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Is Wealth a Protection?

We have seen how varios relations and devathas cannot protect us form this 
samsara. Wealth helps us accomplish so many things in this life. Even an 
uneducated person is well-respected if he is wealthy. Does this wealth has the 
capacity to protect us?

Let us dwell into what Swamy PL has to say about this:

"Artham rakshagam endru nirUbithAl kalvan kolluthal, kAmam kolluthal, kOpam 
kolluthal, nyAthi kolluthal, vyAthi kolluthal, 
pirarOdu ethirittu thannai thAnaE vishapakshanam seydhu mudithukkoluthal 
seykaiyAlaE, arthamum rakshagamAga mAttAthu..."

Swamy PL discusses various case scenarios where wealth will create a lot of 
problem to the soul. 

kalvan kolluthal
More the wealth we have, more it is prone to be looted . It does not stop just 
with the case of thieves. In case, the government comes up with the rule that 
none of the citizen should save more than a stipulated amount of money, then 
there would be a necessity to surrender the money to the governement. Not just 
that. In those days, the amount of wealth was propotional to the amount of 
dhAyam one used to have from the fields. If one tried to store the extra 
dhAyam, there was a chance that mouse would eat them off.

Swamy Vedanta Desikar wrote VairAgya PanchAsat when he was offered with wealth 
by his friend VidyAranyar. He points to Varadar as the one and only property. 
SImilarly, Swamy KUrathAzhwan left all his wealth to join Swamy Ramanujar's 
gOshti. Our AchArya Purushas considered jnAna, bhakti vairAgyam as the only 
property from their ancestors. 

kAmam kolluthal
kondaattum kulambunaivum thamaRuRRaar vizhunNidhiyum, 
vandaar_pooNG kuzhalaaLum manaiyozhiya vuyirmaaydhal, kandaaRREn 
ulagiyaRkai...... (ThiruvAymozhi 4.9.3)

kAmam has even worse impact than thieves. Azhwar points to the fact that this 
person will not even have the strength in his body, but will be a total slave 
to kAmam. He will get flowers for his lover. He will not be able to enjoy, but 
the fly that sits on her hair will be enjoying that. Still, he will not stop 
spending money for this insatiable desire despite the fact that he has become 
old.
Instead, the same Azhwar recommends something else before he gets old..
kiLaroLiyiLamai keduvathanmunnam, vaLaroLimaayOn maruviyakOyil, 
vaLariLampozilsooz maaliruncOlai, thaLarvilaraagil saarvathusathirE    
(ThiruvAymozhi 2.10.1)
He asks all of us in samsara to visit ThirumAlirunchOlai before we get old. 
Similarly, Thirumangai Azhwar asks us to visit Badri before we get old.
nYathi kolluthal, kOpam kolluthal
This aspect to refers to fight among brothers for the protperty. The 
consequence of this is very much evident form Mahabharata. Azhwar refers to the 
wealth as fire, and hence recommends us not to embrace it. 
vYathi kolluthal
This case is very much relevant to the current age. None of us can get treated 
for even a small ailment without paying for that. Thondaradippodi Azhwar pleads 
that his life gets wasted with all the aspects including vidyA, sleep, 
sickness, age factor and other materialistic aspects, and hence requests 
RanganAthar to take him away from this samsara.
vEthanool piraayam nooRu manisar_thaam pukuva rElum, paathiyu muRankip pOkum 
ninRathil pathinai yaaNdu, 
pEdhaipaa lakana thaakum piNipasi moopputh thunpam, aathalaal piRavi vENdEn 
arankamaa nakaru LaanE    (Thirumaalai 3)
Visha paksham Seydhu mudithukkoluthal
This case scenario is also read about in present days in news papers. People 
sopmetimes get involved in increasing their materialistic lifestyle by 
borrowing money. Sometimes it might soi happen that the person may not be able 
to pay the interest and hence gets submerged in total liability. To escape from 
this situation, he tried ending up his life with poison.
Here again, Azhwar suggests a way for them..
adisEr mudiyina raagiyarasargaL thaamthozha, idisEr murasangaL muRRaththiyamba 
irunthavar, 
podisEr thugaLaayp pOvargaLaadhalin nokkena kadisEr thuzhaaymudik kaNNan 
kazhalgaL ninaiminO. (ThiruvAymozhi 4.1.3)
Infact, Azhwar talks about the distress caused by wealth in all the ten 
pasurams in this pathikam. Even a king will come to a stage where he will 
become a dust , and hence asks us to grab the feet of Kannan before we actually 
get to that stage. Indra, because of his ahamkAra was turned to a beggar by 
DurvAsa. We saw this story while discussing about him.
Thus, Swamy PL has shown us that even wealth cannot protect us from samsara. 
The only kadan that we as SriVaishnavas can have is also advocated by Azhwar in 
the following pasuram..
vEnga dangaLmeym mElvinai muRRavum, thaangaL thangatku nallana vEseyvaar, 
vEnga datthuRai vaarkku namavenna laanga damai,a thusumanN thaarkatkE    
(ThiruvAymozhi 3.3.6)

adiyEn,
ramanan




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