thirup pAvai - part 1 - munnurai - Kannan kAttiya vazhi

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Dear bAgwathALs,

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

 

We are planning to present the understanding for the

thaniyans and *some* of the major aspects of thirup pAvai (of the

30 verses), in the coming years. This will be an enormus effort

to understand thiruppAvai by adiyEn. Please tune in to look for

the postings. We request learned bAgwathALs to step in and add

to it whenever they feel necessary. We donot know if we can simply

complete this task within this month of mArgazhi. This is

perumAL and godhA pirAtti's work and we simply pray to them and

hope that they will bless us with atleast somewhat basic minimum

understanding of these verses and provide meaningful discussions.

 

An incident from achArya vaibavam comes to mind. It is

very important to note from the kalAshEbhams of achAryALs that

azhwAr's pAsurams are not easy to do vyAkyAnams without anubavam.

When Sri Ramanujar was approached by the sishyALs to do vyAkyAnam

for thiru vaay mozhi, it is believed that he said, "I may not want

to do it by myself. (Later on the first vyAkyAnam was delivered by

his direct disciple thirukurukoor piLLAn). Because there is a

potential scope that these nools (literatures) are to be learnt

by everyone by their own anubavam and that it is very apt that there

should be so many vyAkyAnams that must come out for these

from each generation of achAryALs.

 

Sri RmAnujA continued,

"The understanding of this must continue to grow. (meaning each

time a soul reads it and feels it (anubavam) they may come out

with an unique bagwath anubavam and such will become vyAkyAnam).

For brahma sudhram there is a definite vyAkyAnam and hence my

bAshyam is delivered for that. If I write a vyAkyAnam like that

for the thirumozhis, the future generation of SrivaishnvaLs may

fix their mind in it and say that this is the only valid vyAkyAnam.

instead, I desire that each one have their own anubavam." In fact

the second of the five last (commandments) rules of Sri Ramanujar

was understood by some schools like these. ie., azwar aruLich

cheyalai pravarpiththaL.

 

When bagwath Sri Ramanujar would say like that, we donot

even think that 4000 divya prabhandam is just a one layer seyyuL

with literal meanings from the words as they merely appear. We

donot even dare presenting one simple meaning and cocluding it as

the some meaning or of that sort. i.e., We recognize the

importance attached to it by Sri Ramanujar, when handling this

tamil vedam. We recognize the existance of so many (atleast 3

layers of) meanings and would attempt to see these verses from the

kalAkshEbams we have heard from different schools. We will simply

attempt to present an infant ramblings of our understanding of

this sAgaram known as 4000 divya prabhandham. We would attempt to

present them with these in our minds such that this ghOsti can

enjoy it.

 

It is believed that Thirup pAvai is the only prabhandam of

4000 divya prabhandham that is written in most of the major indian

languages and all Srivaishnavas around the globe do anusanthAnam

of these 30 verses irrespective of their language. The pAsurams

are written in many languages so that one need not even know tamil

and yet they can simply read it in their language and still spell

the words of the pAsuram in Tamil. ie., as similar to chanting a

mantra. All over the world (6 crores) (approximately 60 million)

of tamil speaking people living in 63 countries as well do

anusanthAnam of these verses during this month. Thus it is worth

a try to attempt to understand this one more time.

 

 

It is important to discuss the introduction prior to the

verses themselves for any kavi or kAvyam. We attempt to present

the various vyAkyAnams on the essence of thirup pAvai as to what

it contains and some related aspects of our achArya vaibavam prior

to discussing the verses from thirup pAvai. This is like an

executive summary but these are little longer than a professional one.

Please forgive us of any apachArams that may have occurred while

attempting to discuss these. We intend to post only the details of

our understanding from Sri PV pillai and Sri Srinivasa iyengAr and Sri

Azhgiya manavALAp perumAL nAyAnAr, Sri Azhagiya singar (44 th) and

Sri Utthamoor Swami. Above all, we will be

presenting our anubavam ie, "Kannan kAttiya vazhi" that we are

blessed with from our Lord Sri Krishna and follow the Sri bagwath

niyamanam as the theme and present the comprehensive understanding

of this Sri bagwath niyamanan where ever supported from any of these

vyAkyAnam and other kAlakshEbhams. We donot intend to get

into any arguments and would merely present the details. So please

forgive us if we donot answer your questions in the open net.

 

adiyEn had done about 20 parts last year for the first few

lines of the first pAsuram. adiyEn will continue from where it was

left last year. Please lok into the archives for the first 20 parts.

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri Boomi dEvi thAyAr samEtha Sri Oppiliappan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri RanganAthar thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

 

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