Guest guest Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 srImathE SaTakOpAya namh srImathE rAmAnujAya namah srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah srImathE vara vara munaye namah In this decad, nammAzhvAr instructs his mind to attain salvation by worshipping the holy feet of the Lord, Who has done infinite help to nammazhvar. In the first line, nammazhvar declares the true meaning of vEdAnta that the Lord has infinite auspicious qualities, and that He is NOT a divine quality-less Being as held by others. From this, it should be understood that the Lord attracted nammAzhvAr by showing him His auspicious qualities. There are two kinds of servitude - first one is being in servitude due to one's being attracted to the Lord's auspicious qualities; the second is to be in servitude due to the realizing of the soul's true nature. It is normally said that the second servitude (known as svarUpa prayukthamaana adimai) is superior to the first (known as guNa prayukthamaana adimai). But, nammAzhvAr mentions the guNa prauktamaana servitude first because it was through showing His qualities did the Lord attract nammAzhvAr, and nammAzhvAr first speaks about the way in which he came to realize the Lord. That nammAzhvAr is perfectly immersant in svarUpa prayukthamaana adimai without any blemishes is clear from the paasuram (in later decads) - aagilum kodiyavan en nenjam avan enRE kidakkum ellE (my mind will always exist by thinking of HIM ONLY as the master). In addition to the above, nammAzhvAr mentions many incidents from puraaNaas and qualities of the LOrd that explain to us the Lord's unconstrained Lordliness/superiority (parathvam) Thus, this decad brings forth the parathvam (unconstrained Lordliness/superiority) of the Lord. AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam, adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan, thirumalai anandAnpiLLai varadhan (Source of the material: Translation of the pravESas of the simple version of divyArtha deepikai, found in the book "aNNa svAmiyin amudha mozhi aayiram, 501st - 600th mozhigaL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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