FW: Devuru nama

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Below is one of the comments /

interpretations from my sister on one Devuru nama from Shri Sripadarajaru.

 

I felt that it should be shared with

sajjanaru like you. Any comments on the interpretation is much welcome.

 

 

Dhanyavadegalu.

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R.Parimala

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

11:59 PM

Bindhumadhavan, Raghavendra;

Prabhakar, Venkobarao; Krittika Raghav; Varaha Prasad; sulochana

gopalakrishnan; Kamala krishnamuthy; sarayu_prabhakar

Cc:

anirudhharrypotter; Savitha R

Devuru nama

 

 

 

Hare Srinivasa!

 

Please accept my pranams. I would like to share my thoughts on this

Devurunama by Sri Sripadarajaru .

 

DayamaaDi salahaiyya bayanivaranane

hayavadana ninna charana nambideno jeeya

 

DayamaaDi salaiyya

 

Bhaya = fear is caused by ignorance. Knowledge is the light which can remove

fear. A crude example would be- a shepard grazing his cattle in a wood is

not scared when it is still day because he can see everything around him ,

but the same person would be terribly scared to be lost in the woods after

dark, because he has no knowledge about what might be there lurking in the

dark corners and is afraid that it may pounce on him before he knows what is

happening. The same is the case with the jeevas in samsara who are totallty

in darkness about self as well as God and thier relationshipto Him. The

Lord's hayagreeva/hayavadana roopa is the roopa in which the Lord first

imparted the knowledge in the form of the Veda's to Chaturmukha Brahma.

So

Dasaru is appealing to the Lord in this form to grant him or rather ignorant

but derserving souls the right knowledge . The 'nambideno' word tells us

that in order to gain such knowledge we need to have faith in His existence

and His power to unshackle us from this bond of samsara by His grace.

 

kshana kshana ke naa maaDi danta papangala

yenisalavalla ashishtu endu

phanishaayi nee yenna avagunagalenisade

nenahinaathura kottu daasanendenisaiiya

 

Dasaru appeals to the Lord . He says , " I am doing countless papas every

second so much so that I can't say that I have made this much or that much

papa

because the papa is endless .Please Oh Phani shayi O Lord who has the

serpent for his bed, you should neglect the number of bad qualities I have

and give me

pious thoughts about your glory doing which I can then be called as your

dasa. "

It is said in the puranas that a jeeva has taken birth so many times that

if during every birth a drop of milk from the mother as she feeds her child

fell to the

floor , then the volume of such milk droplets would be much much more

than

the volume of countless oceans.

So imagnine what and how many papas would be accumulated if

we were to count the papas moment by moment during those endless births. It

would be much more than the drops of water in the countless oceans by

countless times as the jeeva has been born countless times. Dasaru calls out

to Lord Narayana who sleeps on the bed of infinite oceans of milk to come to

our aid . Narayana is the form of the Lord Sri Hari who relaxes on the milky

ocean and takes care of his devotees. Whenever the devas headed by Indra

face a problem, they approach the Lord in the KSheera sagara for help and it

is His grace in this form which comes to the aid . So Dasaru is calling

out

to Sesha shayana and begging him not to take into account his bad

qualities. Here Dasaru makes the relationship between the quality or guna

and the papas. So it follows that the papa rashi's are a hinderance to

cultivating good spiritual habits/gunas. The papa rashis instill the six

seeds of bad qualities namely kama(desire),krodha(anger),moha(excessive

attachment), mada(pride), lobha(greed), matsarya(jealousy). Thse are also

called as the arishadvargagalu . These seeds sprout into further papa

karmas. In order to escape from this he begs the Lord to give him the

continious zest for contemplation which inturn can purify and cleanse the

soul of countless papas and minimize the arishadvargas and lead him to

better spiritual practice and exposure of the good gunas present in the

satwic mukti yogya jeevas .

