Thiruvaaymozhi 7.8- What a wonder is He! Aaccharyamaanavan avan-Emperumaan!

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SrI:

 

Dearest Sisters and Brothers,

 

This ten describes AzhwAr's losing himself (with awe) to Emperumaan's

wonderful vichithra shakti (power) and vibhUthI of being in the form of

everything in the universe (including the universe) and still be at

Paramapadham. Aaccharyamaana Emperumaan and Aaccharyamaana patthu!

 

1. Oh MaayavanE! (Mysterious Lord!) The One who does great wonderful

acts! The One who appeared as short Vaamanan! MadhusoodhanA! You ARE the

One who directs as the Nirvaahaghan (master) and is the Pancha bhUthAs

of the world, namely Fire, Water, Earth, Space and the Air. You are the

One who comes as Mothers, Fathers, and all other relatives to help the

people. You ARE the One who stays inside the ChEtanAs and achEtanAs and

directs them. Thus, even though You exist in so many forms, YOU STILL

EXIST IN YOUR Divya MangaLa ThirumEni (Divine FORM) TOO at Sri

Vaikuntam. (That is VisishtAdvaitam!) What a WONDER YOU ARE to exist in

so many forms, simultaneously!

 

2. Oh AchuthA! The One who has Honey dripping Beautiful flowers and

Coolest Fragrant ThuLasi on Your Head! You ARE the One who shows as the

Sun and the Moon! and as the bright stars as well! You are also exist as

the Darkness! You ARE the One the rains! You are the fame as well as

blame! You ARE the One who is Yaman too! What a WONDER YOU ARE

 

3. Oh Parthasaarathy! The One who drove the Chariot in the Battlefield

of KurukshEthram! You, The possessor of the Most Beautiful, Most

Strongest ChakrAyudham, ARE the Chief for all YughAs and time

immemorial! Since the Beginning, You ARE the Director as anthryaami and

also the creator of differences and similarities as well in anything and

everything that You create! (like DevAs, Human are all jIvans; but are

of different categories still! the jIvAtmA in you and I are same, but

are still different from each other! they still form part of the whole

Sriman Narayanan as His SarIram!) YOU ARE SUCH A MARVEL! Such a wonder

You are who is so mysterious and maayavan! who is flabbergasting

everyone else with Your wonders!

 

4. BhagawaanE! The One who has the eyes, like that of just blossomed

Honey filled Lovely red Lotus flower! You are directing both Permanent

and non permanent beings/objects; (You are the perishable achit and Non

perishable chit). You ARE lying down on AdhisEshan at ThiruppaaRkadal,

and are thinking on various acts/measures and strategies to protect and

save the world! (one such is this e-mail group, Sisters and Brothers!)

(Since there are millions of varieties of chEtanAs, He has to act

varieties of strategies, for each one!) What a Great Lord You ARE! What

all methods You adopt for saving us! Please show mercy on me and show me

to comprehend Your methods and means of such wonderful acts! (Since You

are Omniscient, only You can understand that!)

 

5. (This pAsuram is the BEST One!) BhagawaanE! MaayavanE! The One who

adorns the Head with Most Fragrant Thirutthuzhaay Garland! You

simultaneously co exist as both the SarIram (Body) and the AthmA who

directs that! You exist as both Births and Deaths as well! You ARE the

One who removed my ajjnAnam (ignorance) and vibharItha jnAnam (wrong

knowledge) and changed me into Your eternal servant! Even after that,

YOU ARE STILL NOT REMOVING MY BONDAGE WITH THIS SARIRAM (Physical body);

What is this ACT of Yours? What is this mystery of Yours to do such a

strategy on me, Your servant? Why My Dear Father? I apprehend that You

are PLANNING to desert me in this samsaara saagaram! Please have mercy

on me! (Excellent! Isn't it?)

 

6. Without any partiality, any bias, You protect and enslave anyone who

reaches You and surrenders to You. Oh VaamanA! (When You appeared as

Vaamanan, one can see that You are capable of such stupefying acts that

enchant them!) You should bless me with clear knowledge about You and

remove my ajjnAnam! You are the One who is both forgetfulness as well as

the Clear mind! You are both fire as well as the Cool water! You ARE THE

ONE who is THE WONDER ITSELF as well as the Objects of such wonders!

You, who shows Himself as the Success, ARE the One who is the PuNya

paapa karmAs and their consequences too. You ARE The One to grant jnAnam

to Your devotees that gives tremendous sorrows/confusion to Your

devotees about such wonderful, mysterious acts of Yours. Thus, Your

existence simply stupefies us! (may be out of context? This reminds me

of recent Tamil Poet KaNNa daasan, (a Krishna bhakthA) who wrote :

"piRappaal varuvadhu yaadhenak kEttEn; piRandhu paar ena iRaivan

PaNitthaan; iRappaal varuvadhu yaadhenak kEttEn; iRandhu paar ena

iRaivan PaNitthaan ; anubhavippadhu naan thaanE enil aaNdavanE nee yEn?

enak kEttEn. ANdavan saRRu aruginil vandhu anubhavam enbhadhE naan thaan

enRaan"..... Meaning: I asked the Lord "What is that which comes of

birth?" the Lord ordered "Be born and you will see." I asked the Lord

"What is that which comes of death?" the Lord ordered "Be dead and you

will see." I asked "then, why are You there, Lord! if everything is to

be experienced by us only;" The LORD CAME NEARER TO ME AND SAID "THE

EXPERIENCE ITSELF IS ME!". )

 

7. KaNNA! You are the creator of all sorrows! (that is great!- He is the

one who starts off everything to pull us into these samsaaric ills! with

prakritti maNdalam, karmAs, etc.. etc..! He is upaayam and upEyam for

our redemption!) "thuyaranghaL seyyum KaNNA!" BhagawaanE! The Dense Long

Black curly haired Lord! You are the One who instilled the thinking in

me, which gives me sorrows! (It is not the thinking of "I am Your

eternal servant"; but of the egoistic thinking of "I am the free,

independent person, who is everything and Brahman Himself" is what gives

sorrows!). You are that False pride in oneself and the illusory pleasure

and false happiness that one derives by being so! You are the Desire

that one has for longing for earthly, materialistic pleasures. You are

the stationary and moving objects. (sthaavaram and janghamam). You are

the One who directs being stationary and being mobile, for sthaavaram

and janghamam. You are so much of an actor and Director. I can NOT

comprehend Your actions, that give us such various samsaaric sorrows.

ARE ALL THESE ACTS OF YOURS MADE FOR YOUR SELFISH MOTIVES? Please tell

me all.

 

8. KaNNA! The One who enslaves me! What all leelAs are You Playing

there! No one knows. Even a Great jnAnI can not fully understand You.

You are such Grandest, Wonderful Lord! You are the Cause of all things

and are the One who is staying in the Objects of all three worlds! (or

You exist as the athmA of all three types of beings (bhatthar, mukthar

and nithyar). You are there inside and outside as well. Like that the

objects, the athmAs- You exist everywhere both inside and outside.

(anthar bahitschathath sarva vyApya NarayaNasthithah:). For all of us-

This is an Accharyam! (A Great wonder!) How is it possible for You to be

like this,- totally completely incomprehensible?

 

9. My KaNNA! How are You staying There and with what nature and what

sort? The hands- legs- all parts of the body are all You only. The

desirous longing of sense organs, namely, taste, seeing, touch, smell

and sound are also spanned by You. When we try to know You, it keeps on

continuing; there is no ending. It is unbounded, limitless, spanning of

You in everything. (Here AzhwAr says: Emperumaan has KarmEndhriyAs,

jnAnEndriyAs and five sense organs as His vibhUtIs).

 

10. As the very old apaurushEya vEdas proclaim, You are the formless

chit (jIvathmA) and the physical achit (achEthanAs). Oh PiraanE! The One

who has the Most Fragrant Thuzhaay Garland on Your Chest! My achuthA!

(The One who shows Himself at Paramapadham!) We can never attempt to

measure Your Glories and wonders in words; TO WHATEVER EXTENT ONE

DESCRIBES YOUR FORM, YOU ACCEPT THAT MOST GRACIOUSLY AS YOUR FORM. You

ARE such a Sowlabhyan! Sowseelyan!

 

11. He is like this or that- The One who can NOT be so categorically

known or understood- about such Emperumaan- Sri SadagOpar has sung in

the most fitting (to Him and His Glories) 1000 Tamil Pasurams. Those who

read these ten out of 1000, will BE BLESSED WITH A GREAT ANUBHAVAM OF

EMPERUMAAN SRIMAN NARAYANAN.

 

NammAzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

 

 

Ram Ram

 

With Best Regards

 

NarayaNa dAsan madhavakkannan

 

 

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