Thirumaalai-67

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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-44 (contd)

 

When the dEvas were waiting with their eyes wide open to see the emperuman,

gajendra varadan came on his garudan with his chakra on his hand to rescue the

elephant from the clutches of the crocodile.

 

KannarA: No one can take their eyes away, after seeing perumal’s beautiful

thirumEni. If we wait to get something and are unable to get it we get bored

after sometime. In some cases, we may have waited for something not worthwhile

so as soon as we get it we get bored. But in bhagavan’s case it is worth

waiting for years together just to get a glimpse for a second. We can

experience the same even today in thirumala-thirupathi. We all go and wait for

long hours in the queue. But are we allowed to stay in the sannadhi for at

least 5 minutes? We have to have a quick darshan of the emperuman and we are

pushed out. Still the crowd of bhakthas in thirupathi never reduces rather it

increases day by day. Such is the greatness of bhagavan. We all stay in the

sannadhi just for 1 or 2 minutes but when we come out we say oh! It was a great

darshan. Ramayanam says, “rAmam mE anukathA drushti:” (No one can take their

eyes out of the beauty of rAmachandra moorthi) and thiruppAnAzhvar

says,”enamudhinai kanda kangal mattrondrinai kAnAvE” True. After that alwar

didn’t even see himself that is why his prabandam(amalanAdhipirAn) does not

contain the usual style of presenting who sang it and what is the palasruthi in

the last paasuram.

 

One other interpretation of ‘kannarA’ is if perumal places his krupai on us he

never takes it away. Many look at us but for no use but if bhagavat and Acharya

kataksham fall on us it never goes in vain. It has the power to lift us from

the bottom most level and even grant us moksham, the top most level.

 

vunnai ennO? KalaikanA karudhumArE : Oh! My lord you are the only saranyan, to

whose feet we all have to do saranAgathi, since you alone can remove all our

worldly bindings and worries and grant us moksha.

 

In this paasuram, alwar shows how all other upayams which the siva, brahma and

other devas considered to be the ways to attain perumal has become futile

(“thavan seithAr velgi nirpa) and how only saranAgathi done by gajendran has

given the result ultimately. Leaving all his efforts gajendran called emperuman

for help and hence perumal came running, but the devas still believed in their

own efforts and hence perumal never turned up. And due to his saranAgathi

(vunnai ennO kalaikanA karudhumArE) gajendran has attained the ultimate goal,

bhagavat krupai and kainkaryam (Anaikku andru arulai eentha).

 

Emperuman’s feet is like a boat to transport us from the ocean of samsAram to

the other bank, moksham. But this boat is a little different from the usual

boats seen by us, in this world. In this boat (Krishna pAdAravindham) we need

not board inside but it is enough if we just think of it, it will take us to

moksham. Sri Andal says,“vaikundan ennum thOni perAmal vuzhalginrEn”. This

boat, Krishna thiruvadi never moves from one place to another but keeps

constantly transporting jeevatmas who think of it from this leela vibhuthi to

the nithya vibhuthi.

 

Just the thought that bhagavan is there to take care of us gives us all the

extra strength to do kainkaryam. All other wealth comes today and leaves

tomorrow and only puts us to more tension in the process of protecting it. But

this wealth, bhagavat kataksham never leaves us and relieves us of all tensions.

 

We will enjoy the final paasuram in the next posting and conclude.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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