(Sri Jagannatha Dasa virachita) SRI HARIKATHAMRUTASARA / ಶ್ರೀ ಜಗನ್ನಾಥದಾಸ ವಿರಚಿತ ಶ್ರೀ ಹರಿಕಥಾಮೃತಸಾರ

(Sri Jagannatha Dasa virachita)
SRI HARIKATHAMRUTASARA /
ಶ್ರೀ ಜಗನ್ನಾಥದಾಸ ವಿರಚಿತ ಶ್ರೀ ಹರಿಕಥಾಮೃತಸಾರ

Destruction is equally effortless for Sri Hari/ಶ್ರೀಹರಿಗೆ ಸಂಹಾರಕಾರ್ಯವೂ ಒಂದು ಲೀಲೆ

72.       ಮಳಲಮನೆಗಳ ಮಾಡಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳು

            ಕೆಲವು ಕಾಲದಲಾಡಿ ಮೋದದಿ

            ತುಳಿದು ಕೆಡಿಸುವ ತೆರದಿ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀರಮಣ ಲೋಕಗಳ|

            ಹಲವು ಬಗೆಯಲಿ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸುವ ನಿ-

            ಶ್ಚಲನು ತಾನಾಗಿದ್ದು ಸಲಹುವ

            ಯಲರುಣಿಯ ವೋಲ್ ನುಂಗುವಂಗೆಲ್ಲಿಹದೊ ಸುಖದುಃಖ||28||

            MaLalamanegaLa mADi makkaLu

            Kelavu kAladalADi mOdadi

            tuLidu keDisuva teradi LakShmeeramaNa lOkagaLa|

            Halavu bageyali nirmisuva ni-        

            Shchalanu tAnAgiddu salahuva

            yalaruNiya vOl nunguvangellihadO suKhaduHKha||28||

SUMMARY: Like kindergarten children create houses in sand, happily play with it for a few moments and later trample it gleefully for fun, beloved of Sri Lakshmi, Sri Hari creates the Lokas in different ways and patterns; remaining totally unaffected or unrelated, he preserves and rears those Lokas; finally, like a snake, he will swallow them. Where is the question of happiness and melancholy to him?

The underlying statement of this stanza is that Sri Hari is literally ‘non-aligned’ with his own work. This reminds one of a poem titled “The Tiger” by William Blake in which the poet asks:

   When the stars threw down their spears 

    And water'd heaven with their tears: 

    Did he smile his work to see?

    Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

    The last word in this Blake’s stanza “thee” refers to the Tiger. The poet cleverly, regretfully, painfully questions the Lord whether he was the same person who created Lamb, the eternal prey, and the Tiger, the eternal butcher of the lamb.

    What this explains and asserts is that for the Lord, creation, preservation and destruction are ‘fun’ and none can question his authority or activity. He is the only independent authority. He is without emotions, attachment, love, hatred and so on.

    Glory of multilingual and multifaceted acts of Sri Hari/ಶ್ರೀ ಹರಿಯ ಬಹುರೂಪ, ಬಹುಭಾಷೆಯ ಮಾತುಗಳ ವೈಭವ

     73.         ವೇಷಭಾಷೆಗಳಿಂದ ಜನರ ಪ್ರ-

                ಮೋಹಗೈಸುವ ನಟಪುರುಷನೋಲ್

                ದೋಷದೂರನು ಲೋಕದೊಳು ಬಹುರೂಪಮಾತಿನಲಿ|

                ತೋಷಿಸುವನವರವರ ಮನದಭಿ-

                ಲಾಷೆಗಳ ಪೂರೈಸುತನುದಿನ

                ಪೋಷಿಸುವ ಪೂತಾತ್ಮ ಪೂರ್ಣಾನಂದಜ್ಞಾನಮಯ||29||

                `VEShaBhAShEgaLinda janara pra-

                mOhagaisuva naTapuruShanOl

                dOShadUranu lOkadoLu bahurUpamAtinali|

                TOShisuvanavaravara manadaBhi-

                lAShegaLa pUraisutanudina

                pOShisuva pUtAtma pUrNAnandajnAnamaya||29||

    SUMMARY: Like a male actor who trans-locates the viewers into different worlds with his robes, attire, dialogue and actions, infallible/failsafe and unerring Hari makes every being happy through his vivid, vivacious forms, names, speech and by fulfilling their desires according to their merit. He preserves and rears them, each day and each moment. He is the epitome of purity and holiness. He is the epitome of bliss and embodiment of knowledge.

    In a drama, the actor impresses every spectator with his action, dialogue and dress. He literally epitomizes the character on the stage. Once he descends from the stage, the actor is a common man like everyone else. He is not the same as the role he plays. He indulges in so many actions by displaying a variety of emotions like love, hatred, war, victory, joy, birth and death, misery and so on. Each and every action of the actor is loved by the audience/spectators. Similarly, for the knowledgeable, all actions the Lord displays through humanity are “fun”. Like an actor enjoys the actions and dialogues he presents in the role assigned to him, Sri Hari just enjoys whatever he does but remains calm, unaffected and non-aligned.   

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