MM prabandhams

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Fm: Velukkudi Krishnan

3rd Nov 99.

 

Dear Bhagavatotamas,

While on the subject of MM YV and URM, I would like to share some

interesting facts.

 

1. Madhurakavi alwar's KNC thambu is praised as "tirumandirathin maddimamam

padampol" - which is nama: . Namah connotes bhagavata seshatvam by inner

meaning of the word. To explain the meaning of the middle word madhurakavi

alwar also took birth in the middle tirunakshatiram - chittirai. Start

counting from aswini , chittirai would be the 14th nakshatram which is the

middle of the total 27. Middle word and middle nakshatram is the similarity.

This is like Srimannarayana the cause of this prapancam being denoted by "a"

kaaram the cause for all sabdAs. Also, the 25th letter "ma" denoting the

25th tatvam i.e. jivatma in Omkaram. These are all alike.

 

2. YV - MM chose to use 20 slokas. Why ? 20 is an important number in our

sampradaya. Tirumandiram comprises of 3 words, dvayam comprises of 6 words

and caramasloka comprises of 11 words and the total of rahasyatravam is 20.

These 20 slokas of MM in YV explain the meaning of rahasyatraya. However

this rahasyatraya is different. Where the name narayana comes in original

rahasyatraya, we will have to substitute it with ramanuja.

 

3. After all, the tirunamam ramanuja has 4 aksharams. "catura

caturaksharee". These 4 letter word is intelligent. While we say so, it

implies that there is another 4 letter word which is dull. Guess which is

that - "narayana".

 

4. YV and aarti prabandham were sung to explain the two lines of dvayam. In

dvayam, first line explains saranagati (upAyam)and the second pleading for

service(prApyam - kainkaryam). YV is to perform saranagati since it starts

as "ramanujam yatipatim pranamami moordhna". Aarti is for service since is

starts with "vAzhi yatirasan vAzhi yatirasan ... vAzhiena vAzhttuvar.." -

this is pallandu padudal which is the essence of kainkaryam.

 

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