Thirumaalai-47

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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-28(contd)

 

 

 

namparamAyadundE?: Though emperuman considers all jeevatmas to be equal still

when there is a problem between his bhaktha and some one else he comes to save

his bhaktha. Sri PVP says, “Ashritha vishayaththil pakshapAthiyAghi rakshikkum

avan”. One doubt may arise here. If he supports one, then how can we consider

him to be equal to all? He is equal. In Mahabharata he did give the same

option of choosing his army on one side or he alone on the other to both arjuna

and duriyOdhana. Is it not equality? But then his bhaktha (arjuna) always

wants emperuman alone and nothing else so emperuman was on his side and saved

him from all trouble but duriyOdhana thought that emperuman was less capable

than his army and hence wanted only the army. Such is the case with others.

They think there are other modes to save themselves but bhakthas always depend

on emperuman and surrender to him and hence he comes running to save them.

 

 

 

nAykalOm sirimaiyOrA empirArku AtseiyAdhE enseivAn thOndrinEnE?

 

 

 

Sri Rama piran considered both his kula guru vashistar and a tribal king guhan

to be equal. Valmiki says, “purOhitasya Atmasamasya” while talking about

vasistar and while telling about guhan says “Ramasya Atmasamasaka”. We see that

perumal doesn’t differentiate by birth, wealth or education. He sees only the

pure devotion in all our minds. He has done so much for all of us. Even a dog

is grateful to a person who puts a piece of bread to eat and it waves its tail

to him. If the same person puts a piece of bread two or three days then the dog

comes and stays in front of his house and does service to him, safeguarding him

and his property. Alwar says how sad we do not have even that gratefulness

towards the lord who has bestowed us with so many things. We have become even

lower than a dog in thought. For all the things given to us by emperuman we all

should be in his kainkaryam always. We should be his servants and enjoy doing

kainkaryam to him without any tiresome. But for this, why have I taken birth

atall? wonders alwar. If we donot do kainkaryam to bhagavan then our birth

becomes useless. After Sri Rama went to forest bharathan coming to know about

it cries saying, “Why did I ever take birth? If I was not born then kaikEyi

wouldn’t have asked for the kingdom for me and sent perumal to vana vAsam”. So

bharatha curses himself for have taken birth. Similarly alwar here curses

himself saying that if he couldn’t do kainkaryam to the bhagavan who has

showered his krupai on him then what was the use of him taking birth?

 

 

 

Thondaradipodi alwar first talked about the importance of nama sankeertanam and

then he condemned all the other madhams and supported the srivaishnava madham.

He then involved himself in talking about the magimai of lord Ranganatha and his

divya desam, Srirangam surrounded by kaveri. Starting from the 25th paasuram he

feels for not possessing any sukrutham(good deeds) to enable emperuman to shower

his krupai on him. Alwar says that he doesn’t possess karma, jnana or bhakthi.

Then he says not only that I do not even do any sAmanya kainkaryam like archanam

or keertanam. When perumal asked if he has atleast done any yadrichika

kainkaryam then alwar says that he has never done any kainkaryam even like the

squirrel. Then emperuman asked if he had atleast called for him in some danger

for which alwar replies that he has never called him like gajendran. Finally

emperuman asks if he atleast as some plus like divya desa vAsam or some

bhAgavata relation for which alwar answers in the next paasuram which we will

see in the next posting.

 

 

 

 

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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