GhAnam ketta Perumal-7

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Nammazhwar could not stop enjoying Nambi’s beauty. He was completely

defeated by Nambi’s Thirumeni Azhagu. In ThiruvAymozhi 5.5 Nammazhwar

enjoys the form of Nambi. This is an important concept called ‘Uruva

Vazhippadu’ or ‘Worship of Form’. This has been touched upon by Swami

Desikan in his work, DramidOpanishad tAttparya ratnAvali. Swami

Manavala Mamunigal also has referred to this concept in ThiruvAymozhi

NootrandhAdhi.

Whenever Nammazhwar closed his eyes, he could completely visualize the

beauty of Nambi. When he opened his eyes, he realized that he was not

able to embrace Him. Nammazhwar’s neighbours are asking him about his

love on Nambi. Here is how Nammazhwar replies them,

‘My heart has gone behind Nambi. If it comes back, I will listen to

you all. I am very sure it will never come back after going behind

Nambi. There is no use in getting angry with me. It is you people who

first introduced me to Nambi. The fault is with you all, and not

mine.’

Here is the beautiful pasuram,

eNGNGanEyO annai meergaaL! ennai munivadhunNeer?, nangaLkOlath thiruk

kuRungudi nambiyai naaNnkandapin, sanginOdum nEmi yOdum thaamaraik

kaNgaLodum, senganivaa yonRi Nnodum selginRa thennNenchamE

Nambi is so beautiful with His sangu and chakram. These are the beauty

of His DivyAyudhams. His eyes are like lotus. The chakram is like sun,

and sanghu is like chandran (moon). When Nambi’s eyes (lotus)see the

chakram, they open and when they see the sanghu (moon) they close.

Since they keep doing this continuosly, Nambi’s eyes are such that

whenever we see from any direction it is as if He sees us. This can

even be enjoyed by all of us when we have the darshan of Nambi. His

lips are red in colour.

Azhwar’s heart has gone behind Nambi due to all the all above

characteristics. After enjoying Nambi, Azhwar says that He cannot be

understood by anyone, but one can do so only by His Nirhetuka Krupai.

He instructs all of us to worship Nambi with pushpam and the 10

pasurams. The 10 pasurams tell about the beauty of various kuris on

the Nambi's Thirumeni. If one is able to do the above and understand

the fact that Thirukkurungudi’s greatness is even more than that of

SriVaikuntam (‘ariyakkattru vallAr), that SriVaishnavite will be the

one who will enjoy complete happiness even in the midst of samsara.

aRivariya piraanai yaazhiyangaiyanai yEyalaRRi, naRiyanNan malarnNaadi

naNnkurukoorchchatakOpan sonna, kuRikoLaa yiraththuL Livaipaththum

thirukkuRuNG kudiyathanmEl aRiyak kaRRuvallaar vaittaNavaraazhkatal

NYaalaththuLLE

Nammazhwar calls Him arivariya pirAn. Another Azhwar says that he has

completely known about Nambi, despite the fact that Vedanta has

failed to completely explain Perumal. He calls Nambi as Perarulalan.

Let us look into his anubhavam in the next posting.

aDiyEn,

ramanan

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