Thiruvaaymozhi 7.1-Lord! Sense organs are pulling me into cheap lowly pleasures!

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SrI:

 

Dearest Sisters and Brothers,

 

(Thanks to each one of you, BhagavatOttamaaLs, for your encouragement on

"AghalagillEn.... It is His (NammAzhwAr's) blessing that makes it more

enjoyable to all of you). We are thereby immensely benefitted by Sri V.

Sadagopan's rich deep analysis, full of substance)

 

AzhwAr in the Sixth hundred surrendered to Lotus Feet of Emperumaan

SarvEshwaran, who is a Sarvarakshsakan. Here in this ten, AzhwAr cries

as to why Emperumaan, in spite of blessing him with the knowledge about

Him, still pushes AzhwAr into the deep cruel mouths of FIVE SENSES. It

is yet another excellent set of ten, wherein AzhwAr laments about the

sorrows and pains from Sensual pleasures and asks Emperumaan to save him

from the clamps of FIVE SENSES.

 

Each pAsuram, in this ten consists of first two lines about the

sufferings from the sense organs, while the third and fourth lines refer

to Emperumaan. What a poet! (PiLLai thirunaRaiyoor Araiyar says: These

ten pAsurams are like the painful cries of the child that has been

caught in the mouth of the ferocious tiger.- What an anubhavam!)

 

1. Oh MaayaavanE (The Mysterious Lord!) The One who has the Big Moola

Prakritti itself as Your Body! The One who is praised even by Nitya

sUris! The One who has all three worlds in Your possession! My master!

My dear! My Father! My Sweet Nectar! Why do You have to still make me

suffer from these five sense organs that are contained in me. Why do You

make me lose myself to these sense organs? The One who is supposed to

rule me and take me - You Yourself ARE PUSHING ME INTO THESE SUFFERINGS.

(You Too, Lord!)

 

2. BhagawaanE! You are sweet in all respects. You are so tasty like the

sugar cane! You are the Nectar to conquer Death! (Births and Deaths!) Oh

Lord of Dark Cloud Colour! The One who protects and saves this world,

surrounded by Oceans! (with Your Most Strongest, Most shining

ChakrAudham! You, who can be comprehended and understood through VedAs,

is NOT at all visible to me, the Greatest sinner , lowly self. Can You

let me be ruled by these most cruel five sense organs, that are housed

in my body? How can You let me serve these senses day and night? Can You

leave me, who is Your ETERNAL servant, to serve these sense organs? Can

I be trapped like this and let me NOT reach Your Lotus Feet? You SHOLUD

SIMPLY BRUSH ASIDE EFFORTLESSLY the ruling of my senses and show me Your

Beautiful face. On the Contrary, YOU ARE IGNORING ME AND ABANDONING ME

THROUGH MY SENSE ORGANS. (Is it correct, Lord?)

 

3. My Dearest Lord! You are the Cause and Creator for all worlds! You

are the One who protected by eating and then bringing the universe out

during the Cosmic Cycle. You are THE One who measure the entire Universe

with Your Feet, as Trivikraman. You are the One who brought back the

world during Your Varaaha avataar. You are so great and so capable

beyond one's comprehension. You are so Beautiful and have shining Crown

on Your Head. Like You killed Madhu kaitapar (asurAs), Please destroy my

sense organs and occupy me (the One born to serve You only) to serve You

for ever. These five senses are praising me and enticing me to seve

them, make me suffer and DO NOT let me reach Your Feet. WHAT IS THE USE

FOR YOU BY STOPPING ME REACH THE ABODE OF YOUR LOTUS FEET, BY KEEPING

THOSE CRUEL SENSE ORGANS IN ME? Can You afford to see the DESTRUCTION of

SWAROOPAM (my nature of being an eternal servant of Yours)? (BUT IF YOU

CONSIDER THAT BY LETTING THESE FIVE SENSES OCCUPY ME AND TRUBLE ME IS

USEFUL TO YOU IN SOME RESPECTS, THEN I AM DELGHTED TO UNDERGO THE SAME.)

 

4. OH Lord! You are the medicine for my great and enormous sins that

this mahApaapi has committed. You are the one who (long ago) having

devoured the seven worlds, was seen (by the Sage MarkandEya and found to

be )lying on the leaf of a great banyan tree as (an exquisite) Child,

incomparable. You have kept those five senses in me and without my

knowledge, let me be completely conquered by these senses. By pushing me

in those senses, and showing me to them, You have made Yourself,

completely unseen by my eyes. (Even if You are with me always, I will

NOT bother to be conquered by these senses. But You have pushed me from

behind and You disappeared.)

 

5. EmperumaanE, The One who destroyed the entire asurA kingdom with Your

Most strongest ChakrAyudham! Oh Chief of Nitya suris! WHY DID YOU LET ME

BE POSSESSED BY THESE SENSE ORGANS? If there is any other punishment

give that. (Please do not push me into this deep well). Why did YOU

SIMPLY ABNDON me by pushing me into these sufferings from five sense

organs? THERE IS NO ONE (A BETTER medicine than You) who can alleviate

this suffering except You. IS THERE ANY ONE? TELL ME. ("aar marundhu ini

aaghuvaar?") Who else if the Rakshakan?

 

6. OH Grandest Lord! ParavaasudEvA! DO YOU KNOW HOW TERRIBLE ARE THE

CRUEL ACTIONS OF FIVE SENSE ORGANS? Right from GarudA, down to the

insects and unicellular organisms, EVERYONE is influenced and conquered

by these cruel, terrible sense organs. NO ONE CAN ESCAPE. (How true!-

AzhwAr, dearest sisters and brothers, was NOT at all suffering from

these sense organs, right from his birth. He writes, only ON OUR BEHALF.

They are so naturally applicable to us.). When such is the case, even

for the DevAs, and NityasUris, how can it leave me, the one who is born

in this material, earthly world? EVEN IF YOU, YOU TOO, feed me to these

five sense organs, who else can help me, my Lord, hereafter? Oh Lord of

Divine "naadham" music! (can You not hear the sound of my cries?) Oh

Lord, who lives in the poems! (can You NOT hear my words of suffering?)

Oh Lord, who lives in Bhakti! (can You not hear my lamenting and longing

to be with You?) Is there anything that You CAN NOT do? ARE YOT THE

SUPREME LORD? You are the One who is the only interesting matter for my

inner eyes and the external (physical) eyes, as well. Hence, You should

show Yourself and be the subject matter for my eyes. You are the ONE WHO

IS IN MY HEART AND IN MY WORDS. Please come and tell me a word for me to

hear Your words through my ears and get rid of my sufferings. (Please

let me come back to "real life!"- " In Hindi, yEh jeenaah bhI koi

jeenaah hai!").

 

7. When DevAs and asurAs (long ago) churned the Ocean, they all got

scared and attempted to run away. It was YOU, who came to the rescue and

helped to stop the manthara mountain from wobbling (by taking

KUrmAvataar) and helped dEvAs and asurAs churn the Ocean with VaasukI.

You are the One who is the DRINKING NECTAR for me, the mahaapaapi and

the terrible Greatest sinner. ("this is the Prapatti monitor- naichiyaam

and KaarpaNyam.") Oh en AaraaamudhE- Insatiable nectar for me! These

strongest, most cruel five sense organs are telling something, but doing

contradictory things on me and are terribly influencing me and pulling

me into deep horrors of sensual pleasures and shaking my mind's

determination and Vairagyam. HOW WILL I EVER CONQUER THEIR LOWEST CHEAP

ACTIONS AND ENTICEMENT? IF YOU DO NOT SHOW YOUR FACE, IS THERE ANY OTHER

WAY FOR ME TO WIN AND CONQUER THEM, MY DEAR LORD?

