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to torture His devotees because of even the minutest separation from Him.
But for nammAzhvAr there is no tuyaram in this world because he is constantly
having the anubhavam of His thought.
svAmi deSikan describes the six rahasya-s of bhagavAn's incarnations, in his
SaraNAgati dIpikA, Slokam 17:
1. nAnA-vidhaih (they are of different types, e.g., matsya, nArasimha,
kRshNa,etc.),
2. a-kapaTaih (they are all His true Forms, not just appearances),
3. ajahat-svabhAvaih (He is full of all His qualities of parattvam during
these incarnations,
4. a-prAkRtaih (His tirumeni during His incarnations are made of suddhasattva,
and not of the pa'nca bhUtas as in the case of His creations);
5. nija vihAra vaSena siddhaih (These Forms are not a result of pUrva
karma, as is in our case; they are assumed as part of His leelA, by His
own Free Will);
6. AtmIya raksha, vipaksha vinASanArthaih (They are assumed for the
protection of His devotees, and for the destruction of their enemies,
and not for the expiation of the karma accumulated in previous
countless births as in our case). It is clear that bhagavAn is a Big Zero
when it comes of to any form of defect even when He is born among us
humans!
SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj gives the interpretation that the nAma signifies
that bhagavAn is completely devoid of any guNa-s associated with prakRti -
prAkRta guNa virahitatvAt SUnyah, which is item 4 in svAmi deSika's list
above.
b) SrI Sa'nkara's interpretation is a reflection of his advaita philosophy - He
is called SUnyah because He is devoid of any attributes - sarva
viSesharahitatvAt SUnyavat SUnyah.
c) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha uses the root Sun - gatau - to go, and interprets
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