Mumookshapadi -Thirumantra Prakaranam Part-V

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Respected Members of Bakthi List,

 

In the previous post, it was said that Thirumantram gives five meanings .

they are

 

a. Nature of Atma

b. Nature of Bhagavan

c. The Way (Upayam) to attain Him.

d. The Fruit or the Phalan of such attainment.

e. the impediments which blocks us to attain Him.

 

In this current post, we will proceed from there.

 

24. Poorvacharyas considered that they were not born till such time they

understood the meanings of thirumantram. Once, understood, they always

concentrated on this Thirumantram alone and none else.

(Swami quotes here a beautiful pasuram of thirumazhisaipiran, "Anru naan

Piranthilen, Pirantha pin, maranthelen)

 

25. Inspite of many benefits(Material benefits, Kaivalyam, Moksham etc..)

this thirumantram could give,

Poorvacharyas always preferred Bhagavan alone as the phalan and none else.

 

26. The meaning of thirumantam could be understood in two ways.

 

a. OM NAMA: -- NARAYANAYA(spilt in to two words)

 

As per sruthi, OM is one single letter

NAMA: - Two lettered,

NARAYANA- Five lettered word , and hence total Ashtaksharam. eight words.

 

by this way, one can understand that Atma's nature is servitude and para

thantirum(not trying to do any good to itself, living only as per His

sankalpam)

 

b. OM - NAMA-NARAYANA(split in to three words)

 

OM- Describes the servitude of the Jeevan

NAMA- Describes that no other way except Him

NARAYANA- describes to be with Him and enjoy Him is the only the Phalan for

such jeevan.

 

27. the phalan of Thirumantram is already described in premeyasaram and

Archiradri.

 

(Sri Pillai Lokachariar refers to his other works, premeyasaram and

Archiradri, and says that how the jeevan enjoys the phaln is described

there)

 

Recently, Sri.Venkatesh Elayavalli has written quick and beautiful

commentries on Archiradri.where he had described

how a jeevan goes through this path to attain Bhagvan.

 

the spiltting Thriumantam is one of the contentious issues between

Vadagalai and Thennacharya Sampradayams.

We will try to attempt at this topic in the posts to come.

 

With this information, we will close this post . we will discuss detailed

meanings of thirumantam in the next post.

 

Dasan

 

K.M.Narayanan

 

 

 

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