nAcciyAr tirumozhi XII– maRRu irundIrgaTku - general introduction

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nAcciyAr tirumozhi XII–

maRRu irundIrgaTku

 

General Introduction to nAcciyAr tirumozhi XII – maRRu

irundIrgaTku

 

A. From SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

 

godai continues to live based on two hopes: 1. His

word that He will not forsake His devotee under any

circumstance; and 2. Even if He slips from His word

because He is svantantran and can do whatever He

likes, He has another trait in addition to His

svAtantryam; He is subservient to His aDiyArgaL, and

since she is periAzhvAr’s daughter, she can depend on

this association; He cannot forsake periAzhvAr and

hence his daughter. So she is bound to reach Him.

But time flies and no sign of bhagavAn; godai’s tApam

increases by leaps and bounds, and she wants to reach

Him immediately and wants to go to His temple and ask

Him why He is torturing her like this. Since she does

not have energy left in her body anymore to go

anywhere by herself, she pleads with her folks to

please take her to His places like mathura, AyarpADi,

gOkulam, dvArakai etc., find where He is right now,

and entrust her at His Feet. This is the topic of

this tirumozhi – maRRu irundIrgaTku.

 

B. Additional thoughts from SrI PVP:

 

perumAL has svAtantRyam, but He also is bound by

ASrita pAratantRyam. When it comes to periAzhvAr, His

svAtantRyam will lose out to His subservience to His

devotee, periAzhvAr. Since ANDAL has taken refuge in

periAzhvAr, she is bound to attain Him. With this

conclusion, she has taken refuge in periAzhvAr. She

chose periAzhvAr’s sambandham instead of directly

depending on Him because she was not sure about how He

will exercise His svAtantRyam, left to Himself. This

is how she rested her hopes on her association with

periAzhvAr as her definite savior in the just

concluded tirumozhi.

 

In the current tirumozhi, she is going back to

approaching Him directly. Why? Because she is

thinking aloud about His svAtantRyam again, and is

concluding that it is because of His unquestionable

svAtantRyam that He has no choice except to protect

His devotees. Everything in the Universe is His

property, He is the sole Owner of everything, and if

He does not protect His belonging, He is the loser and

no one else; so He has no alternative except to

protect it; because of His svAtantRyam, He can

protect anything He wants any time He wants, and there

is no one who can stop Him. So His svAtantRyam is the

precise reason that He has no choice except to be the

sole Protector of His belongings.

 

Normally, an owner doesn’t do things to loose his

belongings. Thus, His svAtantRyam becomes an upAyam

for us to reach Him and not to loose Him. When we

wish to do something, He makes sure that there is no

obstacle in our path and this is made possible only

because He is a svAtantRyan. Thus, feeling happy on

the one side about her being periyAzhvAr’s daughter,

gOdai tries to hold onto emperumAn also in the

eleventh (tAM ugakkum) pAsuram.

 

In spite of her reaching to Him again, He did not come

and solve her pangs of separation from Him. She could

wait for Him till He comes; that is her svarUpam. But,

her wish is to get to Him at the earliest possible

moment. Now, she starts doing things that are contrary

to her own svarUpam to attempt to reach Him without

waiting for Him to come to her. She wants to go to

Him and see His face herself; but, she doesn’t have

the strength to walk and go to Him. She starts

thinking that her folks, feeling sorry about her sad

plight, will have to act like ISvaran or periyAzhvAr

and help her achieve her goal. Since she cannot walk

and He will not come to her, she thinks it is the duty

of her folks to take her to Him. She now pleads with

them: please take me to mathurA, AyppADi and other

places where my nAthan is.

 

C. Additional thoughts from SrI UV:

 

Listening to gOdai’s firm belief in emperumAn’s words,

her folks tell her that she should rather try to wait

patiently like periya pirATTi waited in aSOka vanam.

They are not able to explain godai’s condition to the

rest of the townfolk, and are totally frustrated and

exhausted. So they are advising godai to hide all her

thoughts and act normal. She obviously is unable to

do that, and unwilling to do it also. She

contemplated on going to tiruara’ngam and try to

relieve her folks of their predicament because of her,

but she was worried that the same story will repeat

itself if she goes to tiruara’ngam; if emperumAn does

not immediately accept her there, then the elders

will be subjected to the same predicament in a

different place. So she decides that it is best if she

goes directly to kaNNan wherever He is, and considers

this to be the best solution for all. So in the

current tirumozhi, she is pleading with her people to

take her to wherever kaNNan is, and leave her there.

 

D. Additional thoughts from SrI PBA:

 

godai tells her people: “You are not in a position to

understand my condition; I am experiencing the

intense desire to reach Him, and all the words you are

telling me are in vain. I am not in a position to

respond to your words you tell me in the spirit of

telling me what is good for me. Just take me to the

vicinity of the places where kaNNan will be, and drop

me somewhere in that region. This is the best you can

do for me”.

 

Abbreviations:

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PVP= SrI periyavAccAn piLLai

PBA= SrI prativAdi bhayankaram aNNangarAcAriyAr

UV = SrI uttamUr vIrarAghavAcAriyAr

 

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