acharyas

with great feeling say, “What a pity. Couldn’t have Krishna gone 43 days later

or nammAzhvar taken birth earlier?” Krishna wanted to see a mahan who

considered vasudeva to be everything and nammAzhvar lived accordingly (“vunnum

sOru parugum neer thinnum vettrilai ellAm kannan”). Again azhvar did change the

world with his paasurams but was more involved in his own anubhavams but not

able to reach the masses. So God again due to his love and affection to one and

all sent the acharyas to this world. The acharyas are only capable to correct

this world and take the jeevatmas in the right way.

 

How can these acharyas correct the people who will not listen even to God, the

sarva shakthan. Our acharyas say, the power of thatva darshi vAkhyam is more

than even the thatva vAkhyam. God is the thatvam and the azhvars and acharyas

are those who have realized the supremacy and soulabhyam of God(thatva darshis).

If one says, consider me to be the supreme we refuse to do so. But some other

person comes and says he is supreme, he has all divine qualities we accept.

 

(To be continued)

Jai Sriman Narayana | Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai, Sumithra Varadarajan

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