The Immaculate Divine Poet and his eternal Magnum Opus

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THE IMMACULATE DIVINE POET AND HIS ETERNAL MAGNUM OPUS

 

Why is Sri Nam-AzhwAr so great? For his great devotion? Immense affection? For

his dedication or for his steadfastness of considering the EmperumAn as His food

and water throughout his life?

 

When we talk of Thirumangai AzhwAr we eulogise him as 'nAlu-kavip perumAL' and

consume his great poetic prowess. Is ParAnkusa a lesser poet? While Sri

Nam-AzhwAr used the great tamil language as a platform for his mission, Sri

Thirumangai AzhwAr used it as a language. Does that make him a lesser poet?

 

Coming to think of it, the Thiruvirutham, the ThriuvAsiriyam, The Periya

ThiruvandhAdhi and The ThriuvAimOzhi are all andhAdhi-s.

Composing andhAdhi for a few songs is the most difficult thing in life and these

string of divine works speaks volumes of his greatness.

 

The next question comes up. He might have composed andhAdhi-s but are the

contents dense ? The love and affection and the emotions come out as pAsuram-s

and therefore indeed the contents are packed with love, bakthi, affection and a

leading path for us. These pAsuram-s talk of the Lord.

 

Well, the doubting thomases still say 'even vAlmiki has come out with a

wonderful work called 'srimadh RamAyaNam' talking of Chakravarhtith Thriumagan.

ParAsara maharishi involved himself in the making of KrshNA's pranks and

valours'.So what is great? they may question.

 

The nithya-sUrigaL in the parama-padham are always in the 'service to EmepurmAn

-The service for EmperumAn'. They do not have any other thinking. The mukhtAs

are also similar to this state. Hence, these two do not have any thought of

composing such works.

 

vAlmiki bhagavAn is attached to Sri RamAvathAram. Sri parAsara vyAsA-s have

dedicated their poems to krishNAvathAram.

Sanakamuni is for archAvathAram.

 

Then who is there to compose divine psAlms and hymns of devotion of EmperumAn

-The EmepurumAn Parathvam -The EmperumAn vyUham- The EmperumAn vibhavam -The

EmpeurmAn antharyAmi and The EmepurmAn archAVathAram.

 

It is SwAmy Nam-AzhwAr who has the great power of composing divine songs on the

EmperumAn Parathvam -vAnak kOne;

The EmepurmAn vibhavam- kudamADi; The EmeprumAn antharyami- eNdisaiyum

thaviRAdhu ninRAn;

 

And this is declared by Sri ParAnkusA himself in the ThriuvAiMoshi

 

'vAnathum vAnathuL vumbarum-maN vuLLum -maNNin kEzh dhAnathum,

eNdhisaiyum thaviRAdhu ninRAn thannai,

kUnaR sangath thadaikkai avanai, kudamADiyai,

vAnak kOnai kavi solla vallEARku ini mARuNDEA" 3-5-9;

 

 

Is there any other divine poet at par with him?

 

'ini mARuNDEA?

 

 

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan