pravESa of thiruvaaymozhi - 1.10 - "vaayum thirai ugaLum"

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srImathE SaTakOpAya namah

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah

srImathE vara vara munayE namah

 

dear bhAgavathAs,

 

In this decade of thiruvAymozhi, just as samsAris consider that

everyone in this world enjoy material things similar to themselves,

AzhvAr thinks of all the things in the world as being suffering from

the seperation (vislEsha) from emperumAn just as He is troubled by

the separation from the Lord. He addresses the stork (naarai), the

anril bird (anril patchi), sea, wind, moon etc, and thinks that their

properties are not because they are natural to them, but are because

of their separation of the Lord, and he feels pity for them! He

thinks of each one of them having the same properties as himself, and

asks "Did you also get unhappiness because you were desirous of

the Lord and His things, and you did not get it?". Thus, in this

thiruvAymozhi, AzhvAr brings out one guNa of the Lord known as

unmAtAvahatvam - the property of overhelming the minds of His

devotees (pichchERap paNNumavan).

 

 

thiruvAymozhi nURRandhaadhi 11

 

vaayun thirumaal maRaiya niRka * aaRRaamai

pOi vinji mikka pulambudhalaay * aaya

aRiyaadhavaRROdu aNaindhu azhudha maaRan*

seRivaarai nOkkum thiNiNdu.

 

nammAzhvAr - who has the state of being in sadness and crying because

the Lord, whose natural svabhAvam is to be available to His devotees,

was not appearing in front of nammAzhvAr, embraces the things of

this world and considers them to be his fellow sufferers, will bless

those who surrender to him.

 

The Lord who has qualities like superiority, the quality of mixing

just like water with his devotees and beauty is present in archa form

in various divyadEsams so that those who were born later do not lose

Him. Of such divyadEsams, one of the best is thiru-k-kuRungudi.

Here, nammAzvhAr did not get the complete anubhavam of the Lord, and

because of that his mind becomes overwhelmed. He then talks about

stork, anril bird, sea, smell, sky, moon, darkness, lamp as being

suffering just as himself, and sings about them in this thiruvAimozhi

vaayum thirai ugaLum. This AzhvAr, who once suffered from separation

from the Lord, will not allow the devotees to attain the same state

of separation.

 

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)