SRI MADHWAVIJAYA – SHASHTHAHA SARGAHA – SHOLKAS 24 TO 31

SRI MADHWAVIJAYA – SHASHTHAHA SARGAHA – SHOLKAS 24 TO 31

(Shlokas and their literal summary have been furnished in the previous edition. Please follow this episode along with the previous edition for a thorough comprehension of stanzas from 24 to 31. Please read, comment and share. SDN)

Sri Narayanapanditacharyaru has extensively employed figures of speech in this entire work of Sri Madhwavijaya. In these stanzas, he has likened the state of Vedas and Scriptures to the state of Draupadi in that royal assemblage by Dushshasana, at the behest of Duryodhana. Her five husbands Dharmaraya, Bheemasena, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, elderly and spiritually awakened persons like Bheeshma, Drona, Krupa and the king, Dhrutarashtra, had been reduced to dumb spectators while Dushshasana tried to pull out the sari of Draupadi. The Scriptures during Kali Yuga are in the same state. Interpretations are often misleading, inappropriate, improper and quite ambiguous. It was at such a juncture that Lord Vayu, who had saved noble people and devotees of Lord Vishnu by killing demons as Lord Hanuman and Lord Bheemasena, appeared on earth as Sri Madhwacharyaru to condemn the misinterpretation of Scriptures with citations from across epics and holy texts and by providing the right and correct meaning.

Draupadi Devi can never be distressed. Just as the abduction of Seetha Devi in Ramayana laid the foundation stone for the destruction of demons, the illusion of Draupadi Devi being put to shame and distress should be seen as the starting point of the end of Duryodhana, who represents Kali. Similarly, the true meaning of Scriptures can never be altered. Hari Sarvottamatva and Vayu Jeevottamatva are nonchalant, eternal and binding truth. However, corrupt minds tried to vandalise their meaning through various means. It was left to Sri Vayu to bring the mass mindset back on track through proper interpretation and that is what Sri Madhwacharyaru did by not only proving 21 schools of philosophical thought as misleading and false but also by providing the correct meaning for all Scriptures through his discourse, debate and known and unknown works.

Lord Vishnu is the originator of Vedas. Lord Brahma spread the Vedas in four parts through each of his four faces (Chaturmukha). Further, Vasishtha, Vamadeva and other Rishis, saints, sages and ascetics spread them through words of mouth. That is why Vedas are still considered as “ApauruShEya” or that which has no single, known author or originator. Vedas have six highly attractive organs namely Shiksha, Vyakarana, Chandas, Nirukta, Jyotisha and Kalpa. They are adorned with divine and mystic garland known as Brahmasutras. Vedas are bedecked with special and powerful Ruks and wonderful vocabulary, finest rhythmic pattern, syllogistic order and set to brilliant meters. Vedas are pregnant with meaning. They are unafathomable for the ordinary and easily understandable for those who adore them

. They are well served by magnificent epics such as Ramayana and Mahabharata. Due to the influence of Kali Yuga, they have been misinterpreted by exemplary scholars from time to time. People were on the verge of assuming and presuming those misinterpretations as the sole truth, when Sri Madhwacharyaru descended on earth to drive away the darkness of misled, fake, disruptive and corrupt knowledge and establish the Ultimate Truth hidden in Vedas and Scriptures. These are the ideals that the above stanzas from 24 to 31 convey.