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Sri Parthasarathi thunaiSrimathe Ramanujaya NamahaSri Vara Vara MunayE

NamahaSri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

Paasuram-14

 

“nArAyaNan ennai ALi naragaththu

sErAmal kAkkum thirumAl than- pErAna

pEsapperAdha piNachsamaiyar pEsakkEttu

Asai pattu AzhvAr palar.”

 

“Oh! Azhveer you declare Narayanan to be the prapyam (goal) and

prApagam (means) but why are not many people accepting the same?”

enquired a few. Azhvar replies, “ That is due to the confusion

created by a few people who do not even have the blessings to utter

the divine names of emperuman” in the above paasuram.

 

(nArayaNan ennai ALi) Why worry about others emperuman has captured

me. Emperuman is the Supreme Being who rules over all the worlds but

still has showered a special love on me. Due to that I have been

given a special position. Why should I worry about others? Keeping

these words in mind emperumAnAr in his gadyatrayam says, “akila

jagath svAmin asmadsvAmin”.

How is emperuman saving you?

 

(naragaththu sErAmal kAkkum) Emperuman saved me from getting attacked

by the deadly hell of samsAram. It is for sure that a great yogi

like thirumazhisai azhvar will never go to the different hells

attained after death by a jeevan who had done different types of

sins. Here azhvar refers to only samsAra as hell. Infact this hell

of samsAra is crueler than the different hells because atleast for

those hells the nature is well known. So that people be cautious and

refrain from doing the various sins that will lead them to the various

hells. But the nature of this samsAra is a sweet poison. It seems to

be very attractive and hence no one really wants to get away from it.

So this is punishment in disguise.

 

Both the previous paasuram and this paasuram declare that nArayaNan is

the means. But there is a slight difference in both the paasurams.

Upayam is one that does two things; one is IshtaprApthi (give what is

required) and the other anishtanivriththi (remove the obstacles). In

the previous paasuram, “veedAkkum meiporul thAn nArAyaNan” gives

IshtaprApthi whereas here “nArAyaNan ennai ALi naragaththu sErAmal

kAkkum” does anishtanivriththi.

 

But all these days emperuman has kept you only in this samsAram today

why should he prevent you from reaching the hell?

 

(thirumAl) He has started ruling over me due to the divine

purushakaram (support) of the divine mother (piratti). Emperuman is

called as thirumAl as he is deeply involved in love with piratti. He

is crazy about her and hence he will never leave her feel sad or

worried. If he leaves her child without care how will she react?

 

(nArAyaNan thirumAl than pErAna) He is the supreme still he has lost

himself to the love of piratti declares the divine names ‘nArAyaNan’

and ‘thirumAl’

 

(pErAna) The divine names that are celebrated as “dEvO nAma

sahasravAn” “pErAyiram konda peedudaiyan nArAyaNan” “pErum Oor Ayiram

pirapala vudaiya emperuman”

 

(pEsapperAdha piNachsamaiyar) Those who have been cursed not even to

utter the divine names of bhagavan. Due to which their living is

fruitless and hence they live like deadbodies (piNachsamaiyar) or

otherwise those people follow philosophies/religion that do not have

life and hence they may be called as ‘piNachsamaiyar’

 

(pEsakkEttu) Many ignorant people go at the back of these attractive

religions listening to the misleading words of those ‘piNachsamaiyar’

not knowing that they are sugarcoated pills.

 

(Asaipattu AzhvAr palar) People listen to the misleading words and get

attracted and believe them to be the fact and start practicing it with

great faith. Due to this these people get immersed in the ocean of

samsAra. Azhvars immerse themselves in the kalyana gunas of

emperuman (“kAlAzhum nenjazhiyum”) whereas these people immerse

themselves into the ocean of samsAra.

What is the way to come out of this?

Emperuman is the only way. When so many are drowning I am standing

upright without any fear why? Because, “nArAyaNan ennai ALi”,

emperuman is always there to take care of me.

 

(To be continued)

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAseeSumithra Varadarajan