 

kanda kanda kaDege popa chanchala manavu

pinDa thimballi bahu ishta taanu

bandAtadavanendu bayalige thaarade

konDaduvantha bhakuthi kottu salahaiyya

 

Dasaru says , Oh Lord, my mind is fickle and strays from one object to

another without regard for the appropriateness of contemplation and my

indriyas are

completely under the control this fickle mind. As a result every time I

think of something I want to experience it using my indriyas. At one time I

might be tasting

a new food, at another watching a film , and at another time using my sense

of smell and touch to obtain pleasure. I am not able to use my intellect to

control my mind and there by control my senses. "

Here bayalu means world , as well as field.

 

It could mean that Dasaru is asking theLord not to bring him to the field as

a person in the fairground keeps going from

one attraction to another until the time is up so also lifetimes could be

spent in enjoyment using the various indriyas without any purpose except

instant gratification. Dasaru begs the Lord to spare him this situation and

grant him bhakthi which will enable him to extoll the gunas of the Lord . He

says , bhakthi kottu salahaiyya " implying that such bhakthi if granted by

the Lord is itself a shower of his grace.

 

The meaning for bayalu is taken as world then Dasaru asks the Lord not to

bring him back again and again into this world but shower him with the

ultimate grace that is bhakthi to extol his glories. It is relevant to note

that Lord Hanuman was asked by Lord Rama to ask for anything and it would be

granted. At that time he asks for 'TRUE BHAKTI ' and nothing else. This same

Dasaru in his Madhva nama refers to this as " aja padavi rama koDa baralu

nija bhakuthiyane beDi varava paDeda " .

 

jAti dharmava bittu ajAmilanu irutiralu

pritiyindali mukuthi koDalillave

kyAti yanu keli naa morehokke salahaiyya

vatajana paripala sri ranga viTTala

 

Dasaru pleads with the Lord, " You have forgiven AjAmila for straying from

the path of dharma and helped him to get the right knowledge and from there

lead him to mukthi, I have listened to the stories fo your grace on your

bhakthas and come to entreat you , please shower your grace on him.

You , who are the indweller of mukya prana devaru who in turn is the preraka

for all karmas of a jeeva should take pity on me and encompass me with your

loving grace, Oh Ranga viTTala. "

 

In the world too a child would tackle his father in a similar manner. If he

is not able to convince the father about the absolute fairness of his

request and already know that he has not done anything good to deserve a

toy or book, then he will take the example of some other instance when the

elder brother or sister or cousin was forgiven after pleading forgiveness

and granted his/her request. Similarly here Dasaru pleads with the Lord by

giving examples of His immense compassion on erring devotees and asking Him

to show compassion in him too.

 

In the Bhagavatha purana - Ajamila is a brahmin who strayed from his

prescribed duties but on one occasion when he was about to die he saw yama

dootas and called out the name of his son 'Narayana'. At the moment he had

called out that word as a desperate gesture thinking that his son would come

to his aid. But actually his old samskaras were awakened by the utternace of

the name and he realised that Narayana was the name of his Lord.

In the world too, we experience such things. We do hear of such phrases -

the name rang a bell , the perfume bought back memories of his long dead

mother, the delicious smell reminded him of his hostel days etc etc. A

single trigger of a word, smell or sight is suffiencient to set off a series

of memories to come flooding back.

 

Similarly Ajamila recollected the glory of the Lord and in that instant the

yama dootas were sent off by Vishnu dootas. Later he did severe penance for

10 years and reached the feet of the Lord. So the calling out to the Lord

and extolling his glories is what we need to do continuously so that it

froms part of our subconsious /samskara .

 

Here it is quite clear that no effort on the part of a jeeva can remove and

cleanse the soul of its papas, durgunas except the grace of the Lord. In

order to acquire

God's grace one needs bhakthi. In order to have love or bhakthi towards God

we need to know His greatness so we need knowledge. Now we are back to

square one. So let's entreat Lord Hayavadana to bestow that knowledge on us.

 

Sri Hari priyatam,

 

Sri Krishnaarpana mastu

 

Parimala

 

 

 

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