Swami Nammazhwar's Glories... - 11 - uNdO vaikAsi visAkatthukku opporunAL?- Can there be a day that can match the greatness of VaikAsi visAkam?

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika Mahadesikaya nama:

Dearest all,

 

Let us continue to enjoy Swami Nammazhwar's glories.

We will enjoy the great praises by Swami Desikan and

Sri Manavala maamunigal..

 

Sri Manavalamamuni on Nammazhwar:

 

yEraar vaigaasi visaagathin etrathai

paaror ariya pagargindren

seeraarum vedham thamizh seydha

meyyan ezhil kurugai naadhan

avadharitha naal "

 

" undo vaigaasi visaagathuku opporu naal

undo sadagoparku opporuvar

undo thiruvaaimozhikoppu

then kurugaikundo orupaar thanil okkumoor "

 

uNdO vaikAsi VisAkatthuk koppuru nAL?

( Is there any auspicious day that matches the glory

of the VaikAsi VisAkam day? Never)

 

uNdO SatakOparkkopporuvAr?

(Is there anyone that can match the illustrious

glory of our Kulapathi, NammAzhwAr? None. )

 

uNdO ThiruvAimozhikkoppu?

( is there any divya prabhandham that can be equal to

the magnificience of ThiruvAimozhi? None can dare

match )

 

tenn KuruhaikkundO oru paar tanil okkumUr ?

(Can there be any divya desams that match

the auspiciousness of ThirukkuruhUr that

gave birth to our Kulapathi? Absoultely not ).

 

These emphatic responses indirectly enshrined in these

questions declare the greatness of Swami NammAzhwAr

and His divine works. His upakaram is amazing and

greatest for Srivaishnavam..

 

Because of his grace and mercy, we are able to pleace

our heads at the lotus feet of The Peerless Lord The

Only One Sriman narayanan- Says Swamy Desikan

thandhai ena ninRa thanit thirumaal thaaLil thalai

vaitthOm SatakOpan aruLinAlE

 

Let us first look at the upakArams done by the divya

dampathis for us .

Swamy Desikan says:

 

anthamilA pErinbham arundha yERkkum

adiyOmai ARIVUDANE yenRum kaatthu

munthai vinai nirai vazhiyil ozhuhAthemmai

munnilayAm DESIKAR TAMM MUNNE SERTTHU

MANTHIRAMUM MANTHIRATTHIN VAZHIYUMK KATTI

vazhippadutthi VAAN YERRI ADIMAIK KOLLA

Tanthaiyena ninRa tanit ThirumAL ThALil

Talai vaitthOm SatakOpan aruLinAlE

 

This work of Swami Sri Desikan is understood as

the VyAkhyAnam for the Sri Sookthi of NammAzhwAr

revered as THIRUVIRUTTHAM and particularly its

first paasuram (poy ninRa Jn~Amum --ViNNaPPamE ).

 

The revered AchAryA His Holiness Srimad ParavakkOttai

Andavan Swami during the teleupanysam few years ago

selected this paasuram of Swami Desikan and dwelt on

the chosen words in this paasuram and linked it to

other powerful words from the NammAzhwAr's

ThiruvAimozhi{TVM }, (e-g)., " annAL

nee tantha AAKKAYIN vazhi uzhalvEn " ( TVM: 3.2.1).

[From srI Satakopan Swami translation of the

upanyasam]

 

Sri Andavan pointed out that the Divya Dampathis

help us in every way. Mainly, there are 54

incomparable upkArams that are performed by them for

us, SamsAris, with the view to join us to Their parama

Padham in the spirit of NammAzhwAr's TVM Vaakhyam: "

Vaikuntham puhuvathu maNNavar VidhiyE " .

 

He reminded us of Sage MaarkanDEyA's Vaakhyam in

this context :lOkAnAm MaathA PithA cha MADHAVA :

The reference here was to " Tanthai yena ninRa

Tanit ThirumAL ', section of the above verse to

the sarva vidha Bhandhu , SarvEswaran .

 

Before He joins us to Sri His Vaikuntam for nithya

kaimkaryam , ThirumAl performs many upakArAms

that is hard for us even to keep track off

( NaaraNan maayayai aRibhavar yArO --TVM: 1.3.3 ,

AtthA nee seythana naan aRiyEnE! ).

 

His upakArams are giving us aakkai (sarIram )

to house the Jivan ; He bleesed the Jivan

to be eternal ( nithyan ) in svarUpam and blesses

the Jivan with Dharma BhUtha JnAnam and makes it

the Jivan's nithya guNam and protects thus the Jivan's

svarUpam and SvabhAvam .This is the connection to

the paasura pasage , " adiyOmai yenRum aRivudanE

kaatthu " in the UpakAra sangraham .

 

Srimath Andavan went on to explain the other key

passages in that important paasuram of Swami Desikan.

