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nam-piLLai 9 -avathArigai Contd.


nam-piLLai 

Continuing on nam-piLLai's avathArigai for "pathudai adiyavaRku ELiyavan' 1-3 
of thiru voi mozhi:


Edu:


He is the person who beheaded vAnasura then. He incarnated here and became 
easily accessible to one and all. Those who opposed Him like sisupAlAdhigaL, 
bhUdhanai, sakatAsuran ,yamaLArjunargaL were vanquished by Him and those who 
desired Him thrived on HIm. 

Azhwar mentions several times " worship Him" . Unless, He is in one's vision 
one is unable to worship. Unless worshipped, He is not in the vision. Then how 
to surrender unto Him?............


The Lord being the supreme entity, is it possible for Him to come down to such 
a level?
Being, omnipotent it is indeed possible. In fact, He Himself has mentioned this 
as :
"My births are not due to kArmic effects but due to my volition. Even at that 
low level His supremacy is attained. ....Hence , in rAmakrishNAdhi avathArangaL 
He is sulabhan and Hence easily accessible, surrender unto Him, is AzhwAr's 
counsel. 

Among avathAram-s krishNAvathAram is the extreme end of this simplicity. Even, 
in that the episode of butter mouthed Lord makes AzhwAr faint for six months 
exclaiming
"ethiRam" .

First, AzhwAr submerged in Lord's supremacy. He adjusted himself and preached 
to the world in the next thiru voi mozhi. In this thiru voi mozhi, AzhwAr 
submerged in His simplicity and fainted.

Thus swAmi nam-piLLai's introduction for this padhigam visualises and brings in 
front of us the Lord with butter in His hand, in His mouth in the simplest of 
the simplest state. That, this is the reflection of the supreme is 
explained.That, this simplicity cannot be taken for granted is also mentioned 
by those opposing being demolished. That many are enjoying this simplicity 
while some who oppose fall, is explained through illustration like water-pond, 
lamp. That, though a supreme entity cannot be reached by ordinary mortals like 
us being the question raised by one and all is answered by mentioning that it 
is possible to reach Him, if He lowers Himself to our reach. That, He cannot be 
worshipped as He is not in our vision is answered by the fact that He has 
indeed given vision in the incarnations and these are out of His volition are 
explained.
Last but not the least, the fact that AzhwAr was able to retrieve himself from 
the impact of supremacy and preach but fainted on turning his thoughts on His 
extreme simplicity is emotionally spelt out.


This grand introduction, will take anybody into levels of ecstasy and 
automatically push us into the spirit to dwell into the micro vyAkyAnam-s of 
each pAsuram-s to follow.
Is that not the greatness of swAmi nam-piLLai?

(to be continued)
vanamamalai padmanabhan












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