Fw: Tiruppavai - guNanusandhanam - nAmA 10 & 11

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srI:srImathE rAmAnujAya namahaTiruppavai - Pasuram 4 : nAmA 10 & 11

(oozhi mudhalvan) (padmanabhan) aazhi mazhaik kaNNaa! onRu nee kai

karavEl

aazhiyuL pukku mugandhu kodu aarththERi

oozhi mudhalvan uruvam pOl mey kaRuththu

pAzhiy am thOLudai paRpanaaban kaiyil

aazhi pOl minni valamburi pOl ninRadhirndhu

thaazhaadhE saarngam udhaiththa saramazhai pOl

vaazha ulaginil peydhidaay * naangaLum

maargazhi neeraada magizhndhElOr empAvAi.

In this pasuram 4, AndAL glorifies two nAmAs : oozhi mudhalvan and padmanabhan.

Oozhi represents entire prapancham the leela vibuthi viz. 7 lokams

starting from bhu (our earth) until satya lokam (abode of brahma) and

7 lokams below our earth called rakshasa lokam and the entire

celestial planets. For this entire oozhi, he is mudhalvan, the first

and primodal. "EshO ha vai nArAyana asit, na brahma, na isanaha"

Swamy Nammazhwar in his tiruvAimozhi "onrum devum ulagum uyirum yadum

illa anRu, nAnmugan thaNodu devar ulagodu uyir padaithAn". Here AndAL

praises his gunA of Jagat karana bhoothan. Is this can be considered

as a guNam of the Lord. This is leela of the Lord and hence aptly

called leela vibuthi.

 

The next nAmA is padmanAbhan. He is holding the entire jagat in his

nabhi in the form of lotus, giving us the assurance that he is the

protector or jagat rakshakan.

 

The next nAmA 12 appears in pasuram 5 - "mAyan", which is his inherent gunA. (to be continued)

namO nArAyanA

 

G.Sundarrajan