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From: Rajagopalan, Ramanan (GE Advanced Materials, Consultant) 
To: aazhwar@xxxxxxxx 
Cc: sumivaradan@xxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:34 PM
Subject: RE: Prapanna ParithrANam

Are Brothers Our Saviours? Are son our saviours


Brothers

"braathAkkal rakshakargal allar enbathai vaali pakkalilum rAvanan pakkalilum 
kAnalaam.."

Swamy PL takes the example of vaali and ravanan from Ramayanam to show that 
borthers cannot protect one soul completely 

1. vaali 

After getting wounded by Rama and just before getting killed vaali throws an 
arrow of questions at Rama. Rama answers each of his questions patiently. 
Finally, when justifying the reason for killing vaali by hiding, Rama offers 
following explanation:

" Oh vaali! I could have let you off for all your deeds but one. At one point 
of time, Sugriva had surrendered to you completely to let his wife off. Still 
you did not give any heed to that. When a person completely surrenders to you, 
you are supposed to protect that person at any case even if he is an enemy to 
you. But you have failed to adhere to this sAstra. Hence, I had to take this 
hard decision."

2. Ravanan
This case scenario resulted in Vibishana Saranagathi. When Ravanan  wanted to 
go for a war with Rama, Vibhishana tried to prevent that and also warned him of 
bad time influencing his bad action. Ravana was not ready to listen to his 
brother's words, and hence Vibishana had to leave the kingdom. After this 
Vibhishana surrendered to Rama. Despite the fact that he was from the arakkar 
kulam and also the enemy group, Rama offered to protect him without a second 
thought.

Sons

"putrargal rakshakargal allar enbathai rundran pakkalilum kamsan pakkalilum 
kAnalaam.."

Swamy PL takes the example of rudran and kamsan in explaining the incapability 
of son to protect his father..

1. Rudran

piNtiyAr maNtai Enthip piRarmanai thirithanthuNNum,
uNtiyAn sApam theerththa oruvanoor, ulaka mEththum
kaNtiyUr arangkam meyyam kachipEr mallai enRu
maNtinAr, uyyal allAl maRRaiyArk kuyya lAmE?    (Thirukkunthaantakam pasuram 19)

Thirumangai Azhwar talks about the story of Rudran (Paramasivan) in the above 
pasuram. Rudran, because of the pride of killing Tripuram considered that he 
was superior to even his father, Brahma. Hence, he plucked one of his father's 
head, which got struck in his hand as a vessel (brahma kapaalam). In order to 
get rid of this, he started to roam around all the places to get that filled 
with biksha. Finally, Perumal sprikles his sweat from his chest and eventually 
the vessel breaks in to pieces. Azhwar refers to this Perumal in 
Thirukkandiyoor. HarasApavimOcanan is the Perumal's ThirunAmam in this Divya 
Desam. Here is another beautifu reference to this incidence by Kaliyan. Azhwar 
sings on the Perumal in SalagrAmam.

venNdhaarenbumsudunNeeRum meyyilpoosikkaiyagatthu, Or
sanNdhaar thalaikoNdulagEzhum thiriyumperiyOnthaansenRu, en
enNdhaay! saabamtheerena ilangkamudhanNeerthirumaarbil
thanNdhaan, sanNdhaarpozhilsoozhnNdha saaLakkiraamamadainNeNYchE!   (Periya 
Thirumozhi 1.5.8)

The above incident clearly explains that Brahma, the father was not protected 
by his son Rudran.

2. kamsan

The story about kamsan is very well known. He imprisoned his father Ugrasenan 
and also his sister. Infact, he is a glowing example for a bad element in all 
aspects.

Let us look at how other reationships also fail to protect the soul caught up 
in samsara in the following posting.

aDiyEn,
ramanan


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