bhOgyAmrutam - pradhAna puruShESvaraha

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pradhAna puruShESvaraha (aSwini-3rd pAdam) - pradhAnam means prakruti. puruSha is the jIvAtma. He controls the prakruti and gives joy to the puruSha. Hence, He is called as the pradhAna puruShESvara.

ISvaraha = ISAnAt ramaNAt ca = on account of controlling (the prakruti) and entertaining (the puruSha).

pASuram : Siriya tirumaDal - 41, 42 (Tirumangai ALwAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam)

samanvayam with pASuram : The supreme Lord Sri Ramachandra who quashed the ten headed RAvaNa and bestowed happiness on SIta mAta is that pradhAna puruShESvara.

pASuram :...Sentuvar vAy vArAr vanamulaiyAL vaitEvi kAraNamAFor the sake of the exceptionally red-lipped and corseted vaidEhi

yErAr taDandOL irAvaNanaiiraindu SIrAr Siramaruttuccettu kanda SengaN mAlThe red eyed Lord who rejoiced after felling asunder the ten wealthy heads of the mighty shoulded RAvaNa.

Detailed interpretation :1) For the sake of exceptionally red-lipped and corseted vaidEhi :

VaidEhi = which is different from the body = Atma.

Exceptionally red-lipped - Indicative of the great love, which flows out of those lips as songs of adulation.

The two stanAs of the Mother - Signifying the (two kinds of) love which gushes out of Her heart.1) Love towards Her Lord.2) Love towards Her children.

corset - Her pAratantrayam which braces Her love. It is the thought of existing solely for the sake of Her Lord and Her children.

Those who treasure a similar love (towards the Lord and bhAgavatAs) and pAratantrayam, who always speak endearing words bespeaking such love are the ones being alluded through the descriptive phrase - "the exceptionally red-lipped and corseted vaidEhi".

He shields and entertains such souls through acts like the one described below.

2) The red-eyed Lord who rejoiced after cutting asunder the ten wealthy heads of the mighty shouldered RavaNa :

RavaNa - The mind filled with rajO guNa.

Shoulders - Those, which abet the perpetrations of such a RavaNa. They are well decorated with the ornaments acquired by plundering the weak.

Mighty (vast) shoulders - Indicative of the large number of such partners in crime viz1) the kAma, krOdha, mOha, mada, mAtsaryAs;2) pravrutti and nivrutti of the ten indriyAs i.e., the predisposition towards the wicked deeds and the reluctance in doing good actions.

The ten wealthy heads - Indicating the ten indriyAs ( 5 karmEndriyAs and 5 jnAnEndriyAs). These ten are wealthy in the sense that they have gained mastery in commiting immoral acts.

The soul gets enslaved to such amoral thoughts and deeds on account of its association with the prakruti. It experiences pain and pleasure (pain often being the leader) under the influence of prakruti and keeps struggling in vain to set itself free.

He quells such an association, which seperates the soul from Him and rejoices. This He does by controlling the prakruti. And the soul relieved from the pangs of the prakruti rejoices along with Him.

He is the one with immensly bewitching eyes that are thoroughly reddened due to His profuse love for us. He rules the prakruti and the jIvAs. He is the "pradhAna puruShESvara". By controlling the prakruti, He delights the puruSha.

Jai Sriman Narayana

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