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Today is Madurakavi Alwar's Thirunakshatram let us all

talk/think/read about the greatness of sri Madurakavi Azhwar.

 

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We know that in the 4000 Divya Prabhandam only the

11 pasurams of Madurakavi Azhwar doesn’t focus on the LORD

He glorifies his Acharya only. Yet, these 11 pasurams were the one

that helped all of Humanity get the 4000 Dhivya Prabhandams.

 

Dhivya Prabhandams show the path of salvation is for all,

irrespective of race, caste, creed or gender.

 

Lord Sriman Narayana (the refuge for all souls), the Lord and

Master of the Universe, and also the Divinely Merciful

and Loving Protector, Who is ever striving to redeem

souls from the bondage resulting from ignorance and

false ego.

 

The unifying factor between the Supreme Being and

the individual souls is Divine Love, which is

expressed by the Lord in His constant desire to

protect and save, and is expressed by the devotee

through adoration, surrender, and selfless service.

The goal of human life is to awaken this Love

for God in our hearts (which also happens by HIS

grace) to a level that brings peace, strength,

and higher purpose to this life, and eventually,

salvation through a natural and heartfelt submission

to God’s Boundless Grace.

(Article at: www.ramanujasociety.org/abtRamanuja.html)

 

Madhurakavi Azhwar: Key Message: Total Faith in Acharya

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** madhurakavi AzhvAr was born in thirukkOLUr, at

an early age he mastered all the vEdAs, vEda angAs

and all sAstrAs; he left for a pilgrimage to ayOdhyA,

mathura in northern India and was living in mathura,

performing service to the Lord of the temple there

 

** he came to know of this boy of 16 years called

mARan in AzhvAr thirunagari that did not eat or

speak, through some devotees who came to mathura

from tamil nAdu

 

** one night, madhurakavi AzhvAr, saw a glow coming

from a southern direction; he went in the direction

of the glow thinking that it might be a forest fire

and some village might be burning, but could not

find any such thing

 

** when he did this for some days, he concluded that

the glow was divine in nature, and decided to continue

in that direction till he found the source of the glow

 

** he went in the direction of glow, passed many

divine places of the Lord, srIrangam being one of

those and finally found the source of the glow

under a tamarind tree in thiruk kurukoor - the

source was mARan, sitting in a padmAsana posture,

with a divine glow on his face, meditating with eyes

closed

 

** madhura kavi AzhvAr wanted to find out if mARan

had any life in him and threw a big stone in front

of him; mARan opened his eyes and looked at madhura

kavi AzhvAr

 

** then, madhura kavi AzhvAr wanted to find out if

this boy can speak and asked the following question

- "seththatin vayiRRil siriyadhu piRandhaal,

eththaith thinRu engE kidakkum" - if a small thing

is born to a dead thing, what will it eat for

sustenance and where will it exist?

 

** mARan answered "aththaith thinRu angE kidakkum"

- it will eat that and live there itself!

 

** madhurakavi AzhvAr, on hearing the answer to

his question, realised that mARan was not an

ordinary boy and that he was a divine avatAra and

prostrated in front of mARan and paid his respects

to him

 

** explanation of the question and answer is

as follows - the question was - if a small thing is

born to a dead thing, what will it eat and where

will it exist - here the small thing refers to the

soul, the dead thing refers to the body - i.e. if

the soul, that is the small knowledgeable thing,

enters the body that is lifeless without the

soul, what will the it eat and where will it

live? - the answer is - it will eat that and

live there - the meaning being the soul will have

the happinesses and sorrows of the body as its

sustenance and will live in that state (till

perumAl, due to His grace releases it)

 

** madhura kavi AzhvAr took nammAzhvAr as his

AchAryan and spent his days performing service

to nammAzhvAr

 

** after nammAzhvAr gave the essence of the four

vEdAs to madhura kavi AzhvAr, he then left this

earthly body and went back to srIvaikunTam -

madhura kavi AzhvAr obtained the vigraham of

nammAzhvAr from nammAzhvAr himself, and installed

the vigraham with apporpriate rituals, and started

to perform the worship of that vigraham in AzhvAr

thirunagari - the vigraham of nammAzhvAr seen

to this day at AzhvAr thirunagari is the same

vigraham that madhura kavi AzhvAr obtained from

nammAzhvAr

 

** madhura kavi AzhvAr composed a prabhandham

called kaNNinun siRuththAmbu, entirely on nammAzhvAr

in praise of His AchAryan - this prabhandham is

considered to be the most valuable of divya

prabhandham by our AchAryAs

 

** in temples, the srI satakOpan (commonly

referred to as satAri) is representative of svAmi

nammAzhvAr - through the ritual of placing our head

under svAmi nammAzhvAr's feet, in the form of srI

satakOpan, we surrender ourselves to nammAzhvAr

and thereby obtain a connection with him - this

connection is essential for us to realise the

connection between us and the Lord so that we

can receive the Lord's unconditional grace -

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