Thiruvaaimozhi-1.4 "Please Go and tell about me to my Emperumaan"

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Sri:

Dearest Sisters and brothers,

 

Our nammAzhwAr has gone into a "nAyikA" bhaavam and sings as if he is

"parAngusa nAyaki". (The purushotthaman is the only purushan and all other

beings are supposed to be sthrees; So it is yet another way of showing

bhakti and yearning for His grace) here is azhwAr's outpourings from the

lady azhwArr (paraangusa naayaki). The lady sends messengers to the Lord

sriman NarayaNan to rescue her and save her. Here we go:

 

1. am siRaiya mada naaraai…en seyumO.." Oh naaraiyE! (Crane?), the one who

has beautiful feathers! The one who is ready to offer help!, you and your

beautiful beloved join and take pity on my this sorry state of affairs, and

have mercy on me; Please go to emperumaan who has His GarudA in His flag

and be horror to His enemies; If you go to Him as my messenger, and if you

are imprisoned by Him will it trouble you? No. here, it is interpreted

that imprisonment is Lord not talking to the bird properly).

 

2. en seyya thaamaraikkaN..vidhiyinamE.." Oh flock of cuckoos!(kuyilgaLE!)

If you go as my messenger and tell Him,( who is my dear

senthaamaraikkaNNan) what I tell you, will it do any bad to you? (No). You

are my friendly kuyilgaL. Aren't you? Because of my sins accrued over so

many ages (births), I have not been trying to render service to His Lotus

Feet. Is it correct on my part not to start that at least NOW?

 

3. vidhiyinaal…enneerE.. "Because of previous good done by you, you are

with your beloved, Oh annap paravaigaLE! (swans) With His intellect and

Greatness, He begged for the entire Universe as "Vaamana avathaaram"; To

such Lord, "Please go and tell as my messenger that "the foolish Girl" has

been suffering due to her past tremendous sins; and such girl is totally

mad and blind after Him".

 

4. en neermai kaNdu… nalgeerO…"Take pity on me after seeing my pitiable

state with my separation from Him. He does not think "such a girl should

not be separated" and act accordingly; To such a blue hued Lord, what I am

going to send the message as? My present good state (of being away from the

Lord), will not stay with me any more; will you please tell such a truth to

the Lord Oh blue-coloured anRil paRavaigaLE! Or Will you not?"

 

5. nalgith thaan…aRulAyE…"Oh kurugu paravaiyE!, the one which looks for

food in the flower-filled beautiful Garden full of cool ponds! The One, who

shows mercy by Himself and removes the grievances and protects the seven

worlds, is my emperumaan. Such an emperumaan- Can He not shower His mercy

on me, the sinner? If you see that emperumaan tell about my tear filled

eyes and get a word from Him."

 

6. aruLAdha neer…pizhaitthOmE…"Oh vaNdE(beetle)!, the one which has got

circular beautiful lines on you!, when you see the ocean of mercy, my

emperumaan, tell Him that "Since You have not taken mercy on that lady,

Before she dies go in that street at least one day where she lives by

riding on the merciful GarudA". What wrong we did for not getting His

"aruL"?

 

7. enpu izhai…nee alaiyE…"Oh kiLippiLLaiyE! (parrot!) the chill breeze is

troubling me as if the thread is thrust into the bone hole; I am suffering

like that; He thinks only of my sins and apachArams and is not taking pity

on me and is not showing His mercy; Go and ask that thirumaal, my

emperumaan "What wrong did she commit for not enabling her to join Your

Lotus Feet?" What is the harm in asking that? Are you not my pet parrot?

If yes, Go."

 

8. nee alaiyE..naadaayE…"Oh siRiya poovaiyE!( a small bird) You have

changed. I asked you to tell thirumaal as my messenger about my disease of

being separated from Him. But you did not tell even after I requested you.

I have even lost my shining golden colour of my body. Hereafter, you go and

search your food with your beak from someone else. ( I will not feed you)"

 

9. naadaatha…enandhu udalE…"vaadaik kaaRRE! The summer breeze!, the one

which loiters here and there without any hurdle!, Everyday, search and

gather the flowers which are not searched by others; such special Lotus

flowers are to be placed at His Lotus Feet everyday; For that purpose only,

the parts are created. Even then, I have been suffering from being away

from Him; It is my destiny and my ill luck only. Why did this state come to

me? You please go and tell my this state to emperumaan and get a good reply

and make us join with each other. Else, you divide my body into half."

 

10. udal aazhip piRappu ..onRaam aLavE.." Oh foolish mind, the one which

keeps going around the emperumaan only! If you see the Lord, emperumaan,

who becomes and has in His body, all matters which undergo birth, mOksham,

athmaa, etc.; who appears in the Ocean with deep waters and sleeps in that

Ocean; - if you see Him, go and tell my this state and DO NOT LEAVE HIM

till we become UNITED with Him."

 

11. aLavu iyanRa…peru vaLamE.." The limitless emperumaan, the Lord of

Seven worlds- kaNNan- about whom these ten pAsurams have been mercifully

sung out of 1000 pAsurams by NammAzhwAr born in Thirukkurugoor surrounded

by beautiful fertile fields; If one reads these such ten pAsurams, with

these great fertile words, he(or she) can be blessed with the Greatest Big

wealth in paramapadham."

 

NammAzhwAr thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Ram Ram

 

DAsan madhavakkannan