Sri Vishnuchitta kula nandana kalpavalli (Part-26)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha

 

In the twelfth paasuram, andal sang the praise of chakravarthi thirumagan, “manaththukkiniyAnai pAdavum nee vAi thiravAi”. But the gopis and andal were more involved only with the great leelas of krishna. So in the next paasuram, andal talks about the way in which Sri Krishna easily got rid of his enemy. “pullinvAi keendAnai pollAarakkanai killi kalaindhAnai”. Kamsa sent an asura to kill krishna. That asura took the form of a crane. Krishna tore the mouth of the crane without any difficulty and killed the asura. This leela of krishna was enjoyed by periazhvar, father of andal as, “paLLaththil mEyum paravai vurukondu kaLLa asuran varuvAnai thAn kandu puLLidhuvendru podukkO vAi keenditta”

 

According to our acharyas, the inner essence of this incident is that, to remove all our enemies emperuman expects only our acceptance and nothing else. “eththalaikku esaivirE vEnduvadhu; virOdhi pOkkugai avan paNi endru erukkai. Nammudaiya anumadhigalukku ishvaran pannum anumadhi vaishamya nairgrunyaththil pugAdhAppOlE, evvanumadhi vupAyaththil pugAdhu; eruvarkkum erandu anumadhigalum svaroopaththilE kidakkumiththanai” –nAlAyirapadi

[What emperuman expects, to remove all our enemies is the permission from our side. He takes care of the rest. Emperuman leaves us to do what all we wish to do whether good or bad and thereafter we have to bear the fruit for the corresponding acts. That doesn’t mean that emperuman is partial and he has likes and dislikes. Similarly our permission or acceptance cannot become an upaya. Both these are due to the nature of emperuman and the jeevatma.]

 

Sri Pillai lokacharya in his mumukshupadi-charama sloka prakaranam says, “pEtrukku vEnduvadhu vilakkAmaiyum, erappum” (273). To attain the divine feet of emperuman we have to do two things. One is to allow emperuman come to our rescue and then request him to grant us his divine kainkaryam. Our acharyas say that emperuman went at the back of the cows not because the cows requested him to do so but the cows never stopped him from coming at their back. Moreover, Krishna liked the young girls in gokulam a lot because the males had a confidence that they can defend themselves and the elder women had confidence on their husbands which prevented krishna reaching them but the young girls were innocent and considered krishna alone to be their sole refuge.

 

(To be continued)

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan