Guest guest Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 SrimatE Raamaanujaaya Namaha // SrimatE Nigamaanta Mahaa Desikaaya Namaha // SrIman! SrI Ranga Sriyam anupadravam anudhinam Samvardhaya/ SrIman! SrI Ranga Sriyam anupadravam anudhinam Samvardhaya// KAvEri VardhathAm kAlE, kAlE varshathu vAsava: / SrI RanganAthO jayathu Sri Ranga Sri cha VardhathAm// =========================================================== SRI RANGA SRI VOL.07 / ISSUE # 18 dated 27th December 2005 =========================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. TIRUPPAVAI PASURAM # 12: kanaiththiLam kaRRerumai (ANBIL RAMASWAMY) 2. TIRUPPAVAI PASURAM # 12: kanaiththiLam kaRRerumai ENGLISH VERSE TRANSLATION (MS. SHOBA RAMASWAMY) ==================================================== ISSUES RELEASED So far, 194 Regular issues of SRS have been released apart from Special Issues: 27 Issues of Vol. 1 15 Issues of Vol. 2 42 Issues of Vol. 3 35 Issues of Vol. 4 28 Issues of Vol. 5 30 Issues of Vol. 6 and 17 Issues of Vol. 7 =========================================================== xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx =========================================================== 1. TIRUPPAVAI PASURAM # 12: kanaiththiLam kaRRerumai (ANBIL RAMASWAMY) -------------------------- Tiruppavai 12 kanaiththiLam kaRRerumai kanaiththu iLaNG kaRRerumai kanRukku iraNGki * ninaiththu mulai vazhiyE ninRu paal cOra * nanaiththu illam cERaakkum naR celvan thaNGkaay * panith thalai vIzha nin vaacaR katai paRRic * cinaththinaal thennilaNGkaik kOmaanaic ceRRa * manaththukku iniyaanaip paatavum nI vaay thiRavaay * iniththaan ezhun^thiraay Ithenna pEruRakkam * anaiththu illaththaarum aRin^thu ElOr empaavaay. ================================================ This Paasuram is said to be a “wake up call” to one who is like Poigai Azhwar. • He said “pazhudE pal pagalum pOyina enRu anji azhudEn” “I shed tears uncontrollably on having lost many a day without thinking of the Lord”. • May be the tears were generated by the overflow of emotion in the guNaanubhavam of the Lord. However it is, the fact remains that his tears (of joy or sorrow) made the ground slushy. • We should remember that he appeared in a pond (poigai). No wonder, it was slushy. • Some hold that the wake up call is for a gOpi an younger sister of a friend and antaranga Sishya of KrishnNa. kanaiththu iLam kaRRu erumai: buffaloes crying for the young calves • Sridhaaman prioritized antaranga kainkaryam (private service) to the Lord and so postponed doing Nityakarmas ordained in the Saastras. • He did not give up due to laziness (aalaasyam)! • This takes us to the topic on “Ajnaa kainkaryam” and “Anujnaa kainkaryam” • While the Nitya and Naimittika karmas like Sandhyavandanam are to be done as the very commands of the Lord and cannot be given up under any circumstances lest paapam should accrue, the anujnaa kainkaryam like offering flowers to temples, decorating the temple precincts, lighting lamps etc are done out of interest and NOT as commands. Not doing them will not entail in any sin but are done for the pleasure of the Lord and would result in puNyam. • If one is not able to perform Sandhya on any day for some reason, the arrears have to be pulled up at the next occasion with the praayaschitta Sankalpam “PoorvEdhyu: ananushTitam praatah/ maadhyahnika/saayam sandhyaam adhya aham upaasishyE”. • Another saying says “kaaNaamal, kONaamal, kaNDu koDu” meaning that the Praatah Sandya, Madhyahnikam and Saayam Sandhyaa should be done immediately before Sunrise, when the Sun is at the zenith and again just before Sunset respectively. If this is not possible, one should adopt the praayschitta Sankalpam and pull up arrears. • The bottom line is that they cannot be skipped under any circumstances. • It would appear that when a father asked his son whether the latter had done his nitykarma, the son replied that he had forgotten the mantras and requested his father to teach him. To this, the father commented: “How can you forget so soon after your Upanayanam? Do you know when I got my Upanayanam? It was some 40 years back. How do you expect me to remember?” This shows how the parents themselves have lost their moorings in learning and observing the essential karmas ordained in the Saastras and therefore forfeited their right to discipline their children! • Another case where for a similar query of a father, the son replied that he had performed Sandhya at the “Vaaikkaal” running at the backyard of their house. (In the villages, people used to perform their nityakarmas in the running waters in the rivulet in the backyards of their houses). When the father told him that due to drought there was no water running in the rivulet, the son replied “My friend in the next house told me that there was water!” Non-performance compounded with a falsehood were thus betrayed! (Kritya akaraNam and akritya karaNam) • It is never too late to return to the mainstream and resume. For the one who heads in the wrong direction, God allows a “U” turn! Let the parents who have forgotten start learning to do Sandhyavandanam at least NOW! • Azhagiya singhar used to say that OT (Overtime) could have any meaning only in the context of “duty”. One cannot claim to do OT when one has not done one’s duty in the first place. • Ajnaa is duty and anujnaa is OT. kanRukku irangi: calling out showing motherly affection • The calves of buffaloes have less digestive powers than the calves of cows. So, milkmen used to keep the buffalo calves away lest they should get literally “fed up”. The mother buffaloes imagine them to be around even though they were not really so and would out of concern let milk flow from their udders, • On the other hand, cows would not be amenable to yielding milk, if they do not actually “see” their calves. That is probably why, milkmen “show” the dead “stuffed calves” to prompt cows to yield milk! • Let us see the story of Baby KrishNa asking His mother for milk: Maatah!: Mother! Kim yadunaatha!: What, My darling! DEhi chasahakam: Give me your breast Kim tEna?: Why? Paatum paya: To drink milk Tannaasti: Not now Kadaasti?: Then, when? Nisi: At night Nisaa kaa vaa?: What is night? AndhkarOdayae: When darkness sets in. On hearing this, KrishNa closes his eyes and says that darkness had come and insists on being breastfed. ninaiththu mulai vazhiyE ninRu paal cOra: thinking (of those calves) even as they were standing, milk flows from their udders. * Ninru: milk flowing uninterruptedly nanaithth illam cERaakkum: Wetting all the way to their homes and making them swampy. • With rain flooding from above (Neer veLLam), with flood of milk down below (paal veLLam) and flood of Naama Samkeertanam (Maal veLLam) in between, the gOPis are drowned in KrishNaanubhavam. • Cf kambar’s description of VeNNai nallur, the place of his mentor, Sadaiyappa vaLLal. “Metterumai vaavi puga, muTTuvaraal kanrenru, veeTTaLavum paal soriyum veNNaiyE naaTTil” naR celvan thangaay (Oh you) good prosperous cowherd sister (of Lord Krishna's friend)! • The gOpis seem to say: Don’t be ashamed to call yourself the sister of one who has not completed his nityaanushTaanam. Because, he was engaged in kainkaryam, he had just postponed it. He will make it up! He is “narselvan” • SelvaN; means wealth. What is the wealth? Jnaanam is real wealth. • Thangai: You know who is Akka? Elder sister is JyEshTai known as “MoodEvi”. “Thangai” is younger sister. Mahaalakshmi is “Thangai” • “SahOdara” is another word to denote fraternity. It is derived from “saha + udara”. Born from the same mother. But, this need not be the case all the time. - Did not Rama say: I can find wives and relatives in every countries. But, I cannot see a place where you can find a brother (sahOdara) like LakshmaNa. Remember that he was not really a Saha+ udara. He was born to Sumitra and Not to Kousalya! dEsE dEsE kaLatraani, dEsE dEsE cha baahndvaah/ tham tu dEsam na pasyaami yatra braathaa sahOdarah// - He further claimed a few more brothers in Guhan Sugrivan and VibheeshaNa (guhanudan aivaraanOm,… ninnodum ezhuvar aanOm) - When Dharmaputra was asked by Yaksha to choose one more brother to be brought alive, he named Nakula because he himself was there as the son of Kunti and he wished to have at least one son of Madri, Nakula to be brought alive. pani ththalai vIzha: dew is falling on our heads • Because it is so slushy on the ground that we are not able to enter and therefore are standing at the entrance nin vaacaR kadai paRRic :(and we are) holding on to the outside entrance of your house cinath thinaal thenn ilangaik kOmaanaic ceRRa: One who destroyed Southern Lanka’s ruler out of anger cinath thinaal Out of anger: • Is anger good? In fact, it is ranked as one of the evil tendencies of Kaama, KrOda, mOha, lObha, mada, maatsarya. But, anger became a virtue in the case of Sri Rama because of the circumstances in which he got angry. thenn ilangaik • “Thenn” denotes “yamapuri”. Those who hold sway there are ahamkaaram (Dehaatma bramam) and Mamakaaram (Thinking what belongs to Bhagavaan jivaatma, as belonging to one’s self) • Setra: means decimated completely. This is because, Sri Rama had vowed to do away with RavaNa and his clan completely (sa putra poutram sa amaatyam) manath thukku iniyaanaip: who is sweet to the mind • When they had assembled to sing paeans of praise of KrishNa, how come they call Sri Rama as “manathukku iniyaan”- One who is pleasing to the mind? Andal seems to have a dig at KrishNa. She seems to ask: “All the troubles and tribulations in building a bridge, transporting an entire battalion of monkeys, giving fierce battle etc that Sri Rama underwent were for the sake of one woman, Sri Sita. But, what are you doing? When we, the 5 lakhs of gOpis are pining with intense devotional love for you, you do not seem to care to lift even your little finger for our sake, Is not Sri Rama manathukku iniyaan? • Further the name Rama itself is derived from “Ramayati it Ramah” One who pleases. • He was pleasing even to his enemies. Taara, Mareecha, Vaali, Soorpanakha and finally RavaNa himself vie with each other and take turns to praise Sri Rama. Did he not ask RavaNa to “Go today and come tomorrow to fight” (inru pOi naaLai vaa)? “ripooNaamapi vaatsalya:” says Valmiki. • Other gOPis interfere and mediate saying that it is the same Sri Rama who is now presenting Himself as Sri KrishNa and the dispute is settled amicably. • Once when YasOda was narrating the story of Sri Rama to baby KrishNa, the baby was listening intently. But, when she started telling about the abduction of Sri Sita by RavaNa, it seems the baby called “LakshmaNa! Bring my bow and arrows. Someone is abducting my wife”. This is a story by PouraaNikas to show that Sri Rama and Sri KrishNa are one and the same. paadavum nI vaay thiRavaay: As we are singing, open Your mouth ini ththaan ezhundhiraay: Now at least wake up • It is a sin to sleep after daybreak • One of Bharata pratigjnai is that he would go to the hells to which the lazy sleeper sleeps after Sunrise. eedh enna pEr uRakkam What is this big sleep? • There are two kinds of sleep “Dheerga nidra” which means death and “GaaDa nidra” which means deep dreamless sleep anaithth illathaarum aRindhu: Other house people are awake and have come to know of your laziness in sleeping for so long To Continue ================================================================== Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ================================================================== 2. TIRUPPAVAI PASURAM # 12 kanaiththiLam kaRRerumai ENGLISH VERSE TRANSLATION (MS. SHOBA RAMASWAMY) --------- “The buffaloes call to their calves And, in their young ones’ thought Make the whole house slushy with milk from their udders. Oh! Sister of the one Who possesses such wealth! With heads bedewed stand we Grasping your door-posts, Singing of the One Who to anger provoked, slew the King of lanka, Of the sweet Lord Rama, And, yet you remain silent! Wake up at least now! What means this great sleep? All the neighbors Are up and alert, Oh! My Maidens’ -------------------------------- To Continue ================================================================== xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ================================================================== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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