Day and Night

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Dear All,

 

Pranams!

 

Since Thirumangai Azhjwar's Thirunakshatram is approaching, aDiyEn

would like to write some intersting aspect that our Acharyas have

discussed about this Azhwar.

 

 

 

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AtmAvai veyyilil vaithu udalai nizhalil vaithu....

For the souls that are caught in the worldly pleasures of samsara,

there is a concept of day and night. They keep rotating all through

the life span. It is not the case for a soul that is caught in the

Bhagavat anubhavam. For this soul, there is no concept of night at

all. One Azhwar sings beautifully as

‘pagal kandEn nArananaikkandEn’

Vedanta say that ‘sadhA pashyanti soorayaha’, which means it is always

bright in the abode of Perumal. Eventually, there is no darkness.

There was a Chola king, who was very similar to ordinary soul. Similar

to us, he was also immersed worldly pleasure. It is a well known story

for all of us about this king. In the process of his roberry

(popularly known as Thirumangai Azhwar Kaimkaryam in our sampradayam)

to build the wall of Srirangam temple, Perumal and Thayar came in

front of him, and eventually by Perumal’s sankalpam, Thirumangai

mannan became Thirumangai Azhwar due to the Thirumantra upadesam. The

entire incident happened under the most gifted arasa maram. This is

how it goes for Azhwar.

Choza nAttu Arasan became an Azhwar by listening to the arasan of all

the mantras from vAn Ilavarasu. He immediately realised that he had

kept his AtmA in veyyil and udal in nizhal earlier, and started

singing,

'vAdinEn vAdi....nAdi nAn kandukondEn nArAyanA ennum nAmam'

When Swami Manavalamamunigal visited this place for the first time, He

totally fell prostrating this place and was full of joy.

Like how a king became an Azhwar, the tree got the sambandham with Perumal and Azhwar.

Other Azhwars were concentrating on paratvam, Vedanta vishayam and all

in difficult ways to comprehend. In particular PeryAzhwar stood out

with pongum parivu, followed by Andal with krishna bhakti and

Madhurakavigal with Acharya bhakti.

All the above are very important concepts in our sampradayam. Our

kadaikkutti Azhwar stood out among the Azhwar Goshti, in his

outpourings on Divya Desams (Archai). A prince always takes a spoon

of ghee with every in take of food. Similarly, our Kaliyan has the

speciality for ‘adi thOrum archai’, meaning finishing with archai

Perumal for every pasuram. That is the easiest way for all of us. If

we are able to think about the fact that great Azhwars, Acharyas have

stood before those Perumals and sung loads of pasurams with their

beautiful and hearty words, we could realize how beautiful those

Perumals should be. Moreover, just because they have done

mangalasasanams, Perumal’s beauty would have got multiplied than

before.

‘piNtiyAr maNtai Enthip piRarmanai thirithan thuNNum, uNtiyAn sApam

theerththa oruvanoor, ulaka mEththum kaNtiyUr arangkam meyyam

kassipEr mallai enRu maNtinAr, uyyal allAl maRRaiyArk kuyya lAmE?’

More than anything else, unlike Nammazhwar or earlier Azhwars, our

Parakalan was right in calling himself ‘Irunthamizh nool Pulavan’. He

was fortunate enough to know the works of other Azhwars.

Even Perumal was littel scared of our Kaliyan. We cannot easliy get

mantra upadesam from Acharyas. Our Parakalan got it from Perumal with

a sword.

aDiyEn,

ramanan

 

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