Saturday, May 17, 2008

SVS 68

62. OM TRIKAGUPDHAMYE NAMA: त्रिगुपधाम्ये नम:
Resident of Tripadvibhoothi, that is Paramapadham.

Dhama means brightness and living place. Swami Desika in his Yadavabyudayam and Gopala vimsathi, praises the avatar of Sri Krishna in the sloka,
vande brindavanacharam vallabhi jana vallabham
jayanti sambhavam dhama vyjayanthi vibhooshanam.
In the auspicious day of Srijayanthi, Sri Krishna appeared as the floodlight. Trikagupdhama is the name for Vaikuntam or Nitya vibhoothi or Paramapadam or Aparajita or Ayodhya, the place where if we reach will never return back to earth. By the divine name prabhuti, we understand that by Nityavibhooti, His wealth never diminishes. It is also called Tripadvibhoothi and is made of suddha satvam. Our prakruti or Universe is made of a mixture of satvam, rajas and tamas qualities. Rajas and tamas are responsible for our anger, desire, laziness, etc. In Vaikuntam pure satvam alone is there. We can imagine how much happier place this earth would have been if only all of us had only satva quality. Swami Desika compares Vedas as a very large palace and says that Bhagavad Gita is the light in that. Without this light one can not live in a place. With this light we develop satva quality and with Acharyas' teachings we become greedy to reach Moksham, that is Vaikuntam.
Bhagavan means possessing the six qualities- gyana, shakti, balam, aiswaryam, veeram and tejas. The Lord alone is shaadgunya paripoornan [ full of six qualities]. While examining trikagupdama, we have to see these six qualities in three pairs. So He possesses these three pairs and so trikagupdama.
In Sri Varaha avatar, the Lord took the form of a gigantic boar. Sri Andal describes this as manamila panri [மானமிலா பன்றியாய் ]. Here manam means measure or size. Varaham has two protruding teeth and one horn and so these three are indicated by trikagupdama.

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