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Sri Parthasarathi thunaiSrimathe Ramanujaya NamahaSrimad Vara Vara

MunayE NamahaSri vAnAchala mahA munayE NamahaPaasuram-20

 

“neeyE ulagellAm ninnarulE nirpanavum

neeyE tavadEvadEvanum-neeyE

erisudarum mAlvaraiyum eNdisaiyum andaththu

erusudaru mAya evai”

 

Listening to azhvar’s sweet words, “kAppAi nee kAppadhanai AvAi nee

vaikundam eepAyum evvuyirkkum nee” the lord was highly pleased and

hence wanted to hear more from the mouth of azhvar. There is a verse

in Sanskrit, “kim mrishtam sruthavachanam” that highlights the

sweetness and happiness in hearing the childish words of one’s kid.

The same is repeated in tamil as, “kuzhalinidhu yAzhinidhu enbar than

makkal mazhalai sol kEtkAdhavar”. Here emperuman is very much

interested in hearing to the words of azhvar, his kid and hence

requests azhvar to sing one more paasuram. Azhwar with great

pleasure starts to sing this paasuram highlighting the sarvAthma

bhAva of the supreme lord.

 

(neeyE ulagellAm) “vishvam nArAyanam harim” declares the

nArAyanuvAham. Accordingly azhvar says the whole world is none other

than emperuman, Sriman nArAyanan (ulagellAm neeye). “sarvam

samApnOshi thathOsmi sarva:” [being spread everywhere you are

everything] declares the bhagavat geetha. “thatsthatvAthanupasyanthi

heyEka yevEdhi sAdhava:” [since you are filled inside the jeeva sadhus

consider both as one] declares the mahabharatha and “avasthithErithi

kAsakrisna:” says the brahma sutra. Since there is no stage when any

object in this world is ever away from emperuman (pruthakstithi) hence

it is nothing wrong to call him as the world. We say a “lean man”

“black pot” etc here lean or black is only a characteristic of the

man or pot still it cannot be separated from the man or the pot.

Similarly the world and emperuman are inseparable so it is nothing

wrong saying ‘neeyE ulagellAm’

 

(ninnarulE nirpanavum) Only due to your grace one attains the moksha

that is permanent. The happiness attained in the moksha loka is

countless and hence azhvar says ‘nirpanavum’ (in plural)

 

(neeyE tavadEvadEvanum) You are the lord of even those who have

attained the post of devas due to the great tapas they did.

 

PramAnams

 

“tam dEvathAnAm paramAnja deivatham” (sve.)

“yuga kOti sahasrANi vishnumArAthya padmabhoo: I

punas trilOkya tAdrithvam prApthavAnidhi sushruma II”

[brahma attained this position of creating the worlds after doing

penance for thousand crores of yugas] (bhar-sabha 14-8)

“brahmAdhayas surAs sarvE vishnumArAthya thE purA I

svam svam padhanuprApthA: kEshavasya prasAdhatha: II”

[brahma and all the devas did penance towards Vishnu and attained

their positions due to the divine grace of keshavan]

(nArasimhapuranam)

“mahAdevas sarvamEthE mahAthmA

huthvAthmAnam devadEvO bhabhoova” [bhAratham]

[by sacrificing himself in the sarvamEdha yagna mahAdevan became devadevan]

 

(neeyE erisudarum mAl varaiyum….) Should it be said separately you

are Fire, the big mountains, all the 8 directions the sun the moon

and everything in this world. All these are under your control. The

Vishnu purana declares the same as,

“jyOtheemshi vishnur bhuvanAni vishNur

vanAni vishnur kirayO disascha”

 

(To be continued)Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE

sharaNamAdiyen ramanuja dAseeSumithra Varadarajan