Thirumaalai-36

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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-20

 

 

“pAyum neer arangam thannul pAmpanai palli konda

 

mAyanAr thirunanmArvum maragadhavuruvum thOlum

 

thooya thAmaraikangalum thuvaridhazhpavalavAyum

 

Ayaseer mudiyum thEsum adiyarOrkku agalalAmE?”

 

 

 

pAyum neer arangam thannul pAmpanai palli konda: As she approaches Srirangam

kAveri flows with high enthusiasm. Kaveri is very dense at this point. She

flows like a young girl awaiting her union with her woodbe eagerly. She comes

and splits into two and embraces periya perumal like a garland. Emperuman

embraced by kaveri lies happily on the bed of Adhishesha.

 

 

 

mAyanAr thirunanmArvum maragadhavuruvum thOlum: This emperuman who lies on the

adhishesha has “ashcharya seshtidangal”(surprising actions) and hence is called

as mAyanAr. For some people only some part are beautiful(avayavashobha) and for

others totally they are beautiful but not all parts are individually

beautiful(samudhAya shobha) but for periya perumal, each part is beautiful and

he has samudhAya shobha also. It is absolutely not possible for us to enjoy the

whole beauty of the bhagavan, so alwar now tries to just get the essence of it.

Now that we know that we cannot enjoy fully can we just get away? No! once if

we have seen periya perumal we can never take our eyes out of him. That is why

kamban says,”thOl kandAr thOlE kandAr, thozhu kazhal thAl kandAr thalE

kandAr………”. He is a large ocean of beauty that is why alwars and acharyas try

to enjoy him part by part(pAdhadhi kEsandha varnanai). First alwar saw the

beautiful chest of the bhagavan in which periya piratti(jagan mAtha, nithya

shree, anapAyini) resides. She never leaves that place “agalakillEn eraiyum”.

She resides there to do purushakAram on behalf of all jeevatmas at all times to

the bhagavan. So alwar enjoys the serthi of perumal and thAyAr first. Since

thiru resides in his chest it has become thiru-nan-mArvu. Then alwar raised his

vision to the broad shoulders of the bhagavan.

 

 

 

thooya thAmaraikangalum thuvaridhazhpavalavAyum: Then alwar further raised his

vision to the thirumugam of the bhagavan. All alwars usually get immersed only

in the lotus like eyes and the coral liked mouth of the bhagavan. We have seen

this earlier too. Here once again thondaradi podi alwar enjoys the pure eyes of

bhagavan which never knows any cheating. Eyes reflect our mind. Bhagavan has

no friends or enemies. He loves each and everyone of us and hence his eyes are

always filled with karunai and krupai to lift us up. That is why alwar calls

bhagavan’s eyes to be ‘thooya kangal’. The lips of bhagavan always have a sweet

smile in them to make us easily approach him without fear. Like a flower

blossoming his lips also are always blossomed. When we see them we naturally

get attracted to the beauty and run towards him.

 

 

 

Ayaseer mudiyum thEsum adiyarOrkku agalalAmE: Finally alwar enjoys the

thirumudi’s beauty and says this will never leave our vision. In RamAyana, when

perumal came in the streets of ayodhya, valmiki says only perumal was moving and

all others where immersed in his beauty and the crowd was so much that no one

could move even a bit. So each one stayed in their own places enjoying the

beauty of perumal. Even after Rama pirAn entering the palace, the people

stilled remained in their own places since the beauty of Perumal has been so

much established in their minds that they still assumed perumal to be on the

streets in front of them. So alwar says adiyarOrkku agalalAmE. He never leaves

the vision of his bhakthas. As they see him, they want to see more and as they

see more they want to see him again and the cycle continues. Sri Ramar is

“sadhaikka priya darshanaha:”(his beauty is appealing to all).

 

Though alwar here says that his thirumeni doesn’t leave the vision of adiyars

PVP says that his beauty is so powerful that it doesn’t stop with attraction of

his bhakthas like us but continues even till those who consider him to be their

enemy. “edhirigalukkum okka agala pOgAdhu”

 

Srimad Bhagavatam says,”vairEnayam nrupathayam shishupAla poundra sAlpAdayaha

Gathi vilAsa vilOka natyaihi…………..punath kim”. Andal says, “kEtpAr sevi sudum

keezhmai vesaivugalE vaiyum”. ShishupAla and his group were always engaged only

in talking ill of the bhagavan, Sri Krishna. Though Krishna did nothing wrong

to them still they developed a hatred for Krishna. Surprisingly they too talked

the same matters about the lord which the other Krishna bhakthas talked, but in

a negative sense. They commented on the color, smile and walk of Krishna which

the bhagavatas immensely enjoyed. The beauty is that this group which talked

ill of Krishna always at all times talked the same thing due to their hatred.

But still their concentration was always circled around bhagavan and hence they

meditated more on him, even more than the bhakthas. When Krishna went as

pandavadhoodha to DuriyOdhana’s court, vidhura asked Krishna to reconsider his

decision since he will be illtreated there. But Krishna insisted on going,

since he didn’t want to leave room for people in future to say that if Krishna

has adviced duriyodhana, then he could have stopped the war. So though

unwillingly but due to the love in Krishna vidhura also accompanied Krishna to

the court. But as Krishna entered the court all the members stood up without

their knowledge and where quiet for sometime deeply involved in the beauty of

the bhagavan. If the beauty of bhagavan has such power to attract even those

who considered him to be their enemy then what to say about his bhakthas,

wonders Sri PVP.

 

 

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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