Thiruvaimozi-1.2.6 continued

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If He is the same towards all how will He show His favour to the devotees as against the others who are not and act against Him? The reply is that He is there for all to resort to and equally attached to all to show His grace but like the child who is playing and wanders away from his father and calls for help only when he is in trouble, we are not calling Him and when we call Him he will respond respond. It is like the mother who responds to the child who expresses his love even though she is equally affectionate towards all her children.

 

 

 

 

 

MuttRavum ninRanan means that He pervades all as He is transcendent and imminent, everything is in Him and He is in everything. As the Upanishad says, `na va aare sarvasaya kaamaaya sarvam priyam bhavathi, aathmanasthu kaamaaya sarvampriyam bhavathi,' (Brhd. 2.4.5), all is dear not for the sake of itself but for the sake of the Self.

 

Since the Lord is the inner self of all, loving Him and attaching oneself to Him means one is loving his own self and hence attaching himself to it.

 

The word pattRilan is explained by Parasarabhattar as meaning that He is not attached to anyone, including the nithyasuris like Garuda and Anantha, except the ASritha, the one who surrenders to Him. Parasarabhatta gives an illustration to this.

 

Rama says to Sugriva, chiding him when he took a risk and went and assaulted Ravana and came back, `thvayi kimchith samaapanne kim kaaryam seethayaa mama; bharathena mahaabaaho lakshmaNena yavaayasaa; Sathruhnena cha Sathrughna, svaSareereNa vaa punah.'

 

It means, "If something has happened to you what is the use of Seetha , Bharath, Lakshmana or Sathrughna or even my own body to me?"

 

This does not mean that he did not care for others but shows his affection to Sugreeva. And his saranaagatharakshaNa dharma.

 

But He is in reality pattRilan as Desika explains. That is because He is avaaptha smasthakaama and need have no preference from one to another and he is equally established in His all forms, namely, para,vyuha, vibhava. Archa and antharyami. Whether He is called by the name Vaikuntavaasa, Dvarakavaasa, thirumalaivaasa, Vaasudeva, or simply as Hrdhayakamalvaasa , He rushes to shower His grace equally.

 

 

 

 

( Please delete thee earlier version sent in Dec.-This is the revised version )