Thirumaalai-49

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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-30

 

 

“manaththilOre thooimai ellai vAyilOre ensol ellai

 

sinaththinAl settram nOkki theevilivilivan vAlA

 

punaththuzhAi mAlai yAnE ponni soozh thiruvarangA!

 

Enakku eni gadhi en sollAi? Ennai Aludaiya kOvE!”

 

 

 

manaththilOre thooimai ellai vAyilOre ensol ellai: The beauty of this

prabhandam is that here alwar not only advices what is right and what is wrong

with necessary proof he also gives us everything simplified. He doesn’t stop

with saying, do strotra to the lord thinking of your incapabilities but gives us

the paasuram itself. In these paasurams, alwar declares to have the mistakes on

his part though alwar is pure in mind, speech and action. It is due to alwar’s

naichyam. It is a great apachAram to think that alwar himself was like that

since he said so. We all possess these characters but alwar takes it as his.

We can cheat others who are outside but can we cheat the antaryami who is within

us? Alwar says I am not pure in heart nor do my mouth utters any sweet words.

In Bhagavatam, kardhama prajapathi did tapas for many years and when bhagavan

gave darshan and asked what he wanted he replied that since his father wanted

him to be in samsAram he now did tapas to seek for a good partner. Though

itseems like kardhamar asked for a lowkika vishayam after so much tapas,

emperuman very well knew the jnana paripAgam and vairakhyam of kardhamar. So he

granted him a good wife and accepted to come as a son himself. Here alwar says

he has nothing good in him but emperuman knows alwars heart. We people boast

ourselves to be great bhakthas and highly knowledgable even in front of the

lord. But emperuman very well knows how ignorant and selfish we are. We act to

be very good satvikas but inside we all have lot of dirt which emperuman knows

very well. That is what alwar says ‘ManaththilOre thooimai ellai’.

 

When we talk our words should never hurt others. We should neither lie nor

should we talk the truth in a hurting manner. It is better to keep quiet if the

truth we talk will put others to difficulty. Even thiruvalluvar says,

“TheeyinAl sutta pun ArumE ArAdhe nAvinAl sutta vadu”(An injury caused due to

some fire burn will be cured in sometime but the injury caused by tough words

from once mouth will never suffice). Alwar says he doesn’t have sweet words

probably he didn’t know how soothing his paasurams are there to our mind and

thought.

 

 

 

sinaththinAl settram nOkki theevilivilivan vAlA: I get angry quiet often.

AvyAjamana kObham. I get angry just for the sake of getting angry without any

specific reason. If someone says 4 words to me then I scold him with 8 bad

words. Even if one goes simply(vAlA) I still pull him to fight with me. Such

is my behaviour, unnecessarily wanting to fight with one and all.

 

 

 

punaththuzhAi mAlai yAnE ponni soozh thiruvarangA: Whenever a king went to

war there was a tradition to garland him and send him wishing to return back

with victory before the garland withers. Here emperuman is fighting war of

rakshanam. So Sri PVP says, ”rakshana dharmaththilE deekshiththu thani mAlai

ettandrO devareer veettriruppadhu”. Emperuman has taken a vow to win the battle

of Asritha rakshanam and hence he is wearing a garland of tulasi which he will

wear till he wins. Emperuman likes tulasi garland the most. Tulasi gives the

sweet fragrance as it grows not waiting for blossoming. Tulasi is considered

like a mother and hence has to be treated with due respect. While alwar started

talking about the tulasi garland of emperuman he is immediately reminded of the

other garland. The kaveri thAi(mother, as she is referred in Srirangam)

surrounding rangantha like a garland on both sides and hence he says pooni soozh

thiruvarangA.

 

 

 

Enakku eni gadhi en sollAi? Ennai Aludaiya kOvE!: I donot have talent to save

me from the samsaric miseries nor do I have anyone to save me. My only refuge

is you, who is the protector of all.

 

“edu yArudaiya vastuvAi nOvu paduvadhu”(whose property am I to suffer?). When I

have a master who can do anything and everything why should I suffer? If a

father has three sons, 2 of them are very intelligent and they have started

earning their living individually but the third son is incapable of sustaining

himself. Will the father just ignore the 3rd son and say he is not his son? No

the father considers all three to be equal and infact he is more worried about

the incapable son than the other two. Similarly oh! Ranganatha you are my

father, my master I am incapable to do any sadhanas to reach you and hence I

have surrendered in your lotus feet to save me. What can I do when I am

incapable to do anything Oh my master, cries alwar.

 

 

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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