amalanAthipirAn - 4

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srI:

srImathE rAmAnujAya nama:

 

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amalanAthipirAn nAngAm pAsuram

 

sathuramAmathiL soozhilangaikkiRaivan thalaipaththu

uthiravOtti OrvenkaNaiyuyththavanOtha vaNNan

mathuramAvaNdupAda mAmayilAdarangaththammAn

thiruvayiR

Ruthara panthamennuLLaththuL ninRulAkinRathE

 

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Meaning:

He who is residing in Srirangam, which has bees

singing sweetly and grand peacocks dancing, who

sent one fierce arrow to drop the ten heads of

the lord of Lanka which is surrounded on all four

sides by lofty walls, whose color is that of the

cool ocean, His ornament that He wears around His

waist ("utharapantham") has now entered my inner

heart and settled there.

 

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Essence:

AzhvAr now enjoys the thiruvutharapantham that is

associated with the thirunAbeekamalam.

 

In the third song, AzhvAr said his mind had been

pulled by His navel. His navel just has the

beauty and importance of being the home of Brahma.

His stomach however holds everything in this

universe and the ornament that surrounds it, is now

pulling AzhvAr's mind to itself.

 

In the second and third song, the origin of Brahma,

Rudra and others was explained. In the fourth song,

the rejection of Ravana who had obtained boons from

Brahma and Rudra is used to show their lower powers

and also to show that His stomach holds them and

everything else. AzhvAr is showing his amazement

that the ornament that is on the outside (of His

stomach) is now residing inside his mind.

 

He stayed with pirAtti (Sita) and iLaya perumAL

(Lakshmana) at janasthAnam with the permission of

the rishis dwelling there. And when the asurAs

came against Him being there, He rejected them.

Similarly, He said He will enter our minds with

our permission and reject the impure that dwells

there. The mind is like the fortress with the ego

being its lofty walls. Just as He destroyed the

asurAs at janasthAnam and their chief Ravana at

Lanka, so will He destroy these walls.

 

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sathuramAmathiL - Holding everything within; has

the ocean as its moat, and lofty walls built over

forests and mountains.

Made of lofty walls that even the guardians of the

eight directions cannot look over.

Standing as an axample for all durgams

(Durgaththrayam: jaladurgam, giridurgam and

vanadurgam).

 

mAmathiL - The walls that stood even against Him.

The people who took these walls as protection and

fought Him were destroyed. Vibeeshana who rejected

these walls and went to Him and took His shoulders

as protection lives forever.

 

ilangai - The place where people who hurt othere

took refuge. If a person is good, then all good

things would themselves come to his side. Here, the

opposite is true.

 

ilangaikkiRaivan - Like a lion lying in its den.

Just as srIman nArAyaNA rules srI vaikuNtam, so

does Ravana rule Lanka. A place that impressed even

Hanuman, who had rejected all things in this world.

 

thalaipaththuthiravOtti - Ravana had kept our father

and mother separated. He had committed such poor

deeds both against Him and His devotees using the

boons he had obtained. He removed such a Ravana's

heads like a wind removes ripe fruit from a tree.

Even after hearing His glories from Hanuman and

Vibeeshana, Ravana fought against Him, lost his army,

lost his first direct battle and yet without shame

showed his face to his womenfolk, lost his brother

and son and still came back to fight Him. perumAL

decided that the only recourse left was to remove

such a person's head and not wanting to have his

heads keep growing back when removing them separately,

 

took all ten out with one arrow.

 

OrvenkaNaiyuyththavan - As perumAL ket removing

Ravana's heads they kept growing back and the

dEvAs were afraid if this fight was ever going to

end. perumAL then finally removed his head by

using the one arrow (brahmAstharam) He had kept

for that purpose, by shooting it at his heart

which was the root of all his heads.

 

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When AzhvAr said "uthiravOtti", that was about

defeating Ravana and chasing him away from the

battlefield; when he said "OrvenkaNaiyuyththavan"

that was about destroying him with one asthra.

 

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OthavaNNan - thiruppANAzhvAr compares Him to the

ocean because He rejected Ravana, but did not

destroy Lanka and handed it over to Vibeeshana.

Describing His power and beauty (veerasree) after

He defeated Ravana and gave Lanka to Vibeeshana,

while Brahma and other dEvAs stood worshipping Him

with flowers and stOtrAs.

He is like an ocean and upon seeing Him anyone will

lose their sins and lowly passions.

This also refers to periya perumAL.

With this AhvAr shows that those who stand against

Him are destroyed by arrows while those who are

His devotees are destroyed by His beauty.

 

mathuramAvaNdupAdamAmayilAda - Gave place to song

and dance being without anything impure.

If some sing, then some must dance.

As vaikuNtanAthan became periya perumAL, so did

the nithyasooris become bees and peacocks.

After He defeated Ravana, Brahma and other dEvAs

sang His praise while the apsarAs danced.

 

mAmayil - If one peacock spreads its feathers,

then that itself is an ornament for the garden.

 

arangaththammAn - He rested in arangam for us

after leaving paramapatham. AzhvAr is praising

His glory in doing that.

 

thiruvayiRRutharapantham - The ornamaent that

surrounds His stomach which gave birth to everything.

 

ennuLLaththuLninRulAkinRathE - Pulling AzhvAr's mind

from His dress, and His navel, this ornament now

stands inside his heart like a proud elephant.

 

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thiruppANAzhvAr thiruvadigaLE saraNam

srI periyavAccAn piLLai, srI azhagiya maNavALap

perumAL nAyanAr, srI vEdAntha dEsikar thiruvadigaLE

saraNam

 

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adiyEn madhurakavi dhAsan

thirumalai cunnapAkkam anandANpiLLai venkatEsan

 

 

 

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