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SrI:

Dear BhakthAs of OppilA Appan :

Let us enjoy the FOURTH  paasuram of Thirumangai Mannan
( Periya Thirumozhi : 6.2.4 ) :

piRinthEn peRRa makkaL peNDir yenRu ivar pinn udhavAthu
    aRinthEn Nee PaNittha aruL yennum oLL vaaLL uruvi
yeRinthEn IympulankaL idar theera yeRinthu vanthu
    seRinthEn NinnadikkE ThiruviNNagar MeyavanE

(Meaning ) : Oh Lord of ThiruviNNagaram ! adiyEn became clear
about the uselessness of the wife I acquired , the children I begot and
all the other relativesI gained  ; adiyEn recognized their disinterest in me
beyond their time of gaining their heart's desires . Once adiyEn understood
this stark truth , I gave them up the next second . Next , adiyEn threw at
the trouble-giving (five) sensory organs of mine the shining sword
representing Your GithOpanishad upadEsam regarding VairAgyam .
After destroying their hold on me this way , adiyEn has now approached
You and sought the refuge of the  cool and comforting shade of
Your sacred feet as adiyEn's sole goal for Moksham.

 Special Notes :
*****************
All of the impermanent joys (BhOgams) arising as a result of the action of
the PanchEndhriyams are for the perishable body and not for the eternal
Aathma residing inside the physical body . Deluded by dEhAthma Brahmam ,
humans toil to gain wealth , wives , children , houses , cattle and other
paraphernalias of " anithya Iswaryam " .

Kaliyan declares here , " PeRRa MakkaL PenDir -- -- pinn udhavAthu yenRu
aRinthEn " . A man toils to give a comfortable home to his family , fend for
them to gain education and worldly iswaryams . He devotes his life to please
them . He neglects every thing else . After the children grow up and go
their own ways , they do not care for the aged father , who strived
so much for them . The Father struggles on with age , disease and
poverty and is all alone now .

The relatives who benefitted before are of no use to him now .
Pinn kaalatthil avarkaL udhavi kidaippathillai ( he does not get
much help from them at later times) ; athaRkku munn BhagavAnai
ninaitthathum illai ( Before that , he did not devote any time to
the reflection on Sriman Narayanan ) . Had he thought about
this obsession with his relatives and the fate awaiting him ,
this father would have just done his obligatory duties with
a sense of detatchment and left it at that . Duties done with out
desire for their fruits would have spared him ( the jeevan inside the body)
,
the bondage to experience SamsAric sufferings . The performance of
karmaas in a nishkAmaa mode(nishkAma karma yOgam ) would have
led him to a state of mind known as Sthitha Praj~nA  (aathmanyEva
aatmanA  tushta: sTitha praj~na: tadOchyathe ....GitA: II . 55) .
He would have attained the revered status of a Jn~Ani dear to
the Lord. The Jn~Ani rooted in ParamAtman (aathmani) and remains
by His grace (aathmanA) , fully immersed in the vision of ParamAthman
in the state of Samaadhi .

Kaliyan says that he went through the same experience and
when once he realized his folly and the way in which the five
Indhriyams held him in their vice-like grip , he did some thing
about it . He says that he threw at the PanchEndhriyams , the sharp
sword of Bhagavath UpadEsam on developing VairAgayam through
NishkAma Karma yOgam to destroy the influences of the panchEndhriyams
and as a result gained VairAgyam . It is with that VairAgyam ( dispassion) ,
as a precedent , Kaliyan says, he has performed prapatthi to the Lord of
ThiruviNnagaram .

Disinterested performance of prescribed deeeds
***************************************************
The four GithA slOkams ( II.55 to 58) according to AchArya RaamAnuja
describe the four states (avasthAs) of a Sthithapraj~nan or Jn~Ana nishtan .
He has attained the steadfastness of mind now thru the practise of nishkAma
karma yOgam . Indhriya nigraham (control over the five sensory organs
and the mind )  results and VairAgyam or non-attachment grows in four stages
of descending levels of control of the mind as described by PatanjAli
Yoga sAsthram :

(1) VaseekAra samj~na (2) yEkEndriya samj~na (3) vyatirEka samj~na
and (4) yatamAna Samj~na .

