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- Subject: [ramanuja] Yathiraja Vimsathi - Sloka 11
- From: Pattangi <danp@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:08:39 -0600
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Swami Sri Manaval Mamunikal?s
YATHIRAJA VIMSATI
Author: Sri S.Satyamurthi Iyengar
Yatiraja vimsati
Sloka
11
pApe kR^ite yadi bhavanti bhayAnutApa * lajjAH
punaH karaNamasya kathaM ghaTeta |
mohena me na bhavatIha
bhayAdileshas *
tasmAtpunaHpunaraghaM yatirAja! kurve
||
(11)
Sloka 11
Oh, Yatiraja! Sins I keep committing in succession,
For steeped in nescience, I have no compunction.
Fear or remorse, which precludes the commission
Of sins, again and again, in such wretched fashion.
Notes:
- In this world of darkness and delusion, one is prone to commit
sins. Nevertheless, realization of sins already committed could
excite fear of punishment and induce a sense of shame, remorse or
repentance, which might restrain one from the commission of further
sins. The poet, however, says in his forthright submission to his
Master, sri Ramanuja, that even this restraining influence is totally
absent in his (poet?s) case and he, therefore, goes on committing
sins. What has been left unsaid in this sloka but has to be
understood is that, to such a one, the Master?s redemptive grace is the
only hope for salvation.
- Speaking about the sense of remorse and repentance, the following
anecdote, referred to in ?Srivachanabhushanam?, the famous work of sri
Pillai Lokacharya, will reinforce the point.
One Pillaipillai Azhvan, a disciple of Sri Koorathazhvan, though of
good descent, great erudition and learning, was found to be arrogant and
aggressive, throwing offence at the Bhagavatas (devotees).
Koorathazhvan, well known for his tender solicitude, realized the abysmal
depth of spiritual degeneration into which the disciple was getting
himself buried, despite his vast learning, and hit upon a plan to
retrieve him. . On an auspicious day, when gifts are offered for
expiation of one?s sins, Koorathazhvan approached the disciple in
question, just after the latter had finished his bath and demanded of him
an oblation. The startled disciple said that there was nothing he
had to offer to his Great Master and yet the latter insisted that the
former should resolve over a handful of water thrown into the river that
he would henceforward desist from offending the Bhagavatas by word,
deed or thought. There was an immediate compliance from the
disciple. But then, by sheer force of habit, sometime later on, the
disciple thought ill of a devotee and at once realized that he had
thereby broken the pledge he had taken before his Master, and was thus
damned beyond redemption. So deep and intense was his feeling of
repentance and sense of shame that he dared not appear before the
Master. The compassionate Master won?t brook separation from the
disciple, sought him o0ut, sized up the position and addressed the
following words to him:
?I am exceedingly happy to take note of your deep and sincere repentance
for the mere entertainment of an evil thought, even before it could
manifest itself in word and deed. You take it from me that the Lord
will also be immensely pleased and forgive you. I am sure, you will
desist from inflicting bodily injury on devotees, for fear of
punishment at the hands of the king. And what now remains is
only offence thrown out by word of mouth and it will suffice if you put
an effective curb on it.
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Retyped from the book by Sri Kesavan Srinivasan of Chicago
(The Grandson of Sri U.Ve. Satyamurthi Iyyengar.)
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