Mumukshuppadi 005

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

Mumukshuppadi

 

5. SamSArikaL thankaLaiyum Isvaranaiyum maRanthu Isvara

kainkaryaththaiyum izhanthu izhanthOmenkiRa izhavum inRikkE

SamSAramAkiRa perunkadalilE vizhunthu nOvupada, SarvEsvaran,

than krupaiyAlE, ivarkaL thannai aRinthu karaimaram sErumpadi

thAnE sishyanumAy AchAryanumAy ninRu thirumanthraththai

veLiyittaruLinAn.

 

Meaning:

The baddha chetanas who are trapped in this samsaric world,

forget that they are dAsas, forget that Sriman Narayana is

their Lord (that is they forget that they are the seshas and

that He is the seshi), do not live in service of the Lord,

are not concerned that they have lost the most valuable

thing that they posessed, and stay trapped in this samsaric

ocean which is difficult to cross. Seeing this, the Lord

out of His kindness (His nirhEduka krupai), in order to

make these jIvas know Him and facilitate their crossing

samsara and reaching Him, Himself became Nara the disciple

and Narayana the acharya and taught the Thirumanthram which

is the essence of Artha Panchakam.

 

 

Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:

Here the origination of the Thirumanthram is explained to

show its greatness. The samsaric chetanas due to association

with this prakruti which is timeless get trapped in the

endless cycle of birth and death and forget themselves and

the Lord. Forgetting themselves is this: all souls are

naturally servile to the Supreme Soul; without difference

whether they are in this world or the other world their only

and true characteristic is that they are enslaved to the

Lord; forgetting this fact of their natural servitude to the

Lord is forgetting themselves. Forgetting the Lord is this:

forgetting His supreme and all encompassing leadership.

 

Thus forgetting their nature as well as the nature of the

Lord they lose the supreme goal of service to Him. Not only

do they lose it, they even lose the feeling that they have

lost such a valuable thing. Seeing the souls suffer thus

and stay trapped in the samsaric ocean, He took great

kindness in His divine lotus heart toward them. He thought

that they need to know Him so that they can cross this

ocean and reach Him. Thus He Himself became Nara the sishya

and Narayana the acharya and expositioned that Thirumanthra

which holds in it the meaning of all Sastras and which shows

clearly the artha panchakam.

 

Sri Vanamamalai Jeeyar's Upanyasam:

As in "samsAra sAgaram ghOram ananta klEShabhAjanam", having

fallen in the vast ocean called samsAra, we are suffering

from all kinds of pangs. Due to the association with this

samsAra, we are not only ignorant of the self, the Omnipotent

Supreme Entity and our subservient relationship (shEshatva)

with Him, but we are also devoid of any repentance for this

shortcoming of ours. The ominipotent Lord , due to His grace,

took the form of nara nArAyaNa - of both the perceptor and

the disciple - at BadarikAshrama to deliver the tirumantra

which is essentially the knowledge that only He is the

refuge for us as in "sarvEhyatmAna: paramAtmana: nAnyatha

lakShNam tESham bandhe mOkSha tataiva cha" meaning He is

shEShi and we are shEShabootas; He is swAmi and we are His

sottu. The other pramANAs are "patim vishvasya:swAmitvam

bramhaNi stitam". In tirumantra entire artha panchaka gnAnam

is embedded as quoted in "prAptasya bramhaNo roopam prAptasya

pratyakApna: prApyupAyam phalam prApte: tathA prApta

virOdhicha" or in tamiL as "mikka irai nilaiyum,

meyyAmuyirnilaiyum, takkaneriyum, taDeyAhitokkiyalum,

ULvinaiyum, vALvinaiyum.."

 

Pillai Lokacharyar Thiruvadigale Saranam

Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam

 

rAmAnuja dAsi

Sriranganayaki Sheela

&

madhurakavi dAsan

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