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Dear All,

‘aaNnaikaaththo raaNnaikonRa thanRiyaayar piLLaiyaay…’

The above line is from Thirumazhisai Azhwar’s Thiruchandaviruttam.

Azhwar asks Perumal about His leela in protecting one elephant where

as killing another one. Kannan killed the elephant called

Kuvalayapeetam when He was approaching Kamsan’s palace. This act was

well enjoyed by Thirumangai Azhwar in the first pasuram for

Thiruvallikkeni. Thirumazhisai Azhwar talks about protecting

Gajendran, another elephant in the above line of his pasuram in

thiruchandaviruttam. Thirumangai Azhwar enjoys the same act in

different pasuram on Thiruvallikkeni. He sings on Gajendra Varadan in

Thiruvallikkeni by describing the act of protecting Gajendran from the

jaws of a crocodile. Here is the beautiful pasuram,

‘meenamar poygai nNaaNmalar koyvaan vEtkaiyi NnOdusen RizhinNdha,

kaanamar vEzham kaiyeduth thalaRak karaavadhan kaalinaik kadhuva,

aanaiyin thuyaram theerappuL LoornNdhu senRunNin Raazhithot taanai,

thEnamar sOlai maadamaa mayilaith thiruvallik kENikkaN dEnE’

Why should Perumal act differently to the same jAthi of living being?

The act of killing Kuvalayapeetam was very obvious because it stood

against Kannan. In the second case, more justification is needed.

Kannan Himself talks about this in Bhagavat Geeta. He tells Arjuna,

‘Oh Arjuna, the entire world of samsara is kind of a net out of which you can never come out’

Arjuna was very scared to listen to this, and wanted to get back to

the same thought of not going for battle. Krishna repleid to Arjuna

in the same context with the following,

‘Arjuna, you need to listen to me fully. I told that you can never

come out of this samsara net. This is the case when you try to come

out of it. With the Grace of me, you can easily come out of the net

of samsara’

There was an araiyar in Thirunaraiyur, who used to tell that even the

fly's net is very difficult to break, how could it be possible for us

to break the net of samsara, that was built by Perumal.

If we go back to the story of Gajendran, he was trying to break the

net by himself all through, and finally decided that he could not

come out of the jaws by himself. Hence, he left the flowers he was

holding and screamed ‘Adhi moolame’ to offer that pushpam at His

feet. Perumal immediately came to the rescue of Gajendran. This story

was narrated by Thirumangai Azhwar when he sang on Gajendra Varadan.

With his usual and unique style, he finished the pasuram by

worshipping that Gajendra Varadan in Thiruvallikkeni.

Let us enjoy Thirumangai Azhwar’s anubhavam on Thelliya Singam in the next posting,

aDiyEn,

ramanan