Sri Vishnuchitta kulanandana kalpavalli (Part-31)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha

 

Our Sri Ramanuja siddhAntham strongly believes in “mithuna sEshatvam” (all

jeevatmas are servants to the divine couples). What is the main role of

piratti? She does purushakaram (talks in favour of the poor soul and lessens

the anger of emperuman, thereby overcoming his svathantriyam (independence) and

making him accept the jeevatma into his divine feet.) In the seventeenth

paasuram, andal due to her great thirst to enjoy krishnAnubhavam directly awoke

krishna. But then she realized that in the time of surrendering it is necessary

to fall to the divine feet of piratti first and with her support then approach

the lord. In ayppadi the piratti close to emperuman was nappinnai (neela

devi) and hence in the eighteenth paasuram “vundu madhakalitran” andal awakens

nappinai piratti.

 

If in paramapadam we have to first fall to the divine feet of all the three

devis, Sri, bhoo and neela. In the vyahAvatara, in ksheerAbhdhi we have to

first surrender to the divine feet of Sri and bhoo devis. In ramavatara, Sita

piratti was the purushakara bhoothai (“aval sannadhiyAlE kAkam thalipeRRadhu

aval ellamaiyAlE ravanan madindhAn” Inspite of the great sin kAkasuran did due

to the grace of Sita devi he lost only his eyes. But since piratti was not

near chakravarthi thirumagan during the Rama-Ravana yuddham ravana lost his

life). In varahAvatara, bhoo devi alone is the purushakArabhoothai. Whereas

in krishnavatara when krishna was in gokulam nappinai alone was his divine

consort.

 

Krishna cherished to be the son of nandagopan and hence his divine consort also

cherished to be called as the daugher-in-law of nandagopan and hence andal

calls her as “nandagopalan marumagalE” Nandan was liked by everyone in gokulam

that is why these small gopis take the liberty to call him by name as if he was

their close friend. In gokulam all were bhagavatas there was absolutely no age

or sex differentiation. What they all wanted was krishnAnubhavam. They will

do anything for the sake of their dear krishna. That is why andal and the

gopis go in front of each and every house to awaken everyone to jointly enjoy

krishnAnubhavam.

 

This very paasuram is very near to the heart of Swamy emperumanar, ThiruppAvai jeeyer.

 

(To be continued)

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan