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will not be able to see the jyoti-gaNeSvarah residing in him. One has tofirst
rid oneself of the darkness of kAma, krodha, etc. in him, before one can see
the light inside. This is the lesson to take form this mantra.
nAma 626. ivijtaTma vijitAtmA
a) He whose mind has been conquered (by His devotees).
b) He who has conquered His Mind.
vijitAtmane namah.
SrI BhaTTar has thus far interpreted the previous nAma-s 608 up to 625 in
terms of His association with pirATTi. Now he proceeds to interpret the next
few nAma-s in terms of His extreme sauSIlyam (the quality of amiability).
SrI BhaTTar's vyAkhyAnam for the nAma "vijitAtmA" is that bhagavAn revels
in being conquered by His devotee; this is His real nature. When a devotee
goes and bows before Him with devotion and sincerity, bhagavAn is easily
conquered by the devotee. Recall that kRshNa makes the promise at the start
of the mahAbhArata war, that He won't take to weapons during the war. Then,
in the course of the war, bhIshma, the great devotee of kRshNa, takes a vow
in front of kRshNa that he will make kRshNa take to weapons the next day
during the fighting. Everyone including bhIshma knew kRshNa's earlier vow
not to take to arms. And yet, since His great devotee declared that he will
make kRshNa take to arms, kRshNa made that word of His devotee come true,
and did exactly as his devotee wished the next day. Such is His compassion to
His devotee, that He will even break His own promise in order to make His
devotee's words come true.
SrI v. v. rAmAnujan refers us to nammAzhvAr's tiruvAimozhi 1. 3. 1 - pattuDai
aDiyavarkku eLiyavan … ettiRam. nammAzhvAr who could sing bhagavAn's
parattvam in a clear state of mind, could not bear to describe His soulabhyam
and the troubles He went through to remain bound to the ural (mortar), get
beaten up by yaSodA, etc. AzhvAr passed out and lost His conscience of the
external world for six months since He could not bear to think of perumAL
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