nAcciyAr tirumozhi IX - Sindurac cempoDi 4

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SrI ANDAL samEta SrI rangamannAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

nAcciyAr tirumozhi IX - Sindurac cempoDi

pASuram 9.4 (ninth tirumozhi - pAsuram 4 paimpozhil vAzh

kulilgAL!)

 

emperumAnin niRam ungaLukku edaRkku?

 

paimpozhil vAzh kulilgAL! mayilgAL! oN karuviLaigAL!

vambak kaLanganigAL! vaNNap pUvai naRumalargAL!

aimperum pAdagargAL! aNi mAlirum SOlai ninRa

emperumAnuDaiya niRam ungaLukku en SeivadE?

 

A. Translation from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

 

godai then looks at the cuckoos living in the grove, the

peacocks, the beautiful kAkkaNam flowers, the fresh kaLAp

pazhangaL (fruits) and the kAyAm flowers having fragrant

smell and exquisitely pleasant hue. She is reminded of the

dark, blue-hued kaNNan and so, she brands them the five

great sinners. "Did you take this hue, which reminds me of

emperumAN, just to slight me and torment me?"

 

B. Additional thoughts (from SrI PVP ):

 

paimpozhil vAzh kuyilgAL: "You live in the grove that

I planted and you are making me suffer; also, you do not

realize that if I die because of you, there is no one to

take care of this grove for you. You are hurting yourself

in this process".

 

vambak kaLanganigAL: birds like cuckoos and peacocks,

which are permanent residents of the grove, are not the

only ones troubling godai; the kaLAp pazhangaL (fruits)

appearing only once in a while are also causing her grief.

 

aimperum pAtagargAL: brahmahatti (dosham resulting from

killing a brahmin), surA pAnam (drinking alcoholic drinks),

svarNastEyam (hoarding of gold), coveting others' wives, and

gambling are considered the five great sins (pa'nca mahA

pAtaka-s). She identifies five objects here, and even

though they did not commit the five great sins, the fact

that all five of them together committed the sin of killing

her by reminding her of emperumAn, she calls them the

aim perum pAtaka-s, or the five great pAtaka-s.

 

SrI PVP also uses the play of words beautifully in his

vyAkhyAnam - bAdhakan and pAtakan. bAdhakan in samskRt

means one who torments. A pAtaka in samskRt means a sinner.

While bhagavAn is going all out in His act as a bAdhakan

of ANDAL, these pa'nca mahApAtaka-s (five great sinners)

are joining forces with Him to also be ANDAL's bAdhaka-s

as well.

 

aNi mAlirum ... en SeyvadE: ANDAL pleads to these five

beautiful things: "Oh peacock! You depend on me for

your survival. Oh flowers! You are all like me in all

ways - you are delicate like me, beautiful like me, etc.

We are all His sesha-s. We have everything in common

between us. Thus it is your duty to join forces with

me and protect me; instead you are joining forces with

my tormentor and torturing me. We are all His servants

and He is our Master. As someone's servant, we all

should be united with each other and defend ourselves;

instead, your behavior is like some laborers trying to

be on the side of their masters instead of siding

their own kind.

 

SrI PVP also presents an alternate way of looking at

this pASuram:

 

paim pozhil vAzh kuyilgAL etc.: "emperumAn is parama

cEtanan. The cuckoos and peacocks are moving creatures

endowed with brains (alpa cetana-s). The karuviLai,

kaLangani and kAyAm flower are acetanas without a developed

intellect. It looks like everything in this world,

movable and immovable, has joined hands with Him to

torment me. How can I, who am alone on the other side

of these tormentors, survive this? There is one person

who is separated from me, but there are several who

have united together to torment me. Surely there is no

way I can live through this".

 

niRam u'ngaLukku en SeivadE: If you claim that you

took His hue because He gave it to you, you could have

said "we do not want this color of yours". But it

looks like you took His hue only to torment me.

 

 

sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.

 

adiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari

 

 

 

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