A Peep into Periya ThiruMozhi 183

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Dear SrEvaishNavites,

Does the devotion of Sri Kaliyan towards the bhAgavathAs a flash in

the pan? Is it just a passing cloud or is it a fancy/infatuation? Is

it a temporary phenomenon or a permanent affair?

 

Please go further .

 

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan

 

 

Sri Parthasarathi thunai

SrimathE ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnachala maha munayE namaha

 

“emperumAn thAl thozhuvAr eppozhudum en manaththE erukkindrArE” 7-4-2;

 

The BruhadAranya Upanishad says, “athmAvA arE drushtavya: srOtravyO

mandavyO nidhithyAsitavya:I” [ First listen to the sastras and learn

about the paramAtma; Then explore about the same; Then meditate on

the lord till you reach the stage of sAkshAtkAram (viewing with your

eyes)] Thirumangai azhvar’s prime motto is to have the darshan of the

lord that which he is going to attain at the end of his last

prabhandam, thiruneduntAndakam. Azhvar has learnt about the

paramatma already which is clear from his words, “kandukondEn

nArAyana ennum nAmam; nAnum sonnEn namarum vuraimin namO nArAyanamE;

etc” So it is clear that azhvar’s mind always meditates on only the

divine qualities of emperuman. So even if kaliyan places the

bhagavatas on top of his head his mind will still meditate only on

the lord. Is it so?

 

“No!” answers kaliyan in the second paasuram. Those blessed

bhagavatas who are ever in the service of that lord, who has that

divine piratti who was born in a beautiful lotus in his divine heart

and that very lord who as a leela killed the asura in the form of a

tree (vilAmaram) with the help of another asura vatsAsuran, in the

form of a calf, at all times fill by heart. Emperuman has a

capturing walking style and the divya desam thiruchchErai itself is

very attracting with sweet smelling gardens and the abode of the

lord, the temple is huge but all these didn’t fill the heart of

kaliyan as the greatness of the bhagavatas who are in the service of

that thiruchchErai emperuman is milestones away.

 

“eppozhudum en manaththE erukkindrArE”

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan