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went through to get pirATTi - uNNAdu uRa'ngAdu oli kaDalai UdaRuttu peN
Akkai AppuNDa SelvanAr (nAcciyAr tirumozhi 11. 6). peN here refers to
pirATTi who has no one to compare with.
b) SrI Samkara gives the interpretation that He is SrI-vibhAvanah because
He gives various forms of prosperity to all according their karma-s -
karmAnurUpeNa
vibhAvanah.
vividhAh Sriyah sarvabhUtAnAm vibhAvayati iti SrI-
c) SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri gives the interpretation that He is SrIvibhAvanah
because He spreads the fame of lakshmi by proudly displaying His
association with lakshmi, and by bestowing blessings on all devotees through
His association with lakshmi.
The dharma cakram writer explains in simple terms the complimentary nature
of perumAL and pirATTi. The analogy he gives is that when wealth is in
someone's possession who does not use it for anything good, it is wasted.
Neither the wealth of this person acquires fame, nor does the possessor of
this wealth. The dharma cakram writer gives the example of a poor man who
got seven jars of gold, six of them full, and the seventh half full. He was taken
by greed that the seventh jar was only half full, and so started living a life
with the aim of trying to get the seventh jar filled up, and in the process
suffered even more in poverty than before he got the gold jars. This is not the
purpose of getting wealth.
Instead, there are those who get wealth and then use it to help those in need.
They attain fame because of their wealth, and their wealth also becomes
famous because it is used for the right purposes. BhagavAn has the wealth in
the form of SrI (mahAlakshmi), and He bestows all His devotees with
blessings according to their karma, and so He gets His fame. SrI gets the
fame since the wealth that He has because of His association with her is being
used for protecting dharma. Thus, the mutually complimentary nature of
bhagavAn and pirATTi is conveyed in this nAma, as in other nAma-s of this
group.
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