Deivathin Kural Series - 105

Om Namah Sivaya.

Deivathin Kural # 105 of 25 Nov 2006.

1. To-day’s talk is titled Easwaran, one of the names for God, in pages 515 to 517, in Volume 1 of Deivathin Kural.
2. Gnani or a man of self awareness, does not see anything other than the Self or Athma or God. He knows and is aware that it is one Being, that is seen as many. One Self appearing as all. He discards the outer appearances as Maya and sees only the inner Being and is in Bliss for that reason. Since the apparent world is Maya, he has nothing to do with the world. For him the Seer, Seen and Seeing; is all One, and so has no job or work or duty. The Upanishads say that He is himself Brhmam.
3. Brhmam has no work to perform. But those who are deluded by the Maya, think of the world as real, and pray to Easwara, for success in their endevours. When the prayer is made with a good mind, for good jobs, Easwara gets them done. This means that, Easwara is not one without job. Even if we do not pray to Him, Easwara conducts the affairs of the Universe in an orderly manner and feeds all the life forms.
4. So, should we say that the Action-less Brhmam is different from Actionful Easwara? No. Gnani’s Brhmam is the same as Agnani’s Easwara, who manages the entire Universe.
5. Siva’s Dakshinamoorthy form indicates the Brhma stage. There is no work there. Only silence. The same Siva has done all the works. He is Dancing in Chidambaram. Chidambaram is not only a place in Tamil Nadu, but also the Chid-Ambaram, ie., the minds of all the people. He comes as the beautiful Bikshanana to Tharuka Vana and enamours all the wives of the Rishis. In Daksha Yagnya, He knocks out Surya, with an uppercut to the jaws and breaks all his teeth. He drinks the Alahala Poison, in the battle of Devas and Asuras and becomes Neelakant, by stopping the poison in the throat.
6. Swami ever remains hidden as Brhma, and does all the work as Easwara. Common folks are swimming in the ocean of life. On the other side Gnanis are standing in the fields. In between, is the high mound of the border of the ocean. Gnanis do not see the world. Swami is also known as the ‘Thatastha’, the via-media. He knows the world, people in the world and the gnanis. He can tell the gnanis to lift the swimming mass, from the morass of worldly involvement and bring them ashore.
7. Though Swami knows all to be oneself, he plays around with the people who think of themselves as different from Him. There is a beautiful poem by Sri Neelakanta Deekchidar, known as, ‘Sivaleelarnava’. Let me give you its meaning. You all know that Lord Parameswara came as a casual labourer and carried mud in exchange for ‘Pittu’, a sweet-meat as wages, when the Vaigai river was in spate and the river banks were broken. He purposefully malingered and The Pandya King supervising the work, punished this labourer, by beating with the cane, resulting in all the living forms, feeling the pain and have marks on their backs. By this God had revealed His all pervasiveness! The Poet says, “It is alright that you revealed your all-pervasiveness. But tell me, is that only applicable for getting beaten up? You ate up the sweet ‘pittu’. Why did not all the life forms get an opportunity to partake in that pleasure? What happens to the principle of Oneness, when there are two different rules; one when you are happy and another for sharing your pains?”
8. Swami is the inner static being. He is the outer dynamic force. He is said to have five duties known as, ‘pancha-krutyam’, or five fold jobs. You all know, the three, namely, creation, maintenance and destruction. All these three are of , the Maya, or apparent condition only. The fourth one is called as ‘thirodanam’, or ‘hiding’. That is, hiding the fact of reality. Hiding ‘Maya’, from being known as unreal! The fifth one is the process of relieving us from the unreal ‘Maya’. That is ‘Anugraham’, meaning compassionate blessings. Without this ‘anugraham’, we can never be relieved of the delusion of Maya. To pray for this compassion, believing Him to be kind-hearted and to love him with a melting heart is devotion or Bakthi!

Sambhomahadeva.