ï
THE NULL
SET
'It is good if merged. This
can happen only if an impossible happens. Therefore, that is that and this is
this'
These are the words from Tiruvaimozhi
-crudely translated.
How about trying to unravel the meaning of
this statement.
Well. Let us leave that to our
pUrvAchAryAs
The avathArikai to this pAsuram :IDu
'nithya samsAriyAna
chethananaiyEa brahmAmhAgach sollugiRa mAyAvAdhikaLai
shEbikkiRAr.'
'The concept of considering
the permanent samsAris -the Atman- as Supreme is being denounced
here'
âàààààààààààà ààà ààààààààà
àààààààààà àààààààà,
àààà ààààà àààà àààà, ààààààààààà-ààà ààààà...â
8-8-9
Let us go into IDu
kUDiTRAGil nal uRaippu-âàààààààààààà
ààà ààààààà
If the Atman merges with the
Supreme - it is wonderful.
However
This can happen only if
impossible happens
kUDAmaiyaik
kUDinAl-àààààààààà àààààààà
The commentator lists out a
few such events
'AgAsath thAmarai-mAN kombu,
maladi magan'
These are lotus on the sky,
a child of the person who cannot beget one and so on.
These are not possible and
therefore null set.
Summary:
It will be wonderful if the
Atman merges with Superme. However, this can happen only if non-existent things
like
sky lotus or deer horn can
occur.
The concept that the Atman merges with the
soul ultimately, is not accepted by AzvAr and he stresses that this can happen
only if 'null set' becomes
true. Therefore, the Atman is Atman and Supreme is Supreme, different
entities.-ààà àààààà.
It is said that Sri RamAnuja had the great
asset 'ThiruvAimozhi' to establish visishtAdvaitham.
'BAshyakArar idhu koNDu sUthra vAkyangaLai orunga viduvar'
AchArya Hrudhyam-65
'âàààààààààà ààà àààààà
ààààà àààààààààà àààààà àààààààâ àààààà àààààààà-65
Perhaps, this is one of the
pAsuram-s which helped to establish the truth.
Our commentators decipher
pAsuram-s in logical way and bring out our philosophies in lucid
manner.
Treasures lay abound in
periphery and inside. Scratching the surface or deep inside- we can lay hands of
srivaishNavite theories, practices and concepts,
on and in the
commentaries.
(the journey
continues)
dasan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org
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