kannan thirup palli ezhuchchi - 2

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Post 2

Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

 

We saw the thirup paLLI ezhuchchi being sung to my Krishna as 'kaNNa

ezhindhirum piLLaai'. We also saw the meaning of the krithi. Now we will

see how the duplicate mother yasOdhaa, periyaazhvaar - why I call him

duplicate mother is mother yasOdhaa is the first one to do all these

sisrushai to the child - piLLai vaLarppu - caring the child - till he

grows. Here aazhvaar, since has become another mother like yasOdhaa, he

is a duplicate mother.

 

[the original mother dhEvaki is not at all considered here - oruththi

maganai piRandhu Or iravil oruththi maganai vaLarndhu - today's

thiruppaavai paasuram - so the vaLarththa mother is more considered -

piRappiththa mother dhEvaki is pushed to corner to do all that dhEvaki

pulambal - of kulasekhara - aalai vaai 7th padhigam of perumaaL

thirumozhi].

 

Let us see the duplicate mother's verse.

aravaNaiyaai, aayar ERE, ammam uNNath thuyil ezhaayE

iravum uNNaadhu uRangi nee pOi inRum uchchi koNdadhaalO

varavum kaaNEn vayiRu asaindhaai vanamulaigaL sOrndhu paaya

thiruvudaiyavaai maduththuth thiLaiththu udhaiththup parugidaayE

2-2-1 periyaazhvaar thirumozhi.

 

Meaning as stored in bhakti-list archives given by sri V.Madhavak kaNNan

Swamy of Singapore - [re Aug archives of 2002] quote --

"Oh Chief of cowherd folks! One who has AdhisEshan as the bed! Wake up

to drink the breast milk. One night has gone and even the noon has come

today. You have not drunk yet. AlO! (romba varuttham) How sad! I feel

sad and worried as you have not drunk for more than a day. You are also

not coming on your own. The stomach moves (due to hunger) while you

sleep. Due to the milk being full in my breasts, they have sagged due to

weight. Hence, with your divine mouth, drink this abundant milk, kicking

my stomach with your strong feet (strengthened by drinking milk)

 

The AdhisEshan who is your bed - it appears he is here also; that's why

you never appear to get up. That bed is so comfortable that the Lord

never gets up for eating or drinking. When you came from MathurA he

appeared as umbrella (senRaal kudaiyaam). I suppose he should be the bed

now for you.

 

Ammum- the drinking milk -is addressed as ammam.. The child also tells

mummum (for food). Also when the baby drinks milk, it looks at ammaa's

face, eyes and talks to her saying.. hmmmm hmmm with a smiling face.

Thus it is called ammam. It is my misfortune that your divinely

beautiful mouth is not joining my breasts. This mouth of yours can drink

any amount of milk - Now you are not all drinking. How sad!

Unquote.

 

Of course, our point was not ammam uNNal but waking up the child kaNNan

from bed.

 

See the address in both cases -

kaNNa ezhundhirum piLLaai -

aravu aNaiyaai - aayar ERE - thuyil ezhaayE

in both places - mother yasodhaa only wakes up.

 

That is known by 'piLLaai' addressing, in first, of OVS, and confirmed

by "iru iru ammaa enRu ennennavO pEchchu" - meaning 'Wait ammaa'.

In the second, it is more straight and clear 'ammam UNNa'. Who else will

ask the child to wake up for getting fed, that too by breast milk.

 

Only reasons for waking up kttik kaNNan are different - OVS gives

several reasons,

* sun has come up,

* moon is going down,

* elder balarama is making fun,

* dad king nandha is waiting,

* butter in the pot is just waiting for you to be consumed

* it is your birth star today

* sage garga is waiting,

* sage naaradha is waiting etc.

 

aazhvaar -duplicate mother - says - hey my child you have not taken

breast milk since last night, so may be you are hungry, so the belly is

moving which shows up or inviting the mother to feed, my breast are also

heavy full with milk.

[The mother only knows when the child is fed and to be fed, since how

long he sleeps without being fed of the breast milk, for she also has

her reactions physically etc].

 

another interesting point is - in OVS krithi, we have a beautiful

description of the lord -

uNNaaramuda mozhiyaanE engaL uLLam koLum neela vizhiyaanE

thaNNaar suruNDa kuzhalaanE padham thaththikkum thaNdaik-kazhalaanE

 

uNNaaramuda mozhiyaanE = uNNa uNNa aaraadha amudha mozhiyaan is kaNNan.

 

generally any mazhalai words of a child is sweet - that too, if it is

our own child, it is more sweet - that is why thiruvaLLuvar also says

kuzhalinidhu yaazhinidhu enbar tham

makkaL mazhalaichchol kELaadhavar -

meaning people will say music from the flute is sweet, veeNa is sweet,

who have not listened to their own child's prattle [which is more

sweet].

 

Aazhvaar has simply put all in three addressing - aravu aNaiyaai, aayar

ErE, thiru udaiya vaai - that paaRkadalil paLLi koLLUm paraman having

snake bed - needs any description for his beauty - all what is required

is said in these two words 'aravu aNaiyaai'. That paraman who has come

as aayan - not a simple common folk aayan - one among many simpletons -

but an ACE, a bull. How is his mouth - thiru udaiya vaai - kuNungu

naaRum vaai - because butter eating and mother's milk. Also having

consumed the mud - a special smell of mud - is also there - such a mouth

is called thiruvudaiya vaai.

 

In another krithi 'senRu vaa raadhE' by OVS, he says - in particular

about this mouth of kaNNan -

sonnaalum puriyaadhE unakkuth-thannaalum thOnRaadhE andha

mannanai nambaadhE andha maayan vaakku ellaam maN tinRa vaai thaanE

 

that maN thinRa vaai is thiruvudaiya vaai. Oh krishNa - what are all the

words with which you are addressed.

 

This also triggers to the quotation from bhaagavatham - King parikshit

who was listening to the recitation of srimadh bhaagavatham asked the

sukha maharshi - in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.8.46).

 

nandha: kim akarOdh brahman srEya Evam mahOdhayam

yasOdhaa va maha-bhaga papou yasyah sthanam hari:

 

"O braahmaNa [meaning sukhar], what pious activities did Nandha Maharaja

perform to receive that Supreme Personality Krsna as his son? And what

pious activities did mother YasOdhaa perform that made the Absolute

Supreme Personality Krsna call her "mother" and suck her breasts?'

 

perhaps this slOkam only has lead to the three krithis with central

theme 'enna thavam seidhanai yasOdhaa'. [please refer a three part essay

on these 3 krithis in the archives or refer www.karnatik.com website

under articles title]

 

For the lord himself says in bhagavath geethaa - Of the pious of men

there are four kinds that are devoted to Me, O Arjuna: the distressed,

the inquisitive, the ones desiring material gain and the ones who know

things as they are as well, o great one of the Bhârata's.

 

chathur-vidhaa bhajanthE maam janaah sukrthinO'rjuna

aarthO jignaasur arthaarthee jnaanee cha bharatharshabha

 

O best among the bhaarathaas, four kinds of pious men begin to render

devotional service into Me -- the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the

inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.

 

So the pair nandha and yasOdhaa should have done a lot things in the

fourth category and that is why having the lord himself as their child.

Now enjoy that krishNa the child thru krithi as well paasuram of

aazhvaar - to at least fall in any of the first two categories.

 

Dhaasan

 

Vasudevan m.g.