nAcciyAr tirumozhi VII - karuppUram nARumO 8

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SrI:

SrI ANDAL samEta SrI rangamannAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

nAcciyAr tirumozhi VII - karuppUram nARumO

pASuram 7.8 (seventh tirumozhi - pAsuram 8 )

 

A. Translation from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

 

"The food that you consume is the vAi amudam of the One who measured

the three worlds with His Feet; the place where you sleep is the

hand of emperumAn whose trirumeni has the hue resembling the Ocean;

All the womenfolk are justifiably raising a hue and cry because of

your actions which are causing great concern to them, because they

are deprived of those pleasures."

 

uNbadu Sollil ulagaLandAn vAi amudam

kaN paDai koLLil kaDal vaNNan kait talattE

peN paDaiyAr un mEl perum pUSal SaRRuginRAr

paNbu ala SeiginRai pA~ncajanniyamE!

 

B. Additional thoughts (from SrI PVP ):

 

uNbadu Sollil ... kait talattE: All His devotees have one thing

in common that they share - the worship of His tiruvaDi

and surrendering at His Feet; not so for you - you get to

feast on His vAi amudam, and nap on His tirukkai. EmperumAn feeds you

His vAi amudam, you get to keep always looking at His tirumEni that

drives away all fatigue, and you nap in His tirukkai.

 

(Based on SrI Kr*shNasvAmi aiye~ngAr's anubhavam of SrI PVP's

vyAkhyAnam) - Rich people in the world keep eating and sleeping

all the time. You also do the same in a special way - you

eat emperumAn's vAi amudam and sleep in His hand which is softer

than the lotus flower. You are also like the sukavAsi-s who eat

the pramabhOgya prasAdams given in the temples, wear the garlands

they receive as prasAdams and just lie down on the temple

prakArams.

 

peN paDaiyAr un mEl perum pUSal SaRRuginRAr: AyppADi girls and

womenfolk in SrImathurai are complaining about you (for taking

away the Selvam that is to be enjoyed by them all).

 

paNbu ala SeyginRai: What you are doing is not characteristic

or typical of what parama bhAgavata-s engaging in bhagavat-vishayam

would do. They will never go and enjoy bhagavAn all by themselves

and all for themselves. Those who are dear and close to Him would

not enjoy Him selfishly and "all by themselves", but make sure

all the other bhAgavata-s also share the same pleasure with them.

 

pA~ncajanniyamE: No wonder your selfish actions are consistent

with your background and birth - you were born in an aSuran's

stomach; your action is in accordance with your birth (meaning

that is the reason why you are not sharing Him with us all). This

is not the behavior of a parama-bhAgavata, as shown by ANDAL's

father and by ANDAL - ANDAL magnanimously calls everyone to enjoy

Him with her ("pOduvIr pOduminO" - triuppAvai 1; ellArum

pOndArO - tiruppAvai 15), and her father shows the same path

and example ("vAzhATpaTTu ninRIr uLLIrEl" - tiruppallANDu 3). Thus

she has the greatness of enjoying Him with all other bhAgavata-s;

she is complaining now that pA~cajanyan does not have even a trace

of that magnanimity.

 

C. Additional thoughts from SrI PBA: ANDAL is saying -

"What you (pA~ncajanyam) are doing is not just. It is patently

unjust - paNbu ala Your behavior is like that of one who

eats the temple food, drinks the temple water from the

pushkariNi, and sleeps at the entrance to the

temple. Thus you have bhagavad-sambandham uninterruptedly. All

the girls in AyarpADi and mathurai are intensely furious with this

unjust behavior of yours, when they depend for their survival

on precisely the same things that you have selfishly usurped

for yourself - His vAi amudam and His kara sparSam. Those who

are truly involved in bhagavad-anubhavam do not enjoy Him

by themselves - ekah svAdu na bhu~njIta - in_kani tani arundAn,

but always gather all the others who have similar desire of

enjoying Him."

 

sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.

 

adiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari