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