THE ESOTERIC
KANDAR ANUBHUTI
OR
THE SECRET TEACHING ON
GOD-EXPERIENCE
(A Treatise on Adwaitic Realization)
OF
SAINT ARUNAGIRINATHAR
| THE ESOTERIC KANDAR ANUBHUTI OR THE SECRET TEACHING ON GOD-EXPERIENCE (A Treatise on Adwaitic Realization) OF SAINT ARUNAGIRINATHAR | |
 | by N.V. Karthikeyan |  |
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VERSE-9 மட்டூர்குழல் மங்கையர் மையல்வலைப் பட்டூசல்படும் பரிசென்று ஒழிவேன் தட்டூடறவேல் சயிலத்து எறியும் நிட்டூர நிராகுல நிர்ப்பயனே.Mattoor-kuzhal mangaiyar maiyal valaip- Pattoosal padum parisenru ozhiven Thattoodara vel sayilaththu eriyum, Nittoora niraakula nirbhayane. Caught up in the fragrant-tressed women's infatuation-net Commentary When the power of the instruction given by the Guru wanes (previous verse), the old Samskaras or submerged desires of the mind, which are waiting to ambush the seeker, come up to the surface and trouble him. The thought or sight of women with sweet-odour-emitting tresses distracts his mind and causes vacillation. Caught up in their net of infatuation, his mind tosses like a pendulum, between the attraction for them and the magnanimous beauty of God. Though the instruction of the Guru (verse-8) has given the aspirant an intellectual understanding that he is not the body, etc., he is not free from sensory attractions, the most annoying of which is that for women. He tries to control his senses and meditate on the Lord but his mind is tossed about between his ideal and the actual, between the might of God and the tantalising objects, between his intellectual understanding and the practical temptations in day-to-day life. This predicament is experienced by almost all the sincere seekers sometime or the other. He, therefore, takes refuge in the Lord, saying: "Oh Lord, when will I be free from this predicament." The condition of tossing of mind is an experience known to every seeker. He has an ideal to concentrate his mind upon, an Ishta Devata (chosen form of God) on whom he wants to meditate. But the objects of love do not allow this; they attract his attention and the mind is drawn away from the ideal by force, as it were. With great difficulty, he tries to withdraw the mind from them and fix it on the Lord, only to find that in a moment's time it has again gone to the objects of pleasure. The swinging of the mind, thus, between its ideal (the Self/God) within and the objects of love outside, between the effort at its concentration and the pull of sense-objects is very trying. This painful plight of tossing of the mind cannot be overcome except by the grace of God, for which is the prayer in the verse. Infatuated love (Moha) is compared to a net because those who get entangled in it cannot easily extricate themselves from it, even as those that got into the Krauncha Mountain were trapped into it and cannot get out of it. And again, even as the Lord's Vel alone could pierce through the mountain, only the Lord's grace can free one from the net of Moha. Hence, the implied prayer: "O Lord! You dispatched the Vel on the mountain; why don't you shower your grace on me?" In every verse, the saint addresses the Lord with appropriate epithets. So he refers to Lord Shanmukha Who, with a throw of His Vel, destroyed the Krauncha mountain, i.e., the demon who was cursed by sage Agastya to remain as a mountain till he came to be killed by the Lord (see verse-4 for details). The Lord is fierce. He is not only fierce to His enemies in battle but He is also the scorcher of the inner enemies of His devotees, viz., lust, greed, anger, egoism, etc., which cannot be eradicated except by divine grace. The Lord is painless. He is free from sorrow of any kind due to the absence of limitation of any kind. He is blissful - Aanandamaya. The Lord is fearless. To give battle to the terrible Surapadman and other Asuras was a mere play for Him. The aspirant invokes the special grace of the Lord saying, "O fierce One, save me," because this delusion, as the wiles of sex, is difficult to get over by ordinary human effort. No advice, no admonition will work here. It appears that the Lord has to use fierce means to rescue one from this terrible malady. The verse is not a condemnation of women, but points out the power of inordinate love for sex that makes men suffer and directs one to resort to God for freedom from it. |
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