Kanninun Siruththambu - 04

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Kanninun Siruththambu Fourth Pasura Vyakhyana Saram

Excerpted from Sri Nanjeeyar and Nampillai's Vyakhyanam

 

A Tamil version of this vyakhyana saram can be found at

http://www.acharya.org/vyakyanam/kst/kst04.pdf

 

nanmaiyAl mikka nAnmaRaiyALarkaL

punmaiyAgak karuthuvar Athalin

annaiyAy aththanAy ennai ANdidum

thanmaiyAn sadagOpan en nambiyE

 

Meaning:

The vaidhikas who are well versed in the four Vedas and are

full of high qualities, will consider me as one who is low

qualities personified. For that very reason, Nammazhvar has

the nature of becoming my mother, father and everything else

to me and save me and as such he is my lord.

 

Vyakhyana Saram:

Madhurakavi Azhvar explains how he got such a great gain

through the help he got from Nammazhvar. Why would Nammazhvar

give him such a help? He says that he was low, so low that

all good things abandoned him, and therefore he became

attached to Nammazhvar and Nammazhvar helped him.

 

nanmaiyAl mikka nAnmaRaiyALarkaL:

Those great and pure people who live by the four Vedas, who

are home to divine qualities, who recite, follow and have no

other wealth other than the Vedas.

 

punmaiyAgak karuthuvar:

Such Vedic people will not just consider him as one who has

low qualities, but actually think of him as low qualities

personified. He says that his stature is so low that all

great people except Nammazhvar would tend to abandon him.

 

nAnmaRaiyALarkaL punmaiyAkak karuthuvar:

The brahmins who recite nothing but the Vedas and who are

submerged in the smell of the Vedas will not consider that

he has low qualities but that all low qualities have gained

a physical form as him.

 

annaiyAy aththanAy ennaiyANdidum:

To such a person as him, Nammazhvar became all relations

such that he has no relatives except Nammazhvar. Other

than Nammazhvar, he has no other refuge. That which a

mother, a father and a lord would do was all done for him

by Nammazhvar. That was the relationship between Sriman

Narayana and Nammazhvar and now he has attained that same

relationship with Nammazhvar.

 

thanmaiyAn:

Nammazhvar has this lofty characteristic naturally.

 

nambiyE:

Nammazhvar is a pUrna (nambi) because not only did he drive

away his own problems but he also removed Madhurakavi

Ahzvar's problems. Nammazhvar just did not do something

that another person might have done; he has done that which

everyone else does together; therefore, he is complete.

Madhurakavi Azhvar says that Nammazhvar's completeness is

such that it lifts even those who are nothing but a

personification of low qualities.

 

Madhurakavi Azhvar, Nanjeeyar, Nampillai Thiruvadigale Saranam

Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam

 

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan

T.C.A. Venkatesan

 

Kanninun Siruththambu Vyakhyana Saram Series:

http://www.acharya.org/vyakyanam/kst/index.html