Great-Greater-Greatest
We mortals feel flattered when
somebody praise us. If somebody says 'You are great', we fall for it.Here is
from the Sage NAradha muni.
A tortoise was spotted on the
ganges -shining. The sage observed its splendor and approached and said it was
indeed great.
The tortoise refuted telling that
if it is so great then what would be the sprawling ganges which is having so
wealth and bequeathing riches to one and all and fertility to the places it goes
around making it fragrance pervading around.
The sage then approached the Ganges
and said 'You are indeed great, flowing around with opulence. The ganges
forthwith rejected this and said, if rivers are so great, then what about the
seas and oceans which are repository of wealth and treasures stacked in their
depths. The sage was again negated by the ocean mentioning that the earth which
is their base is greater, but earth also pointed to the
mountains.
The mountains contradicted this
saying that BrahmaDevan is greater, being the creator or the
worlds.
BrahmadEvan who bases his creation
on the premise of vEDas pronounced thus:
The powerful vedics verses were
propounded to be greater.
However, these vedic verses
indicated that the yajnic practices (vEALvi) which are actually demonstration of
their efficacy is greater.
These homam-s or the yagnAs
draw power from the supreme being and they declared in
unequivocal term the He, the Supreme, He the SrimAn, He the one and only person
pervading all is the Greatest and
Sri NAradhA came down to earth and
met Sri KrshNA and expressed this
worshipping this and Sri KrshNA
accepted this with a smile.
Sri PeriyAzvAr quotes this episode
gradually going from lower to
higher grades thus finally ending with the greatest
Sri KrshNA
AmaiyAi-gangaiyAi-Azh-kadalAi-avaNIyAi-aruvarayAi-nAnmuganAi-nAnmaRaiyAi
vEALviyAi-thakkanAiyAi -thAnum AnAn
ShEamamudai
nAradhanAr senRu SenRu thozhudu irainjum.PeriyAzvAr Thirumozhi
4-9-5;
That was indeed
great
no greater
no no
The one and only greatest
Sri KrshNA
by
The great
AzvAR
PeriyAzvAr
dasan
vanamamalai
padmanabha
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