Is this because of that or
Is that becasue of this?
There is an old film song which reads as such 'Does the reed moves because of the breeze or the breeze arises because the plant moves, Does the vision appears as the eyes open or the eyes open just as the vision emerges and so on'
In the same spirit, does a place become sacred for a bhAgavathA becoz it is a divya-dhEsam or any place where they do reside in fact becomes holy.
The answer for this question is found from the Surthram 203 of srIvachana BhUshaNam .
Though this sUthram comes in the context of BhAgavatha apaachAram, this subject is dealt.
The text:
iiviTatthilE vainathEya vritthAnthatthaiyum piLLai
piLLai AzhwAnukku AzhwAn
paNittha vArtthayaiyum
smarippathu
the
vaintheya vrithantham: is depicted in the udyoga
parva of mahabharatham. When Galva
finished his studies
under viswamithra and was
leaving the school, he asked his acharya to name the fees. On his persistence
visvamithra lost his cool and asked him to bring 200 white horses with one ear
black. To look for such horses garduazhvan agreed that he will help his friend.
During there search they
reached a hill called rishabha,
where a pious vaishnavite lady called "SANdi" was doing her penances
silently. Having
reveived her hospitality, and
looking at her pious
nature, garudazhwan thaught,
why this lady is staying
alone in such a desolate place,
instead of going to some DD's and stay there. That moment, his feathers fell down, and he
realized that
such a thought indeed caused bahagavatha apcharam and he realized that, only due to the
presence of the bhagavathas
a place become sanctified, not becoz of place the bhagavathas become so. So where
ever they live,
that should be considered as a DD.
Akin to this
periyazhwar TM thirukkoshityur pathikam, the
essence is to speak the glories
of the Srivaishnavas, who
dwell into the bhagavad
anubhavam, and to show how
others who doest do so are
fallen.
periyAzhwar
narrates how even the feet dust of those
bhagavathas in the bhagavad
anubhavam converts a place
into a DD
"nAthanai
narasinkanai navintrErthuvarkaLuzhakkiya
pAda dhULi paTuthalAl ivvulakam
bhaagyam cheythathE"
Becoz of
their pada dhuli..the world become holy
"Thirukkottiyur
karunthatamukil vannanai kataikondu
kaithozhumbatharkal
irunthavurililirukkum manitar
ethavankal seytharkolo?"
"Thirukkottiyur nambanai
narasinkanai
navintrErthuvarkalai kandal
empiraan
ivarivarentru asaikal
thIrvanE."
kESavaa..purushOthamA...entru
pEsuvAr atiyArkaL
enthammai virkavum
peRuvArkaLE..
ramAnujadAsan
sreekanth
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