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Re: Story on Vishnumaya

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swamy swarna • February 20, 2002 


Hari Om. Thanks for giving the authentic story. What I
narrated was a cinematic version, which probably was
over-dramatised. Even otherwise, Jaya and Vijaya, the
Dwara Palakas of Sri Vishnu do take birth as Asuras in
three births, due to the curse of Sanaka and
Sanandana. So even if the cinematic version is
accepted, we can learn an appropriate lesson. 

Sometime ago, in a similar vein, I thought of all of
us as Sapa Grasthas, like Sri Gajendra and Jaya Vijaya
etc. I did not read Milton's Paradise Lost, but I feel
all of us came from His Plane and so it is like losing
Paradise (Our swarga is different from the paradise).
So out of His kindness, He shows us the way to rejoin
Him. 

I thank u for the linkages, but if the poems are in
Tamil, I am afraid I won't be able to understand.

Anyway, I will check up the links. In Sri Ramanuja's
biography, there is a chapter about this Azwar. 

Thanks again. Hari Om Tatsat.

S.V.swamy


--- lakshmikumar  wrote:
> SrI:
> SrImatE rAmAnujAya nama:
> 
> Dear SrI S.V.Swamy,
> 
> namO nArAyaNa!
> 
> > It is thus clear that if we forget His Lotus Feet,
> He
> > uses His Maya to create problems to us so that we
> then
> > remember His Feet again. Great indeed is His
> > attachment. He never allows His children to wander
> too
> > far.
> 
> Thanks for sharing with us the nice realization you
> had after 
> hearing the divya charitam of this greatest
> ranganAtha bhakta.
> He is in fact, none other than the great SrI
> Thondar-adi-podi 
> AzhwAr. His devotion to Lord SrI ranganAtha (SrIman
> nArAyaNa) 
> is matchless. The divya prabhandam (divine songs on
> the Lord)
> that he bestowed upon us are really very very sweet.
> They teach
> us how a bhAgavathA should be. 
> 
> Please read the following articles to read the full
> story of 
> this AzhwAr and taste some of his divine poems:
> 
>
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/nov97/0006.html
> 
>
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/jan97/0019.html
> 
> > Sri Vipra Narayana then realises his
> > mistake and prays to the Lord from the bottom of
> his
> > heart and He reveals that the devotee was His
> garland
> > and due to Some Sapam, was born thus and played
> out
> > the Karma.
> 
> aDiyEn just wanted to point out a correction. As per
> the 
> authentic scriptures like Divya sUri Saritam, etc
> and per
> our achAryAs works like prabhanda sAram, SrI Vipra
> nArAyaNa
> is a nitya sUri and hence he, out of his and the
> Lord's own 
> sweet will took the birth on this world to teach us
> how to 
> do bhakti to the Lord and the affair with the
> courtesian is 
> also part of the pastime they performed to teach us
> exactly 
> the realization that you got. As far as aDiyEn knows
> there 
> is no authentic version that says that due to a
> curse, 
> he is born thus.
> 
> SrI thondar-adi-podi azhwAr is the epitome of SrI
> ranganAtha
> bhakti and he taught us that serving the devotees of
> the Lord
> is even greater than serving the Lord Himself. His
> name itself
> is an evident to it.
> 
> aDiyEn is pleased to see your devotion and sharing
> it with 
> others.
> 
> SrI thondar-adi-podi azhwAr thiruvadigalE saranam!
> (The lotus feet of SrI thondar-adi-podi azhwAr are
> our sole refuge!)
> 
> namO nArAyaNa!
> 
> rAmAnuja dAsan,
> Lakshmikumar
> SrImad azhagiya singar thiruvadigalE saranam!
> 
> 
> 
>
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