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From: Rajagopalan, Ramanan (GE Advanced Materials, Consultant)
To: aazhwar@xxxxxxxx
Cc: sumivaradan@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:34 PM
Subject: RE: Prapanna ParithrANam
Are Brothers Our Saviours? Are son our saviours
Brothers
"braathAkkal rakshakargal allar enbathai vaali pakkalilum rAvanan pakkalilum
kAnalaam.."
Swamy PL takes the example of vaali and ravanan from Ramayanam to show that
borthers cannot protect one soul completely
1. vaali
After getting wounded by Rama and just before getting killed vaali throws an
arrow of questions at Rama. Rama answers each of his questions patiently.
Finally, when justifying the reason for killing vaali by hiding, Rama offers
following explanation:
" Oh vaali! I could have let you off for all your deeds but one. At one point
of time, Sugriva had surrendered to you completely to let his wife off. Still
you did not give any heed to that. When a person completely surrenders to you,
you are supposed to protect that person at any case even if he is an enemy to
you. But you have failed to adhere to this sAstra. Hence, I had to take this
hard decision."
2. Ravanan
This case scenario resulted in Vibishana Saranagathi. When Ravanan wanted to
go for a war with Rama, Vibhishana tried to prevent that and also warned him of
bad time influencing his bad action. Ravana was not ready to listen to his
brother's words, and hence Vibishana had to leave the kingdom. After this
Vibhishana surrendered to Rama. Despite the fact that he was from the arakkar
kulam and also the enemy group, Rama offered to protect him without a second
thought.
Sons
"putrargal rakshakargal allar enbathai rundran pakkalilum kamsan pakkalilum
kAnalaam.."
Swamy PL takes the example of rudran and kamsan in explaining the incapability
of son to protect his father..
1. Rudran
piNtiyAr maNtai Enthip piRarmanai thirithanthuNNum,
uNtiyAn sApam theerththa oruvanoor, ulaka mEththum
kaNtiyUr arangkam meyyam kachipEr mallai enRu
maNtinAr, uyyal allAl maRRaiyArk kuyya lAmE? (Thirukkunthaantakam pasuram 19)
Thirumangai Azhwar talks about the story of Rudran (Paramasivan) in the above
pasuram. Rudran, because of the pride of killing Tripuram considered that he
was superior to even his father, Brahma. Hence, he plucked one of his father's
head, which got struck in his hand as a vessel (brahma kapaalam). In order to
get rid of this, he started to roam around all the places to get that filled
with biksha. Finally, Perumal sprikles his sweat from his chest and eventually
the vessel breaks in to pieces. Azhwar refers to this Perumal in
Thirukkandiyoor. HarasApavimOcanan is the Perumal's ThirunAmam in this Divya
Desam. Here is another beautifu reference to this incidence by Kaliyan. Azhwar
sings on the Perumal in SalagrAmam.
venNdhaarenbumsudunNeeRum meyyilpoosikkaiyagatthu, Or
sanNdhaar thalaikoNdulagEzhum thiriyumperiyOnthaansenRu, en
enNdhaay! saabamtheerena ilangkamudhanNeerthirumaarbil
thanNdhaan, sanNdhaarpozhilsoozhnNdha saaLakkiraamamadainNeNYchE! (Periya
Thirumozhi 1.5.8)
The above incident clearly explains that Brahma, the father was not protected
by his son Rudran.
2. kamsan
The story about kamsan is very well known. He imprisoned his father Ugrasenan
and also his sister. Infact, he is a glowing example for a bad element in all
aspects.
Let us look at how other reationships also fail to protect the soul caught up
in samsara in the following posting.
aDiyEn,
ramanan
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