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--- In SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "sadagopaniyengar"
<sadagopaniyengar@xxxx> wrote:
> 
The Lonely Lord
The Lord is thus left alone most of the time. Thus the arcchA samAdhi
or the absence of interaction with His devotees is a source of tedium
for the Lord.

> One can endure only so much, and the Lord is no exception. When the
solitude begins to tell on Him, He does open His beautiful mouth and
speak with devotees of His choice, 

> One day, while carrying out his chore, Picchan fell into
conversation with the Lord, who wanted to draw him out and asked him
what he thought about great people. In a deprecatory tone, Picchan
replied that all great men had their own weaknesses, their respective
Aschilles' heels. Peria Perumal, who found Picchan's remarks
interesting and unusual, providing a welcome change from the litany of
stotras He was fed daily, asked Picchan whether he could find any such
frailty in the Azhwars.

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Dear Sriman Sadagopan Iyengar,

Very absorbing tale indeed, this encounter between PicchAn and PerumAL!

One may also want to see this encounter between the two in an
altogether lighter vein too. I hope you do not mind me sharing it with
you and other readers.

The story confirms to us that even in the case of the Great Lord, the
famous dictum, "An idle mind is the devil's workshop", truly holds
good! Here we see "the lonely Lord", in archA form, driven by boredom
and idleness to that bane of all idlers -- mischievous gossip! It was
really quite needless of our Lord to solicit PicchAn's views on great,
noble souls like the AzhwAr -- and that too 'behind their backs', as
it were! It was a case of what, in Tamil, is usually called "veeN
vambu pEcchu" -- spicy gossip! After all, poor PicchAn was just going
about quietly minding his own business and see how the Lord draws the
poor fellow out and, within moments, PichAn is throwing all caution
and prudence to the winds and is prattling out personal comments on
the high and mighty of 'bhAgavata' society -- something which the poor
man might never have otherwise ventured to do in polite society!

In our 'pUrANic' mythology, it is usually Sage Narada, the divine
'busybody', who is renowned for his social 'activism', going about
here and there from one 'devata' to another, drawing out sly and
'juicy' gossip from one and delivering it to another... and then when
things begin to get sufficiently foul between the parties concerned,
quickly leave town! 

Although certainly not as gossipy or mischievous as Narada was known
to have been, here in the PicchAn case, we see that the Lord was not
entirely immune to a nasty bout of "NaradAnitis"! 

Thanks for a nice piece. Adiyane enjoyed reading the tale.

Regards,

dAsan,
Sudarshan







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