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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
SrimathE rAmAnujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha
 
PAASURAM-2 (contd.,)
 
Vishnu dharmam states, ?I fall to the feet of that vasudeva whose strength and 
character cannot be understood even by brahma and rudran? (na yasyaroopam na 
balaprabhAvow??..). Vishnu puranam states, ? Oh achchudhA! I prostrate you with 
that svaroopa which even the great brahma does not realize as the paramaprApyam 
and jagadhAdhAram? (yannAyam bhagavAn brahma??), ?I prostrate that Vishnu who 
is the pramaprApyan and who the devas or munis including me (brahma) and 
sankaran do not understand? (yan nadevA na munaya:?..). Varaha puranam states, 
?even today brahma and rudra do not understand me fully? (athyApi mAm 
jAnanthi?..). Further emperuman himself declares in his bhagavat geetha, ?nAham 
prakAsas sarvasya?.? (I will not be visible to anyone, as I am been covered by 
the yoga mAya. This ignorant world will not understand me that supreme lord who 
is neither created nor destroyed.) And ?mAm tu vEda na kaschana? (no one will 
understand me). From all these it is clear that paramathma
cannot be understood by anyone including the brahma, rudras, sanAkAdhi 
maharishis, the Vedas themselves and even by emperuman himself as there 
existsno limit to his kalyana gunas. 
 
But we do hear that the brahmarudras grant many boons to those who do 
greattapas towards them. So can we consider them to be superior gods as well? 
Azhvar continues to answer this question.
 
(yeththavam seidhArkkum arul mudivadhu AzhiyAn pAl) The result of any great 
tapas is granted only by the bhagavan who holds the divine sudharsana chakra in 
his hand. For those tapas, which are done towards brahma or rudran the bhagavan 
who stays as antharyAmi inside these devas grant the boon. ?yO yO yAm yAm 
thanum bhakthi:??? (those who want to worship the devas who are part of me with 
due respect, are granted that regard for the devas by me. That jeeva thereby 
with due respects worships the god of his like. And due to the worship he 
attains the result I grant him) says bhagavan in his bhagavat geetha.

(arul mudivu adhu) those result which are granted to the divine grace of 
emperuman. ?yeththavam seiydhArkum? here seidhArkum denotes that even thedevas 
who one worships gets there wants only from paramathma.  
 
(yeththavam??AzhiyAn pAl Orum porul mudivumiththanaiyE) glancing through all 
sruthis and smrithis we finally come only to the conclusion that the results of 
any worship is ultimately granted only by the ultimate lord nArAyaNan. ?Asya 
dEvasya meedushA?.? States the bhahuvrusha sruthi that rudran gets his 
greatness only after his deep worship of the lord. ?yugakOdi sahasrAni?.? 
(After worshipping Vishnu for more than 1000 crores of years brahma attained 
the divine post of lord of creation) and ?mayA srushta: purA brahmA?.? (brahma, 
created by me did a mahA yagyam in earlier days. Happy with his worship I 
blessed him to become my son and there by take care of the creation of this 
world) and ?mahAdevas sarva mEthE??? (mahAtma mahAdeva did sarvamEtha yAgam and 
sacrificed himself in thefire and hence became devadeva) states the 
mahabharatha. NarasimhapuraNa states, ?brahmAthayas surAs sarvE 
vishnumArAthyathE purA?.? (brahma and the other devas in the early day 
worshipped lord Vishnu
and attained their specific positions due to his divine grace).
Therefore in this paasuram, with specific proofs it has been clearly statedthat 
nArAyana alone is the paradeivam and all the boons granted by brahma and rudra 
are actually those that are attained from Sriman nArAyana and hence it has been 
strongly established that he alone is the paramathma.
 
(To be continued)
 
Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam
 
Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan
 
 
 

 


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