Brightness eclipesed by
Sparkling splendour?
pagaR karandha sudar
Azhip padaiyAn
If you keep a tube light in front of a
bulb, the light from the bulb recedes but the brightness of the tube-light
pervades. A flash light and mercury lamp eclipses the effect of the tube light
but the light from the flash-light and mercury lamp sprays the
light.
This being so, sudharsanAzhwAn who is
thousands of time brighter than the sun can definitey completely eclipse
the light emanating from the sun. However, should not the brightness and light
emanating from the SudhrasanAzhwAn spread light everywhere is the
question/
This question is raised in the context of
Sri krshNA making Sri SudhrarsanAzhwAn as a disc which completes hides the
surface of the sun facing the earth. Thus the sun's light goes off completely
but why darkness should emanate? Why should everybody perceive that dusk has
arrived and it is advent of night? Should not the brightness and light of the
SudharsanAzhwAn spread throughout the world making it
brighter?
Sri maNavALa mAmunikAL who has given
commentary for periyAzhwAr thirumozhi has talked of this very point
:
The pAsuram:
"'Azhi koNdu anRiravi
maRaippa " 4-1-8;
vyAkyAnam: niravadhika
thEjO rUpamAna thiru-AzhiyAlEa Adhithyanai maRaithAl lOkathukku veLichiRappu
migavum vuNdAgum ithanai anRoA! ....kaNgaLukku iruNdu thORRumO ennil- indha
Adhithyanudaiya thEjassu kaNNAlEa mugakkalAm padi aLavu pattirukkaiyAlEa
thamassu pOm padi irukkum; angan anRikkEa thiruvAzhiyAzhwAnudaiya nEar kodu nEar
kaNkoNdu pArka voNNAdhapadiyA irukkaiyAlEa -iruLap paNNiRru -- idhu thAn
-- pUrvargaL aruLich seidhArgaL iRea.-Sri maNavALa
mAmunikaL.
The limitless radiance of the
sudharsanazhwAn's cannot be faced by our naked eyes. Hence, the eyes closes
automatically to one and all and therefore it appears as if there is darkness
unlike the sun's light which can be seen by the eyes.
This point is explained by periya jEyar as
explained by pUrvAchAryAs.
Sri periyavAchAn piLLai gives the same
explanation for the periya thirumozhi pAsuram
"pagaR karandha sudar
Azhip padaiyAn" 6-9-5;
The Lord hid the daylight by using Sri
SudhrasanAzhwAn
"Adhithyanudaiya thEjassu
kaN koNdu mugakkalAm; thiruvAzhiAzhwAnudaiya thEjassu kaN koNdu mugakka
voNNAdhapadi irukkaiyAlEa iruNDu kATTiRRaithu"
that is why the brightness is eclipsed by
Spaekling spelendour.-
Sri periyavAchAn piLLai.
thirumangai AzhwAr thiruvadigaLEa charaNam
periyavAchAn piLLai thiruvadigaLEA charaNam.
jEyar thiruvadigaLEa charaNam.
dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan
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