AchArya Hrdhayam 219

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pathAm pathu

 

sUthram 229-1

 

 

 

WHY THE INORDINATE DELAY?

 

"vuRAmiyOdEa vuRREAn AkkAdhoyindhadhu, nAdu thirundha, nacchup

poiga Agamaikku, prabhandham thalaikatta, vEAr chUduvar maNpaRRu

pOleA ennum avaRRilum, "ini, ini" enRu irupadhinkAl kUppidum, Arthi

adhigAra pUrthikku, ennumadhu mukyam"

 

 

AzhwAr commenced with thiu-virutham "poi ninRa gnAnam...ini yAm

vuRAmai.." expressing his distaste in this world and desire to attain

Him. The Lord who is supreme could have removed the hurdles and have

granted AzhwAr the salvation then and there instantaneosly. Why was

this not done?

 

 

The prominent reasons for the delay are:

 

a. nAdu thirutha: To rectify the other souls in this world. The Lord

had Himself taken incarnations. He had followed several methods.

Still the souls did not completely educated. To rectify and rescue

them, AzhwAr was left in this world.

"vUrum, nAdum vulagamum, thannaip pOle, avandaiya pEArum ,thArgaLumEa

pidhaRRa" thiru-voi-mozhi 6-7-2;

 

b. nacchup poigai AgAmaikku: If AzhwAr is granted salvation

immediately on surrender, it will set a bad precedence in the sense

that, it will propogate wrong signals that if sombody surrenders unto

Him, they have to vanish from this world forthwith. This is akin to a

person entering a poisonous pond. To avoid this, a dealy is

warranted.

 

c. prabhandham thali-katta: To get the prabhandham, the great

thiru-voi-mozhi, the magnum-opus, the bhagavadh vishayam, rendered by

swAmi nam-AzhwAr. To reap the fruits of this prabhandham by not only

the world, us but by the Great Almighty Himself.

 

d. The attachment of the Lord towards the physicique of AzhwAr: The

Lord Almighty's immense affection towards AzhwAr permeated as

affection even towards AzhwAr-s physcial embodiment. Hence, a further

detention in this world was necessitated out of the affection towards

AzhwAr's physical thiru-mEani..

 

e.'ini,ini':The primary reason however being to breed and harbour the

tendency or attitude of "eagerness" or "longingness" to reach Him.

AzhwAr has explicitly expressed this in twenty thiru-voi-mozhi-s "

ini " irupadhu.

 

(to be continued)

vanamamalai padmanabhan