[sri ramanuja] Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi- 100th verse- I pray for continued enjoyment being and serving at your Lotus Feet

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SrI:

SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

 

Dearest all

 

Because I am now blessed with discriminatory powers

[vivEkam], and I am now blessed to be drinking the

nectar honey from the Lotus Feet of Sri Ramanuja, all

that I pray for my continued enjoyment of the same

only forever. Sri UttamUr Swamy mentions that this is

the essence of the entire Ramanuja nootranthAthi..

 

pOnthathen Nnenchennum ponvaNtu unathatip pOthil

oNcheer

aamtheLi thEnuN tamarnthita vENti,nNin paalathuvE

eenthita vENtum iraamaa Nnucha!ithu anRiyonRum

maanthakil laathu,ini maRRonRu kaatti mayakkitalE. 100

 

EmperumAnArE! Oh Ramanuja! The bee- i.e. my mind

reached the lotus flower of your Lotus Feet to drink

the honey that is cool and most fragrant. Desiring of

that alone should arise in mind and please do not

grant me any other desire to take it away from your

Lotus Feet. Even if granted with something else, those

who consume nectar do not like to eat grass and

similarly, my mind would not like to accept anything

else except Your Lotus feet. If you will, even that

attitude can be granted to mind to reject all else

except Your Lotus Feet. Please do not show me anything

else…

 

Iraamaanusa - My Ramanuja! EmperumAnArE!

en nenjam ennum pon vaNdu – this golden hued bee- i.e.

my mind;

unadhu adi pOdhil – your Lotus Feet’s [i.e. Your]

oNseer aam- most auspicious attributes [most beautiful

and divine kalyANa guNAs –as Honey]

then uNdu- drinking that honey

amarndhida- to stay there and reside at Your Lotus

Feet forever

vENdi- desiring the same

ninpaal- to you

pOndhadhu- reached.

Adhu E- that alone

eendhida vENdum- You should bless me with..

idhu anRi – other than this honey

onRum maandhagillaadhu – nothing else- my mind can

ever drink..

ini – at this state of mind

maRRu onRu kaatti- please do not show something else

mayakkidal- and tempt me…. [PLEASE don’t]

 

Some can never be purushaartthams; the lowliest ones

namely, material wealth, the physical health, the

kaivalyam [realizing the jeevathma and having

jeevathma saatshaathkaaram] etc should never be asked

for to the Supreme Almighty. Theugh He is capable of

granting the same, it is like asking a great king for

a kilo of vegetables. A vivEki should not ask for

these things to the nAThan. He is SarVeshwaran. He

could grant even the Highest One- namely mOksha

saamraajyam. One should even NOT seek mOksham to Him.

Instead, one should ask for being at Acharyan’s Lotus

feet for serving him [Acharya] at all times.. That

alone should be the one we should seek.

 

In the verse- idumE iniya swargatthil- whatever you

may give, and wherever you may place me, I would

gladly accept it as it is Your agnyA. Now, he pleads:

do not show something else and tempt me.. The reason

is: Being at the Lotus feet and drinking the honey

there namely His kalyANa guNAs. If along with that

honey, whatever he decides to grantm or wherever he

decides to place, it is still acceptable. So, idumE

iniya swargatthi… but you need to be there with me

there also.. Don’t ever take me away from those lotus

Feet, Ramanuja..

 

Similar to dhivi bhuvi vaa of Mukunda mala

 

divi vA bhuvi vA mamAstu vAsO

narakE vA narakAntaka! prakAmam |

avadhIrita-SAradAravindau caraNau

tE maraNE'pi cintayAmi || 6

 

Here the King of Kolli Naadu Kulasekara prays for the

lotus feet of the

Lord as Antima Smurithi. Azhwaars and Aacharyals have

begged the Lord to have thoughts about HIM during

their Anthima Prayaanam.

 

Also this verse of Ramanuja nutranthAthi echoes

Thiruppavai 29th verse – line… maRRai num kaamangaL

maatru..

 

uRRomEyAvOm umakkE nAm AtcheyvOm- we are always your

property; your dAsars; having surrender at Your feet,

we always are for serving YOU ALONE and none other

than You. For YOU ONLY, we serve and we are

subservient to only You.

 

maRRai nam kaamangaL maaRRu- KaNNA! Please bless us

not to have any other desires in our heart other than

serving your feet at all times uninterruptedly and

flawlessly

 

EmperumAnAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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