Selected excerpts from MahA VidvAn Sri U.Ve. PerukkAraNai Swamy's ThiruppAvai Monograph: Part XXIV-Seventeenth day : AmparamE TaNNIrE Dinam

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My apologies if this pAsuram ("amparamE thaNNIrE sORE") has

been discussed in detail in the past; also for the delay in

talking about this pAsuram till today, but adiyEn is catching

up to the bhakti posts.

 

One of the interesting things to note in this pAsuram is

the fact that Sri Nandagopar is awakened as "ezhunthirAy",

Sri Krishna is awakened as "ezhunthirAy" and Sri Baladeva

is awakened as "uRangEl", but Yasoda pirAtti is awakened

as "aRivuRAy".

 

As Sri SatakOpan Swami has mentioned "NandagOpan and

YasOdhA are extrapolated to the ranks of the Lord and His

PirAtti here". Our Acharyas have interpreted this aRivuRAy

as, if our pirAtti understands us (our plight) then there

is nothing further for us to be worried about. Also, if

She were to only think of us then our path to reach Him

would become very easy.

 

adiyEn also thinks that this can be thought of as perhaps

He might go to sleep and forget about us and therefore

needs to be awakened, but She is always awake to us and

all we need to request to Her is that she think of us and

lead us to Him. Here we see the role of pirAtti as our

Acharyan who shows us the path. And this is also a

description of all our Acharyans as ones who are always

awake and ready to lead us to Him. All we need to do is

to approach them.

 

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan

TCA Venkatesan