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             SrImate Ra'nga RAmAnuja MahA DeSikAya namaH.
        tAtparya ratnAvaLi - Submission 69 - Slokam 24 Part 5,
             tiruvAimozhi 2.2, pASuram 2.2.10 and Summary.



o       pASuram 2.2.10:

'kaLvA! emmaiyum Ezh ulagum nin uLLE tORRiya iRaiva!' enRu
veL ERan nAnmugan indiran vAnavar puL Urdi kazhal paNindu EttuvarE.

veL ERan nAnmugan indiran puL Urdi kazhal paNindu 'kaLvA! emmaiyum Ezh
ulagum nin uLLE tORRiya iRaivA!' enRu Ettuvar - The one who has the
white bull as his vehicle (Rudra), the four-faced BrahmA (nAnmugan),
indra the Chief of deva-s, and all other gods prostrate at the feet of
the One who has garuDan as His vehicle (VishNu), and praise Him by
saying:  "You are the Supreme Lord who created all of us as well as the
worlds we live in, and You are the Cheat who goes around in Your
incarnations, acting as if You are subservient to us, and thus cheat us
of our position of servitude to You!" 

There are stories in purANa-s that we encounter, where BhagavAn in His
incarnations, goes and prays to Rudra and 'gets His wishes fulfilled'. 
He indeed puts on that show in His incarnations, as revealed by the
likes of Rudra in instances such as the bANAsura incident, the
ghaNTAkarNa incident, etc.  For those who still have doubt as to who
the Supreme Deity is, AzhvAr reveals in this pASuram that the same
deities - Rudra, BrahmA, etc., whom some people mistakenly consider the
supreme deities - declare loudly and clearly that they are not the
supreme deities, and that Lord VishNu is their Lord and the Supreme
Deity.  At least that should convince the otherwise mistaken folks,
says AzhvAr.

SvAmi DeSikan captures the gist of this pASuram with the words '
rudrAdi stutya lIlam' - He who puts on the leelA-s where He ends up
being worshipped by Rudra, BrahmA, indra, etc.,  - veL ERan nAnmugan
indiran vAnavar puL Urdi kazhal paNindu EttuvarE.  The words 'nin uL
tORRiya' reveal that He is the Cause of all including BrahmA and Rudra;
'iRaivA!" reveals that He is their Lord and the Supreme Deity, and
'Ettuvar' reveals that these are the very words of these deities
themselves.

More details on this pASuram can be found in the write-up under the
series 'tri-mUrti-s in tiruvAimozhi'.  

Summary:

Thus, AzhvAr reveals that BhagavAn's incarnations in this world, among
us, in human forms, are endowed with all His Glory undiminished, just
as in SrI VaikunTham.  BhagavAn's 'lalita uttu'nga bhAvam' - His guNam
of presenting Himself as simple, easily accessible, etc., in His
incarnations amongst us - even though He is the Supreme Being with all
His infinite kalyANa guNa-s in these incarnations - is revealed by
AzhvAr through the following ten examples in this tiruvAimozhi:

1.      He took incarnation amongst us with all His Glory as KaNNan (2.2.1)
2.      He is the One who protects the other deities such as Rudra whenver
they get into difficulties and need His protection - such as removing
the curse of the Brahmahatti dosham on Rudran (2.2.2)
3.       He took the vAmana incarnation in which, while short in form to
start with, He grew to take the trivikrama incarnation where He
measured all the three worlds with His foot, and blessed BrahmA and
Rudra by the touch of His feet just as He blessed all the other jIva-s
without exception. (2.2.3)
4.      BhagavAn created BrahmA first, and then give Him the knowledge and
the power to create Rudra and the other great deities; He is the only
Supreme Deity,  and fit to be worshipped. (2.2.4)
5.      Our Lord is the One who has all the knowledge and the power to
create all the great gods and everything else by His mere will and
without any other accessories, as evidenced by the beautiful lotus-like
reddish eyes that befit His Supreme Lordship, and that can remove the
sins of all by His mere sight. (2.2.5)  
6.      BhagavAn is sarveSvaran - the Only Supreme Deity, because He is the
only One who has the absolute and infinite knowledge to contain all the
worlds in Himself at the time of the deluge and then recreate them in
His next cycle of creation -  (2.2.6).   
7.      He is also sarveSvaran because He is deep as an ocean - samudra iva
gAmbhIrye - in His divine acts that are beyond the comprehension of
anyone.  (2.2.7).
8.      BhagavAn alone is sarveSvaran because He, having created everything
in all the three worlds, has His mind constantly set on protecting all
His creation, just as a mother who gives birth to a child considers it
her duty to protect the child that she gave birth to.  (2.2.8)
9.      He alone is sarveSvaran, who takes incarnations amongst us for the
sole function of Protection, though He is also responsible for the
other two functions - Creation and Destruction, as aids to His main
purpose of Protection (2.2.9) 
10.     If none of the above is sufficient to convince some doubters, these
deities - Rudra, BrahmA, and all the other gods - whom some people
mistake as supreme deities, themselves praise Him as the Only Supreme
Deity, their Lord, and their Cause and Creator; at least the words of
Rudra and BrahmA themselves should convince anyone that BhagavAn is the
Only Supreme Deity. 

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan
(To be continued)



      
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