Iramanusa Nootrandhadhi - Vol VII, Velukkudi Swamy Lecture(English Translation)

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Volume VII :- Concluding part Thaniyan 3

 

 

Volume Title :- ananya prayOjana Bhakthi

 

 

In the last posting we concluded telling the greatness of reciting

Emperumaanaar's thirunaamam with "ananya prayOjanam" i.e without

any fruits or expectations. Now, in this concluding part, we will

complete the rest of the vyaakyaanam of Swamy Pillai Lokam

Jeeyar on this thaniyan.

 

 

"aru samayam vellum parama.. "

 

One who defeated the six mathams as said in "Iraamaanusa

Nootrandhaadhi" by Amudanaar as :-

 

"koorum samayangal aarum kulaiya.."

 

One who defeated the other six mathams through his reasoning

power. "Parama" here refers to one who is great. The six mathams

referred to here are Sankara, BhAskara, Yadhawa, Bhatta, Prabhakara,

Paasupatha. Emperumaanaar defeated all these mathams through his

arguments against them by quoting excerpts from Vedams and Vyaasa

Maharshi's brahma soothrams. Hence Emperumaanaar is also praised

as :-

 

"Aru samya chedi adhanai aruthu vaithaan."

 

What is the relation between the first prayer that Amudanaar made in

recting the thirunaamam of Emperumaanaar and defeating the six

mathams and how they are connected ? This is explained below:

 

We as jeevaathmaas without belief in our religion or Emperumaan or

having half-hearted faith in the existence of Emperumaan are like

those philosophers of six mathams who argue that Emperumaan's

existence is nothing but maayai and that he doesn't have any

kalyaana gunaas. Hence Emperumaanaar distroys this feeling within

ourselves and gives the strong faith on the supreme being. Hence we

should surrender at Emperumaanaar's feet.

 

Amudanaar also tells Emperumaanaar in a challenging way

here "Oh..Raamaanujaa! Devareer can destroy those six mathams but it

is very difficult for Devareer to make adiyEn's tongue chant

Devareer's thirunaamam. Hence adiyEn surrenders at Devareer's feet to

make adiyEn chant Devareer's thirunaamam always in my mind and on my

tongue."

 

 

What is so great about this thirunaamam of Emperumaanaar ?

 

We can compare the thirunaamams of Emperumaan and Emperumaanaar. Both

have 4 letters in tamizh - "Naaryaanaa" and "Raamaanusaa". But it is

very difficult to realize the greatness of "Naaraayana" than

realizing "Raamaanusaa" This is because Emperumaanaar's apaara

kaarunyam in making us attain Sri Vaikuntam thereby preventing our

rebirth in this Bhoolokam is by removing the darkness in our mind by

the realization of the supreme being. Hence this thirunaamam

of "Raamaanusa" is far better than all the 1008 names of Emperumaan.

 

Periyaazhwaar says "Andrenakkavai pattini naale .." in his

thirumozhi meaning that if he does not recite Kannan's thirunaamam

even a single day, then he considers that day as the day of fasting.

But here if we do not recite Emperumaanaar's thirunaamam even a

single day it equivalent to not being alive on that day for, it is

not even considered as a day in our life. Hence Amudanaar says "Oh.

Iraamaanusa.!", " Adiyen Seiyum Vinnappame.." meaning that it

is "adiyen's request..".

 

Now Amudanaar has made this humble request to Emperumaanaar. But what

happened as the result ? Here Pillai Lokam Jeeyar swamy beautifully

says that we can only make a request but not command or ask for the

fruits of our request. In this context, Swamy Pillai Lokam Jeeyar

quotes from Thiruvaaimozhi..

