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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,

 

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

 

 

 

 

“ Mattrondrum vEinda Maname Madhilarangar

 

Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra

 

Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi Emperumaanai

 

Eppozhudum peesu”

 

 

 

“ Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo yaamuna soonave

 

yetkadAkshai kalakshyAnAm sulabha: Sridara: sadaa”

 

 

 

Pranams,

Paasuram-3

“vEdanool prAyam Nooru manisarthAm puguvarElum

 

pAdiyum orangipOgum nindradil padinaiyandu

 

pEdhai bAlagan aDagum pini pasi moopu tunbam

 

AdalAl piravi vEndEn arangamAnagarulane”

 

 

 

Let us now proceed to see the divine meanings in the third paasuram. Alwar in

the earlier paasurams explained the importance of nAma sankeertanam and said

that he will not even accept moksha granted to him since he preferred to stay in

Srirangam and do nAma keertanam. Now in this paasuram alwar remembers are the

difficulties in this world and says I don’t want birth again. Sri PVP’s

vyakhyanam to this paasuram is excellent.

 

 

 

vEdanool prAyam Nooru manisarthAm puguvarElum: According to the vedas a normal

human age is determined to be hundred. “sadAyurvai purusha:” says the vedas.

Actually hundred years has been said for a jidendriyan who had full control of

his senses but then for a commoner the life is even more less. Hundred or less

a man’s lifetime is only Alpa ayusu when compared to the life of the mountains

or the ocean which lives for decades together. Our life span is not decided by

us instead our fate and the bhagavan’s sankalpam determines it. Here alwar says

how our lifetime is spent. Even though we have the full span as mentioned in

the vedas half of it is wasted. How?

 

 

 

pAdiyum orangipOgum nindradil padinaiyandu: Out of the 24 hours available in

the day we sleep almost 12 hours. Though only 8 hours is recommended for any

human body we enjoy sleeping more. So half of our lifetime goes in sleeping and

hence only fifty years we are awake. Andal in thiruppAvai says “kumbakarananum

thotrum vunakke peruntuyil thAn thanthAnO”. Kumbakaranan Ravana’s brother used

to sleep for 6 months together and when he woke up he spent the rest of the 6

months eating. Here andal mocks at one of the gopi, who was still sleeping

when all others were awake and waiting in her doorsteps. Andal here says to

that gopi “probably u and kumbakaranan had a context to determine who sleeps

more and probably you won and that is why kumbakaranan gave his sleep also to

you and that is why you are sleeping still”. Then nAchiyAr continues to say

“kEsavanai pAdavum nE kEtE kidaththinO” Inspite of we singing the praise of the

lord kEsavan how can you still sleep? That is our bhakhyam we are all blessed

with only sleep always and hence we refrain even from bhagavat vishayam. So we

loose half our life sleeping. Then what do we do with the rest of our lifetime?

 

 

 

pEdhai bAlagan aDagum pini pasi moopu tunbam: In the rest of our life the first

fifteen is spent in innocence. Initially we do not even know to feed ourselves

or clean ourselves everything has to been done only by our parents. Then we

slowly come to know about the worldly affairs. When we are kids our main

concentration is in playing(bAlastaave kreedhasaktha:). Then at the age of 20

or 25 we are more concerned with earning a living and hence not bothered about

bhagavat vishayam. Now that we are somewhat settled in a job, we get married

and then have kids. All are over and now when we grow old and want to go to

bhagavat vishayam our body doesn’t give room for it. When our eyes were able to

see we were not prepared to go and have darshan of bhagavan but now our eyes

have lost their power. Similarly our ears, legs and the whole body has become

weak due to the age. We fall sick quite often. Summarising, we spend fifty

years of our lifespan sleeping, then in the rest fifty years partly we spent as

kids then in search of money and matter and then enjoying the togetherness in a

family and finally now we have grown old. So the life now is filled with

pini(disease), pasi(hunger) moopu(old age) and tunbam(suffering). So what do we

really achieve?

 

 

 

AdalAl piravi vEndEn arangamAnagarulane: So alwar now says I hence do not want

such a life which is worth for nothing. It is always filled only with miseries.

Alwar in each of his paasuram refers to the lord who stays in SriRangam as

arangamAnagarulane and tells his views to him.

 

 

 

So a doubt now arises. In the previous paasuram alwar said that he didn’t want

to go to moksha and now he says he doesn’t want to live in this world, filled

with miseries then what does alwar want? For this question Sri PVP gives a

great vyakhyanam, let us see it in the next posting.

 

 

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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