bhOgyAmrutam - 20 pradhAna puruShESvaraha

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pradhAna puruShESvaraha (aSwini-3rd pAdam) - pradhAnam means nature (the

insentient). puruSha is the jIvAtma (the sentient beings). He controls the

prakriti and gives joy to the puruSha. Hence, He is called as the pradhAna

puruShESvara.

 

ISvaraha = ISAnAt ramaNAt ca = on account of controlling (the nature) and

entertaining (the soul).

 

Poem: Siriya tirumaDal - 41, 42 of SrI Tirumangai ALwAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

samanvayam with pASuram : The supreme Lord Sri Ramachandra who quashed the ten

headed RAvaNa and bestowed happiness on mother SIta is that pradhAna

puruShESvara.

 

Poem in English:

1) For the sake of the exceptionally red-lipped and corseted vaidEhi.

 

2) The red eyed Lord who rejoiced after felling asunder the ten wealthy heads of

the mighty shouldered RAvaNa.

 

Detailed interpretation :

1) For the sake of exceptionally red-lipped and corseted vaidEhi : VaidEhi =

which is different from the body = soul.

 

Exceptionally red-lipped - Indicative of the great love, which flows out of

those lips as songs of adulation.

 

The two breasts of the Mother - Signifying the (two kinds of) love which gushes

out of Her heart.

1) Love towards Her Lord.

2) Love towards Her children.

 

corset - Her dependence (on the Lord) which braces Her love. It is the thought

of existing solely for the sake of Her Lord and Her children. Those who treasure

a similar love (towards the Lord and bhAgavatAs) and pAratantrayam, who always

speak endearing words bespeaking such love are the ones being alluded through

the descriptive phrase - "the exceptionally red-lipped and corseted vaidEhi".

 

He shields and entertains such souls through acts like the one

described below.

 

2) The red-eyed Lord who rejoiced after cutting asunder the ten wealthy heads of

the mighty shouldered RavaNa :

RavaNa - The mind filled with mode of passion.

 

Shoulders - Those, who abet the perpetrations of such a RavaNa. They are well

decorated with the ornaments acquired by plundering the weak.

 

Mighty (vast) shoulders - Indicative of the large number of such partners in

crime viz

1) the kAma, krOdha, mOha, mada, mAtsaryAs;

2) pravrutti and nivrutti of the ten indriyAs i.e., the predisposition towards

the wicked deeds and the reluctance in doing good actions.

 

The ten wealthy heads - Indicating the ten indriyAs ( 5 karmEndriyAs and 5

jnAnEndriyAs). These ten are wealthy in the sense that they have gained mastery

in commiting immoral acts.

 

The soul gets enslaved to such amoral thoughts and deeds on

account of its association with the prakruti. It experiences pain and pleasure

(pain often being the leader) under the influence of prakruti and keeps

struggling in vain to set itself free.

 

He quells such an association, which seperates the soul from Him

and rejoices. This He does by controlling the prakruti. And the soul relieved

from the pangs of the prakruti rejoices along with Him.

 

He is the one with immensly bewitching eyes that are thoroughly

reddened due to His profuse love for us. He rules the prakruti (nature) and the

jIvAs (souls). He is the "pradhAna puruShESvara". By controlling the prakruti,

He delights the puruSha.

 

Jai Sriman Narayana