Today is Sri Jayanthi Janmashtami.. Let us enjoy Kutti KaNNans vaibhavam.
Out of four goals- on the four purushaarthaas, dharmam, artham, kaamam, and
mOksham, which is greatest?
Obviously we will say mOksham
Thirumangai aazhvaar confidently declared that kaamam (Desire) for our Lord
Narayana is the only worthy purushaartham. The same is considered even by Yathi
pathi- Sri Ramanuja. How is this possible for a sanyaasi like Sri Ramanuja?
What did Sri Ramanuja think? Let us see what
Amudhanaar has to say about this in verse 40.
sEman^al veedum poruLum dharumamum seeriyan^aR
kaamamum enRivai naan_genpar; naan_ginum kaNNanukkE
aamathu kaamam aRamporuL veetuthaR kenRuraiththaan
vaamanan seelan iraamaanusanintha maNmisaiyE.
சேம நல வீடும் பொருளும் தருமமும் சீரிய நல
காமமும் என்று இவை i நான்கு என்பர் ; நான்கினும் கண்ணனுக்கே
ஆமது காமம் அறம் பொருள் வீடுதர் கென்றுரைத்தான்
வாமனன் சீலன் இராமானுசணிந்த மண்மிசையே .
“Moksham, Dharmam, artham, and kaamam, are the four goals of life; so they say,
but Yathiraajaa, a celebate like Vaamanan, says Kaamam for union with Kannan is
the only worthy goal; The other three are just to support this divine passion.”
Let us enjoy the vaibhavam of our manmathans manmathan KaNNan..
Especially as the kutti.
Our butter thief attracts everybody, so appropriate to his
name. “Karshati iti Krsn:” Krishna is the one who attracts! But whom
does he attract? Our
AcharyAs & AlwArs are naturally attracted by him. But
his attraction is such that, even people who claim that
he is nirguna, etc etc. cannot stop falling for him!
Is he not mAyan?
Here is the sloka by a shaivait, Leela Shukar, in his
Krsna karnAmritam, wherein he experiences as,
ShaivA vayam na Khalu tatra vichAranEyam
panchAksharI japaparA: nitaram tathApi
chetO madIyam atasIkusumAvabhAsam
smErAnanam smarathi gOpavadhU kishOram
“we are shaivaits undoubtedly & always engrossed in
reciting the PanchAksharI japam. Nevertheless, my mind
always think of that kid of yashOdA, with a smiling face
& whose lustre is as that of atasI kusuma(it is a blue
coloured flower).
Here is the anubhavam of a staunch advaitin
MadhusUdana saraswathi:
DhyAnAbhyAsa vashIkrtEna manasA yannirgunam nishkriyam
jyothi: kinchana yOginO yadiparam pashyanthi pashyanthu tE
asmAkam tu tadEva lOchana chamatkArAya bhUyAt chiram
kAlindyA: pulineshu yatkimapi tannIlam mahO dhAvathi
“Let the so called yogins, who controlled their minds by Dhyana &
abhyasa, behold upon the Brahman, as just a
“jyothis”, which is nirguna(without attributes) and
nishkriya(actionless). But we percieve the same, as that blue
lustre(Lord Krsna), which is playing on the banks of the river YamunA.”
Here, the nirgunatva & nishkriyatva, have gone (by the
mention of neela & dhavathi). Even though, Sri. madhusUdana saraswathi,
himself is an advaitin, he is unable to control his mind, which runs
behind that kid of yashOdA. Isn’t our butter thief “mAyan”?
When these so called advaitins couldn’t stop falling
for our mAyan, the plight of our Azhwars, are very well
understandable.
When He is capable of attracting the animals & birds,( “ezhudu
chttirangal pOla ninranave!- periyAzhwAr. .”எழுது
சித்திரங்கள் போல நின்றனவே !- பெரி ஆழ்வார்..It can be recollected that
when this wonder kid played his flute, the animals etc forgot their
food, oozing out from their mouths & stood still as if they are
pictures), what would be the fate of MadhusUdana saraswathi & LeelA
shukar? It may be recalled that an advaitin, Appayya dIkshitar, has
written a commentary on swami desikan’s “yAdavAbhyudayam”.
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