thirup pAvai - part 12 - "neerAda pOthuveer"

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Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

 

This *early* bath in this season is also advised to be a

good practise in keeping one's health in a good condition for the

rest of the year. ie., if one can observe these nOnbu after

taking their bath in the early morning in "mArgazhi", it is said

then that such person will remain healthy for a long time.

 

The word "neerAda Pothuveer" ie., "we shall bathe",

symbolise the "bagwath experience" known as bagwath guna anubavam.

For some it may even be experience of bagwath kAmA. The pond

itself is referred to perumaL in many places in ilakkiyam.

nammAzwAr has expressed the Lord as "Lotus dwelling pond". ie.,

"thAmaRai pooththa thadAgamO". In Sri Kamba Ramayanam, Sri

Seetha, tells Hanuman, that when ever she sees the pond nearby she

is seeing Lord Rama. Same way it was also quoted earlier by Sri

Nammalwar that "HE is like an emarald pond born to DasarathA",

ie., thayarathan peRRa maragatha maNith thadam".

 

In the first line the word "thingaL" can also mean woman

or the pAvai or maiden (jivAtmA in its antharyamin) who has

attained the pakkuvam (mArgazhi). "mathi niRaintha" also means

the (mathi) "knowledge" that is filled with (niRaintha) Sri

Krishna Consciousness (bagwath Vishayam). "nan nAL am" means

(nalla naal aana inRu) such is the auspicious day when the matured

maiden (jivAtmA) is filled with bagwath vishayam or supreme

knowledge (in their siddham), on Sri Krishna.

 

Thus for the line "mArgazhi thingAL, mathi niRaintha

naNNalaam" the overall inner meaning, is such that, the day when a

matured soul [a soul tha has the pakkuvam or have realised their

self] (ie., the purpose of jivAtmA is to serve the

paramapurushan Sri Krishnan eternally) is filled with bagwath

vishayam or bagwath knowledge and is desiring for "Sri KrishnA

anubhavam (bagwath anubavam)", (Sri Krishna sthAyee, ie., "[1]

Santham, [2] thAsyam [3] sAkkiyam [4] vAthsalyam [5] mAthuryam),

such day is an auspicious day.

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri Boomi devith thAyAr samEtha Sri Oppiliappan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

 

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri Boomi devith thAyAr samEtha Sri Oppiliappan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan