DOOMED To DESTINY TO
ETERNAL BLISS
It is said that the accumulated sins and
effects are good deeds get converted iinto parameters of planetary positions and
stellar forces on one's life which can be deciphered from horoscopes. The
jyOthisha sAsthram advocates strongly that one's life is destined as per the
pre-determined course.
The set course of action is thus started
off when the infant falls on the mother earth from the mother. The
planetary actions then takes over the whole successive events occurring in one's
life. The success and failures, the fame and notoreity, the zest and
despair, the opulence and frugality all spring from this premise.
The final release or the next destination
perhaps is also being drawn up during the course of one's life keeping in view
the corpus one carries firm one life to the other-from one body to the
otther -muRai muRai Akkai
pugal.
Coming to think of it, who can change
one's destiny? If these are 'cause and effect' equations, who can
change?
The parameter is already set. Who has got
the access rights to tamper with this base, is the quesiton? These parameters
are planets, stars, constellations and their effects. Who else, but whoever is
the controller of these can only change this and who is that but Lord shirman
nArAyaNA.
Is there a precedent? Several. When one
visits any dhivya-dEsam-s it is likely that one often hears from the
archakar as "mArkaNdEya maharishikku
prakthayksham"
sri mArkaNdEya maharsihi was devotee of
shivA and his longevity was destined to be sixteen. He was led to the Lord by
shivA himself after he surrendered to the Almighty, the pre-determined
parameter-vaitha nAL- was changed by none other than
the Almighty.
Did it stop at that? No. He became a great
srEvaishNavite and obtained the great grace of service at the divine
feet-eternally-enRum nin thriuvadi piryA
vaNNam. That is why thirumangai AzhwAr aptly terms this as "Great Grace" --- 'pEAr aruL'
"mannu nAn-maRai mA-muni
peRRa maindhanai, madhiyAdha vem-kURRan thannai anji, nin charaN enach charaNAi,
thagavil kAlanai vuga
munindhozhiyA,
pinnum enRum nin thiruvadi piriyA vaNNam-eNNiya pEAr aruL.." 5-8-6;
First, the yama-bhayam was removed i.e
Grace and later the permanent service at the Divine feet of the Lord was
bestowed. From 'Doomed to Destiny to Eternal
Bliss'. i.e.
pEAr
aruL
dAsan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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