Posting 9..
Rudran continued...
thannai thozhudha bAnanai thalai poo vAdAthu nOkkugirEn endru prathigyai seidhu
kalli kattu sItrampOle kai sIrrkka kandu uyir undAgil uppumAri unnalam endru
netrikkannai pudhaithu nazhuvinapadiyAlum,
loka pithAvAna brahmAvin thalaiay thirugi kaiyum kaithalmumai kondu thirivAr
pOle kaiyum kapAlamumai thirandhu kidantha vAsal thorum pugunthu thannai
veliyittukkondAn AgaiyAlum rakshagan AgamAttan
Banasuran was a great siva bhakta. Pleased with his devotion, rudran had
promised to protect him at any cast. Once, the asura's daughter ushai fell win
love with Krishna's grand son, Anirudha in her dream. Ushai's friend knew the
trick to trace Anirudha's face from Ushai's dream. Anirudha was secretly
transported from his place by asura kumari. Learning this at a later stage,
Banasura went on war with Krishna. That time, none including rudran's relatives
were able to win the war for the asura. This instance was referred by
ThiruArangathamudhnAr in Ramanuja NootrandhAdhi as:
kaartthikai yaanum karimukath thaanum kanalummukkaN
moorththiyum mOtiyum veppum muthukittu moovulakum
pooththava NnE!enRu pORRita vaaNan pizaipoRuththa
theerththanai yEththum iraamaa NnuchanenRan chEmavaippE (22)
In the end, Banasuran's hands were cut by Krishna. Krishna purposefully left
few heads and hands for him so that he can perform his pitru karma. Also, he
had already promised to Prahlada that he will not kill anyone in his vamsa.
This act of cutting the hands was compared by Swamy PL to cutting down the
cactus plant. Looking at the situation of the asura, rudran and his relatives
ran for their life so that they could enjoy some pleasure by being alive. Even
during the escape time, rudran wanted to hide his third eye with the thought
that none could ecognise him.
The other story was the plucking of his father's head that has already been
discussed by Swamy PL. With the kapAlam in his hand, he entered all the open
places for bikshA. Finally, Perumal was the only one who could make that
kapAlam burst with his bikshA. That bursting is referred to dissipation of
one's dream of having plenty of welath after one has woken up of sleep. Such
was the speed of reaction after Perumal's biksha.
With all the above instances, Swamy PL clearly shows that even rudran cannot
protect a soul in samsara.
To summarize:
We have looked at relatives, devatas including sun, moon, indra, brahma, rudran.
Will wealth protect us?
Let us look at how Swamy PL answers this part in the follwoing posting...
aDiyEn,
ramanan
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