SrI
:
Dear Bhakthas
:
In this posting , we will
study the sixth slOkam dealing
with VyUhAvathArams
.
Jn~Anam
Balam
vipulam Isana veerya sakthi--
tEjAmsi cha thriyugabhUyam upAgathAni
poorNAni shaD cha parigruhya
Bhavan chathurddhA
bhaktham janam Thvam anujagrahiTAnurAgAth
(Meaning ) : hEy Bhagavann! With
Your immeasurable Jn~Anam ,
power to support every thing( Balam)
, ruling over all without
obstruction ( Isana) , capacity to
stay changeless ( Veeryam) ,
power to transform anything
into anything else ( Sakthi) and Supreme
lustre (tEjas) serving You
as Your six principal guNams , You will to group
them in to three pairs and also as four sets (
VaasudEva-SankarshaNa -
Pradhyumna - Aniruddha) to bless
with affection Your devotees .
(Commentary ) : AthimAnusha Sthavam is all about
the Lord taking
human incarnations (Raama and KrishNa)
and yet revealing that
He is the ParamAthmaa through acts and behaviour ,
which are beyond
the capabilities of mere humans . In this sthavam
, there are descriptions
about the five states of the Lord : Param , VyUham
, Vibhavam , Haartham
and Archai . The largest number of slOkams of this
AthimAnusha Sthavam
deal with Vibhava avathArams and particularly
about the ParamAthmA's
avathArams such as Raama and KrishNa . In this
sixth slOkam , the celebration
is about
VyUhAvathArams .
Our Lord rests in the Milky ocean as the basis of
VyUhAvathArams . Here ,
the Lord has all the six guNams of Bhagavaan as
Para VaasudEvan .
These six guNams( Jn~Ana , Bala , Iswarya , Veerya
, Sakthi and tEjas )
are the principal ( PradhAna) guNams and the other
guNams are derived
from them
.
Jn~Anam is the GuNam , which makes Him
aware of every thing at all
times directly . Vedam uses the following
salutations to acknowledge
this PradhAna guNam : "Sarvadarsee , SarvEswara: ,
SvAdhInO--anAdhi: ,
Sarva dhrug , SarvaJ~na: and Sarvavith " .
Our AchAryan has described
this GuNam succinctly this way : "
Yugapadh-akhilam prathyakshENa svatha:
sathatham vidhan
" .
Balam is the guNam of supporting every thing tirelessly
(SarvAdharathvam ) . Iswaryam is the uninhibited power
to control every thing and hold in His fold as saluted by
the VedAs : " SvAdhInO-anadhi: SarvEswara: , Yadh bhUtham
yaccha bhavyam uthAmruthathvasya IsAna: " . Veeryam is
the GuNam to stay without being altered by any force . Vedam
defines this guNam as : " Sathyam chAnrutham cha satyamabhavath
"
and by Rishi's upadEsams like : " vikAra-virahO veeryam
prakruthithvEapi
mE sadhaa " .
Sakthi is the power to energize the world and to perform things
that are not possible to do by anyone . agadithagadanaa Saamarthyam
has also been identified as Lord's sakthi . His power to unite those
which are normally polar opposites is known as agadithagadanA
SaamarTyam (Sakthi) . Tejas is the lustre of a matchless kind that
empowers all lustres like Sooryan , Moon , Stars with a fraction of
its tEjas. It has also been defined as a state of nonreliance on any
other entity for the execution of all its activities ( tEjasthu anyAn
apEkshathA ) .
Among the four VyUha Moorthys , Bhagavaan in VaasudEva Roopam
manifests all the six guNams at the same time . SankarshaNa
demonstrates
primarily Jn~Anam and Balam ; Pradhyumnan displays Iswaryam and
Veeryam ; Aniruddhan displays primarily Sakthi and tEjas. These
six
MangaLa guNams split in the above manner .
The PurANAs and PaancharAthram reveal to us that VyUha VaasudEvan
is present in Krutha yugam and has a white hue and six guNams .
SankarshaNan rules in TrEthA yugam and has a red hue. PradhyumnA
is present in dhvApara yugam with a yellow hue . In Kali Yugam
,
Aniruddha is dominant with a black color . MaaNDUkya
Upanishad splits
PraNavam in to four Paadhams (akAram , UkAram , MakAram and ardha
Maatraa)
and identifies them with Aniruddha , Pradhyumna , SankarshaNa and
VaasudEva VyUha Svaroopams ( ChAthur-vyUham vahathi ChathurtthA )
.
Out of these 4 VyUhams emerge derivative vyUhams in triads
to from the 12 VyUha Moorthys staying as our protection in
the 12 Urdhva PuNDra SthAnams of our bodies with their own hues
and weapons . Swamy NammAzhwAr explains these doctrines in
the "Kesavan Tama" ThiruvAimozhi ( 2.7) . In his Prabhandham named
Panniru ThirunAmam , Swamy Desikan elaborates on this topic as well
.
Swamy KurEsar ThiruvadigaLE
SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil
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