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From: Rajagopalan, Ramanan (GE Advanced Materials, Consultant)
To: aazhwar@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:57 PM
Subject: RE: Prapanna ParithrANam
Sun and Moon may not be Powerful? What about-..
Indran
Swamy PL's discussion on Indran's case is very interesting. He starts with the
following:
trilOkya pAlakanAi irundhu eppozhudhu nam padham nazhuvappOgiratho endru anchi
sApathukku aatpattu...
Indran is the king of swarga loka, which is third in hierarchy from
bhoomandalam. Though he is the king of all the devargal, he is always nervous
not to loose his position. He even gets into lowly acts to maintain his
position. There was a story of a king who succesfully completed a yAgam to get
indra padhavi. He used to do lot of dhAna dharma in his kingdom. When he went
to the swarga loka, Indra somehow wanted to prevent him from adorning the
throne. When the king answered indra's question on who was the great dharmasali
in the king's rajyam, the latter had to reply that it was the king him. Indra
immdietly quoted the king as self-boasting soul and pushed him down back to the
bhoolokam.
Once, Durvasar had the garland prasadam of Sridevi nAchiyAr. He saw indra on
the way, and gifted it to him. Without showing any respect for that, indra put
that on his elephant. Unknown of the vaibhavam of the prasadam, the elephant
put the garland down and stepped on it. Sage Durvasar immediately cursed indra
to loose all the wealth. In other instance, indra got cursed by sage Gautama
for misbehaviour with his wife. That time indra got 1000 eyea all on his body.
indrajit kaiyil agappattu..
Indrajit, the son of Ravana had once defeated indran. That instance is also
quoted by PL.
MahAbali pOlvar idathil Iswaryam parikoduthu kannum kanneer kondu kazhuthum
kappadaiyumAi...
Mahabali performed yAgam to get indra padhavi. At the time when he was about to
finish it succesfully, indran was horrified and eventually went and fell at the
feet of Perumal. kappadai here refers to the torn cloth. A wealthy person, when
he becomes poor, will always feel ashamed of showing his poor status to the
external world, and hence will try to hide the torn cloth on his body.
NammAzhwar refers to this state of a person in one of his pasurams when
describing the state of a person who will get protected by Perumal. EmPerumAnAr
has dedicated this pasuram for ThirunArAyanapuram:
orunNaa yagamaay Oda,vulaguda Nnaandavar,
karunNaay kavarntha kaalar sidhaigiya paanaiyar,
perunNaadu kaaNa immaiyilEpichchai thaamkoLvar,
thirunNaaraNan_thaaL kaalam peRachchindhith thuymminO (TVM 4.1.1)
This kind of person will not even be able to recognize the dog lying on the
road, as it would be dark when he comes out of his place.
The fourth instance is about Govardana malai. People used to offer food to
indra, but with the command of Krishna they stopped it once and offered it to
the hill itself. That was consumed completely by Krishna. He himself is the
hill, dam and everything as qutoed in sAstras. Krishna specifically did this
act to show the people that indra is not a nitya (eternal) entity.
Let us look into the case of Brahma and others in the follwoing postings.
aDiyEn,
ramanan
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