Sri Vishnuchitta kula nandana kalpavalli (Part-26)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha

 

In the twelfth paasuram, andal sang the praise of chakravarthi

thirumagan, “manaththukkiniyAnai pAdavum nee vAi thiravAi”. But the

gopis and andal were more involved only with the great leelas of

krishna. So in the next paasuram, andal talks about the way in which

Sri Krishna easily got rid of his enemy. “pullinvAi keendAnai

pollAarakkanai killi kalaindhAnai”. Kamsa sent an asura to kill

krishna. That asura took the form of a crane. Krishna tore the

mouth of the crane without any difficulty and killed the asura. This

leela of krishna was enjoyed by periazhvar, father of andal as,

“paLLaththil mEyum paravai vurukondu kaLLa asuran varuvAnai thAn

kandu puLLidhuvendru podukkO vAi keenditta”

 

According to our acharyas, the inner essence of this incident is that,

to remove all our enemies emperuman expects only our acceptance and

nothing else. “eththalaikku esaivirE vEnduvadhu; virOdhi pOkkugai

avan paNi endru erukkai. Nammudaiya anumadhigalukku ishvaran pannum

anumadhi vaishamya nairgrunyaththil pugAdhAppOlE, evvanumadhi

vupAyaththil pugAdhu; eruvarkkum erandu anumadhigalum svaroopaththilE

kidakkumiththanai” –nAlAyirapadi

[What emperuman expects, to remove all our enemies is the permission

from our side. He takes care of the rest. Emperuman leaves us to do

what all we wish to do whether good or bad and thereafter we have to

bear the fruit for the corresponding acts. That doesn’t mean that

emperuman is partial and he has likes and dislikes. Similarly our

permission or acceptance cannot become an upaya. Both these are due

to the nature of emperuman and the jeevatma.]

 

Sri Pillai lokacharya in his mumukshupadi-charama sloka prakaranam

says, “pEtrukku vEnduvadhu vilakkAmaiyum, erappum” (273). To attain

the divine feet of emperuman we have to do two things. One is to

allow emperuman come to our rescue and then request him to grant us

his divine kainkaryam. Our acharyas say that emperuman went at the

back of the cows not because the cows requested him to do so but the

cows never stopped him from coming at their back. Moreover, Krishna

liked the young girls in gokulam a lot because the males had a

confidence that they can defend themselves and the elder women had

confidence on their husbands which prevented krishna reaching them

but the young girls were innocent and considered krishna alone to be

their sole refuge.

 

(To be continued)

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan