Guest guest Posted December 3, 1998 Report Share Posted December 3, 1998 "pEdhai n^enjE! inRaip perumai aRin^dhilaiyO! ..." This is how Sri maNavALa mAmunigaL starts while singing about my dearmost AzhvAr Sri thirumaN^gai mannan's thirunakshathram. Once you start, you can never stop talking about our "mAyOnai vAL valiyAl man^dhiraN^koL maN^gaiyarkOn". What a versatile poet! What an inspiring story!! Maan! nam kaliyan is Great... Lemme just briefly talk about an interesting portion from siRiya thirumadal. (It is in fact very difficult to 'select' a beautiful portion from siRiya thirumadal. ) Some background: SiRiya thirumadal is a special style of poem where our AzhvAr assumes the role of the n^Ayaki madly in love with the perumAL. Here, She sends her heart as a messenger to perumAL. A lot of poets have dealt with this. But nam kaliyan is so very special. "ArAnum onnAdhAr kELAmE sonnakkAl ArAyumElum paNi kEttu AdhanRenilum pOrAdhozhiyAdhE pOn^dhidu n^I enRERkuk kArAr kadal vaNNan pin pOna n^eNJamum vArAdhE ennai maRan^dhadhudhaan..." ArAnum onnAdhAr kELAmE sonnakkAl - While you go and tell him about me you should very carefully look around to see if there is anybody who might influence him badly. You should avoid such enemies. You should whisper in His ears so that nobody listens to it. ArAyumElum kEttu paNi - On seeing you, if He gets very concerned about me and enquires ,"How is she? is she alive? If I leave rightaway would I be able to see her and unite with her? Could I get her?...", listen to all his enquiries and then let him know about my status. Here, She wants Him to enquire about her. She wants Him to feel restless about her. AdhanRenilum paNi - By chance if he doesn't even recognize me and like dhushyanthan if he disowns me, even then you should let him know my status. Don't feel bad and return rightaway. Make sure you explain Him my status. Look how she, very logically analyzes every situation and teaches her heart to react properly. pOrAdhozhiyAdhE - But don't keep waiting there, trying to elaborate my situation. pOn^dhidu n^I - Even if He forgets me, you shouldn't. You must come back whatever He says. She makes this point emphatically in another place too, just few lines before this section. "sIrAr thiruththuzhAy mAlai n^amakku aruLi, thArAn tharumenRu iraNdaththil orRadhanai..." She is very particular that her heart should return back to her whatever be the message. enRERku - I took so much pain to explain in such great detail to my dear heart, that he should not stay there. But alas! It look like I have made a negative influence on my heart. On listening to my repeated stress on not stay back, my heart probably realized that it is a great blissful feeling to stay with Him. And so it did! :-( ( Here enters our parama kAruNIgar Sri peiyavAccAn piLLai with his imaginative style of commentary. He gives an analogy. A rich landlord had a servant to look after his paddy fields. The problem was that he used to hide bags of rice in a corner and would take them home. One day the landlord caught him redhanded and fired him. He hired a new servant and the first thing he told him was," Hey man, you should not hide the rice in a corner like the old servant did. OK? " You know what happened with the new servant. The landlord himself taught him a way to steal. Likewise She herself taught her heart to stay back. ) kArAr kadal vaNNan pin pOna neNJamum vArAdhE ennai maRan^dhadhu dhaan - My heart went behind the dark coloured kaNNan and never came back. What a sorry state! paavam nam kaliyan... thirumaN^gai AzhvAr thiruvadigaLE SaraNam adiyEn -Viji (Vijay Triplicane) -- Vijay Triplicane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 6, 1998 Report Share Posted December 6, 1998 Sri: Dear Vijay Triplicane, Your post on nam kaliyan's SiRiya thirumadal is superb. Please pour in your such anubhavams; ThirumangaiAzhwAr's emotions are more enjoyable with suhc bhAgawathAs's share of anandham. ThirumangaiAzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam Narayana dAsan P.S Dear Sri Mani, An excellent compilation on ThirumagaiAzhwAr in Sri Vaishnava Home page. Nothing could be more dedicatory than this. Thanks, Mani. (Sorry again for "ThiruppANAzhwAr's vandhu vandhu vandhu... (17 times) en kaNNinuLLana okkinRadahE".) > > Vijay Triplicane [sMTP:vtriplic] > Friday, December 04, 1998 5:05 AM > bhakti > siRiya thirumadal... > > "pEdhai n^enjE! inRaip perumai aRin^dhilaiyO! ..." > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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