Sri Vijaya Dasaru's compositions- Part 2-Ananda Ananda matte paramAnanda

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Hare Srinivasa!Sri

Vijayadasa gurubyoh namah!

 

 

vijayarAyara

pAda nijavAgi naMbalu ajana pita tAne olivA

"The

father of Brahma will automatically bestow grace on one who trusts in

the feet of VijayarAya completely and absolutely."

This

is what Mohana Dasaru, his spiritual son has to say of this great

Dasaru. Mohana Dasaru was cured of dire diseases during his infancy

and was brought up by Dasaru with the milk that was used to do

abhisheka to the Lord, with the teertha, with the akhate and ganda

that was offered to the Lord.

 

 

 

Sri

Vijaya Dasaru is the avatara of Sri Brighu muni. He has written about

the Lord's complete independence in the working of the world. He

states that one who fully understands the extent of Hari's hand in

each and every area, be it subtle or physical of each individual jiva

as well as the entire creation will be the recipient of eternal bliss

which is moksha. One may ask where is it mentioned in this devarunama

about moksha Dasaru says , Ananda,Ananda matte paramAnaMda. Once the

jiva becomes aware of the Lord supremacy and control, he/she

expereinces bliss and more bliss. Then later he/she expereinces the

maximum bliss that can be expereinced by himself/herself . This is

the state of moksha .

 

 

The

varNas,the pancha bhutas, the karmEndriya vyAparas, the jNanendriya

vyAparas, jaDa vastus all remind the jNAni about the Lord and His

magnificient glory. To such a person there is nothing but bliss,

bliss and repeatedly great bliss.

 

 

On

the contrary if one wants to obtain bliss,bliss.......endless bliss

ie moksha then one has to understand the Lord's supremacy and control

on the entire cosmos.

 

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AnaMda

AnaMda matte paramAnaMda

AnaMdana

kaMda Oliye EnaMdadde vedavriMda

 

 

A

modalu shakaraMtha A mahAvarNagalella

swAmiyAda

vishnuvina nAmaveMdu aritavarige

 

 

jalakAshTashaila

gaganana nelapAvaka taruvu

plalapushpaballigaLalli

hari vyAptaneMaritavarige

 

 

bArotAro

herO Ero bIro tOro embudu

 

EshaNe

preraraNe yeMdaritavarige

 

 

pOpudubarutippudu

matte kOpashAMta mADuvudu

roopalAvaMyavu

hariya vyAparaveMdaritavarige

 

 

madhvashAstra

pravachana muddu krishnana darshuna

shuddha

vijayaviTTalana poMdi koMDaDuvarige

 

 

A

modalu shakaraMtha A mahAvarNagalella

swAmiyAda

vishnuvina nAmaveMdu aritavarige

The

entire aksharas which are eternal and are the origin of all knowledge

are the names of Lord Vishnu. The entire range of sounds including

all vowels, consonants and their deergas and rasvas are all the names

of the Lord. Every name, every sound is the name of the Lord.

 

Lord

Krishna says in BG 7.8

rasOhamapsu

kouMteya prabhAsmi shashisuryayO

praNavaH

sarvavedeshu shabaH......

"O

Arjuna, I am the one who endows the water with the properties of

taste, I am the lustre of the Sun and moon,I am the sound in the sky,

I am the Omkar-the essence of Vedas."

 

All

the words of every language are primarily the names of the Lord. So

the moment one hears any sound the thoughts of the Lord's roopa or

His mahima ie auspicious attributes should come to mind.

 

 

 

The

following verse brings home the importance of Vishnu smarane.

vipado naiva vipadaHsampado naiva sampadaHvipad vismaraNaM visnoHsampan nArAyaNa smRtiH"There is no greater trouble or misfortune than forgetting the Lord and there is no greater fortune than having thoughts of the Lord Narayana."So unless one has complete smriti of Narayana, He cannot become complete. Completion is attaining the true knowledge of oneself as well as

God within one's ability. Let us consider how this is possible ie how knowing that aksharas and sounds are the names of God helps us in becoming complete.One obvious reason is that such a person is knower of the Vedas, means the knower of the Lord as per ability so it follows that such a person will be blissful.Another reason is that is the means of sadhana for an ordinary person.How so? For this, We keep hearing sounds everyday. All sorts of sounds intelligible as well as unintelligible. Srimad Acharya has given an example of how one can do the anusandhana of God's mahima when hearing to the call of a lizard.

The lizards call

is similar to the sound that we humans make when we see something

that is amazing beyond words. So it is possible to feel the wonder of

the Lord's creation with respect to the lizard itself. Eg ; The

lizard moves on a smooth vertical wall without slipping, if it's

tail is cut off it still survives, there are so many varieties of

lizards adapted

to so many different habitats . Such attributes and many more can be

contemplated on leading to the Lord's wonderful hand behind each of

this.

Recalling

Acharya's dwadasha stotra on this,

bahu

chitra jagat bahudAkaraNat

parashaktiranaMta

guNah paramaH

 

 

Let

us look at a few sounds and try to do chintane of Lord's mahima in

these.

a)

The sound 'a' - 'a' means that which is the first part of the 'Om'

kara sound. Om is composed of 'a' ,'u' and'ma'. 'a' signifies that

the Lord is not like anything that we see, He is not comprehendable

in entirety, He is completely different from all etc.

b)The

sound sha- sha means jNAna. The Lord is the orgin of all knowledge

and He is a treasure house of knowledge and bliss.

c)anAmaya

- Amaya is defects or flaws. anAmaya is one without any flaws- Lord

Narayana.

 

Now

for a simple person like oneself who does not know sanskrit and

cannot analyse the root forms of all sounds and hence will find it

difficult to understand the sounds as attributes. Instead it is

possible to associate the physical properties of the objects , the

attributes of the person etc and discover the Lord's greatness

therein.

Eg

the english word Sun. The sun is the giver of light and heat. It is

the source of all energy and it has all these attributes because of

the Lord's presence inside as antaryAmi giving the prerane and

shakthi. Names of things - silver It is a metal whcih can be shaped

into utensils and is a purifier of things. Water stored in silver has

antibacterial properties not found generally. It is not only useful

but also ornamental.All these special attributes are due to the

Lord's special presence in it.

 

So

also for people who are good in arts, sports and have anything

special about them.

The

Lord says in Bg

'yad

yad vibhuti mat satvam....."

Dasaru

implies that such a training of the mind of associating every

expereince with a mahima of God will eventually increase devotion and

knowledge which are steps towards the goal.

 

 

jalakAshTashaila

gaganana nelapAvaka taruvu

plalapushpaballigaLalli

hari vyAptaneMaritavarige

 

 

The

pancha maha bhootas which are the basic components of all jaDa

objects on earth. Water - It is a special cleanser which is

odourless. It always flows from a higher level to a lower level. It

gives taste to everything. It cools the atmostphere. It exists in

three forms-solid as ice, liquid and gas as water vapour. All these

special attributes are designed by the Lord so that the beings on

earth can enjoy and learn.

The

wood, the mountain, the clouds, the earth, the fire, the trees,

fruits, flowers, creepers and everything one sees points to the

vividness of the Lord's creation and going deeper the great

benevolence of the Lord in creating such a variety , not for Himself

as He is swaramaNa and is completely blissful by Himself. All these

are created by Him for the benefit of jivas, so that they can

expereince, work out their karma and learn. Every outward expereince

has something to teach and also cleans the personality of dirt

depending on the jiva's swabhava. Continuous understanding of the

Lord's control on all these things which we take for granted usually

will move one towards accepting the Lord's Supremacy and one's

dasatva in a very real and automatic manner. The acceptance should be

out of expereince of one's dependence and not just because that is

what the shastras say. Each time such an expereince occurs a strand

of karma binding the jiva to the linga shareera will be cut-off. This

is an animated way to visualize the Lord's benevolence in clearing

one off the karma bondagea . if one remembers that He is the doer and

one is the instrument while doing the karma.

 

 

bArotAro

herO Ero bIro tOro embudu

 

EshaNe

preraraNe yeMdaritavarige

Dasaru

is giving examples of actions and events and tracing everything back

to the Lord's wish.

A

person comes, a person brings something, a person is heaped with

responsibility, a person climbs to the top of one's career, one's

business, or reaches spiritual heights etc, one gives a lot of gifts

to another, one person shows something to another . All these occur

only because the Lord instigated these actions and placed the persons

who gave, as well as the persons who take , the place where the give

and take takes place, the time where it takes place etc. The same is

true for going to places. Every thing falls into place like the

jigsaw puzzle because the Lord's will controls everything and His

will is omnipresent and omnipotent . If one recoginizes this then

there is nothing but pure bliss for the soul. Why?

 

Because

it gives rise to an equinamity of mind which is of utmost necessity

to retain knowledge and move forward spiritually.

Let

us consider favourable and unfavourable events and do chintane of how

it influences the expereince positively. A friend comes along . He

brings a gift and that is an object which one wanted to buy since a

long time. One is happy and thrilled wondering how the friend was

aware about one's longing. One should understand that the Lord is

behind everything and He gave the preraNe to the frined in order that

one's desire is fulfilled. He is the cause but makes it difficult to

relate to because He works through others.

Jagannatha

Dasaru in HKS says,

manada

vrittiagal anusarisi bhOgagalIva trivida chEtanake

Often

the expereince that one aspires for comes along sooner or later. This

is because He sees the desire in the mind ,actually He places the

desire in the mind and then moves external objects, events and people

to create the experience especially for the jiva.

Similarly

if there is a loss or unpleasand expereince. One should understand

that the Lord is behind this. He only caused the events to occur so

that the loss occurred as it it is in tune with our karma and

swabhava. This helps in creating having a balanced state of mind even

during bad times.

 

 

pOpudubarutippudu

matte kOpashAMta mADuvudu

roopalAvaMyavu

hariya vyAparaveMdaritavarige

 

 

Going

and coming means moving about to different places is all Hari's

vyApAra. Based on the prarabdha karma , yogyatha etc the Lord decides

who should be where at what time and places them accordingly. If we

observe our present position , it is the result of many many choices

that were taken right through childhood. These choices if they had

not been directed and controlled then the outcome would not be as the

Lord wants it to be. So He definitely decides on each and every

choice and moves the jivas accordingly.

Sri

Purandara Dasaru says ,

'nine

ADisadiralu jaDa oNakeya boMbe

 

Enu mADalu balladu tAne

nIniTTa

sUtradim chalipavu kaikAlugalu

nIne

muggisalu mugguva deha"

"

I am like a wooden doll, without any motion.If it not were for You

moving me as and how You want, I would be immobile. Just as a

puppetter controls the hands and legs of puppets by the threads

attached to them, so also You control my every movement be it

physical or metaphysical."

 

 

Sri

Jagannatha Dasaru explains how He gives the expereinces to the jivas.

He says,

gaMdha

rasa rUpa sparsha shabda oMdu tAnalla adarada

pesariMda

karesuta jIvarige tarpakanu tAnAgi

poMdi

koMDiha paramakaruNa siMdu shAshvata manave

modalAda

iMdriyagalolagiddu bOgisuvanu vishayagala

 

"

He exists in all the tanmatras with those specific

names-smell,taste,sight,touch,sound, but He is not any of them. He

gives the expereince to the jiva by being the instigator of the sense

stimulus, the sense organ and the mind in receiving the input and

processing it. He does this out of His compassion for the entire

jivas and by His mere presence ,He does all this and accepts the

expereince too ."

 

 

What

Vijayadasaru wants to highlight is that during each expereince one

has to remember God's entire chain of events that cause this and

finally offer it consiciously to the Lord, as that will lead one

further in sadhana and finally to eternal happiness.

 

 

madhvashAstra

pravachana muddu krishnana darshuna

shuddha

vijayaviTTalana poMdi koMDaDuvarige

 

 

"Bliss,bliss

and more bliss is sure to be bestowed on one who listens and

understands to the exposition of the philosophy of Sri Madhvacharya

..They finally see Lord Krishna and continue to serve the Lord

Vijayavittala with great bhakthi and devotion even in moksha, knowing

Him to be the purest of the pure." The word muddu shows the

extent of vatsalya of Vijayadasaru for this form of the Lord. Krishna

....the name initiates a chain of thoughts of the bala leelas of the

Lord as described in the Bhagavatam and inspires the devotee to feel

vatsalya bhava of devotion.

The

word shuddha is used to indicate that even though He exists in the

entire threads of these mundane world ,He remains unaffected by any

of its negativity and is always pure. Bhesshma says ,'maMgalnAm cha

maMgalam" Among all the purest things ,Vishnu is the purest.

There is nothing more pure than Him, His name, His glory ,His

attributes and His forms are all entirely different and pure.srI krishNArpanamastuI am not the doer, Lord Hari is the doerWhatever He makes me do is His worship by His graceR. Parimala

 

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