pravESa of thiruvaaymozhi - 1.9 - "ivaiyum avaiyum"

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srImathE SaTakOpAya namah

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah

srImathE vara vara munayE namah

 

 

 

dear bhAgavathAs,

 

 

EmperumAn has a guNa known as "sAthmya bhOga pradhathvam".

This is the quality of the Lord, where HE does not give

complete bhagavad anubhavam to a devotee immediately in

a moment, but gives the anubhavam in small increments

over time. If the Lord does not do this, but gives all

the anubhavam immediately at one time, then the devotee

may not be able to bear the complete joy.

 

No mother starts giving rice, sAththumudhu & vegetables to

the child in the first go. First she starts gives milk only

to satisfy the hunger, after a few months, she starts

giving gruel or mashed cooked food, and then only after more

time does she start giving solid food and spicy food.

Similarly, students start learning little/small concepts

first and slowly graduate to learning bigger and larger

concepts. We all see this in our lives.

 

Similar to the above, the Lord also has a way of slowly

giving anubhavam in increments based on the capacity of

the soul. That way can be understood in this thiruvAymozhi.

 

EmperumAn wanted to reside on the head of

AzhvAr (thus blessing Him immensely with His holy feet on

his head), and give him the great anubhavam. But, He was

concerned that if He did that directly, then AzhvAr

will become disoriented like a poor man who suddenly

gets a very large quantity of money. So, the LOrd

first comes and stands in a place that is a bit away

from AzhvAr; then He comes closer near AzhvAr, then He

stands near AzhvAr, then He climbs and resides on

the hips of the AzhvAr, then He goes and resides near

the heart of AzhvAr, then He goes and resides in AzhvAr's

tongue, then resides in AzhvAr's eyes, then resides

in AzhvAr's forehead, and finally moves on top of

AzhvAR's head and resides there.

 

AzhvAr enjoys this doing of the Lord where He slowly

and incrementally gives the anubhavam to AzhvAr.

 

 

 

thiruvAymozhi nURRandhAdhi - 9

 

ivai aRindhOr thammaLAviL eesan uvandhaaRRa *

avayavangaL thORum aNaiyum suvai adhanaip

peRRu* aarvaththaal maaRan pEsinasol pEsa * maal

poRRaaL nan senni poRum.

 

If we recite this thiruvAymozhi, which AzhvAr sings

due to the sweetness that he experienced by the

Lord coming to Him slowly similar to what the Lord

does for those who know and enjoy the guNAs of the

Lord described in previous thiruvAymozhis, we will

also get the Lord to place His holy feet on our

heads and reside there.

 

 

The wordk "ivai" refers to the guNas that AzhvAr sings

about in the previous 8 thiruvAymozhis - which are,

in order, (i) parathvam (ii) bhajaneeyathvam - the

quality of being worshippable (iii) sowlabhyam

(iv) aparaadha sahathvam (v) sowseelyam

(vi) quality of being easy to do worship, (vii)

quality of being very joyful to those who reach Him,

and (viii) Rjuthvam - quality of thinking, saying

and doing the same thing at all times in all

situations. For those who know and enjoy the above

guNAs, the Lord becomes happy with them, and

slowly and incrementally comes and resides with them

in all parts of their body. AzhvAr got that great

blessing, and due to the happiness flowing from that

great gift, he sang this thiruvAymozhi. Those who

recite this thiruvAymozhi will get the great gift

of the lotus feet of the LOrd being on them!.

 

 

 

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; divyArththa deepikai,

nihyanusandhaanam - simple edition, thiruvAymozhi nURRandhaadhi

portions)