(Sri Jagannatha Dasa virachita) SRI HARIKATHAMRUTASARA / ಶ್ರಿ ಹರಿಕಥಾಮೃತಸಾರ

(Sri Jagannatha Dasa virachita)

SRI HARIKATHAMRUTASARA / ಶ್ರಿ ಹರಿಕಥಾಮೃತಸಾರ

How well Lord Hari cares?/ಶ್ರೀ ಹರಿಯು ರಕ್ಷಿಸುವ ಪರಿ

40. ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆವೆಯಂದದಲಿ ಕೈ ಮೈ-

      ತಿಣ್ಣಿಗೊದಗುವ ತೆರದಿ ಪಲ್ಗಳು

      ಪಣ್ಣುಫಲಗಳನಗಿದು ಜಿಹ್ವೆಗೆ ರಸವನೀವಂತೆ|

      ಪುಣ್ಯಫಲವೀವಂದದಲಿ ನುಡಿ-

      ವೆಣ್ಣಿನಾಣ್ಮಾಂಡದೊಳು ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಣ-

      ನಣ್ಣನೊದಗುವ ಭಕ್ತರವಸರಕಮರಗಣಸಹಿತ||27||

       KaNNigeveyandadali kai mai-

       tiNNigodaguva teradi palgaLu

       paNNuPhalagaLanagidu jihvege rasavaneevante|

       PuNyaPhalaveevandadali nuDi-

       veNNinANmAnDadoLu LakShmaNa-

       naNNanodaguva BhaktaravasarakamaragaNashita||27||

SUMMARY: Like the eyelids, like the tooth that munch ripened fruits and feed the tongue to make it easily digestible, like the positive energy of good deeds fructify, Lord Sri Hari, who came to earth in the form of Srirama, the brother of Lakshmana, along with other deities, will rush to rescue and protect his devotees.

The way Lord Hari protects everything and every being, animate and inanimate, has been explained in this stanza in a very simple manner with examples. Lord Hari cannot be seen by everyone and everywhere and always. The way he protects needs to be realized to believe. He is with everyone, everywhere and forever. He is within everyone and in every minute part of our body; he is in the minutest particle of dust.

How does Hari acknowledge/ಶ್ರೀ ಹರಿಯು ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸುವ ಪರಿ

41. ಕೊಟ್ಟುದನು ಕೈಕೊಂಬರಕ್ಷಣ

      ಬಿಟ್ಟಗಲ ತನ್ನವರ ದುರಿತಗ-

      ಳಟ್ಟುವನು ದೂರದಲಿ ದುರಿತಾರಣ್ಯಪಾವಕನು|

      ಬೆಟ್ಟ ಬೆನ್ನಿಲಿ ಪೊರಿಸಿದವರೊಳು

      ಸಿಟ್ಟು ಮಾಡಿದನೇನೋ ಹರಿ ಕಂ-

      ಗೆಟ್ಟ ಸುರರಿಗೆ ಸುಧೆಯನುಣಿಸಿದ ಮುರಿದನಹಿತರನು||28||

        KoTTudanu kaikombarakShaNa

        biTTagala tannavara duritaga-

        LaTTuvanu dUradali duritAraNyapAvakanu|

        BeTTa bennili porisidavaroLu

        siTTu mADidanEnO Hari kan-

        geTTa surarige suDheyanuNisida muridanahitaranu||28||

SUMMARY: Sri Hari received whatever is offered to him; he never stays away from his devotees; he drives away the troubles of his devotees; he is like the wildfire of problems and troubles; did he become angry when the deities put the entire mountain on his back? Instead, he fed the deities with the Elixir (Amrut) and killed their enemies, the demons.

This stanza dwells on the various ways that Lord Hari adopts to protect his devotees. The Gita states:

AnanyAshchintayantO mAm yE janAha paryupAsatE|

TEShAm nityABhiyuktAnAm yOgakShEmam vahAmyaham||Gita 9/22||

ಅನನ್ಯಾಶ್ಚಿಂತಯಂತೋ ಮಾಂ ಯೇ ಜನಾಃ ಪರ್ಯುಪಾಸತೇ|

ತೇಷಾಂ ನಿತ್ಯಾಭಿಯುಕ್ತಾನಾಂ ಯೋಗಕ್ಷೇಮಂ ವಹಾಮ್ಯಹಂ||ಗೀತಾ 9/22||

The incident of putting Mandara Mountain on the back of Lord Hari is at the time of Great Churning of cosmic ocean of Milk, when Lord Hari assumes the form of a Kurma or Tortoise to wear the entire mountain on his back so that it does not tilt or swing or lose balance during the churning. Later, when the Elixir emerged, a fierce wrangle broke out between

deities and demons on sharing the Elixir. Lord Hari appeared again as Mohini, lured the demons and served the entire Elixir among the deities. When the demons launched an attack on deities, it was Lord Hari who killed them.

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