ThiruvAimozhi 7th decad vyAkhyAnam release

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SrimathE NArAyaNAya Namaha

 

Yesterday, 8th February 1999, marked one of the important days in the

lives of SrivaishNavites. The occasion is the release of the

vyAkhyAnam for the 7th decad of ThiruvAimozhi. It was release on Thai

mAsam VisAkha Nakshathiram day.

 

It was a grand function in ThiruvallikkENi Sri PArthasArathy swAmi

temple in the evening. Unfortunately, adiyEn could make it only late

due to my official committments. The book was released by Sri

vELukkuDi KrishNan swAmi in memory of his profound scholar father Sri

vELukkuDi VaradhAchAriAr swAmi.

 

The occasion was marked by the presence of eminent scholars like

Dr. Sri. M.A.VenkatakrishNan swAmi, Sri. Srivilliputtur KaNNan swAmi,

Sri K.B.DEvarAjan swAmi, Sri V.V.RAmAnujam swAmi, Sri

StalasayathuraivAr swAmi and 3 other persons whom adiyEn don't know

by name and missed their introductions as adiyEn was late for the

function. However one amongst them was the author of the "Sri

VaishNava Sri" publications.

 

All of the above swAmi's delivered a short note on the importance of

buying such books and enriching our spiritual knowledge. A small

summary of whatever adiyEn could hear inspite of late attendance is

as below.

 

However, adiyEn missed the addressing of Sri vELukkuDi swAmi.

 

Sri VVR swAmi explained the difficulties one had faced in publishing

such beautiful works by our AzhwArs and AchAryAs during the earlier

days when much lesser infrastructure was available. He also recalled

that during the older days, one has to prepare the notes themselves

as sung beautifully by Thirumazhisai AzhwAr in NAnmugan

ThiruvandhAdhi pAsuram No. 63, " .....therithezhudhi vAsithum kEttum

vaNangi vazhipaTTum pUsitthum pOkkinEn pOdhu". But nowadays we don't

have to do that hardwork to have such vyAkhyAnams as they are being

published by someone and readily available for sale. So we should buy

and encourage such publishers for bringing out more and more books on

our SrivaishNavism.

 

Sri K.B DEvarAjan swAmi, delivered a very short addressed in which he

also said in the same lines as to we should encourage such

publishers. He added further saying that even though we may not

understand the vyAkhyAnams now, but atleast at a point of time in our

life one may develop interest and at that time we should not be

stranded for want of the book. As aptly pointed out by

BoothathAzhwAr in his IranDAm thiruvandhAdhi, pAsuram No. 15

"...vanathiDarai yEriyAm vaNNam iyaRRum idhuvallAl mAriyAr peygiRppAr

maRRu". The actual meaning of this pAsuram is different. It is with

reference to the saraNAgati context. As very clearly pointed out by

Sri PiLLai LOkAchAryAr in Sri Vachana BhooshaNam, mOksham is granted

by Sriman NArAyaNan, only as per his own wish. No other acts of

whatever nature is an upAyam for attaining mOksham. Example, is the

saraNAgati of Sri BharathAzhwan. Every thing was as per the books

when he made saraNAgati, pirATTi was there to do the purushakAram

etc., but his saraNAgati went futile. This clearly shows that even

though we perform saraNAgati, it is only when He wishes, He will

grant us the mOksham. But this raises a question as to why we should

perform saraNAgati, if that could also go futile. The answer is the

pAsuram referred above. We build lakes for storing rain water. Does

it rain just because we have built the lakes. No. If it is not why

should we build the lakes. Because without the lakes the rain water

will go waste without a storing point. Sriman NArAyaNan's kaDAksham

is like the rain. It will pour only when He wishes. So when He is

granting us the mOksha, we should be qualified to receive it, which

is why we should perform saraNAgati. Likewise, atleast after 20 years

or 30 years, when we develop interest in these vyAkhyAnams we should

not be stranded for want of the book so we should buy these books now

as and when available eventhough we may not have interest now.

 

While Sri VenkatakrishNan swAmi was delivering his address adiyEn had

to leave the place to attend my Sandhai, 2nd day (One should not miss

the 2nd class for a lesson). However adiyEn will try to gather the

happenings of the remaining 20 minutes and try to present it

tommorrow.

 

The book was released by Sri vELukkuDi KrishNan swAmi and was

received by Sri Raja Bhattar of PArthasArathy swAmi temple. This was

released in commemoration of Sri vELukkuDi VaradhAchAriAr swAmi.

 

adiyEn RAmAnuja dAsan

 

Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh

Regards

 

T.V.Venkatesh

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