Kulasekara AzhwAr PerumAL Thirumozhi- 1.3- when will I be able to offer flowers at the lotus feet of Sriranganathan along with the group of His devotees?

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

 

Continuing on the wonderful verses on Srirangam by

Kulasekara PerumAL… When! Oh! When am I going to offer

flowers at the lotus feet of Lord of Srirangam along

with the glorious group of His devotees?

 

emmaaNpin ayann^aan_gu naavi Nnaalum

eduththEththi eeriraNdu mukamuNG koNdu

emmaadu mezhiRkaNka Letti NnOtum

thozhuthEththi yinithiRainca ninRa sempon

ammaanRan malarkkamalak koppoozh thOnRa

aNiyarangath tharavaNaiyil paLLi koLLum

ammaanRa NnatiyiNaikkee zhalar_ka LittaNG

katiyavarO tenRukolO aNugum naaLE

1.3

 

 

Chathurmukha BrahmA (the four faced Brahma), praises

his Lord (His Father Sriman Narayanan- from whose

lotus navel sprouts out the Lotus Flower in which

BrahmA is seated and was born), with all his four

tongues (meaning: reciting vedic hymns) and with

divine sthotras praising Lord’s most auspicious and

wonderful divine kalyANa guNAs; and making fullest

utility of his eight eyes (form four faces) enjoying

the dhivya sowndhayram of the Lord… in such a majestic

form. Such most beautiful Lord with His most wonderful

divine Navel shown visibly reclines on the AdhisEshan

in the sannidhi of Srirangam (which is like an

ornament to this samsaara saagaram).

 

When will I be able to approach Him, offer praising

Him with the flowers at His Lotus Feet in Srirangam

along with the glorious congregation of BhAgawathas?

 

Alavandhaar expresses the same sentiment-

 

yadvaa sramaavadhi yathaa mathi vaapya shaktha:

sthowmyEva mEva khalu tEpi sadhAsthuvantha:

vEdhA: chathurmukha mukhAscha mahaarNavaantha:

kOmajjathOr aNukulaachalayOr visEsha:

 

Even if powerless (to praise), I, until I get tired,

or as far as I am able [with my level of intellect,

jnAnam], praise. The Vedas which never ever stop

praising Him; the chathumukha, Rudra and others [below

those Vedas]; also praise only in similar fashion.

Don’t they? [based on what they understand to their

intellect or until they get tired]. In this deep, vast

ocean [of glories], how does it matter, if the objects

immersed are the huge mountain or a small atom? Both

are submerged.

 

Until I get tired let me praise. After two days, if he

stops… the Lord may ask: You are not tired. And why

did you stop?.. So Alavandhar says: until I get tired

and /or to the best of my intellect, jnAnam, I will

praise. If he knows, he may stop due to being tired;

if he is still able, he may not have jnAnam to

continue.

 

What Alavandhar! You had mentioned that you are

unashamed as you can not utter the praise mentioning

my glories fully and you would still continue. That

itself is praise. That’s why Alavdnahr uses the word

sthowmi.. (in present tense) and not sthOshyaami

(future tesne) as he has already started praising.

 

Vedas always praise. Hence it may apply. But Brahma,

Rudras do not do always. However as far as possible,

they do. Here in this verse, Alavandhar touches upon

only BrahmA, as he is the father of Rudra. And hence

even if BrahmA can not, it is obvious other will not

be able to. Thus even if they utter praise, they do

not reach the ultimate. Only if one thinks that he

utter the praise fully, that is wrong; but NOT the

very praise itself. Even if small and minutest praise,

it still is great and is required. Thus, whether it is

mountain praise, or atomic size praise, all get

immersed in the ocean of His glories and hence get

submerged.

 

If they are submerged, why should one praise at all?

Alavandhar asks: why did BrahmA, Sivan praise? It is

the duty of sEshan [servants] to praise the Master

[sEshi] to seek His dayA, grace and blessings; to seek

His pleasure; to praise Him with preethi [love], with

devotion; to praise Him with manas, vaak and kaayam

[word, thought and action]. Seshan [servants] are

blessed to be recipient of [sEshi] His grace by

praising Him with such manO vaak kaayam obeisance and

praise. Thus, even praising is the blessings from Him

to do so; and hence I start to praise

 

Sri RanganayikA samEtha Sri Ranganatha ParabrahmaNE

Namah

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

 

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