A Peep into Periya ThiruMozhi 189

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Dear SrEvaishNavites,

 

The Lord knows any feigning of worship as He is inside the jEvAthmA. 'vuLLuvAr

vuLLiRRellAm vudan irundhu.." says thoNdar adip poDi. Here Thirumangai AzhwAr

says that he is a cheat in the sense that he has misconstrued as the jEvAthmA

as his.

 

Usually, we observe poets talking about swans while narrating style and beauty

of walk. Here in ThriuchERai it is the other way round. The swans simulate the

walking style of the beutiful women and did they succeed in that ?

 

Finally, Thirumangai AzhwAr prescribes dedicating this pAsuram to Almighty with folded hands.

 

All these are aptly summarised by Smt Sumithra VaradarAjan.

 

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan

 

 

Sri Parthasarathi thunai

SrimathE ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnachala maha munayE namaha

 

Howzzat?

 

“kallaththEn poiyagaththEn AdhalAl pOdharukAl kavalai ennum vellaththErkku enkolO”

 

“I am a perfect cheat. I stole my athma “chOrEna AthmA apahArinam” and till

today haven’t accepted the same. Due to this I have been suffering in the

world of miseries without any break. In spite of all these, how is it that I

have received a outcome that is attained by those who surrender their athma to

the lord and at all times are in his memory” Wonders kaliyan in the 9th

paasuram of the kan sOra venkurudhi padhigam.

 

My heart is a barren land filled with hard stones. How did love and respect,

that too towards bhagavatas, who I consider to be just like me (sajadeeyargal)

creep inside my heart? Deeply wonder’s azhvar in the last but one paasuram in

this canto.

 

Usually the last paasuram in any padhigam except for a few exceptions is a pala

shruthi paasuram. Pala shruthi paasuram declares who wrote the above paasuram

and what result those who chant these paasurams will obtain. This canto is one

of the rare ones that does that say the palam (result) directly. Kaliyan says,

 

The Failed Simulation

“poomAn sEr karunkuzhalAr pOl nadanthu vayal nindRa pedaiyodannam

tEmAvinin nizhalil kanduyilum taN sErai yammAn tannai

vAmAn sEr parakAlan kalikandri olimAlai kondu thondeer

toomAn sEr ponnadimEl sootumin num tuNai kaiyAl thozhudhu nindrE”

 

[The birds in the fields of thiruchchErai divya desam try to imitate the

beautiful walking style of the long dark haired maidens of the place and not

being able to do the same even in the company of the female birds due to shy,

sleep under the shadow of the trees. Kalikandri, who is capable of winning

over his enemies like Parthasarathi who rode the chariot of arjuna in such a

way to win over the war wrote this beautiful tamil poetry. Oh! Those who are

interested in bhagavat vishayam, oh! Bhagavatas submit this beautiful paasurams

to the sparkling divine feet of emperuman. While doing so let your hands be

folded while standing in front of him.]

 

Dedicating the thirumozhi to the Lord-The End in itself.

 

What is the pala shruthi here? Folding hands in front of the lord and chanting

the paasurams of kaliyan itself is the palan. How? Sri Parasara bhattar in his

guna ratna kosam says, “Ishvaryam akshara gathim paramam padham vaa….” Oh!

Ranganayaki your head is bowed down I have found the reason. This person came

in front of you and prostrated you with folded hands. You gave him all the

wealth, kaivalyam and even paramapadam but still you are not satisfied with

granting the required for what he did. So your head is bowed due to shyness.

That is the generosity/magnanimity of piratti. The same is with perumal. It

is even enough if we stand in front of him with folded hands. What to say, if

we chant azhvar’s paasuram, that too the paasurams that elaborate the greatness

of bhagavatas very near to emperuman’s heart (“jnAni tu Athmaiva mE matham”

“mama prAnAhi pAndava:”)?

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan