thirup pAvai - part 21 - Er Arntha kaNNi

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Er Arntha iLam kaNNi

 

Dear bAgawathAs, mArgazhi, Day 11

 

In tamil the word "Er" means virintha or the one that is wide

and "Arntha" means open and gracious. The reference to Sri

yAsodhai's eyes are made here prior to addressing Lord Sri Krishna

as her son. The two eyes are referred to as the two bhAnams or

"ambugaL" that are protecting Lord Sri Krishna. It is customary in

tamil literature to refer the eyes of woman as arrows that will

pierece the Men. Perhaps, that is the weapon Lord gave them. When

Sri NandagOpan will keep vigil and wield a spear all the time to

protect the Lord, it is said that Sri yasOdhai also do her part in

protecting this son of them. There is no need to present a Mothers

love and affection in protecting a son. Sri yAsOdhai was always

keeping her eyes wide and open and focussed on Lord Sri Krishna.

 

In Srivaikundam, it is said that nitya suris will never

remove their eyes from the Lord. ie., as similar to saying "sathA

pasyanthi" they always have this darshanam of the Lord. Due to

this they never experience aging. ie., they never get older or

look older and always look like an young lad. This is a parama

rahasyam contained in thid and this can only be realised by those

who are blessed to see Lord Sri krishnA's eyes in their vision.

Our thirup pAn AzhwAr ends his pasuram "En kaNNan, ..En amuthinaik kaNda

kaNgAL maRRa oNRinaik kANAthE". ie., My eyes that are currently

seeing our Lord Sri KrishnA's eyes will never ever see anything

else. As he was delivering this and being carried on the thiruth thOL of

Sri lOka sAranga muni, AzhwAr suddenly vanished

into Sri RanganAtha ! There are more such references from AzhWar

pAsurams as to why our Lord Sri Krishna's eyes are the ultimate

vision one would prefer. When Sri yasOdhai is blessed with such a

vision every minite of the day why would she stray her eyes away

from the Lord.

 

Due to seeing Lord constantly and without interupption her eyes

became so beautiful, she herself was looking very young. In fact

the tamil word "kaN" itself is derived from the fact that the eyes

are HIS eyes and HE is kaNNan. ie in tamil azhagiya iru thiruk

kaNgaLai udayavan. In sanskrit they call him khAnna. But the tamil

word for eyes are itself born due to the fact the most beautiful

eyes belong to Sri KaNNan. ie., HE made an ilakkANam or lakshanam

for a part of the human body that performs one of the sense of the

human species. HIS eyes were the most beustiful eyes such that the

part of the part in human body earned the name after HIM and is

called as "kAN". Some tamil experts may say that birth of tamil is prior

to Sri Krishna vaibavam. But Sri KrishnA is present before any word

is spoken and is appear in every chathur yugam. (sambavAmi yugE, yugE -

SBG). One has to take the position that the tamil word "Kan" itself

has come from Sri KrishnA's eyes itself.

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri Boomi dEvi thAyAr samEtha Sri Oppiliappan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

(more to come on kaN)

 

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