Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe ramanujaya
Namaha Srimad Vara Vara MunayE
namaha Sri Vanachala mahA munayE
namaha In the previous posting we saw that not being able to withstand the atrocities of kamsA and other asuras bhoomi piratti prostrasted brahma to protect her. Brahma then fell to the feet of emperuman to do something about this. There was one other time when brahma and the other devas surrendered to emperuman to save bhoomi piratti (mother earth). When was that? That was during the varAhAvataram. Svayanbhuva manu who was placed in the
position of taking care of the srushti was astonished to find no place to keep
his creations. Earth, bhoomi was
submerged into the ocean. So he ran
to sathyalokam and wanted to find a solution for his problem. What will brahma do? He again surrendered to emperuman who
took the form of a divine varaha moorthi. Initially emperuman who was so
small as a thumb then grew up very fast.
Andal enjoys this roopam as “pAsitoorthu kidantha
pArmagatkku pandorunAl mAsudambil neervArA mAna milA pandriyAm” Emperuman
didn’t even mind to take the lowest of the lowest form (pig is considered to be
a very dirty animal disliked by all) for the sake of bhoomi piratti. When he has done such a lowly avatara
earlier will he ever hesitate to take KrishnAvatara as kutti kannan enjoying all
pleasures in gokulam? All the devas descended to earth as
gopans and gopikas to enjoy Krishna leela and waited for the same. Emperuman choose the right time and took
birth in the jail of kamsan and rushed to gokulam the very first night. What was the state of the gopis who were
waiting for the avatara.
PeriyAzhvar says, “ooduvAr vizhuvAr vugandhAlippAr
nAduvAr nambirAn enguththAr enbAr”. During the varAhAvataram after saving
piratti from under the ocean emperuman did jnana upadesam to piratti. That is why varaha moorthi is adorned as
jnana varahan, svetha varahan (as he took avatara as white pig and that kalpam
itself is called svetha varaha kalpam) and bhoo varAhan. Kaisika puranam forms part of this
upadesam only. One another
important thing usually quoted as varaha moorthi’s words is the varAha charama
slokam (stithE manasi susvasthE …….aham smarAmi math
bhaktham nayAmi paramAm gathim)
Emperuman assures all of us that if we think of him today for sure he
will think of us when we are in our death beds and take us to the divine
abode. Bhoomi piratti who listened
to these words wanted to put it into our minds also and uplift us. Let us see how she did the same in the
next posting. Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja
dAsee Sumithra
Varadarajan azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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