pravESa of thiruvaaymozhi - 1.5 "vaLAvEzhulagu"

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srImathE SaTakOpAya namah

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah

srImathE vara vara munayE namah

 

 

AzhvAr is enjoying, and exposing to others like us, one of the

Lord's auspicious qualities in each thiruvAymozhi. In the first

thiruvAymozhi, he talked about the Lord's parathvam (supremeness).

In the second thiruvAymozhi, he talked about the Lord's

quality of being the One to worship (bhajaneeyathvam). In the third

thiruvAymozhi, he talked about the Lord's sowlabhyam. In

the fourth thiruvAymozhi, he talks about the LOrd's quality of

tolerance for sins committed by bhaktAs (aparAdha sahathvam). In

this thiruvAymozhi, he talks about the LOrd's Seelathvam.

 

Of all the auspicious qualities that the Lord has, Seelathvam is one

of the most magnificient. Seelathvam is the quality of

the LOrd in which even thouh He is the all-supreme, and we are very

unqualified and very low, He stoops Himself to come to us,

and move with us just as one of us (purai aRa-k kalakkum thanmai).

This is also called SowSeelyam. In samskrit, seelathvam is

described as "mahatho mandhai: saha nirantarENa samslEsha:

sowseelyam" - i.e. the quality by which mahAns move closely with

idiots (mandhai:) is seelam. AzhvAr describes that magnificient

quality of the Lord through his anubhavam in this

thiruvaymozhi.

 

 

thiruvAymozhi nURRandhadhi - 5.

vaLAm mikka maal perumai mannuyiruin thanmai

uLamuRRu angu ooduruva Orndhu * thaLarvuRRu

neenganinai maaRanai maal needilagu seelaththaal

paangudanE sErththaan parindhu.

 

The LOrd, through His seela guNa, blessed (and included in His

group? - sErththaan) nammAzhvAr who had tried to move himself

farther from the LOrd after he thought in depth about the greatness

of the LOrd, and the lowly nature of the soul and became

tired (thaLarvuRRu - can also say he became weak at the thought of

the gap between the greatness of the LOrd and the lowliness

of the soul).

 

 

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)