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Some More, Please

 

It is well known that the vEdhA-s returned after failing to find the

real nature of the Lord -nAn-maRaigaL thEADi enRum kANa mATTAch

selvan- are the words of thirumangai AzhwAr--yathO vAchA

nivarthAthEa.

 

Having failed so, the sages who were submerged in the Lord's

auspicious qualities, were despondent that the number of qualities of

the sriman nArAyaNA easily outnumbered and outpaced descriptions and

narrations. The vEdhAs or other related works could not keep pace to

the auspicious qualities of em-perumAn.

 

This was the status till the birth of the magnum-opus -the divine work

of swami nam-AzhwAr -the thiru-voi-mozhi-bhagawadh vishayam.

 

Till then, these munivar-s-some were talking about His quality of

rescuing -rakshagathvam;some were extolling His saulabyam;some were

commending His other such qualities. However, in aggegate this was

only a fraction of the real truth. Therefore, these sages were

desiring for more and more such devotees and works to describe the

nature of the Lord.

 

At last, the great divine saint swAmi nam-AzhwAr blessed by the Lord

Himself who surreptiously entered into his mind -nErmaiyAl nenjam

vanjithup pugundhu- made this great work possible in the classical

divine tamil --en-nenjathuL irundhu ingu irum-thamizh nUl ivai

mozhindhu 10-6-4; -is the confession by AzhwAr himself in the

 

What happened later is history. These saints who were submerged in

em-perumAn's kalyANa guNangaL attained immense happiness,

unmeasurable mirth,and invaluable indeed was their joy that they were

able to cherish all the kalyANa guNangaL of the Lord.

 

This fact is categorically spelt out in the Edu vyAkyAnam for the

 

"thiru-voi-mozhi avatharitha pinbu, avanukku guNa vibUdhigaL pOrAdhu

enRu irundha izhavu thErndhu-athAl niradhisayAnandhigaLAga.."

 

After the origin of thiru-voi-mozhi, these good sages became immensely

happy as their regret that there was not a work comprehensively

covering the Lord's qaualities, was removed-and that is nan-munivar

inbam thalai-siRappa.

 

"eNNAdhanagaL eNNum nan munivar inbam thalai siRappa"10-7-5;

 

Countless qualities restricted by the limitations of experiece were

their regrets in pre-thiruvoizhmozhi days.

 

In the post thiruvoizmozhi days -however, they longed for more and

more auspicious qualities as now the experience outnumbered-the

narration outnumbered , the description outnumbered the qualities.

They desired for more such qualties and their minds asked for

 

Some more, Please

 

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan