Thirumaalai-48

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,

 

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

 

 

“ Mattrondrum vEinda 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,

 

 

Paasuram-29

 

 

“OorilEn kAniyillai oravu mattroruvar ellai

 

pAril nin pAdha moolam pattrilEn parama moorthi

 

kAroli vannanE! KannanE! KadaruginrEn

 

Arular? kalaikanammA! arangamAnagarulAnE!”

 

 

 

This is an excellent paasuram in which alwar literally cries that he has no

other go, so perumal should by all ways save him and remove all his samsAric

miseries. This paasuram and the second paasuram ‘pachai mA malai pOl mEni’ are

two paasurams which come to our memory as soon as we think of the thirumaalai

prabandham since they are so very captivating. Adiyen really enjoys

Unnikrishnan singing these two paasurams in sweet music which really makes all

of us forget ourselves. Let us now dive deep into the meanings of this paasuram

as given by Sri PVP(though the writing will be limited to adiyen’s lack of

knowledge and ignorance).

 

 

 

OorilEn kAniyillai oravu mattroruvar ellai: Alwar says he doesn’t have any

place to live and no relatives. Alwar left his birthplace Thirumandangudi and

left all his property and happily came to Srirangam to do bhagavat/bhAgavata

kainkaryam. We may now wonder if alwar is feeling for the same. Some people

sell their property and then feel for doing the same due to the attachment they

have on them. But alwar is not one among them, then why does he feel that he

doesn’t have any land or relatives? Lets see what answer Sri PVP has for this.

 

We do not understand alwar’s mind but thank god we have our beloved acharya Sri

PVP to tell us the correct meaning.

 

 

 

The vyakhyanam goes as follows: “dEvareer nithya vAsam pannum oorilE pirakka

pettrilEn” “ salagramam thiruvayOdhi koil mudaliya thirupadhigal…”.

 

 

 

One should be blessed to be born in a divya desam. A child born in a divya

desam, from its childhood is always under the kataksham of bhagavan and

bhagavatas. Sri Alavandar says “Oh! My lord give me a janma, even if it is a

keeta janma(low birth) only in Srirangam where I will be blessed with bhAgavatas

pAdha dhooli”. In Thiruvallikeni we find even small small kids reciting

prabhandams fluently and taking part in ghostis with great enthusiasm. During

the summer vacation kids like to enjoy playing but here kids enjoy spending

their time making vahanams for kutti perumal and decorating their perumal for

veedhi purappadu with Sri Parthasarathi. This is the magimai of taking birth in

a divya desam. The minds of even the kids are always filled with bhagavat

vishayam. So according to alwar ‘oor’ means only divya desam. Even if we are

not blessed to be born or to live in a divya desam if we have a land or property

over there then atleast to look after it we will frequently visit the divya

desam. At that time we can visit the perumal over there. Even if we are not

interested in going to the temple still the temple gopuram will surely give

darshan to us even from a far of distance. Perumal will come in purappadu and

we will have his darshan. Our acharyas say, that is why in those days they

built such tall gopurams since even the gopuram darshanam can wash all our sins.

What an excellent vyakhyanam. “dhanathAlum vilaiyAlum vundAi avvoorilE sendru

kAniyAlum padiyAi sparusam vundAi errukka”.

 

 

 

Here alwar feels for not possessing even such a land in a divya desam so that he

will visit often, atleast due to the interest he has in maintaining his property

safely. Then atleast if we have a relative in a divyadesam then we will visit

them frequently thereby visiting the divyadesam. Alwar has left his sareera

bhandus and not much interested in them but here he feels that he doesn’t have a

athma bandhu in Srirangam to visit. But it is a amazing truth that all

Srivaishnavas have in some way some relative in Srirangam since it is our head

quarters and Sri ranganatha and ranganachiyar likes Srivaishnavas to always live

under their shade. That is why acharyas born in various places finally came and

settled in Srirangam under the divine grace of the divya dampathis. Sri

Ranganatha ordered Sri Ramanuja to stay in Srirangam itself and not to go

anywhere else in his last days(“Atraiva SrirangEsa sugamAsva”). Sri Manavala

Mamunigal in his Arthi Prabhandam proudly declares “Thiruvarangar seer arulukku

elakkAgap pettrOme, thiruvarangam thirupadhiyE erruppAga peetrOme”.

 

 

 

If we see closely alwar doesn’t say just he has no relatives rather he says he

has no other relative. Is there a relative for him in Srirangam, then? YES.

He has one athma bandhu who is his relative forever, Sri ranganatha. So now

alwar continues to talk to the same bandhu.

 

 

 

pAril nin pAdha moolam pattrilEn parama moorthi: But then oh! Ranganatha

though you are my only bandhu I have failed to fall under your feet and beg for

your help.

 

 

 

kAroli vannanE! KannanE! KadaruginrEn: Oh! The lord who is black in color like

the clouds, which gives a cooling effect to our eyes and one who has a eye

filled with karunyam, kannan ! I am crying due to deep sorrow

 

 

 

Arular? kalaikanammA! arangamAnagarulAnE: But then who is there other than you

to remove my sorrow? Oh lord, who is in Srirangam, please save me from this

misery , cries alwar.

 

 

 

Swami desikan in his kAmAsikAshtakam beautifully says, “tvayi rakshathi

rakshakai: kimanyai: tvayi chA rakshathi rakshakai kimanyai:”

 

In a hospital a person is in his death bed. All his relatives and friend say

don’t worry we are there here to save you. We are all with you. Will this do

anything to save the man if bhagavan has decided to take his life off? If the

man is destined to die then can even the best doctor in the world save the

person? Similarly there is a fight between two persons. One person says I will

kill you! but then the other person is a bhakthan and emperuman has decided to

save him can the first person do any harm to him? So no one can do anything

against bhagavan’s sankalpam. So alwar here says only person who can remove my

miseries is emperuman and none other.

 

 

 

In Mahabharata, DuriyOdhana wanted to win the war so he came to sahadEva who

was a great scholar, one of the pancha pandavas himself to get a date for the

bali which has to be given before the war for victory. SahadEva being a true

scholar couldn’t say something untrue so he told him to do the same on the

amavasya day. If DuriyOdhana did give the bali on that day then he is sure to

win but Sri Krishna has decided the result of the war to be otherwise so he went

to the extent of changing even the amavasya day to give victory to his bhakthas,

the pandavas. Such is bhagavat sankalpam.

 

 

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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