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SrI:
 
Dear SrI.Madhavakkannan svami,
 
As usual this article is wonderful. You are writing as if you are talking to us directly.
The following passage reminds me of a story (narrated by SrI.MV Anandapadmanabhan svami in a discourse, reports The Hindu 24.06.04):
>Then you can ask other demi gods to
>destroy your paapams - and for that query, AzhwAr
>answered in three verses rejecting the very concept of
>even comparing other demi gods anywhere near Sriman
>Narayanan and declared the ananyagathithvam.

The narration in "The Hindu"

There was once a king who ordained a pandit to narrate the Bhagavatham, but refused to reward him. Unlike the original preacher Sukha, whose rendering attained the listener Parikshit liberation, he had gained nothing. Enraged at this, he ordered death sentence for the pandit. The learned man's ten- year- old daughter saved her father's life by imparting a very powerful lesson. At her behest, she and the king were tied to a pillar each, and when the girl beseeched the king to release her, he scorned her, " can you not see that I too am bound and there is no other person at hand to help." The child then observed that unlike the evolved ascetic Sukha, who had mastered his senses, her father was bound to his earthly claims; how could then such a man offer salvation? The king realised that there could be no shortcuts to god realisation.

The demigods being bound like the pandit / the king or the wise girl, can not be sought after for anything. However, the wiser demigods can just help in telling people that they are also reporting to our supreme Lord.

dAsan Mukundan

 




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