SRI MADHWAVIJAYA - CHATURTHAHA SARGAHA SHLOKAS 29 AND 30

SRI MADHWAVIJAYA – CHATURTHAHA SARGAHA SHOLKAS 29 and 30

(In these two stanzas, Vasudeva secures the permission of his mother to become a saint. The manner in which he became a saint will be explained in the next and bynext stanzas to be furnished in the next episode. Please Read, Comment and Share. SDN)

Iti bruvANE tanayE kadAchidapyadarshanam tasya mrutErnidarshanam|

Vichintya paryAkulitA chikeerShitam sutasya kruchChrAnnyaruNanna sA shuBhA||29||

SUMMARY: With the son telling that way, she thought that if he were not to be seen at all, it is as good as not having him alive, the pious mother of Vasudeva controlled her grief with great difficulty and abstained from restricting her son have his own way.

Sri Chalari Achar substantiates this point: “SA mAtA pUrvOktam putravAkyam shrutwA BheetA satee jeevataha putrasya adarshanam maraNatulyamEva matwA duhKhAn sutABheeShTasya niShEDham na chakArEti BhAvaha|

Meaning: Hearing the sentence stated by her son earlier, that mother was alarmed as she thought that out of sight was nothing short of being dead and therefore, somehow controlled her sorrow and did not raise any objection for fulfilling his desire.

AThOpagamyaiSha gurum jagadguruhu prasadya tam dEvavaraprasAditaha|

SadA samastAshramaBhAk surEshwarO vishEShataha KhalwaBhajadwarAshramam||30||

SUMMARY: Subsequently, Sri Vasudeva, the Guru of the entire universe who is respected by Rudra and other deities too, went to the place where his Guru Sri Achyutapreksha was staying; he made his Guru happy; being always an ardent follower of all the norms of different phases or Ashram of life and a distinguished supreme deity, then accepted the sainthood in a special manner.

According to Hindu philosophy, there are four phases of life, which are denoted as Ashram or a period of life that prescribes certain mandatory norms to adhere to for human beings. They are called as Balya, Brahmacharya, Gruhastha and Vruddhapya or Vanaprastha. Deities in general strictly adhere to the norms of all these phases and they are considered as custodians of such phases of life. Since Vasudeva is an incarnation of Lord Vayu, who is the supreme deity, next only to Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi, it needs no confession or concurrence that he adheres to the norms of each phase of life. He is a distinct deity who can follow the norms of a saint without getting ordained into sainthood. He accepted sainthood to enhance the value of sainthood.