16.NAAYAKAN

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16.NAAYAKAN

 

 

Thus in ten pasurams Andal woke up girls of differing

natures and thereby all the girls of Gokula were woken

up and they all proceed to Sri Nandagopan's mansion and

request the door keeper to let them in.

 

Cowherd colonies in those days may have contained only

huts and Nanda's mansion may be a big hut,without a

doorkeeper.And all this may be Andal's fertile imagination.

But what she is doing is to tell us how one should enter

a temple in Archavatara,and worship the Lord.Sri PARASARA

BHATTAR in his SRI RANGARAJA STAVA lays down the procedure

for temple entry based on this stanza.The door keepers

are really our Acharyas.In our daily pooja we open the

door of our 'koyil azhwar' (the box where the home idol

is kept) by reciting the Acharya Parampara and finally

this verse without fail.

 

TUYOMAAY VANDOM - we have come with purity. What is

the purity meant here ? Not the usual physical or even

mental purity.The physical purity of cowherds is

well known,say the commentators.The purity referred to

here is the fact that they have come to do service to

the Lord WITHOUT ASKING ANYTHING IN RETURN.Kainkarya

itself is the end (Swayam Purushaartha) and is not the

means to an end.This point should be ever fixed in

the heart of a Sri Vaishnava.

 

 

 

 

 

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