 

In most of the pashurams of Nammaazhwar he sends birds as his

messenger to Emperumaan to go and explain to Him about the

state of his Athmaa. In those contexts, Aazhwaar also asks the bird

what it expects as a Sambhaavanai for its "mahopakaaram ?" To which

in turn the bird replies "Swamy! I haven't yet conveyed your message

to Emperumaan. Moreover I do not know what will be the outcome of my

message. That being the case, how can I accept Devareer's

sambhaavanai ??" Swamy Nammaazhwaar replies to this by saying...

"adiyEn has no right to expect a fruit for my message through you to

Emperumaan. But can only make a request. It is entirely Emperumaan's

sankalpam to grant my request. Adiyen is a Daasan to Emperumaan and

his bhakthaas. Hence please go and convey my state to Emperumaan."

 

Such paasurams in Thiruvaaimozhi essentially explain the nature of

Jeevathmaa and what rights the Jeevaathmaa has with respect to

Emperumaan. In the same way, Amudanaar says "Adiyen Seiyum

Vinnappame.." Swamy Manvaala MaAmunigal also ,in his "Aarthi

Prabandham" says, :-

 

"Enne eathiraasa enakkaai nee seidhaal, unakkadhu thaazhvo urai

Anna kudineer arindhu mulaioon kuzhavi thannudaiya noyai

thaviraalo.."

 

Which means "Adiyen is true embodiment of aparaadhams and

apachaarams. Devareer is true embodiment of kaaruyam devoid of any

aparaadhams. Hence Devareer can shower blessings on this mahaa

aparaadha chakravarthi and adiyen is in the pure state of receiving

it . When the two of us have such a relationship between us why should

adiyen even ask you the reason for your not showering your blessings

on me? Adiyen can only request your kataaksham. Devareer does not

have any nirbandham to protect adiyen and give devareer's kataaksham

towards adiyen.".

 

Swamy Vedaantha Desikan also prays thiruvenkatAmudaiyaaan in

Dayaa Sathakam as "Aham asmi aparaadha chakravarthi..

Karunethvam thu guneshu saarvabhoumee.." meaning "adiyen exists as

the king in committing apachaarams. But oh my lord Srinivaasaa!, you

exist as the pure embodiment or Saarvabhouman or Emperor of

Kaarunyam."

 

 

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Note :-

 

Respected Bhaagavathothamaas. Please forgive adiyen for any

misinterpretation of the above verse. This verse was not quoted

originally by U.Ve. Velukkudi Swamy. Its adiyen's own

scribbling as adiyen thought that it would add light to the

current scenario. Any apachaaram committed here is purely

adiyen's own fault and adiyen requests the learned acholars of

the list to forgive adiyen with all your kaarunyam.

 

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In a similar way, here Amudanaar says that we can only request from

our side to Emperumaanaar and keep expecting his kataaksham. Although

we do not know when his kataaksham will be showered , we should keep

chanting his thirunaamam always.

 

We often chant the Bhagavan naamam always even though we might not

know the inner meaning of the thirunaamam. But still at one point of

time we will definitely get the fruits of reciting the thirunaamam.

Similarly even when we recite Emperumaanaar's thirunaamam without

knowing the meaning, just on our tongue alone, we will still get

the kataaksham of Emperumaanaar one day. This is just

like Draupadi praying to Kannan to protect her with just the belief

on the thirunaamam. In a similar way, anyone, anytime without any

restrictions, can recite Emperumaanaar's thirunAmam, unlike

Ashtaakshram which has restrictios that need to be followed.

 

The above vyaakyanam was given by Swamy Pillai Lokam Jeeyar

assuming that Amudanaar requests Emperumaanaar for making him

(Amudanaar) recite Emberumaanaar's thirunaamam which is being recited

by those bhaagavthaas doing eternal service to his lotus feet.

 

Now from our point of view the second type of vyaakyaanam can be

looked at in a different perspective from the first vyaakyaanam as

below :

 

Now let us consider ourselves that Amudanaar is one among those

Bhaagavthaas who do eternal service to the lotus feet of

Emperumaanaar. Now we can pray Emperumaanaar that "Oh..

Raamaanusaa..!, Please bless adiyEn with the gift of reciting

Iraamaanusa Nootrandhaadhi giving the greatness of

devareer's thirunaamam as composed and recited by the great

bhaagavtha who does eternal service at Devareer's lotus feet

who is none other than ThiruvarangathAmudanaar."

 

Similarly let us consider the name "Raamaa". Sri Raaman is true

embodiment of all kalyaana gunaas. He is the avathaaram of beauty.

Similary Emperumaanaar is the true embodiment of beauty with this

tridhandam and his kaashaayam. Hence Emperumaanaar can be compared

to Sri Raama who is the embodiment of all kalyaana gunaas.

 

"Kaashaaya shobhi kamaneeya shikaa nivesham, dhanda trayojvala

kharam.."

 

Emperumaanaars thirumeni is a shear beauty with his Shikai, Kaashaaya

Vasthram, and Tridhandam in his hands which is a bliss to witness for

ever.

 

Such is the beauty of Emperumaanaars thirumeni.

 

Swamy Vedaantha Desikan says :-

"Upaveethinamoordhva pundra vantham,

trijagath punya phalam trdhanda hastham

Sharanaagatha saathavaa hameede

shikayaa shekarinam pathim yatheenaam"

 

meaning - Emperumaanaar has a thirumeni which has the Upaveetham

(Poonool), Oordhvpundram (Thiruman Kaappu), Tridhanda Hastham (Hands

that hold the Tridhandam), Shikai on his head who glorifies this

word as a Yatheeshwara.

 

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Note :-

 

Respected Bhaagavathothamaas. Please forgive adiyen for any

misinterpretation of the above verse. This verse was not quoted

originally by U.Ve. Velukkudi Swamy. Its adiyen's own

scribbling as adiyen thought that it would add light to the

current scenario. Any apachaaram committed here is purely

adiyen's own fault and adiyen requests the learned acholars of

the list to forgive adiyen with all your kaarunyam on this lowest

of the lowest soul.

 

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which also means the same as mentioned in the above quote.

 

Hence when combined with the beauty of Sri Rama, Emperumaanaars

thirumeni has all kalyaana gunams that are equal to Emperumaan's

thirumeni. Hence if we recite this thirunaamam with or without

knowing the meaning, its effect will protect all these jeevaathmaas

first and it will do so at any cost. Hence let us all take an oath

within us and invite our mind to recite Emperumaanaar's thirunaam in

order to cross the ocean of samsaaraa and attain the lotus feet of

Emperumaan at Sri Vaikuntam.

 

 

Hence to sum up, the message that is given to us here is:

 

We all are worse than even Asuraas. Asuraas atleast did all the bad

deeds because they wanted to get Shaapa Vimochanam directly from

Emperumaan Himself. If they had not committed the bad deeds,

Emperumaan would not have gone to kill them and then in turn they

would not have received Shaapa vimochanam. This was what actually

Raavana thought, when everyone tried to stop him (from doing heinous

deeds) describing Bhagavaan's strength, although he did not say so

openly. We are worse than even Raavanaa because we never feel that we

do mistakes but we continue doing it. Hence we should consider

ourselves as the lowliest souls and recite the thirunaamam of

Emperumaanaar constantly. That way our "Shaapam", which is the

accumulation of paavam and punyam, gets nullified in this birth

itself and we never go through the cycle of re-birth again but do

eternal kainkaryam to Emperumaan and thAyAr at their lotus feet in

Sri Vaikuntam.

 

This concludes Thaniyan 3. Let us continue with the last thaniyan

in the next post.

 

 

RAAMMANUJASYA CHARANAU SHARANAM PRAPADYE, SRIMATHE RAAMAANUJAAYA NAMA:

 

 

Emperumaanaar, Bhaagavatha, Bhagvath Thiruvadigale sharanam,

 

The VEDICS Iraamaanusa Nootrandhaadhi Team