Guest guest Posted August 26, 1998 Report Share Posted August 26, 1998 We have been having an interesting as well as healthy discussion on the Most Favoured Dhivya dhEsam. Along these lines I thought of sharing an interesting thirumAlai pAsuram. kudathisai mudiyai vaiththuk kuNathisai paatham neetti, vadathisai pinpu kaattith then_thisai yilankai nOkki, kadaln^iRak kadavuL enthai aravaNaith thuyilumaa kaNdu, udalenakku urukum aalO enseykENn ulakath theerE! (2) (19) In this pAsuram AzhvAr addresses the people(samsArIs) of this world. He basically seeks advice from them. Here is his problem. He says, "On seeing my beautiful Lord who has his head westward, his holy feet eastward, his back northward and facing lanka in the south, sleeping on the serpent bed, I can't control myself. I am moved by His immense beauty and am rendered senseless. Dear samsAris, please tell me how to regain my senses." Superficially this looks like any other pAsuram talking about the beauty of our dear Lord. But the vyAkyAna chakravarthi, parama kAruNigar Sri periyavAccAn piLLai adds an interesting twist here. Why does the AzhvAr ask the help of samsAris? He could have asked the fellow AzhvArs or the Lord Himself. He himself gives an explanation. The other AzhvArs themselves have lost control on seeing Arangan. So there is no point asking them. It is like a broken ship seeking help from an already sinking ship. ( "Ottai OdaththOdE ozhugal OdamAm iththanaiyiRE!" - Odam - little ship, ozhugal - leaking.) Why not the Lord himself? Then it amounts to explicitly expressing his inability to the perumAL. Also perumAL would feel proud of Himself that He has defeated the AzhvAr. (This is to be taken in a lighter vein...). So AzhvAr doesn't want to accept defeat at the hands of even perumAL Himself. So he asks the samsAris. Unlike the other AzhvArs, they are even more stronger and stable after worshipping perumAL. They don't seem to be moved as much as the AzhvArs. So he asks them to share the secret on how to keep themselves stable. He says,"You seem to have taken some medicine to keep your muscles tight. Why don't you give me a handful so that I can also try it out. (uN^gaL iRukku vAdha parihAraththilE enakkum oru chiRAN^gai idavalligOLE? iRukku vAdham - a type of paralysis where one cannot move his muscles, chiRAN^gai - a handful) No other perumAL has made an AzhvAr go thro this much of difficulty after just seeing Him. It drove the AzhvAr to such an extent that he seeks advice from the lowly samsAris. Such is the beauty of our dear araN^gan. Without any doubt Srirangam is the Most favoured! thirumAlai aRiyAdhAr thirumAlai aRiyAdhArE (One who doesn't know thirumAlai, the dhivya prabhandham, doesn't know thirumAl, the Lord.) adiyEn -Viji (Vijay Triplicane) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 1998 Report Share Posted August 27, 1998 Dear Triplicane, An excellent post. A spirited votary of Lord of Bhooloka Vaikuntam !. He can now go sleep on his Adisesha with full confidence that he has able advocates in you, Sri Sampath Rengarajan and others to take Vakalat for him and defend his case! Keep it up. Dasoham Anbil Ramaswamy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 1998 Report Share Posted August 27, 1998 Sri Sampath Rengi, in his personal mail to me described an interesting exporession of araN^gan. Thought I'll share that along with my reply with the group. (Sorry this is in tamil. My limited translation skill would spoil the mood and sentiment, I think ... ) -Viji Sampath Rengarajan wrote: > dear viji, > it is wonderful piece. no doubt ! no other perumAL > make (TP) AzhwAr go through so much trouble. Having made him > go through such, HE alsoe proivides HIM the bliss. No other perumAL > has the similing face and comes to the entrance of the temple to receive HIS > bhakthAS as well. Nice reading it. As you said, He is the one who comes to the entrance to receive His bhakthAs. Sri vELukkudi svAmi used to say,"oru bhakthan madraslEndhu vandha udanE araN^gan romba poorichchu pOyiduvAn. "enna sowkkiyamA, prayANam ellAm eppadi irundhadhu. Rockfort'la vandhELA? Madras'la thaNNi kashtam ellAm eppadi. pEsAma iN^gEyE kAvEri karaila settle Ayida koodAdhO..." enRu visArippAn. appERpatta soulabhyam.!! adiyEn -Viji > Regards > SR -- Vijay Triplicane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 1998 Report Share Posted August 27, 1998 Sri: Deare Viji, That was an excellent writing on ThondaradippodiAzhwAr's kudathisai.... Lord Srirangan's compassion is beyond description inwords. Like Sri vElukkudi Swami narrated, Sri Mukkur Laksmi Narasimhachariar also had mentioned that it is Sri Rangan, who shows the "abhaya hastham", which actually means "Enough, Enough". (pORum pORum) how many times can you prostrate? I will definitely save you from all this. Go back and do not worry." Parama kAruNikO Bhagawaan..... Nam perumAL... The One who has His eyes appear to have extended everywhere (so large they are so beautiful) that they keep showering merciful glances on us ceaselessly. Ranga Ranga With Best Regards NarayaNa dAsan madhavakkannan ____ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 1998 Report Share Posted August 28, 1998 >MrAnbil wrote, > He can(Sri Ranganathan) now go sleep on his Adisesha with full confidence that he has able advocates... Dear Friends, Though Mr.Anbil's above statement is only a casual and purely in nature of humour,i would like to share with you an incident of Sri Ranganatha sleeping. As such For Sri Ranganatha there is no sleep. refer azhwar 1.uranguvan pol yogu seiginna peruman 2.ari kadal naduvul ari thuyil amarthanai. Hence he is always in ari thuyil(yoga nithra)he knows what is happening around. he keeps on performing his duty, still he is sleeping posture. I heard form elders, once Sri Chandrasekara Swami(paramacharya) of kanchi mutt who attained mokhsam 3years back , once casually remarked that maya engulfs everybody. also Sri Ranganathan. and that is why he is sleeping out of the tamasic effect of maya. For this casual remark, Sri Annagarachar swamy of kanchi, condemed this statrement left right and centre and asked whenthey refer God as nirmala:, Nirguna: where is the question maya engulfing and Tamasic impact. Finally Sri Paramacharya had to give explanation. MY posting is purely to share a old experience and not find fault with Sri.Anbil's posting. I fully understand casual intention of his statement. dasan K.M.Narayanan. ____ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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