In his Mummani Kovai, Vedanta Desika brings out all the main qualities of the Lord, which make Him the Supreme One. The qualities of Satyatva, Amalatva, Anantatva, Anandatva and Jnanatva are all spoken of by him. Satyatva refers to the quality of Eternity. Amalatva indicates His blemishlessness. Anantatva indicates He is Omnipresent and is not limited by anything. Anandatva means He is the embodiment of bliss. Jnanatva indicates His Omniscience. All these qualities indicate His Supremacy (Paratva), but there is one quality that stands out as the most important of all His qualities, and that is the quality of Sauseelya — His friendliness and simplicity.
He is the One who rules over everything like a monarch, and yet, unlike kings, He does not like to punish, elaborated M.K. Srinivasan in a discourse.
Kings who forgive are rare. But the Lord is not like any other king. During His avataras, he made friends with the poor. In the Rama avatara, He concealed His Supremacy from everyone. Even His own father Dasaratha could not guess that his son was the Supreme One.
In the Krishna avatara, He briefly allowed Vasudeva and Devaki a glimpse of His Supremacy for, He was born with four hands and with His weapons. But He soon made His weapons and two of His hands disappear from sight. Thus He conceals His Supremacy from us, in order that we should approach Him without fear.
We, who were not witness to His avataras, have the boon of worshipping Him in archa form in temples. He has assumed this easily accessible idol form for our sake. So simple is He in this form that even the simplicity which He showed during the Rama and Krishna avataras seems like a forbidding quality.
