The sreevaishNavtie Doctor

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The SrevaishNavite Physician

 

The branches of medical sciences have advanced to such an extent, that the specialisation has been to extreme micro levels. The cardiology, dermatology apart, expertise has now spread

to more and more subjects.

 

Nevertheless, the physician being specialised in srEvaishNavism and otherwise is indeed not a common observation neither these days nor then. No, we are not talking of doctorates in the subject of our philosophy. We are indeed dwelling on the medical sciences.

 

Indeed, when svAmi Nam-AzvhAr fainted owing to separation from EmperumAn, the nearby doctor was summoned to anlayse the reasons behind the disease and cure her from the ills.

 

Being, the mundane and earthly physician, the lady applied her usual means of diagnosing and attributed the origin of the problem to some small deities and prescribing medicines apposite to the nature of those devathAs. "Yes", she declared," the problem appears to be because of the dhEvathAnthram-s and their appeasement is the uppermost priority and need of the hour" and started ordering for liquor, and non-vegetarian items and polluted the entire atmosphere. The environment not only got contaminated because of these undesirable commodities but the very concept of influence of dhEathAnthram-s. To imagine, that svAmi Nam-AzvAr had succumbed to such ghastly effects is in itself, highly irrational, and over and above, treating with the dastardly means,is indeed appalling.

 

That the friends of AzvAr -female thOzhi-s - declared that this acts of the physicians who cannot think in the srEvaishNavite angle would do no good but only aggravate the situation and proscribed these acts and offered EmperumAn's Thirunam as panacea. It is another matter that this whole subject matter is called 'veRi vilakku'; in tamil literature.

 

Thirumangai AzvAr is more fortunate in this regard. Her strange acts of commissions and omissions have also drawn attention and the physicians did diagnose. The luckiest part is that they were able to think in SrEvaishNavite angle and proclaimed forthwith with incisive precision that the problem lied with EmeprumAn Himself and who other than Him can rescue parakAla nAyaki from these pangs of separation and the ensuing eerie acts of suddenly wearing silk robes and indifference to earthly toys.

 

 

Neither, the problems of physical state of AzvAr emanating from his mental affliction nor that of the acts of Kaliyan originating from the attachment to EmperumAn are imaginary. These are evidenced right from their own prabhandham-s.

 

AzvAr-s problems resulting in non-SrEvaishNavic doctor implementing absurd means and Thirumangai AzvAr's doctor being a inclined to think with our angle and soon diagnosing the problem and taking the logical resoning to the Lord Himself are seen from

 

I.ThiruvAimozhi

'thErpArai yAm-ini' 4-6.

 

The thOzi declaring ultimately 'kALLum iRaichiyum thUvEan min' and

the eternal medicine 'yEazh piRappukkum sEamam in-nOikkum EDhEa marundhu' retrieving SaTakOpan from the suffering and

 

II

Kaliyan's pangs and the immediate prescription is noted from the Thiru-NedunthANtaka pAsuaram 11

paTTudukkum ayarthirangum pAvai pEANAL...

and the final line summing up the whole issue as 'kaDal vaNNar idhu seidhAr kAppAr AREA?

 

 

Not only one needs a sRevaishNavite association but also perhaps also a srEvaishNavite doctor.

 

adiyEan

ramanuja dAsan

vanamamalai padmnabhan

 

tailpiece: eruthuk koDiyAnum brahmanum indhiranum mathum orutharum ip

piRavi ennum nOikkum marundhaRivArum illai

maruthuvanAi ninRa mA maNi vaNNa maru piRavi thavira.."

periyAzhvAr Thriumzohi 5-3-6;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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