Naaraar indai Naanmalar koNdu - 2

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Krishna was a ten year old boy when he visited his birth place,

Mathura from Gokulam. He visited each one of His well wishers '

place, before visiting one of his devotees called MAlAkAran.

MAlAkAran was very surprised to have Krishna as guest, and was unable

to control his joy. Krishna, rightly took the garland (that MAlAkAran

had kept ready for Krishna) to wear it around his neck. There must be

a reason for this act of Krishna. Let us get back to the pasuram now.

The pasuram starts with "naadaatha malar naadi". Our PurvAchAyas give

two kinds of meaning to this text. One refers to the Atma itself

which can be submitted as flower at the vaadaatha thriuvadi of

Perumal. Other meaning is any kind of flower from any of the eight

directions. Now, we could understand the kind of kaimkaryam done by

MAlAkAran. In one of the prior pasurams in this set of 10 pasurams,

NammAzhwar sings as: "ennNeermai kandiranki yithuthakaa thennaatha

ennNeela mukilvaNNaRkensoliyaan sollukEnO?"

This pasuram was sung in the context when thalaivi was away from

thalaivan. If we look at the pasuram it says kandiranki, meaning even

after the thalaivan (Perumal) has seen the state of distress of

thalaivi (Parankusanayaki). This cannot be logically possible when

thalaivan is away from thalaivi. Swami Parasa Bhattar gave a very

good explanation for this:

Even when Perumal took his hands little away from Azhwar to loosen up,

that was meant as a pirivu (separation) by Azhwar and hence he went to

the state of deep sorrow.

Let us continue enjoying Pushpa kaimkaryam of Azhwar with the thread

from following pasuram in next posting:

kandu konden kaiga Laara nin_thirup paadhangaLmEl, endi saiyu muLLa

pookkoN dEththi yugandhugandhu, thonda rOngaL paadi yaadach

choozhkadal NYaalaththuLLE, vandu zhaayin kaNNi vEndhE! vandhida

gillaayE. (ThiruvAymozhi 4.7.8)aDiyEn,ramanan

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