Swamy Desikan in his Taatparya Chandrika explains these four states
this way as per Dr.S.M.S. Chari :

The YatamAna Samj~na is the first state in which the effort is made
to concentrate the mind on JeevAthman by forcibly withdrawing
the senses from the objects .

VyatirEka samj~na is the second state in which the senses through
controlled , the mind being influenced by raaga(desire) and dvEsha
( hate) can not be concentrated fully on the Aathman . Hence it becomes
necessary to put down raaga and dhvEsha .

yEkEndhriya Samj~na is the third satate in which the vAsanAs or
the latent impressions of the past lives may prevent full concentration
on Aathman and this is to be achieved by devloping greater concentration
on Aathman .

The Vaseekara samj~na is the fourth and final state in which there is
total absence of desire for both heavenly and earthly objects . This is
the perfect state of VairAgya needed for the total concentration of mind
as described in the Yoga SutrA I.16 : " drushta  anuSravika vishaya
vithrushNaya vasIkAra samj~naa VairAgyam " .

Kaliyan states to ThiruviNNagarappan that he has followed the Lord's
UpadEsam to the letter and is reminding the Lord through the words of
another sishyA (arjuna) : " sthithOsmi gatha sandEha: karishyE vachanam
Tava ". adiyEn has controlled the five sensory organs ( PanchEndhriyams)
in a manner that they will not interfere with my aathma Bhara SamarpaNam .
adiyEn has fulfilled the task ( kaarithavaan ) . AdjyEn has now reached
the comforting shade of Your sacred feet . Rest is up to You to take care of
Your Seshan ( Leige) , who is Your property .

The sequential way in which Kaliyan acted is beautiful to reflect upon :

1) PiRithEn peRRa MakkaL peNDir yenru ivar = adiyEn seperated from
   my  wife , children and other realtives .      If You ask me why , it is
   because    adiyEn recognized their uselessness  for my spiritual pursuits
  ( ivar pinn    udhavAthu aRinthEn , athanAl piRinthEn) and hence adiyEn
   immediately parted company from them .

2) What did you do next is the Lord's question . Kaliyan states that he
threw the sharp sword of BhagavAn's anugraham after taking it
out of its      sheath ( Nee paNittha aruL yennum oLL vaaLL uruvi
yeRinthEn ) .

3) The Lord asks : Oh Kaliya ! We are familiar with your skills in martial
art . On What object did you throw that sharp sword of Mine ? What did
you have in mind , when you threw My powerful sword at your target ?

4) Kaliyan responds : My Lord ! adiyEn threw Your "aruL yennum oLL
vaaLL " at the panchEndhriyams , which are the objects of mischief .
Your aruL vaaLL is the attainment of VivEkam and VairAgyam that
You revealed in the form of upadEsam to Arjunan in the battle field .
adiyEn used that weapon of Yours to destroy the PanchEndhriyam's
repeated temptations to side track me from focusing on You
as my Parama PrApyam ( the Parama PurushArTam ) .

5) Lord asks : Fine , KaliyA ! What did you do next after gaining vairAgyam
through your brave and timely act of attacking the PanchEndhriyams ?
Kaliyan replies : " yeRinthu vanthu , Ninn adikkE seRinthEn " ( after
cutting the panchendhriyams asunder and eliminating their mischief ,
adiyEn rushed immediately to Your sannadhi at ThiruviNNagaram
and attached myself to Your sacred feet as my upAyam (means) and
UpEyam (goal ) for the liberation from the repeated cycles of births
and deaths ( apunarbhavAya) .

ThiruviNNagrappan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan ,  Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka
Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama:



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