Sri Vishnuchitta kulanandana kalpavalli (Part-37)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha

 

Andal aspired for the divine darshan of krishna in various postures

(lying, walking and sitting). Emperuman is bhaktha parAdeedan. He

will do anything for the sake of his devotees. If he will run the

chariot of arjuna and do everything as per the orders of arjuna who

was filled with pride and ego what to say about these gopis who were

ananya prayojanargal who considered krishna to be everything for

them. They have shed their entire ego and have surrendered to the

divine feet of krishna. So kannapiran started to walk towards the

“seeriya singAsanam” as per the wish of andal. What should andal do

now? She should enjoy his divine beauty while walking. But her

state of love towards krishna is not like ours it is the ultimate

love like her father periazhvar. So she started fearing if some harm

will occur to this divine beauty. So her mind started to think about

all past events when the lord underwent many hardships for the sake

of his devotees and andal started to sing mangalasasanams, “adi

pORRi, thiral pORRi, pugazh pORRi, kazhal pORRi, gunampORRI,

vElpORRi” We all see in this world that only elders do AshirvAdams to

those younger to them. Is it right for people younger doing

mangalAsAsanams to emperuman who is the ultimate? Is mangalAsAsanam

not against our svaroopa?

 

Sri Pillai ulagariyan in his masterly work Sri Vachana bhooshanam

wonderfully answers these questions with apt examples.

“MangalAsAsanam svaroopa viruththamandrO vennil jnanadasaiyil rakshya

rakshaka bhAvam than kappilE kidakkum prEmadasaiyil

tattumArikidakkum”

 

In general we see that at different times our behaviour with a same

person may change. In the state of jnanam, we realise that emperuman

is our sole rescuer and we depend on him to be protected and hence the

sesha-seshi bhavam remains in our minds. But the same person when he

is filled with deep devotion (bhakthi) towards the lord start to

think about the lord’s welfare. Periazhvar was the greatest example.

His affection towards the lord was termed as “pongum parivu” The

other azhvars had parivu (concern) whereas villiputtur pattarbiran

was filled with pongum parivu (deep concern) and hence he was called

periazhvar. Today being swathi the thirunakshatram of periazhvar it

is apt to do mangalasasanams to periazhvar. Will andal, the only

daughter (“anju kudikkoru sandhadhi”) not use the right time to do

mangalasasanams to emperuman, her dear krishna? That is why in this

24th paasuram, immersed in the divine beauty of walking krishna she

was worried about his well-being and she sings “pORRI! pORRi!” so

many times.

“endrendrum vun sEvagamE Eththi parai kolvAn endru yAm vandOm erangu”

 

(To be continued)

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan