Sri UpakAra Sangraham Part -25

[Guest guest]

Dear Bhagavatha-s, Many members could not receive this

part in a readable condition. As instructed, it is

being sent again. AdiyEn trusts this would be

readable.

dAsan

Anbil SrInivAsan

----------------

 

 

srI:

SrI upakAra sangraham – 25

---

adikAram – 1

poorva upakAra paramparai

(The Foremost Series of Favours)

---

SECTION – 4

(The Favour in the form of Chastisement) (continued)

-----

SwAmi Desikan makes a significant statement that we

should not stop merely remembering the favour the Lord

did by turning our lives towards Him from the anAdi

birth-cycle within this materialistic world. That is

only the starting point. The Lord stands by us

throughout thereafter so that we don’t slip back

into the muddy life. This is what SwAmi Desikan says:-

“IShvaran keezhum mElum paNNum

daNda-visheShankaLellAm shikShA-visheSha-roopankaLAna

upakArankaLAm.â€

Whatever sufferings we had in the past are the

punishments the Lord imposed on us. Finally, we have

turned towards Him with a feeling, as the AzhvAr did,

why He did not do this favour much earlier. But the

past is past. We must ignore it and be satisfied and

do our bit to continue on the lines He has just now

shown to us. But do we? No, we have many slips. These

may be with our knowledge or not.

When we commit blunders fully knowing that they are

blunders, He again comes to our help. The miseries we

suffer even after having been restored by Him are the

punishments He gives to us so that we don’t repeat

such blunders.

If we commit blunders not deliberately but because of

our vAsanA-s, past habits, He again comes to our help.

This time He doesn’t give severe punishments. But,

He gives lessons – “shikShA-sâ€. These too are

favours conferred on us by the Lord.

The lessons the Lord gives to the jIvA whom He just

retrieved have been beautifully summarized by the Lord

Himself in the Bhagavad Gita. He says the basic

enemies to the jIvA are desire and hatred from which

he must get freed to proceed further on the spiritual

path. These enemies get their strength from the

jIvA’s thinking about sense-objects. This in turn

develops attachment, and then, arises desire which if

it is not fulfilled, gives birth to anger. From anger

comes great confusion from which the jIvA loses

memory. From the loss of memory, he loses buddhi –

the power of discrimination, and then, he is totally

lost. That is why he is caught in the cycle of

births-rebirths.

By such lessons, the Lord also guides the jIvA to

control the desire and aversion while attending to

works in the mundane world.

SwAmi Desikan, however, points out that he may not be

able understand these lessons immediately:-

“ivRRAl, oruvanukku appOtu puritalanRikkE

ozhintAlumâ€

But, later it will become clear to him one day, either

directly or through others (may be gurus).

“puruShAntarattiRkum avantanakkum teLivu varuvatu

oru kAlattilumâ€

At that time, the jIvA will also realize that all the

miseries he underwent were really the favours done by

the Lord.

“ivai shikShaiyAyt talaikkattumâ€

These punishments will be understood to be actually

favours from the Lord.

(To continue)

dAsan

Anbil S.SrInivAsan

-----

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

______________________________\

____

Be a better friend, newshound, and

know-it-all with Mobile. Try it now.

http://mobile./;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