Thirumaalai-29

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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-15

 

 

“meiyerkkE meiyanAgum vidhiyilA ennai pOla

 

poiyerkkE poiyanAgum putkodiyudayakOmAn

 

uyyapOmunArvinArgatkku oruvanendru vunarintha pinnai

 

iyappAdu aruththu thOndrum azhaganoor arangamandrE”

 

 

 

meiyerkkE meiyanAgum vidhiyilA ennai pOla: Emperuman’s originial abode is the

SriVaikundan. But due to his apAra kArunyam he came down to lift us all up to

his nithya vibhoothi and thereby settled in Srirangam and other divya desams.

But we are all so attached to the leela vibhoothi that we refuse to even go near

bhagavan and get lifted from this samsAra sAgaram. So it has been long since

emperuman descended down that now when we ask him to which place he belongs to,

he says I belong to Srirangam forgetting his original abode. Like many of us,

though our grandparents belonged to some remote village we call ourself to

belong to chennai or whichever city we have been born and brought up. Alwar in

this paasuram shows how emperuman acts according to our belief. If we think him

to be true he remains true and if we think he doesn’t exist then he acts the

same. That is why when a robber robs a vigraham in a temple thinking it to be

simply a stone, emperuman remains like a stone and hence doesn’t do anything to

save himself. “yA drishi yA drishi shraddha siddhir vinthathi mAnavaha:”

whatever result is obtained depends on our dedication. If we have 100% bhakthi

then emperuman comes to our call 100%, if we have only 50% faith in him then he

turns up to be 50%. Sri Krishna in bhagavat geetha says, I give you darshan in

whatever form or color you wish for. Like a mirror which reflects whatever is

got in front of it, bhagavan also reflects our feelings. That’s why alwar says

“meiyerkkE meiyanAgum” he is true to those who are true. A nAstikan considers

the idols in the temples to be mere stones so emperuman never shows his

magimai’s to them. But prahladan considered bhagavan to be everywhere even in

the pillar so the bhagavan Sri hari appeared immediately from the pillar. “angu

appozhudhe thOndriya en singa piran”.

 

Sri Ramanuja went in search of thirunArAyanapuram rAma priyan till Delhi. There

in the bhAtsha’s place rAma priyan was enjoying the love of the bhAtshA’s

daughter. When Sri rAmAnuja requested the girl to give him his lord the

princess refused. So the king ordered that if his lord came along with him he

can take him. Ethirajar called, “vArAi chella pillai” and the emperuman came

and sat in the hands of udaiyavar. Everyone was surprised to hear the sound of

the chalangai and to see the idol in the hands of udaiyavar. Others thought it

to be a idol so emperuman didn’t do anything when they carried him to Delhi, the

princess thought him to be his lover so the emperuman did all leelas with her

and ethirAjar thought him to be his chella pillai(beloved son) and hence he ran

to the call of his father and sat in his lap. So however we think of him,

emperuman transforms to the same. Here Sri PVP’s vyakhyAnam goes as follows:

 

“meiyerkku- than svaroopaththai kAttikkoduppan

 

poiyyerkku- thannai kAttikkodukkAmal poiyanAi erruppAn”

 

 

 

poiyerkkE poiyanAgum putkodiyudayakOmAn: The above words ‘vidhiyilA ennai pOla

can be either joined with the first part or the proceeding part. If we join

with the second part, like vidhiyilA ennai pOla poiyerkkE poiyanAgum then it

shows the naichiyAnusandhAnam of thondaradipodi alwar. It is a greatest quality

of a srivaishnava to consider himself to be the lowest of the lowest. A true

srivaishnava accepts the mistakes, even if it was not his mistake at all. As

andal says, ‘nAnEthan Ayiduga’ and like bharatha in ramanyanam who accepted

that, he was only responsible to send Sri Rama to forest though he was no way

responsible. Similarly alwar considers himself to be a cheat, a poiyen, who has

cheated bhagavan and stolen the kArunyam of bhagavan. But can we consider alwar

to be a cheat, so for us it will be better to combine ‘meiyerkkE meiyanAgum

vidhiyilA ennai pOla’ where we say that alwar is meiyen and emperuman is also

true to alwar.

 

Alwar said meyyerkkE meiyanAgum and poiyerkkE poiyanAgum, then we will ask who

will become true for those who are true? And who will become false for those who

cheat? Alwar answers, he who has the garudan in his flag will become the above.

Pul in tamil means bird and the king of birds is garudan and the lord who has

garuda kodi is Sriman Narayanan.

 

 

 

uyyapOmunArvinArgatkku oruvanendru vunarintha pinnai: Our sastras say

‘Udhisyathe! JAkarathe’. It wakes up the jeevatmas whose eyes are closed by

agyanam. It says if you wake up and believe me I will show you bhagavan. But

it never forces anyway to accept what it says blindly. If you have the bhakyam

you will realize the truth. On the first day, a child is given some sugar to

taste and at the last a hand full of rice is put in our mouth. That is life.

Still inbetween we run to obtain wealth and enjoy the lowkika pleasures. We lag

to think about the lord who is capable of dissolving all our miseries in this

world and take us to the eternal bliss where there is no miseries and from where

we will never return. But if we really have faith in him and understand he is

our only protector then,

 

 

 

iyappAdu aruththu thOndrum azhaganoor arangamandrE : he clears all our doubts

and comes in front of us and makes us enjoy his divine beauty. Astonished by

his beauty when we ask him who he is? He says I belong to thiruvarangam and

disappears. If he has said I was rama or Krishna then we cannot see him today

since the avataram is over. If he says I am vaikundapathi or sheerapthinAdan,

then we can never approach his place. But then he said that he belonged to

srirangam which is in this same leela vibhoothi, in the same time of our life

tenure and he is highly accessible by each one of us. Then why should we

hesitate and miss his sevai and kainkaryam?

 

 

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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