Soorpa karnakar

Vakra tunda: soorpakarno heramba skanda poorvaja:

 

Soorpa karnakar is the next name. After that there are only 2 more names.

 

Soorpa karnakar means the one with ears like bamboo sieve. Soorpam means sieve. Soorpanakai means the one with nails like a sieve. Soorpa – naka according to Sanskrit grammar rules becomes 'soorpaNaka'. If the nail is the size of the sieve one can imagine how big her form would have been.

 

Why there is already one name "gaja karnakar" – why another name as "soorpa karnakar" – saying some thing again is normally a fault – it is not so in this case.

 

While he has a large unfolded ear like an elephant, which he spreads and listens to all our prayers, he is called gaja karnakar. However, is he only listening to our prayers? The lord who is present at all times and everywhere is also listening to other things that we talk. Three fourths of these are useless talks. They may be unwanted matters. Why many of our prayers are silly ones! If he sincerely listens to each and grants them what will happen? Therefore, while he hears them all, while hearing he discards those that not to be considered, and only listens to those that are worthy of his attention. Only to demonstrate that he is called soorpakarnar and the one with the ears of sieve.

 

Why? What does a sieve do? It separates the grains from the husks and stones? In his form also, the lord swings the large ear (looking how the bamboo sieve is swung), and discards the unwanted matters in us – and listens to only the useful matters that we pray to him. I mean that he listens to only the useful matters in our prayers. He ensures that he keeps in his ears only those good matters.

 

I also explained that he swings his ears to bring breeze on his ears which are oozing with his musth water, to sway away the bees that come to drink the musth and play with them. When we compare that swaying to the bamboo sieve, we understand that discards unwanted matters and takes in useful matters.

 

Unlike other animals, he does not have closed ears, but has open ears—we should not think that we can therefore make any prayer to him and he will fulfill them. He hears all for a fact. But while hearing, he assesses which one is proper and which one is not, and takes in only the proper ones. To signify this, he is called by a specific name, soorpakarnar.