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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rajagopalan, Ramanan (GE Advanced Materials, Consultant) 
To: aazhwar@xxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:57 PM
Subject: RE: Prapanna ParithrANam


Sun and Moon may not be Powerful? What about-..

Indran

Swamy PL's discussion on Indran's case is very interesting. He starts with the 
following:

trilOkya pAlakanAi irundhu eppozhudhu nam padham nazhuvappOgiratho endru anchi 
sApathukku aatpattu...

Indran is the king of swarga loka, which is third in hierarchy from 
bhoomandalam. Though he is the king of all the devargal, he is always nervous 
not to loose his position. He even gets into lowly acts to maintain his 
position. There was a story of a king who succesfully completed a yAgam to get 
indra padhavi. He used to do lot of dhAna dharma in his kingdom. When he went 
to the swarga loka, Indra somehow wanted to prevent him from adorning the 
throne. When the king answered indra's question on who was the great dharmasali 
in the king's rajyam, the latter had to reply that it was the king him. Indra 
immdietly quoted the king as self-boasting soul and pushed him down back to the 
bhoolokam. 

Once, Durvasar had the garland prasadam of Sridevi nAchiyAr. He saw indra on 
the way, and gifted it to him. Without showing any respect for that, indra put 
that on his elephant. Unknown of the vaibhavam of the prasadam, the elephant 
put the garland down and stepped on it. Sage Durvasar immediately cursed indra 
to loose all the wealth. In other instance, indra got cursed by sage Gautama 
for misbehaviour with his wife. That time indra got 1000 eyea all on his body.

indrajit kaiyil agappattu..

Indrajit, the son of Ravana had once defeated indran. That instance is also 
quoted by PL.

MahAbali pOlvar idathil Iswaryam parikoduthu kannum kanneer kondu kazhuthum 
kappadaiyumAi...

Mahabali performed yAgam to get indra padhavi. At the time when he was about to 
finish it succesfully, indran was horrified and eventually went and fell at the 
feet of Perumal. kappadai here refers to the torn cloth. A wealthy person, when 
he becomes poor, will always feel ashamed of showing his poor status to the 
external world, and hence will try to hide the torn cloth on his body. 
NammAzhwar refers to this state of a person in one of his pasurams when 
describing the state of a person who will get protected by Perumal. EmPerumAnAr 
has dedicated this pasuram for ThirunArAyanapuram:

orunNaa yagamaay Oda,vulaguda Nnaandavar,
karunNaay kavarntha kaalar sidhaigiya paanaiyar,
perunNaadu kaaNa immaiyilEpichchai thaamkoLvar,
thirunNaaraNan_thaaL kaalam peRachchindhith thuymminO (TVM 4.1.1)

This kind of person will not even be able to recognize the dog lying on the 
road, as it would be dark when he comes out of his place. 

The fourth instance is about Govardana malai. People used to offer food to 
indra, but with the command of Krishna they stopped it once and offered it to 
the hill itself. That was consumed completely by Krishna. He himself is the 
hill, dam and everything as qutoed in sAstras. Krishna specifically did this 
act to show the people that indra is not a nitya (eternal) entity.

Let us look into the case of Brahma and others in the follwoing postings.

aDiyEn,
ramanan


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