Sri HayagrIva SthOthram : Part III

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Sri Hayavadhana ParabrhmaNE Nama:

 

" Jn~Anandhamayam Devam nirmala spatikAkruthim

AadhAram Sarva VidhyAnAm HayagrIvam UpAsmahE "

 

Dear BhakthAs :

 

In today's posting we will cover two items:

(1)the AniruddhAmsam of BhagavAn HayagrIvan

(2) initiation of the discussions on understanding the " JnA~nandha-mayathvam

" as Isvara Tatthva NirUpaNam

by Swamy Desikan at the very beginning of his sthuthi.

 

AdiyEn will rely on the KaalakshEpa Granthams of

asmath AchAryan , HH Srimath Azhagiya Singar ,

Sri NaaraayaNa YathIndhra MahA Desikan

as source and inspiration for this Posting .

 

Sri HayagrIvan's AniruddhAmsam

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Sri VaikuntanAthan (ThiruviNNagarappan) has

immeasurable anantha kalyANa guNams in His

manifestation as Para VaasudEvan.The two major

categories of our Lord's KalyANa guNams are:

PARATHVAM (Supermacy )AND SOULABHYAM (ease of

access by every one).

 

The PARATHVAM of our Lord is defined mainly by

His six guNams known as Upayuktha guNams :

 

" Jn~Anam , Balam , Isvaryam ,Veeryam ,

Sakthi and Tejas. "

 

The SOULABHYAM of our Lord is defined by

two more Upayuktha guNams: SOUSEELYAM and

VAATHSALYAM .

 

Souseelya guNam permits Him to mingle

even with lowly ones readily inspite of

His supermacy .Vaathsalyam is the guNam

of great affection for those that seek

refuge in Him by overlooking the dhOshams

(deficencies) that they have.

 

The guNams behind Parathvam and Soulabhyam never

ever disassociate themselves from the SvarUpam

of our most merciful Lord. Although, these guNAs

are part and parcel of His svarUpam , in specific

instances, He highlights one or other of these guNAs

for His upAsakAs.

 

As refered to before , He stays in five states .

One is Paraa state, where He is resplendent as Para-

VaasudEvan . The other state among these

five states is VyUham. PaancharAthram is considered

to have the ultimate authority in describing matters

related to VyUha Moorthys.

 

There are positions among our PoorvAchAryAs

that either accept the VyUham state as having

four VyUha Moorthys (VaasudEavn, SankarshaNan ,

Prahdyumnan and Aniruddhan )or only three Moorthys

(SankarshaNan,Pradhyuman and Aniruddhan).

Sri KooratthAzhwAn takes the first position of

four VyUha Moorthys and his son , Sri ParAsara Bhattar

prefers the position of three VyUha Moorthys.

Sri Bhattar recognizes Para VaasudEvan as

ShAdguNya Moorthy and does not recognize

a VyUha VaasudEvan seperately in his count of

three VyUha Moorthys.

 

The general Consensus is that Para VaasudEvan

has the six guNams such as Jn~Anam ,Balam, Isvaryam,

Veeryam, Sakthi ans Tejas (ShADguNyAth VaasudEva:).

Para VaasudEvan is recognized as " Muktha BhOgyan " .

 

The further consensus is that all the other three

vyUha Moorthys also possess these six guNAs , but

they highlight only twin guNams each , which are

relevant to their unique roles.

 

SankarshaNan highlights the two guNams of

Jn~Anam and Balam and is engaged in the acts of

creating SaasthrAs and SamhAram (Azhitthal).

 

Prahyumna VyUha Moorthy has Isvaryam and Veeryam

as highlights and is engaged in the acts of Creation

and the spreading of Dharmam .

 

AniruddhA VyUha Moorthy has Sakthi and Tejas as

highlights among the six guNAs and is engaged in

protection of the World and upadEsams on the Tatthvams.

Hence Aniruddhan has been saluted as " Sakthi tEjO

Aniruddha: " .

 

This then is the VyUha Tattvam behind Aniruddhan,

who incarnated as HAYAGRIVAN for destruction of

Madhu and KaiDapan (Madhusoodhanan) and for

the recovery of VedAs from them for the benefit of

Brahma Devan.

 

We have to remember always that AniruddhAmsa

HayagrIvan has all the six GuNAs although ,

He highlights the two GuNAs (tEjas and Sakthi)

for the sake of this specific avathAram. Same is

true for SankarshaNa and Prahdyumna VyUha

Moorthys.

 

Isavara Tatthva NirUpaNam

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Swamy Desikan stresses in Sri Rahasya Thraya

Saaram (Tatthva Thraya ChinthanAdhikAram) that

for the proper comprehension of Isvaran , a clear

understanding of the following five His GuNams

are indispensable :

 

" Sathyathvam, Jn~Anathvam , Ananthathvam ,

Aanandhathvam and Amalathvam. "

 

Among all the limitless GuNams of the Lord ,

the above five GuNams proove(nirUpanam)

the essential difference(VilakshaNam) between

Isvaran and all the others. Thus , these five

GuNams are known as " SvarUpa NirUpaka VisEshaNams " .

 

The GuNams other than the above five such as

Souseelyam , Vaathsalyam and other VibhUthis

are NirUpitha SvarUpa VisEshaNangaL.

 

When one understands fully the true svarUpam

of the Lord with the help of the five GuNams

(Sathyathvam , Jn~Anathvam , Ananthathvam ,

Aanandhathvam and Amalathvam as SvarUpa-

NirUpaka visEshanangaL ), the rest of

the GuNams become " NirUpitha SvarUpa

VisEshaNangaL " .

 

Swami Desikan in his HayagrIva sthOthram

proves the Isvara Tatthvam of this avathAra

Moorthy (AniruddhAmsan) with both SvarUpa-

NirUpaka and NirUpitha SvarUpa VisEshaNangaL.

This extraordinary tribute of Swamy Desikan

to the two VisEshaNagaLs of Isvaran appearing

before him as Sri HayagrIvan will be the topics

of the subsequent postings.

 

Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan