pravESa of thiruvaaymozhi - 1.2

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srImathE SaTakOpAya namah

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah

srImathE vara vara munayE namah

 

Given that the nature of the bhagavad anubhavam is such that it

cannot be enjoyed by oneself, and is more enjoyable when it is

shared with others, nammAzhvAr (just as Lord KrishNa says in srImad

bhagavad gIta, macchitaa: mad gatha: praaNaa" bOdayantha:

parasparam), searched for people with whom he can enjoy the

anubhavam of the Lord mutually (parasparam). But, everyone were

samsAris; Just as AzhvAr was immersed in bhagavad anubhavam, the

others were very immersed in material things; On seeing all

the samsAris wasting away their lives, AzhvAr could not keep

away/quiet. He wondered how he could change the samsAris.

 

nammAzhvAr thought - "These people are intelligent sentient beings;

they are capable of thinking about what is good and what is

bad and take only the good things in material life; They are

applying their mind to things such as fruits and vegetables are

are determining what is good and what is bad; they are failing to

think beyond that; maybe if I explain to them the inherent

goodness of bhagavad vishayam, and the inherent badness of the

material things, they will think about the truth and they may

leave the things that needs to be left and will adopt the good

things that needs to be adopted; so, let us do the upadEsa of

what is good and what is bad".

 

He explains (i) the goodness of emperumAn (ii) the fleetingness and

worthlessness of the material things that the samsAris are

going after and exhorts the samsAris to leave their attachment to

the material things and develop bhakti towards emperumAn.

 

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, 401st - 500th mozhigaL)