Ayussu iddare- Ughabhoga of Sri Purandara Dasaru

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Hare Srinivasa!ayussu iddare annakke koratilla |

jIvakke eMdeMdige tanugaLu koratilla

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saavu huTTu eMbo sahaja lOkadoLage |

kaalakaaladi hari kalyaaNaguNagaLa |

kELadavana janma vyartha

puraMdaraviThala ||

In this ughaboga Sri Purandara Dasaru says

If destiny favours life ,then there

is no lack of food

After death,there is no dearth of

bodies for a soul

In this mortal world where life and

death form a natural course

The life of that human whose time is

not spent

in listening to the exquisite infinte

auspicious attributes of Lord Hari

is indeed a life that is considered worthless

Dasaru’s message ,†Don’t worry about providing for

your future. As long as you live, or as long as you should live, the Lord will

see to it that you have something to survive on. Your body will last only as

long as the Lord wills it. Once the time is up, no amount of food , no amount

of wealth, no property, no doctors, no relatives, none can come to one’s aid.

In another devaranama Dasaru says, ‘chiMteyAke

mADuthiddi chinmayaniddAneâ€

Here Dasaru says ayssu

iddare – Means –if you have time to live, lifespan-“Rest assured that you shall anyway live, somehow or

other as long as Lord wills. Even if one spends all time in earning for the

future, one can never be assured that one will be safe from sufferring.

Sufferring cannot be allievated by any of our possessions. Only the Lord can allievate

sufferring. The knowledge of this is what needs to be realised by chanting His

name again and again. Chanting His glorious name and contemplating on each name’s

infinite auspiciousness is the only thing that can keep one from sufferring.

In another ughbhoga Sri Purandara Dasaru says,

allada karmava Acharisidava keTTa

ellaroLage

virOdhisidava keTTa |

………………………….

pullanaabha namma puraMdaraviThalana

|

mellaDi naMbadava keTTa naragEDi

“ One who does prohibited acts is doomed. A person

who harbours hatred in his mind is doomed and so on. Finally Dasaru says ,â€The lotus feet of the Lord Purandara

vittala is ever ready to tread delicately in our heart , but those who mistrust this Lord are

doomed.â€

Mistrust is the cause of all sufferring. And it is

precisely because of this that Dasaru advises one to do guNananusandhana of the

Lord ‘s auspicious attributes.

Sufferring happens to people because of poorva pApa

karmas accumulated over many janmas. This poorva karma’s results which the jiva

is undergoing now is part of the prarabdha karma.Shastra says that this

prarabdha is never discounted at any time. Even after aparOxa the jiva has to

complete the store of prarabdha. So how can chanting help ? How can

guNaanusandhana help?

The attitude

towards events in one’s life affects the sufferring quotient. That is what

Dasaru wants to inculcate in the bhaktha. The assurance of God that He is there

to take care, has to be flowing in one’s viens even as blood flows. If this

blood flow stops,the creature dies, similarly if the flow of faith is stopped

or disturbed it causes untold confusion to the soul. Absolute trust in God’s

dispensation is a must . His nirvaishamya guNa

is His swabhavika guna and is spontaneous to Him.The Lord ensures that very

soul gets what it deserves and not anything else. The building of this attitude of trust occurs

over repeated study of the guNas of the Lord and that is why Dasaru says , “hariya

kalyANa gunagala kEladavana janma vyarthavOâ€.

Time and again, such contemplation has to be undertaken.

This constant association improves interest and concentration.More and more

time should be spent for this.Then at a point of time, the soul becomes

immersed only in this . Automatically all other things seem dull and useless.

Only those moments immersed in the Lord’s contemplation seem worthwhile. For

these sequence of events to occur it may take many many births.

Lord Krishna says ,’ bahunAma janmanAm aMte

jNAnavAn mAm prapadyaMteâ€

The above is what Dasaru has said in the second

line of this ughabhoga.

‘jIvakke eMdeMdige tanugaLu koratilla†.

The process of enjoying sense pleasures happens as

long as there is a body. So the tendency to make use of time to enjoy is

inherent in all human beings. This needs to be overcome. Pleasure from the

senses is a feature of all forms of lives and is not unique. But study and

contemplation are unique to a human birth. Understanding that, helps to spend

time more effectively.

Further one fears that one’s life when exhausted,

then all what one has done would be wasted. This is also countered with this

state , ‘jIvakke eMdeMdige tanugaLu koratilla. Because in a future birth,

wealth and property may not accompany one, but spiritual sadhana accompanies

one. So it is said in the Bg by the Lord himself.

 

nEhAbhikramanosti pratyavAyo na vidyate

swalpamapyasya dharmasya trayatE mahatO bhayAt.

(Gita 2/40)

This statement of the Lord shows that our time and

consious effort into acquiring knowledge would never be wated any time. but

would tide us over fear of great calamity.

The greatest calamity is the death. Fear of death

is the biggest worry for all. This can be overcome with the knowledge the God

as per one’s capacity will take care of all whether alive in a body or not.

Fearing something which will anyway happen in the natural course of events

prevents one from making full use of time fruitfully. So as just there is a

cycle of day and night and noone ever cries over it becoming dark at night ,

but instead lights a lamp to prevent darkness, so also the cycle of birth and

death needs to be accepted as a part of life and the steps to prevent fear of

death need to be taken. In other words one needs to build one’s trust in the

God and His Supreme control and benevolence on all . For this the chintana of

His guNas is absolutely essential. Sri Purandara Dasaru warns one that if one

does not engage in listening to this and contemplating on it then such a life

is worthless.

kaalakaaladi hariya kalyaaNaguNagaLa.

kELadavana janma vyartha

puraMdaraviThalasri krishnArpanamastuI am not the doer,Lord Hari is the doerEven so, whatever He makes me do is His worship by His graceR.Parimala

 

 

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