SrI:
Dear SrI.Madhavakkannan svami,
As usual this article is wonderful. You are writing as if you are talking to us
directly.
The following passage reminds me of a story (narrated by SrI.MV
Anandapadmanabhan svami in a discourse, reports The Hindu 24.06.04):
>Then you can ask other demi gods to
>destroy your paapams - and for that query, AzhwAr
>answered in three verses rejecting the very concept of
>even comparing other demi gods anywhere near Sriman
>Narayanan and declared the ananyagathithvam.
The narration in "The Hindu"
There was once a king who ordained a pandit to narrate the Bhagavatham, but
refused to reward him. Unlike the original preacher Sukha, whose rendering
attained the listener Parikshit liberation, he had gained nothing. Enraged at
this, he ordered death sentence for the pandit. The learned man's ten- year-
old daughter saved her father's life by imparting a very powerful lesson. At
her behest, she and the king were tied to a pillar each, and when the girl
beseeched the king to release her, he scorned her, " can you not see that I too
am bound and there is no other person at hand to help." The child then observed
that unlike the evolved ascetic Sukha, who had mastered his senses, her father
was bound to his earthly claims; how could then such a man offer salvation? The
king realised that there could be no shortcuts to god realisation.
The demigods being bound like the pandit / the king or the wise girl, can not
be sought after for anything. However, the wiser demigods can just help in
telling people that they are also reporting to our supreme Lord.
dAsan Mukundan
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