Thiruvaaimozhi 3.9- Aranganaip paadum vaayaal oru kuranganaip paada maattEn!

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SRI:

 

Dearest Sisters and Brothers,

 

AzhwAr, in this decad of Thiruvaaimozhi 3.9, advises us, the materialist

and the "earthly" persons NOT TO SING IN PRAISE OF ANY OTHER PERSON

except Emperumaan, Sriman Narayanan. He calls all samsaaris and tries to

correct them by telling "When the Athman is His servant and is His

Property, please do not let yourself talk and praise other non-permanent

people. He also feels extremely happy about himself and his fortunate

birth for being blessed with the capacity to sing in praise of the Lord

Sriman Narayanan amongst other persons in this world (like us) who have

totally forgotten the Emperumaan and have been singing and praising the

Non-permanent people and the transitory material things. (Read them as

it is most appropriately applicable to each one of us!)

 

1. sonnaal virOdham idhu.. aaghilum solluvan kENminO? ... AzhWar

says.." I know you will not relish and you will consider me as your

enemy for saying these things, Oh Guys! All of you have been running

after material pursuits; This may not be palatable to you. But, having

known that you are going to ultimately lose it and I can not bear to see

that, I am saying this: that is : Don’t sing about anyone else except

Emperumaan Sriman Narayanan. I will offer my poems to only Him, who is

the unbounded limitless Bliss. With my tongue, I will NOT sing anyone

else. My Emperumaan, who is like the Big Elephant at TirumalA is My dear

Father; To Him only, I will offer my Sweet poems and no one else";

 

2. When My Father, Emperumaan is so gracefully showing Himself, will I

leave Him? Is there any use in singing some Tom, Dick and Mary who

consider themselves as the Most wealthiest person in the world? (No. )

Hence, Sing in praise of the Most Truthful Lord of Titukkurungudi, My

Father. He shows Himself so gorgeously at Tirukkurungudi. Please do not

sing anyone else.

 

3. Oh Poets! Why should we sing poems on others when there is the Lord

of dEvAs, My Emperumaan? He is the Only One who is capable of offering

us the means and the end to reach Him and the Parama Padha anubhavam for

all times. Leaving Such a Glorious paramAthmA, the Supreme Lord, is

there any value, use in singing the lowest, small, tiny, non-permanent,

evanescent human beings? No use absolutely.

 

4. Oh Poets, How many days are going to survive with the benefits you

get by singing in praise of the evanescent, non-permanent human beings?

Do you think really for the value for your excellent poetic skills and

knowledge, what you get is adequate? (azhwAr is desperately trying to

convince us!) If you sing in praise of the Chief of NitysUris, He will

make you perfectly fit for servitude eternally; He will offer you all

the qualities of His; then, He will also you get rid of these cruel

disease of births and deaths and remove the samsaaric ills. He will

protect you from the present lowly, useless life of singing under the

feet of a stupid, human being. (Swami Desikan’s VairAghya Panchakam also

reflects the same subject)

 

5. Please do not sing those merciless, human beings; Oh Poets! When you

sing in praise of them, then only will the rot, mud, shits and worms

about them will come to surface in you mind. You will see all their

faults and ill qualities; Hence, sing in praise of MaNivaNNan. He is the

Only One, capable of being praised and has got no faults; no blemishes;

full of Most Auspicious, Superb, Divine qualities; HE CAN GIVE AND GRANT

ALL THAT YOU CAN DESIRE AND ASK FOR; (I REPEAT ALL THAT YOU ASK OR

DESIRE FOR). He is the Faultless VaLLal. Please come to sing poems in

praise of Him.

 

6. Oh Poets! If you guys say that and claim that you all are singing

for you survival and for filling your stomachs; then sorry, you are

mistaken. It is rather much better to work, slog physically, do physical

work (like a porter or an engineer? like us) than to sing in praise like

a sycophant of some low, human being. Go ahead and learn some craft work

and earn and stop singing in praise of human beings. (AzhwAr is totally

frustrated at the sight of sycophants). There is no rich person in the

world; He is the Richest one in the world; (and the rich one belongs to

us-naasthi pithraarjitham kinchith na mayaa kinchithaarjitham ! hasthi

mE hasthi sailaagrE vasthu paithaamaham dhanam !!- Swami Desikan’s

VairAghya Panchakam); Hence sing in praise of your ishta deivam (any

demi God), they will ultimately reach My Thirumaal Sriman Narayanan.

They will go to the Sriya: pathih, the Most illustrious Shining Sriman

Narayanan. (as also mentioned to ArjunA by KrishNa in Bhagavadh GitA).

 

7. can you think of singing in praise of someone whose value is even

lower than the straw in the street ( I remember Sri Mukkur Lakshmi

NrsimhAchAriar’s RamayaNa upanyaasam that I heard way back in 70’s

during my school days at Madras- where he had mentioned about

SitAppiraatti throwing a strand of dharbham and talks to that and

compares rAvaNa even lower than that in front of rAvaNa at asOka vanam -

"thruNa manthara radham kruthvaa?- I am not sure of these words in

Sanskrit- sorry). Please do not tell blatant lies in your praising them

calling them as "the one whose hands are like the Most merciful clouds;

whose shoulders are like mountains;" - like that I can Not talk to those

stupids (aRpa padhar). I will only sing in praise of Emperumaan’s most

merciful glances and benefactions. I AM NOT CAPABLE OF SINGING IN PRAISE

OF OTHERS except MY EMPERUMAAN who has got unparalleled 1000 names;

(azhWar is happy that he at least does not fall suit and sing in praise

of others).

 

8. The evanescent ones- human beings, non-permanent ones- about these

beings, I will not sing with my mouth. Emperumaan has the Most

unbounded, limitless, Most ausipcious kalyANa guNAs. He is the master

and the beloved of Nappinnai, the one who has the most beautiful

shoulders like the bamboo stick. I will spend all my rest of the days

singing in praise of that Lord. I will keep on singing His praise and

Glories until my body falls down to the earth. I desire only for

entering into His Lotus Feet. (there used to be a tamil film song (in

the fifties): appanaip paadum vaayaal oru subbhanai paaduvEnO?;

aranganaip paadum vaayaal oru kuranganaip paada maattEn- singer? Film?-

I don’t know)

 

9. I am not the one for singing human beings and I have not come here

for that. I will sing only Emperumaan. He is only one who, by His own

grace, has become the subject of my pAsurams, who has the Most Strongest

weapon the Divine chakrA. He is the one who granted me the Most

limitless Bliss, the pErAnandham in this world by making me sing about

Him and is also capable of granting me to see and enjoy the

mOkshAnubhavam. I will sing only Him, who grants me the Eternal

Servitude to Him at Sri Vaikuntam. I am not for singing about others and

I am NOT AUTHORISED TO DO THAT BECAUSE I BELONG TO MY EMPERUMAAN. I am

His Property. (what an ultimate statement of all that we talk about

swaya, bhara, pala samarppaNam!)

 

10. Athman, the jeevan has been suffering since time immemorial,

staying in these physical bodies and undergoing sorrows and pleasures;

Emperumaan has been the only redemption for us to get out of these

births; I will not sing in praise of others except My Emperumaan; Such a

quality (of singing in praise of others) will never befit me at any

time;

 

11. About KaNNan, the Chief and Swami of NitysUris, Thirukkurugoor

SadgOpan has sung 1000 pAsuams; Out of those 1000, those who can read

these ten, WILL NOT BE BORN AGAIN.

 

AzhwAr thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

 

Ram Ram

 

With Best Regards

 

NarayaNa dAsan madhavakkannan

 

 

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