Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Obediance and devotion.

Bhakti koladhivaade paramaatmudu
Bhukti mukti taane ichchu bhuvi paramaatmudu

Pattinavaari chebidda paramaatmudu
Battabayati dhanamu paramaatmudu
Pattapagati velugu paramaatmudu
Ettanedutane unnaa dide paramaatmudu

Paachipaala loni venna paramaatmudu
Bacchana vaasina roopu paramaatmudu
Bacchu chethi oragallu paramaatmudu
Ichcha koladi vaadu vo ee paramaatmudu

Palukulaloni theta paramaatmudu
phaliyinchunindaiki paramaamudu
Balimi Sree Venkataadri paramaatmudu
Elami jeevula praana mee paramaatmudu.

Our conception of the Supreme Paramatma is limited by the nature and extent of our Bhakti.
Food and liberation are conferred by the supreme Himself.
The Supreme is like a child for those who pick him up.
The Supreme is the wealth that lies in the open.
The Supreme is the glorious broad daylight.
That Supreme is there before you. That is Him.
The Supreme is butter in fresh milk
The Supreme is that form which is cleared of its colours
The Supreme is the touchstone in the hands of the Goldsmith.
That Supreme is as you imagine and mold him
That Supreme is the clarity in all speech
That Supreme is the One who will reward and bless all
The Supreme Lord of Venkata Hill is the very life of all living beings.
The poet says that our onception and understanding of the supreme is limited by the nature of our Bhakthi just as in B G chapter VII 16. 
Chaturvidhaa bhajante maam janaah sukritino rjuna
aarto jijnaasur arthaarthee jnaanee cha Bharatarshabha.
O Best among the scions of Bharata! Four kinds of fortunate devotees worship me: those who are afflicted with poverty from their very birth, those who want to know about their own self, those who want money after having lost it, and those who love me for my own sake.
Bhaktimaarg will confer both Bhukti as well as Mukthi. Yamunacharya has also said Bhakti Maarga if one so desires can be sed for attaining material wealth. (Gitarthasangraha V.27 Bhaktiyogah tadarthee chet......
The poet is also refetring to the omniscience of the Supreme when he says that He is the butter which lies concealed in the basic raw material milk. also the form which emerges from a bare rock chiselled suitably by the sculpture, without any application of colour etc. He also says that in the hands of the goldsmith the touchstone helps him to polish the great metal. Nammalvar also said that God is the food he eats, the water he drinks and the betel leaf he chews. He is there in all trivial and also great things. Whe the poet says that Lord Venkateswarais the very life of al living beings, he is again echoing  the statement of the Kenopanishad hat the Lord is Praanasya praanaah.

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