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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