 

8. Oh Lord! , The One who loves me like my mother! ("Thirumangai mannan

says: "peRRa thaayinum aayina cheyyum"- saying "Narayana" does more than

the mother!") For me alone, did You take KrishNaavataar? (nammAzhwAr

always falls for Krishnavataar! It is also told that AzhwArs (except for

Andal and madhurakavi), are Bhagawaan's abhinava dasaavataaram and

Nammaazhwaar is comparable to Krishnavataaram). You are offering

Yourself ceaselessly to the fullest enjoyment of NityasUris! can You not

remove these shackles and my sufferings by showering Your grace to me

similarly (as You do to NityasUris!)? When the sense organs join with

the mind and act, they look and give an ILLUSION THAT IT IS ALL

PLEASURES. WHEN IT DEVELOPS AND INCREASES, IT SHOWS ITS COLOUR AND IS

MORE VENOMOUS THAN POISON. Even individually, it is capable of

conquering one completely and win over them. (by its action namely,

seeing, touching, hearing, smelling and tasting). Right from lowly

people, upto BrahmA, with no discrimination, the sense organs attack

mercilessly and dumb their intellects and push them into samsaaric ills.

(Wow! what a description by AzhwAr!) Such a tie in with Prakritti, only

You should remove and cut asunder these connections completely. YOU

SHOULD BLESS ME TO THINK OF AND PRAISE YOUR CHINNAMS (ornaments) AND

DIVINELY BEAUTIFUL FACE AND PAY OBEISANCE TO YOU WITH BOTH HANDS.

(means: mind, Speech and actions shall escape the clasps of sense

organs!)

 

9. One's sins that are committed, not only finishes him; but also his

entire kulam (lineage) and pushes one into the deep valley of most cruel

sensual pleasures. Hence, please show mercy one me to get rid of these

sense organs' influences COMPLETELY, and alleviate my sufferings. You

are the One who created the Earth, the sky, all objects and beings. and

NOT JUST THAT. You came as Krishnan to protect us and showed Your Most

shining, illustrious Beautiful Divya MangaLa ThirumEni (Divine Body).

YOU SHOULD ONLY gracefully SAVE ME FROM NOT FALLING INTO " siRRinbham"

(sensual pleasures).

 

10. My AthmA, should naturally be able to enjoy Your LOTUS FEET and melt

at that sight overwhelmingly and blissfully, and I should call You most

desirously and lovingly " Oh My dearest Lord, who showed me Your Most

Beautiful Divya MangaLa ThirumEni!". And on the contrary, You are not by

my side and WHY DID YOU GIVE ME THIS LOWLY PHYSICAL, MATERIALISTIC, BODY

THAT INVLOVES ITSELF ALWAYS IN " siRRinbham" (transitory momentary

pleasures)? When it is meant for performing kamikaryam to You, it is

NOW being used as carrier of these sense organs that are stacking and

piling burdens and burdens on me. These sense organs, not only add

burden to me, but also are pushing and kicking me into the cruel, deep

samsarric valleys. YOU ARE THE POSSESSOR OF THIS ATHMA AND THE BODY. HOW

CAN YOU LET IT SLIP OUT OF YOU, MY LORD? Oh amudhamE (nectar!) Oh Most

Beautiful Lord! Please save me from all these sense organs. (NampiLLai

interprets interestingly regarding the stacking of burdens- The Prince,

on the way, stopped for a while, removed his crown and his royal attire

and found himself being mistaken for an ordinary man by others; others

load him with their belongings, when they take rest as a "sumaithaanghi"

(to hold their burdens for sometime). The burdens keep increasing and

are stacked on his head. The Prince himself forgets his self and his

actual existence. This is smilar to that. WE ARE PRINCES AND SONS (and

DAUGHTERS) of the Divine Parents).

 

11. For Brahma, who with his rajas guNa, creates the world; for Sivan,

who with his thamasa guNa, destroys the worlds; He, Sri VishNu stands as

antharyaami in them and acts. He is the One who protects and saves the

worlds. He is the One who has His Yogha nithrA on the Bed of AdhisEshan

on the Milk Ocean. I, SADAGOPAR, AM THE HUMBLE LOWLY SERVANT OF SERVANT

OF SERVANT OF SERVANT OF EMPERUMAAN, WHO HAS THE RED LOTUS IN HIS NAVEL,

have sung 1000 pasurams on Emperumaan. Out of those 1000, readers of

these ten will GET THEIR KARMIC DISEASES REMOVED AND ALLEVIATED

AUTOMATICALLY AT ALLTIMES.

 

NammAzwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

 

 

 

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