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THE EIGHTH TEN

 

'The Three Great Hurdles

 

 

"mUnRuthathukkup pizhaithu aruvinai nOi maRuval idAmal, siriyEan enRadhan perumaiyaik kAtta'

 

The Three Great Hurdles: The Three great hurdles of AzhwAr are listed as hereunder:

What is the nature of the hurlde mentioned here? The feeling of AzhwAr

that Such a great Lord is showering His compassion whereas AzhwAr is a

very ordinary person and is not fit to inter-act with the Lord

Almighty. This feeling makes AzhwAr to distance himself. These

feelings are removed by the Lord Himself.

1. one in the "vaLavEzh" thiru voi mozhi where AzhwAr expressed the

term 'aruvinaiyEan" conveying the fact that he is a person full of

'sins'-aruvinaiyEan.

 

2. one in the 'porumA nEL padai' thiru voi mozhi where he states that

"sindhaiyuL vaippan solluvan pAviyEan" -- mentioning that he not only

thinks of the Lord but also speaks about Him but he is not fit even

for that.

 

3. one in the "andhAmathu anbu" thiru voi mozhi by mentioning

"allAviyuL kalandha" and ' en mudivu kANAdhEa ennuL kalandhAnai"

AzhwAr expresses the same feeling of being unfit for Lord's nearness.

 

This feeling again emanates in the thiru-voi-mozhi "iruthum viyandhu"

when AzhwAr says "siriyEanudai sindhaiyuL" mentioning that the great

Lord has settled in such a small person/s mind.

The Lord Almighty wanted to put an end to this feeling once and for

all. AzhwAr tried to distance considering the smallness of himself.

The Lord explained the very nature of the soul. The soul is adorned

by the Lord where the Lord considers the soul as an ornament and

enjoys the togetherness. This elucidation of the nature of the soul

by the Lord to remove the hurdles once and for all is the crux of

this .

 

pAsuram-s:

 

"aruviniyEan" ---1-5-1---> AzhwAr expressing his inferiority.

"sindhayuL vaippan solluvan pAviyEan"--1-10-7---> where AzhwAr

expresses the feeling that he is not fit even to speak about the Lord

Almighty.

" al AviyuL kalandha" -------------------------------> 2-5-5}Without

considering my lowness the Lord

Almighty has interacted and mixed freely with me

"en mudivu kANAdhEa ennuL kalandhAnai" 2-5-8 }

The hurdle-inferior feeling shows up again in

"siriyEanudiach sindhaiyuL "--8-7-8-- > the Lord has settled in my

mind . I am a very small person.

The nature and the pride of AtmA-soul is shown by the Lord:

"yAnum thAnAi vozhindhAn'--- 8-8-4 and

"thEanum,palum, kannalum, amudhumAgith thithithu' 8-8-4 thus the Lord

unequivocally displaying the fact that

this soul which is perceived as small by AzhwAr is desired by the Lord

and is one which will give happiness to Him and hence, the soul is not

small but a desired one to be always with the Lord Almgihty.

Thus the three hurdles are removed not to be repeated again.

 

(to be continued)

vanamamalai padmanabhan