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WHAT DID KANCHI MAHAA PERIAVAA HAVE IN MIND WHEN HE QUIPPED MISCHIEVOUSLY?
“It requires tremendous misfortune to escape the impartial gaze of his holiness ! … “
Does it mean “sarva saakshi” … “Netra Deeksha” … ?
In the Vishnu Sahasranamam one of the names given to almighty is “saakshi “ …. avyayah purushah saakshi”…
That name is in fact an echo of the first line of the Purusha Sooktam… “sahasra seersha Purusha … sahasraaksha Sahasrapaath … “ where the Purusha is called “sahasra aakshan” … the thousand eyed one…
The Almighty Brahman thus has eyes everywhere .. nothing escapes his gaze … and his gaze falls equally on every Jeeva, Janthu and Jada … that is why in the Bhagavathi Gita , Krishna uses the special epithet of “sama dhrishti “ … looking upon all creation as one … with no differential perception.
So , the question arises in our minds …. If Bhagavan is “Sarva saakshi” … a witness to all existence without exception , how can there be anything or anyone who can escape his gaze ?!! Impossible , that would be … because out of compassion (nirhetuka Kripa) the Almighty does not take his eyes off at any time from even the worst sinner in this world … Divine solicitude is never denied to any soul however lowly and unregenerate it may be …
That is why it is said here in this narrated incident in the video that it must be “tremendous”, almost impossible , “misfortune” for any soul to “escape the “impartial gaze” of the Acharya” who is an avatar indeed of the Supreme God hailed in the Sahasranamam and Purusha Sooktam.
All the above thoughts — who knows? — might perhaps have been running through the mind of Periavaa when he made that sharp humorous quip as we see narrated finally in the incident in the above video-clip .
Naaraayana, Naaraayana 🙏
Sudarshan Madabushi