yAn sathyam enREnO krushNanaip pOlaE
Even in Naachiyar Thirumozhi, Aandal says :
maalaayp piRandha nambiyai
maalE seyyum maNaaLanai
Elaap poyhaL uraippaanai
iNGkE pOthak kaNdeerE?
It is said by our Purvacharyas that the truth spoken by Sri Rama and the falsehoods uttered by Sri Krishna are our refuge. However, in this statement by Thirukkolur Ammal it is shown that Sri Krishna too spoke only the truth. Just as Sri Rama was described as "rAmo vigrahavAn dharma:" so too Krishna can be described as "sanAtana dharma".
In his deathbed, when questioned by King Yudishtra, Pithamaha Bhishma pointed to Sri Krishna as dharma personified. Unlike Bhishma, Krishna made adjustments to the ethical priorities according to the ethics of the emergency situation, i.e., the situational ethics of apaddharma, for reaching the grand goal of well-being for each and everyone. Bhishma is very much aware of the situational ethics himself.
maalaayp piRandha nambiyai
maalE seyyum maNaaLanai
Elaap poyhaL uraippaanai
iNGkE pOthak kaNdeerE?
-Meaning, "The one who is born black in color like a rain cloud, my charming husband who could hypnotize you with his charming looks, the one who says all those unacceptable lies all the time, did you see him coming here?"
Krishna's words uttered for the protection of His devotees, may appear like falsehoods but they are not. When He went as the messenger for the Pandavas, Draupadi asked that He help her take her revenge on the Kauravas. At that time, Krishna stated that "The sky might fall down; the Earth may crumble; the Himalayas may break down into pieces; the oceans may become dry; even if all these improbable things were to come true, my words will never be falsified".
Sanjaya too calls Krishna as truth personified.
When Abimanyu’s wife, Uththarai's son was killed in her womb by Ashvaththama's celestial and the most powerful weapon, the Brahmastra, as a revenge against the Pandavas, Krishna stepped forward and vowed-“If it’s true that I have been a good brahmachari and a speaker of nothing but truth, let this baby be given life.”
And the kid was given life again and was named as Parikshith.
(Some versions say that, Uttarā was terrified by the powerful rays of the weapon and worried about her child, she prayed to her uncle-in-law Krishna for help. Krishna pacified her and protected the child in the womb from the deadly weapon and thus saved his life.)
His words are always true. This is what is being established by Thirukkolur Ammal.
Thirukkolur Ammal is asking – “Did I have the confidence to state that whatever Krishna said is true, after knowing all the lies and lilas done by Krishna?”
