thirup pAvai - part 14 - A marriage invitation

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part 14 - "pothuminO nErizhaiyeer" - a marriage invitation

 

Dear bAgawathAs, mArgazhi day 9, 5:15 AM

 

ie., Without Lord Sri Krishna's desire nothing happens. He

chooses those who must surrender in this birth. HE HIMself gives

them the "pakkuvam" (mArgazhi thingaL). HE sets the stage HIMself

(mathi niRaintha nan nAL). HE comes to our mind and invite us to

do this nOnbu or "little effort" known as prapatti or self

surrender. jIvAtma has nothing in its control (only a surrendred

soul realises this). Everything is done by HIM and this is

symbolised here by Sri ANDAL, (HIS patthini) by going herself to each

jiVAtmA's (agam) house and awaken them (AWAKEN THE SOUL) and bring them

to the main stream to perform the "nOnbu" (prapatti).

 

The word "nEridaiyAR", here can mean the chOsen one's.

ie., She is inviting those who are the chOsen ones with some

specific charecteristic and mindset. Such "chosen ones" are also

viewed as rich in their realisation of the nature of their jiVatma

swaroopam. ie the jivAtma swaroopam is such that it is owned by

the Eswaran eternally and its role is to serve the Lord and His

Consort eternally.

 

The word "nEr" means "straight" but here it is the short form of

"nErththiyAna" ie.,, "vilai uyarntha" ie., "athika mathippuLLa"

ie., very extraordinary and precious priceless (jewels) and

the word "izhai" is addressed for their "anikalan" known as

jewellery. Once the jivAtmA realises such "Athma sambandam" (the

konwledge of its swa swaroopam), it is supposed to be possessing

the most precious treasure or jewelery with it. ie., Such

realisation is in itself the priceless and most precious thing a

jivAtmA can attain after several birth/death cycle. Such

realisation relieves them from this karmic cycle and and reunite

them with the Lord. Hence "nEr iZhiyeer" means those who are given

the knowledge that they must do prapatti surrender to the Lord. It

can be said that they are the "chosen ones" to surrender in this

birth.

 

This pAsuram has several different concepts (*).

 

The main few of them are

 

[1] pakkuvam of jivatma (knowledge on swaroopam) and

(mArgazhi thingaL)

[2] Emperuman's parApOkAram ie., the *FOREWORD* that HE HIMself

initiates all these into the minds of chEthanan referred

by the word "pOthuminO". It is an invitation to all the

jivAtmAs to surrender and such invitation is presented

by none other than pirAtti HERself.

[3] AchArya thathuvam, (nandagOpan kumaran)

[4] manthra upadEsam, and the (yasOdai ilam singam)

[5] prAbhAvam (upAyam) and (nArayananE namakkE paRai tharuvAN)

[6] prabyam (upEyam) and (nArayananE namakkE paRai tharuvAN)

 

The sequence itself clearly states the ladder that the jivAtma

will climb in its ascendance to path for seeking eternal union

with Lord.

 

(gOthai) pirAtti not only invites but also demonstrates

HERself as to how one may surrender observing this nOnbu known

as prapatti. It is customary also to invite "suRRam" or friends

and realtives to one's nOnbu (here the nOnbu is itself the

marriage or eternal union through "saranAgathi"). Speaking of

invitation, it is to be noted that, this pAsuram itself is also

resembling a traditional marriage invitation.

 

In Tamil the follwing "format" is somewhat a replica of a marriage

invitation

 

ie.,"nigazhum mArgazhith thingaL powrnami nan nAL, seer izhai Ayar

sirmiyarrukkum erArntha iLam kanni maRRum koorvEl kodunthizhilan

nantha gOpan thiruk kumArAN kANNan (Sri Krishnan) engiRa

narAyananukkum avan thiruvaruLaLE nichchaiyikkappattu, nArAyanAna

avnAlEyE saranAgathi ennum thiruk kalyANa nONbu (saranagathi or

surrender or prapatti termed here as paRai tharuvaan) nammOdu

nadaththap padukiRathu. pArRor anaivarum pugazhnthuEl or empAvAi".

 

ie., We welcome you the folks of this earth, to "JOIN" the

(marriage) nOnbu (paRai) of (the most beautiful) Aychchiyars of

AyarpAdi and the son (koor vEl kulaththOn) of Sri Nanda gopan and

Smt yasodha, Sri Krishnan alias Sri nArAyanan On the coming

mArgazhi month, powrnami day.

 

saraNagathi performed as "baranyAsam" is also considered

as an eternal wedlock with the Lord and jivAtma. Certain aspects

of baranyAsam symbolise this. These are only to be told by the

AchAryAL at the time of baranyAsam and hence it is refrained here

from discussing such.

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

 

(*) Though Several refernces can be written for this, only

some brief and core concepts are presented to help understand the

fundamental and follow the flow of the article.

 

 

 

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