AchArya Hrdhayam 144

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AchArya Hrdhyam -sUthram 222 Contd.

It was seen that the Lord Almighty is present everywhere. Is it a

great thing? Even the sky encompasses everything. The great thing is

the Lord is not just omni-present. He is not merely inside and

outside the souls and things. He is the Governing factor of one and

all in the whole scheme of things. The omni-presence sparkles because

of this factor.

 

Moreover, AzhwAr desired service to the Almighty at all sates, all

places and all times. The Lord displayed His great deeds in the past

as if it is present period to AzhwAr. AzhwAr's present period and

pAst of the Lord became equated. This enabled AzhwAr to exprience the

great deeds, pranks and other activites and events of the Lord .

AzhwAr felt very much that he was not able to serve the Lord with

flowers and worship during the Lord's great deeds like vanquish of

lankA or the conquer of the seven bulls and so on. The Lord removed

this grievance by accepting AzhwAr's nenjam as an adornment- pUsum

sAndhu, AzhwAr's soul as a garland- puNayum kanni enadhu vuyir,

AzhwAr's song as silk robe- vAsagam sei mAlaiyEa vAn pattAdai and so

on. AzhwAr became so fulfilled on His activieties soul and body being

accepted as desired ones by the Lord Almighty. This reflected the

Lord's immeasurable affection and Love towards AzhwAr. This led ot

ecstasy and pangs of separation. The pang transposed into search for

Him which culminated into seeing all the things around as Him.-yEaRia

pithu.AzhwAr desired the Lord as He would be in the nithya-vibhUthi.

The Lord granted this to AzhwAr in this world. AzhwAr got the vision

of the "Lord with peirya pirAtti". The vision enjoyed by the souls

there is granted to AzhwAr here. The time restriciton, place

restriciton are all removed. The unparallel joy , eternal mirth is

expressed by AzhwAr as "vEvil inbam", thus. The matchless divine feet

granted to AzhwAr by the Lord is appreciated time and again by swAmi

nam-AzhwAr.

This automatically culminated into a. Indifference towards other

deities. b. Indifference towards ones' body and soul and c.

Indifference towards worldly pleasures including materialistic ends.

These convictions are expressed in a. thErpArai yAm ini thiru voi

mozhi 4-6- indifference towards other deities--dhEvathAnthra

vairAgyam. b. yERALum iRaiyOnum thiru voi mozhi 4-8- indifference

towards ones' body and souls and

c. indifference towards joyless world -worldly pleasures-materialstic

ends but painful earth in 'nannAdhAr muRuvalippa" thiru voi mozhi

4-9.

 

Further,

 

The Fourth Ten

"oru nAyakam enRu, rAjya swargAthmAnubhava alpAsthirathva sAvadhigathvAdhigaLaiyum..."

 

Summary: It was seen that AzhwAr shunned materialistic and other

pleasures. AzhwAr explains the temporary nature of these in the thiru

voi mozhi "oru nAyakam". The worldly pleasures are temporary. The

status -royal and other status -is temporary.The materialsitic wealth

is temporary. The enjoyment in the heaven is temporary. The enjoyment

of ones soul is also not eternal happiness is explained in this thiru

voi mozhi from the first to final pAsuram.

 

pAsuram-s: The demerits of the worldly pleasures , the disadvantages

of this materialistic wealth and stauts, the temporary nature of the

heavenly enjoyment are all listed out in the thiru voi mozhi "oru

nAyakamAi" 4-1;

 

"peru nAdu kANa immaiyilEa pichai thAm

kOLvar"-------------------------->} The Worldly pleasures,status,

royal

"vAzhndhArgaL vAzhndhadhu vAzhndhE niRpar enbandhu illai"----->}status

are all temporary and vanish within

"vemmin oLi veyil kANagam pOi

kumaithinbargaL"-->} no time. Hence,

apporach the feet of

"podi sEAr thugaLAi pOvargaL

"----------------------------->}

the Lord Almighty.

 

"kudi mannu suvargam eidhiyum mELvargaL"---> 4-1-9---> Even after

reaching the Heaven, the souls are bound to come back to earth

after the puNNIyam in their acct. is exhausted.Hence,suvargam is not

permanent.

 

"iRugal iRappu ennum"------>4-1-10----> The enjoyment of ones soul is

also not entirely satisfactory. This is also not eternally yielding

happiness and is not with unlimited joy.

 

(to be continued)

vanamamalai padmanabhan