Thirumaalai-52

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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-33

 

 

“MeiyellAm pOga vittu vizhi kuzhalAril pattu

 

poiyellAm podhindhu konda pOikkanEn vandhu nindrEn

 

IyanE! AranganE! Vunarul ennum Asai thannAl

 

PoiyanEn vandhu nindrEn poiyanEn poiyanEnE.”

 

 

 

MeiyellAm pOga vittu vizhi kuzhalAril pattu: Alwar in the previous paasurams

told that he has no good in him to make perumal show his krupai on him. So

perumal asked if he atleast followed any sAmanya dharmas like sathyam. In this

paasuram alwar says I do not have any sort of truth in me. When we have dushta

sangam then all our good qualities vanishes. Similarly I got attracted by the

evil effects of lowkikam and got attracted to beautiful ladies and hence lost

all my good qualities.

 

 

 

poiyellAm podhindhu konda pOikkanEn vandhu nindrEn: I am full of untruth.

Generally emperuman is like a mirror. If a person is 100% true to him emperuman

is also 100% true. But if a person is only 50% true then emperuman reflects the

same. The jeevatmas lack mahavishvAsam in bhagavan and argue that they will

accept only if they see him but then bhagavan argues that he will give darshan

only if they believe him totally. This argument will never come to an end

without a mediator. Periya piratti and our beloved acharyas act as purushakara

and make us realize the bhagavan and also make him accept us. If we think he is

there, then he is fully present. If we think otherwise he acts otherwise says

the Vedas(“asan nEva sa bhavathi asath brahmEthi”). Only way to realize the

truth is due to satsangam. Since alwar lacked satsangam he says he has lost all

his good qualities and now he is standing in front of emperuman as a

personification of falsehood.

 

 

 

‘Mei’ in tamil refers to sareeram but in actual it is temporary and hence false.

So alwar says I didn’t think about the soul and hence left it in the sun to get

burnt but I considered the sareeram which is ‘Poi’ as the most important and

hence did everything to decorate it and take atmost care of it(‘dehaththai

nizhalilE vaiththu AthmAvai veiyililE ettAr’). So now I come and stand in front

of you as a collection of all falsehood.

 

 

 

IyanE! AranganE! Vunarul ennum Asai thannAl: ‘Iyan’ refers to a father. When

perumal asked alwar with so many untruth and no good qualities why do you come

and stand in front of me? Alwar says because you are my father. There is one

saying, “pettra pAvikku vida pOgAdhu”. How ever bad a son may be can the father

just ignore him? He still has the affection towards his son. So though I am

not eligible to get your karunyam still since you are my father I have no other

go than to come and stand in front of you. Only wish I have Oh! Ranganatha is

to get your divine grace on me so I am standing here inspite of all my mistakes.

 

 

 

PoiyanEn vandhu nindrEn poiyanEn poiyanEnE: But since I have come to your

sannadhi and is begging for your grace it doesn’t mean that I have changed still

I am not true to what I am doing. Emperuman in some way or the other wanted to

shower his grace on alwar so he said, you may not possess any of the good

qualities but you have one good thing in you that is to accept your mistakes and

declare in front of me that you are akinchanyan and you do not have any other

gathi and hence you have come to surrender to me(ananyagathi sharanya). But

alwar refutes this also and says, oh my lord I am such a great cheat that even

you have got cheated. What all I declared till now is not whole hearted. I am

a cheat and remain to be the same.

 

 

 

In the next paasuram, alwar says more, how he has cheated emperuman. We will

continue in the next posting.

 

 

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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