Uniuqe Thoughts of PeriyAzvAr 23

March 7, 2008

Dear Members,

I am a new member to this group and hope to learn lot of things about srivaishavism here.

I have a small and humble request to members.

There is a google feature which helps translitration from english to Tamil.

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Tamil

I have given translitrated version of the portion of the pasuram that was present in the below mail.

Members can use this feature. (ofcourse time is a constraint and it requires some patience also).

(forgive me if there is any mistake in the above)

Regards,

Balaji Srinivasan

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Padmanabhan <aazhwar wrote:

DR SALVALOGIST

Dr Panacea

SakalakalA Doctor Doctor

First Sri PeriAzvAr described greatness from great, greater to greatest.

Then we saw AzvAr describe Supremacy through vulagaLandha Thiruvadi.

The most unique feature which other deities do not have is specially mentioned by AzvAr.

People approach deities for wealth and materialistic benefits, though this is available from EmperumAn.

Even these souls, have to approach the Almighty for salvation, for release from cycle of birth and deaths.

The others do not have a clue how to release us from cycle of births and deaths.

Specialists in curing heart disease is called Cardiologist, Specialist in child medicine is called pediatrician. I am not aware what a specialist in granting us salvation is called. A person who gives the medicine from cycle of births and deaths is called? no idea. He is the specialist of all including salvation.

Let us say 'Salvalogist'

AzvAr in

'eruthuk-kodiyAnum brahmanum indhiranum ip piRavi ennum nOikku marundhaRivARum illai

maruthuvanAi ninRa mA-maNivaNNA maRu piRavi...' 5-3-6

Neither ParamsivanAr nor BrahmA possess the medicine to cure the disease of births and re-births. It is Him who is the ultimate Doctor-The Doctor who releases from this vicious cycle.

He is the panacea for all ills. He is the medicine and the physcician.He is the AchAryan turned physician. (normally the doctor and medicine is different. Here both are one)

Thus there goes another salvo from PeriyAzvAr at his sublime heights, unique in establishing the Supremacy of Emperuman from yet another angle.

dasan

vanamamalai padmanabhan

-- Balaji Srinivasan