Magnanimity 5

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thrivikramA towards mAvali

 

A person gets property in possession of the other by doing some con tricks. What happens/ The whole world abuses the trickster but never goes into the background. The fact that the possessor of the property is not the legal owner is never considered at all. The trickster is blamed. The giver to the trickster is left unassessed.

 

Here the trickster is none other than the Almighty and the tricked is 'mahA-bali'

 

This is what poizhgai AzhwAr opines 'koNdAnai allAl koduthArai yAr pazhippAr?" mudhal thiruvandhAdhi 79;

 

What is the real background? one may ask. Well. As everyone would agree the two thathvam-s namely chith and achith are subservient to the third -Eswaran. This being so, mahA-bali overlooking the subservience of the worlds to the Lord started taking possession of the land and in the process made indhrA landless.

 

The real snatcher of the property was thus was mahA-bali and not the other way round, as is perceived. What happens to a person who steals the property of the Almighty. He is bound to get death sentence. Did this happen?

 

No. Why? The Lord felt that since, this mahA-bali had a good attitude of giving to one and all, his life should be spared.

'vATTamilA vaN kai" says nam-AzhwAr in the thiruvoizmohi 7-5-6 ; The tireless giving arms is considered as the saving grace for otherwise he is posessed with egoism and egotism. Akin to rAvaNA who took away the property of perumAL, mahA-bali also took away the property. Hence, similar to rAvaNA he was also to have died.

This is what is mentioned in the Edu to the vyAkyAnam to the aformentioned pAsuram

" rAvaNAdhigaLai p pOle thalaiayai aRuthup pogadavoNNAmaikku nibandhanamuNdAgaiyAlEa, azhiyach seidhilan"

 

Therefore, we should realise that though mahA-bali should also have attained death like rAvaNA, he was spared due to his 'audhArya'guNam

which again highlights the Lord's

'audhAryam"

 

dAsan

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