Sri Vishnuchitta kulanandana kalpavalli!!! (Part-1)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha

 

The dasama skandam (10th canto) of Srimad bhagavatham talks largely about the krishnAvataram. This is the favourite skandam of all Krishna lovers. It is said that the actual essence of bhagavatham itself is only the tenth canto and the previous nine are just an avatarikai-Introduction. The first nine are just appetizers preparing us for a delicious meal. At the end of the ninth canto sukAcharya talks about the ramAvatara and completes krishnavatara very briefly. Parikshit who was eagerly waiting to here about the leelas of Krishna his life-saviour was highly disappointed. He therefore requested sukar to tell him in more detail about the krishnavatara. Sukar was more eagerly waiting to say the same but hesitated considering the tiredness of parikshit who was earlier a king enjoying pleasures. Since now parikshit himself confessed that all his tiredness due to samsAram till today has been washed out hearing bhagavat kalyana gunas sukar continued with the pravachanam (lecture).

 

The very start of the tenth canto talks about the necessity of emperuman taking avathara as Krishna. Bhoomi piratti not being able to withstand the atrocities on the earth, with eyes full of tears complained to brahma. Brahma and others prayed to emperuman to save bhoomi piratti from this difficulty. Emperuman assured brahma that he would take a special avathara as a son of devaki and vasudevar and do dusta nigraham and sista paripAlanam (“parithrAnAya sAdhoonAm vinA shAyatha dushkruthAm dharma samstApanArthAya sambhavAmi yugE yugE”). Brahma then instructed all the devas who were interested in enjoying the avatara of emperuman to take birth on earth.

 

So for the sake of bhoomi piratti emperuman and all the devas decided to take birth. Let’s see what happened then in the next posting.

 

(To Be Continued)

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan