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Show grace please

Post 5

Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

On this rirama navami day, the avathaara dhinam of raaman, we will 
study ST's lines `thanakai sree raamaa avathaaram eththithivO' you 
have taken avathaaram for my sake, oh raamaa? Before that one more 
charaNam of ST krithi `dhayaraani' in mOhanam -

CharaNam 7: marma heenula gooDa karmamana naiyyEni 
meaning: my joining  those, who do not understand the secrets of you, 
is due to my old [bad?] deeds.

kvaaham raja:prabhaava eesa thamO~dhikE~smin 
jaatha: surEthara-kulE kva thavaanukampaa
na brahmanO na thu bhavasya na vai ramaayaa
yan mE~rpitah sirasi padhma-kara: prasaadha: 
bhaagavatham seventh skandham ch 9 slOkam 26 

kva - where 
aham - I (am) 
raja:prabhava: - being born in a body full of passion 
eesa - O my Lord 
thama: - the mode of ignorance 
adhikE - surpassing in 
asmin - in this 
jaatha: - born
sura ithara kulE - in a family of atheists or demons (who are 
subordinate to the devotees); 
thava - Your; 
anukampaa- causeless mercy; 
na - not; 
brahmana: - of Lord Brahma; 
thu - but; 
bhavasya - of Lord Siva; 
vai - even;
ramaayaa: - of the goddess of fortune; 
yath - which; 
mE - of me; 
arpitha: - offered; 
sirasi - on the head; 
padhma kara: - lotus hand; 
prasaadha: - the symbol of mercy.

Meaning: O my Lord, O Supreme, because I was born in a family full of 
the hellish material qualities of passion and ignorance, what is my 
position? And what is to be said of Your causeless mercy, which was 
never offered even to Lord Brahma, Lord Siva or the goddess of 
fortune, Lakshmi? You never put Your lotus hand upon their heads, but 
You have put it upon mine.

Point: gooda karma ? secret karmas ? why always to think of bad 
karmas only? Why not think of good karmaas? When the lord showers his 
grace, which was not given to brahma, siva, or lakshmi, can you think 
of bad karmaas. Ok, since prahlaadha was born in bad company, `with 
that birth' perhaps all bad karmas are gone. For, otherwise, will 
naaradhaa come and teach in the garbham itself? Or will lord take 
such an avathaaram to honour the words of that small boy? Or then 
place his hand also on the head of his bhakthan? So, ST puts it 
simply `gooda karma' ? secret karmaas ? it does not always mean bad 
only. 

Oh, what a way to put it across these lines stuffed with so much 
fineness ? teras roll out even to think of that bhakthaa or that 
grace of such a lord, and that of the composer and his level of 
bhakthi on raamaa.

Now two more charaNams together charaNam 8-
thanakai sree raama avathaaram eththithivO
 
meaning: Whether you incarnated as raama for that person? [one who 
has secret karmas as stated above ? prahlaadha is understood?]

charaNam 9: naavaNti dhaasula brOva vedhalithivO

meaning: Or whether you want to protect people like adiyEn?

slOkam 29 of same chapter quoted above.
math praana rakshaNam anantha pithur vadhas cha
manyE sva bhrthya rsi vaakyam rtham vidhaathum
khadgam pragrhya yadh avOchadh asadh-vidhithsus
thvam eesvarO madh-aparO~vathu kam haraami

math praaNa rakshaNam - saving my life; 
anantha - O unlimited one, reservoir of unlimited transcendental 
qualities; 
pithu: - of my father; 
vadha: cha - and killing; 
manyE - I consider; 
sva-bhrthya - of Your unalloyed servants;
rsi vaakyam - and the words of the great saint Naaradha; 
rtham - true;
vidhaathum - to prove; 
khadgam - sword 
pragrhya - taking in hand; 
yath - since
avOchath ? [my father] said 
asath vidhithsu: - desiring to act very impiously;
thvam - You; 
eesvara: - supreme controller 
math aparah - other than me;
avathu - let him save; 
kam - your head; 
haraami - I shall now separate.

Meaning: My Lord, O unlimited reservoir of transcendental qualities, 
You have killed my father, hiraNyakasipu, and saved me from his 
sword. He had said very angrily, "If there is any supreme controller 
other than me, let Him save you. I shall now sever your head from 
your body." Therefore I think that both in saving me and in killing 
him, You have acted just to prove true the words of Your devotee. 
There is no other cause.

SlOkam 44 of chapter quoted above
praayENa dhEva munaya: sva-vimukthi-kaama
maunam charanthi vijaanE na paraartha-nishta:
naithan vihaaya krpaNan vimumuksha EkO
naanyam thvadh asya charaNam bhramathO~nupasyE

praayENa - generally, in almost all cases; 
dhEva - O my Lord; 
munaya: - the great saintly persons; 
sva - personal, own; 
vimukthi kaama: - ambitious for liberation from this material world 
maunam - silently 
charanthi - they wander (in places like the Himalayan forests, where 
they have no touch with the activities of the materialists) 
vijaanE- in solitary places; 
na - not; 
para artha nishta: - interested in working for others by giving them 
the benefit of knowledge about you 
Ethan - these; 
vihaaya - leaving aside;
krpaNan - fools (engaged in materialistic activity who do not know 
the benefit of the human form of life) 
vimumukshE - I desire to be liberated and to return home, back to 
Godhead; 
Eka:  - alone; 
anyam - other 
thvath - but for You; 
asya - of this; 
charaNam - shelter;
bhramatha: - of the living entity rotating and wandering throughout 
the material universes; anupasyE - do I see.

Meaning: My dear Lord Narasimha, I see that there are many saintly 
persons indeed, but they are interested only in their own 
deliverance. Not caring for the big cities and towns, they go to the 
Himalayas or the forest to meditate with vows of silence [mauna-
vratham]. They are not interested in delivering others. As for me, 
however, I do not wish to be liberated alone, leaving aside all these 
poor fools. I know that without taking shelter of Your lotus feet, 
one cannot be happy. Therefore I wish to bring them back to shelter 
at Your lotus feet.

Point: see here, the lord appeared only for the sake of prahlaadhan, 
but he says I do not want only myself alone to be saved but all. Same 
is put across by ST, you have done this avathaaram only for my sake 
or else also?  Oh great again.

Since length puts me a brake we will continue in next.

Dhaasan

Vasudevan m.g.






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