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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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