SVB 4.1

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Dear All,

This was written about 4-5 years back. Just thought I would share this

excellent

choorNai from SVB with others. Most of you would have read and enjoyed this,

I am sure. Anyway, here it is...

 

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"thanakkERa itam peRRa vaLavilE "en uuraic connaay, en

pEraic connaay, en atiyaarai nNOkkinaay avar_kaL vitaayaith

thiirththaay, avar_kaLukku othuNGka nNizalaik kodiththaay" enraap pOlE

cilavaRRai ERittu, matimaaNGkaayittup pon vaaNiyan ponnai

uraikallilE uraiththu mezukaalE eduththuk kol kazaNYcu enRu

thirattumaa pOlE,"

 

This is the first choorNai of the 4'th prakaraNam. He starts by saying,

"dhEsAndhra gadhanAna puthran pakkalilE pithru hrudhayam kidakkumAp pOlE..."

 

Then Svami goes further to say, "en ooraich chonnAy, en pEraich chonnAy, en

adiyArai nOkkinAy, avargaL vidAy thIrththAy, avargaLukku odhuN^ga nizhal

koduththAy enRAp pOlE silavaRRai ERittu ..."

 

In the vyAkyAnam by SRi maNavALa mAmunigaL, he explains it amazingly.

PerumAL

looks even at his ignorant adiyArs and tries to find some good meaning out

of

their actions. Somebody would have said," I am going to rob all the jewels

from

the thiruppathi temple". PerumAL would find something good in that he

mentioned

the name of the dhivya dhEsam (en ooraich chonnAy) and likewise en pEraich

chonnAy...

 

"madimAN^gAyittu" - This is an expression that describes an action by which

a

person is made guilty through a trick. This innocent person would be just

walking through a mango grove. Without his knowledge a mango would be placed

in

his bag. While he is leaving the grove he will be searched and found guilty.

Using this negative expression in a positive sense, here the usage of madi

mAn^gAyittu is interpreted such that perumAL would do something to the

innocent, ignorant adiyAr just so that He can use that as an excuse to save

him

and get him closeby. He longs so much for us.

 

"pon vANiyan ponnai uraikallilE uraiththu mezhugAlE eduththuk koL

kazhaNYchu

enRu thirattumAp pOlE..." -

 

Goldsmiths rub the gold on a stone to test its purity. SOme minute golden

dust would fall down due to this. He would use wax and carefully collect all

those little particles of gold. He has to be extremely careful because they

are

very small and there won't be that many. Likewise perumAL very carefully

searches for our very little good deeds which are very small in number and

carefully collects them just so that He can use that to to have enough

reason

to protect us and get us near Him.

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AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE SaraNam.

adiyEn,

-Vijay Triplicane