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                             Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

On, 3/26/05 Sri. E.V.V. B. Swami continued His Upanyasam on
Athimanushasthavam and starting this lecture He started about Krishna
Leelas. Including our Purvacharyas and Azhvars everyone has a soft
corner for Krishna for various reasons. They very much feared for
Kannan compared to Rama. He was born a prince, in a palace and was
brought up surrounded by Dasaratha Chakravarthi, His mothers,
brothers, able Chief Priest Vashishta, the people of Ayodhya, and the
whole army of Dasaratha to protect Him and He was born in Thretha Yuga
far removed from Kali Yuga. But our Kannan was born close to Kali
Yuga, (end of Dwapara Yuga), born in a prison in the middle of the
night, and had to be secreted to Thiruayarpadi, and He was raised by a
gentle father who was a cowherd, Nandagopa and a sweet mother Yasoda.
Here even blades of grass were His enemies, and naturally everyone had
more concern for Kannan. Also His maternal uncle Kamsa was waiting in
the wings to kill Him, the moment He was born. Who wouldn't want to
protect Him and love Him? But through His Athimanushasthavam He shows
us, that He is more than capable of protecting Himself and others.

In Sloka 34: He questions? "How were You able to stop the three demons
that came to kill you while you were a baby"? But He consoles Himself
by answering, You didn't do anything extraordinary, You behaved like
any baby would, but they were caught in the aftermath of their
actions. They were attracted to You like fireflies to a light and were
demolished. First Puthana came with evil intent, to feed You poison
filled milk, and You took what was offered, You were very hungry and
including the milk in your eagerness, her life also was sucked out.
Point to note here is both Rama and Krishna killed a woman first? Is
it our ignorance that they were terminating? When Puthana first came
to Thiruayarpadi, those innocent people were taken by her beauty, and
compared her to Sri Mahalakshmi. Andal calls her "peN kodi", and they
brought her lotus flowers and left her alone with the baby. He was
born under Rohini star and for Him even poison is nectar. He survived
all the ill fates, because they offered it only to Him, in Ramanuja
Noorandadhi it is sung "Kannanukke aanadhu kamam". So, good or bad, if
given only to Him, He will accept it. After He sucked her life out,
she screamed with great pain and fell with a loud thud, and people
came running out of their homes fearing for baby Krishna. Alas, what a
sight! His Thirumeni, a reservoir of all that is best is crawling on
her, and she was emanating fragrance, because of His contact. Her
fallen body was the size of a huge mountain, and after cremation she
went to Moksha. (Whoever gets killed by Him attains the unattainable
easily).

Now the people of Ayarpadi became aware of dangers to Krishna and
started taking better care, by hiding Him in most unusual places. One
day Yasoda after bathing Kannan, (He glowed like a newly melted gold),
fed Him, put Him down to sleep under a cart. Satakasura, transformed
himself in the shape of the cart and tried to overturn the cart, and
thus planned to kill Krishna. Baby Krishna in the meanwhile woke up,
and started crying wildly with clenched fists, squealing loudly and
kicking up a storm. With such aggressive crying He overturned the cart
with a kick, thus killing Satakasura. We can still see a scar on His
Thiruvadi from this event. The people of Ayarpadi were overjoyed when
they saw the baby safe and sound.

The two demons Nalaputhan, and Manikiran were turned into two trees,
because of their misdeeds, and were awaiting release (sapavimochanam)
at the hands of baby Krishna. One day as usual He was full of mischief
and Yasoda wanted to punish Him, so He was tied to a martyr (old
wooden one) and was left alone. But He wouldn't stay put, He started
crawling towards the woods, and got stuck in between the two trees,
and tried to pull Himself out of the impasse. Azhvar sings "punaraar
ninra maramer naduve pona mudalvavo". He who is in every single atom
(antharyami), this is not hard. The trees fell down and the two demons
were cured of their curse and reached Moksha.

Now Kurathazhvan is asking, "If You can do all this why did You have
to hide from Kamsa?" Andal sings "oruthi maganai pirandhu or eravil
oruthi maganaai olithu valara" (born to one and brought up secretly by
another). This question gets answered in Sundarabhagusthavam. Why two
parents? He showed His Avathara rahasyam to Devaki, and birth secret
to Yasoda. He married Nappinnai in Ayarpadi and as a shathriya He
married Rukmani. He was brought up in Ayarpadi for Gopi's to acquire
Kamam (only for Him).

Another analogy is, in sugarcane there are many parts. Each serves its
purpose. He is like sugar cane, the middle part (fleshy) is used for
juice i.e. Kannan at child hood, the root is Paramapatha Nathan, and
the leaf is the war (Mahabharata war). How much our Purvacharyas
enjoyed kanna.

In Sloka 35: Kurathazhvan asks why did You comedown from Paramapatham?
To steal Butter! (navaneetham), why did You steal  in different house
each day? For this Sriman Parasara Bhattar answers for Him, the first
house butter was an appetizer for the next one. Bhagawatham is a book
full of appetizers. He came down to show us His accessibility, while
Yogis are searching for Yugas to see Him. He stole butter to show His
Soulabyam.

 Don't miss the next Upanyasam on April 9th 2005. 

 Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam
Chinna Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam





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