Thirumaalai-3

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

 

“ Mattrondrum Venda Maname Madhilarangar

Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra

Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi Emperumaanai

Eppozhudum peesu”

 

“Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo yaamuna soonave

yetkadakshai kalakshyanam sulabha: Sridara: sadaa”

 

Pranams,

 

Now that the jeevatmas are not capable of

understanding the sastras and acting accordingly

emperuman had no other go than to come down himself to

impart us the knowledge as given in the sastras. So

he came to earth taking various Avataras. He saved

his bhaktha, Prahaladan in the Narasimha avatara from

the clutches of Hiranyakasipu .Thus he did

“Dushtanigraham and sishta paripaalam” in his

avataras. He tried to change the minds of the people

and make them understand his magimai. In Rama avatara

he lived and showed how a man should be. As Sri

Nammazhvar says “Karpar Eramapiranai Allal mattrum

karparo” but have people learnt anything from Rama but

instead they question the authenticity of Sri

Ramayanam. Why did Rama do this and that? The people

have more crooked knowledge than good thinking. So

Emperuman was not satisfied. He thought probably

since Ramavataram was fully a manushyavataram people

didn’t recognize him so now he took the Krishna

avatara where he showed his supernatural powers. Now

people like Duriyodhanan and others started saying

that kannan is doing magic which is known to them too.

Again people didn’t believe emperuman and there was

no one to read his geetha and get benefited by it.

Our Acharyas say that Sri Krishna searched for a

person, who was a gyani(“Vasudeva Sarvamithi Sa

Mahatma”) and unable to find such a mahatma he

returned to his aboard without any satisfaction.

 

In Bhagavat Geetha bhagavan says “Avajananthimam

moodha: Manusheem thanumaasritam”.(These moodhas think

me to be a normal man and even criticize me). Here

PVP analysis to whom Krishna is referring as moodhas?

Is it Shisupalan and others who insulted Krishna ?

No. These people where created with that svabhavam to

criticize and talk ill of Krishna. So Krishna knows

that, that is what can be expected from them. Then

whose behaviour worries the paramatma? Those people

who were created to do mangalaasaasanam to him also

criticize him and ask can Rama do this can Krishna do

this etc. Only the behaviour of such persons pains

the lord. Sri Mamunigal names these personalities as

Astika Nastikargal. They say they believe god and go

to the temple to do prartanai but in public they

question the authenticity of the avataras of the

Bhagavan. Only the activities of such people troubles

bhagavan and even in Rama Avatara he says “Mam

Avamanye” they are insulting me. There emperuman goes

to the extent of saying not only the jeevans here but

also the devas(trijaseeshvaraha) fail to respect the

bhagavan and they start talking ill of him. Here we

have to remember the Govardhana leela of Sri Bhagavan

where Indra talks ill of Sri Krishna and tries to

wash out whole of gokulam. So now Emperuman realized

that though he had come in person people fail to

realize him and fall under his feet.

 

Even after so much insults the dhayai of bhagavan made

him to think out another way to liberate all the

jeevatmas from the endless miseries of the samsara.

So now he decided to send the Alwars who were

considered to be the Abhinava Dasavatharas. Like

catching a deer by sending another deer or catching a

elephant with the help of another trained elephant

Bhagavan sent alwars who were Jeevatmas but with full

of gyanam and bhakthi to correct us and lead us to the

divine feet of emperuman. As Nammazhvar says “Kaliyum

kedum kandukonmin”. These alwars came to earth to

reduce the kali gooram. So they concentrated on the

kaliyuga dharmam that is the bhaagavata dharmam. The

bhaagavata puranam indicates the avatara of the alwars

as follows:

“Kalau kalau bhavishyanti Naarayana paraayanaaha

kvashit kvashin Maharaja dravidesucha Bhoorishaha

Tambarabarni nadhi yatra kritamaala payasvini

kavericha mahapunyam pratichita

Mahanadhi……….bhagavatee vasudeve amalaachayaha”

This sloka shows that in kali Saadhoos will be born

mainly in south India mainly in the banks of the

rivers like tambarabarani, kaveri, Vaikai, paalaru

etc. This clearly shows that this sloka refers to

the avatara of the alwars who where born similarly in

the banks of the various rivers. What will these

alwars do? “Yatra Sangeerthanenaiva” says Bhagavatam

they will sing the praise of the lord. And what the

alwars sung are now called as the Nalayira Divya

Prabhandam commonly called as Arulicheyal.

 

The alwars were Mayarvarum madi nalam

arulappetravargal. That is the lord bestowed them

with bhakthi and gyana by himself so there is no doubt

in their absolute knowledge. So we Srivaishnavas

consider the arulicheyal more important than even the

Vedas and use it for the thiruvaaraadanam of the

bhagavan everyday. Even the lord shows the importance

of the arulicheyal by following the ghosthi in all his

purappadu and also listening to them during the

adyayana utsavams. According to us all the sastrams

are present inside the Arulicheyals itself. In

present day we are all incapable of learning all the

sastras so to make us learn all the arthas the crux of

all the sastras has been provided by the alwars in

their paasurams.

 

Let us see how all the sastra arthas are present in

the arulicheyals in the next posting.

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

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