Fw: A doubt on Peria Thirumozhi

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Sri Ramajayam

Sri Ramanujaye Namaha

Sri Varavara Muniye Namaha

 

Adiyen have a small doubt in Peria Thirumozhi "Eelai Ethalan" pasuram of

Thirumangai Alwar on Thiruvarangam in 9th verse "Tulavanin Mudiarasar" ... I

wish to know from erudite Scholors about the speciality of this Paasuram.

 

As I came to know that our great poorvachiyars Nanjeer, Nambillai had a immense

love on this paasuram. I came to know that this paasuram will be recited during

Thirumanjana Kattiyam in Srirangam .

 

Also I know that during Thai Ammavasai utsavam for Thirumangai Alwar, This is

the paasuram for Thiruvarangam Mangalasasanam. If any one has not seen this

Magalasasanam so far , dont fail to see it , its a wonderful one , no words to

explain..

Alwar will be in Kaveri River in Allivilakam on Pallaku and does His

Magalasasanams to Thiruvarangam and ThiruNaraiur.

 

Also I heard that this Pathigam is explaining the beauty of Peria Perumal's

Thirumeni. Any explanation available in this reg.

 

 

Adiyen Ramnuja Dasan

 

Gunaseelan Venkatachary

Ph:408 588 6672

 

 

 

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Dear Guna,

 

I forwarded your question to Sri Bharat of Bangalore,

a great rasika of Divya Prabandham who has studied

many of the pUrvAcArya commentaries at the feet of

Sri E.S. Bhuvarahachariar Swami (ESB). Here is his

reply:

 

[ from Sri Bharat <kbharat ]

 

The "Ezhai Edalan" padigam and its gloss by Sri PVP are like

an ocean full of gems.Wherever you put in a hand you come

up with pearls.

 

However here are some basic thoughts based on comments

by Sri ESB from time to time.

 

Sri Tirumangai Azhwar began his outpouring with Tiruvengada-

mudaiyan and here shifted to Sriranganathan.And it is here that

he goes into great detail in detailing the Lord's Qualities or rather

the one basic differentiating Quality which not only explains ALL

His actions but also indicates why He alone is the Lord and not

the other Devatas.It is so basic and natural a quality that just as

Srirangam is simply called Koil and Sri Rama Perumal,it is called

Quality."Guna" Hence is the question "Who is GunavAn ?"

That Guna is SauSIlya- defined as <Mahato mandais saha

nIrandhrENa samSlEshah" - the Great mixing with lesser people

as one among them.

 

The Tamil word is even more exact- NIrmai- i.e., "NIrin tanmai"

the nature of water to become one with whatever it mixes.This

is the Lord's special copyrighted quality which no other devata

has.And His other qualities like unlimited SwAtantryam,JgAnam

Sakti,Poorthy support this Quality.Because He just does not lack

anything and nobody can stop Him from doing what He wants

and there is no one to find fault with him for His actions,He just

mingles like water with EVERY one without distinction.And

because He wants this quality to be known to everyone He

exhibits it in every possible way in His RAma-KrishNa AvatAras.

And in order to make the fact absolutely beyond dispute He

takes the Archa form- than which no one can go beyond to

prove this fact.

 

But does He succeed in achieving His object? No. Not while

we are around.We just treat Him as one of us and maybe even

worse.

 

Hence in this Padigam AzhwAr sits in front of Sri Ranganathan

and tells the world," Come.Look at this person who is innocently

inertly lying down here.Don't you realize He is the same person

who as Rama did that,as Krishna did this and so on."

 

When Sri EmbermAnAr went for the first time to TirukkOttiyUr in

search of Nambi he asked the people there to direct him to

his place.When they gave directions they were astonished to

see Sri EmberumAnAr prostrate himself in that direction.It was

then that they realized something of Nambi's greatness.Till

then they had considered him as just one of their own kind.

So it is with Sri Ranganatha and AzhwAr.

 

So it is with our own Archa Vigraha at our house.It is this

specific differentiating quality of NIrmai that He is constantly

exhibiting thru living in a corner of our house and accepting

the bad with the good without complaint.It is His special

ability of being "ASrayaNIya" and "ASrita Paratantra"

simultaneously which we tend to forget and which we need

to remember and which this Padigam details so beautifully.

 

The points emphasised by both AzhwAr and Sri PVP are

that this NIrmai is natural to Him,and HE considers Himself

one of us even if WE don't think so,and if we attribute it

to His weakness and not strength WE are the losers.

 

Sri EmberumAnAr TiruvaDigaLE SaeraNam!