The meanings are :

 

anthamilAp pErinbham arundha yErkkum adiyOmai = for

us, who are fit to enjoy the limitless bliss of the

great Moksha anubhavam

 

arivudanE yenRum kaatthu , munthai vinai nirai

vazhiyil ozhuhAthu emmai munnilayAm Desikar tamm

munnE sErtthu =

blessing and protcting us with the eteranl dharma

bhUtha Jn~Anam and also protecting us from drowning in

the timeless flow of the river of karmAs and getting

us to the safety of the bank by uniting us with

SadAchAryAs for--

 

manthiramum manthiratthin vazhiyum kaatti

vazhippaditthi =

(by uniting us with the sadaachAryAs )for upadesam of

redeeming sacred manthram , the AshtAksharam and

for learning about the inner meanings of that manthram

 

The greatness of this acquisition of knowledge through

upadesam has been celebrated many times by AzhwArs and

AchAryAs :

 

Srimath Andavan referred to the paasura vAkhyam ,

MaamAyA ! mikkAr otthAr ilai ! There is no one

equal to You or greater than You

 

The VedAntha Jn~Anam imparted to us by SadaachAryAs

(Mantharitthin vazhiyum kaati ) is another of these

MahOpakArams of the Lord since it leads to the

ultimate bliss of ascent by archirAdhi maargam (

vaanERRi adimaik koLLa) and nithya kaimkaryam. (nall

vaazhvu)

 

anthaNar maattu anti vaittha MANTHIRATTHAI

MANTHIRATTHAAL

maravaathu YENrUM VAAZHUTHIYeL VaZHALaM --TNT pasuram

:4

 

(Meaning ): Oh my foolish mind ! If you enjoy the

Thirumanthiram , the saaram of the Vedantham , which

is the wealth of the Brahmins , and if you reflect

upon the meanings of that sacred manthiram ,

you will surely attain sadhgathi ( nall Vaazhvu ).

 

Srimath Andavan continued with the explanation of

the fourth paadham of the UpakAra Sangraha SlOkam :

 

Tanthai ena ninRa tanit ThirumAl ThALil

tlai vaitthOm SatakOpan aruLAlE

 

The Lord stood as the Forever-caring Father ,

who performs great upakArams ( tanthai ena ninRavan ).

 

He is a matchless EmperumAn with the mahimai of

PaadhAravindham that ha s no comparison in its

redemptive and anugraha qualities ( Tanit ThirumAl

ThALil ) .

 

Next Srimath Andavan expalined as to what happened at

these sacred feet of the Lord as a result of the

grace of NammAzhwar our Prapanna SanthAna Jana

kUtasthar. The paasura Vaakhyam is: Tanit ThirumAl

ThALil talai VaitthOm SatakOpan aruLAlE. Through the

Parama KrupA of NammAzhwAr, we are blessed to attain

Sri Vaikuntam and laid our feet at the sacred feet of

Sriman NaarAyaNA as the ultimate step in Moksha Siddhi

rsultign from SadAchArya Sambhandham and BhagavAn's

paramOpakArams.

 

NammAzhwAr is the One, who showed us the way through

his Prabhandhams. He used the purvOpakArams done by

the Lord to anticipate the future upakArams to come

and showed us the way.

 

He was blessed with Bhakthi and Jn~Anam from the Lord

of Nithya Sooris. His enjoyment of the Lord blossomed

as the Four divya prabhandhams. Thiruviruttham was the

first of the Four prabhandhams. Here, he desribes his

varalARukaL (Virutthams)and thus this prabhandham came

to be known as Thiruviruttham. In the very first

paasuram ( Poy ninRa Jn~Amum-- ViNNappamE ),

NammAzhwAr reflects on the purvOpakArams (or the

upakArams done earlier through conferral of

aathma Jn~Anam , Dharma BhUtha Jn~Anam )and sets that

up as Infrastructure for the ensuing paasurams and

prabhandhams containing his requests for other

upakArams that culminate in Moksha Siddhi at the end

of ThiruvAimozhi. In this Thiruviruttha Paasuram ,

NammAzhwaar addresses the Lord as ImayOr talaivA

(sarva Seshi) and himselfas adiyEn (sesha bhUthan ).

The sEsha-sEshi Sambhandham, Artha panchakam are

covered here.

 

The connection of Artha panchakam with brahma SvarUpam

is known as Shadatha nirUpaNam . That was what

NammAzhwAr instructed. Swami Desikan wished to show us

the paramount central message and created UpakAra

Sangraham.

[Thanks to Sri Satakopan Swami again]

 

Let us recite KaNNinunchiRuthaambu today and pay our

obeisance to AzhwAr.

 

Thanks for all your patience for adiyEn rambling...

and crude writing. Anything good is due to the

vaibhavam of AzhwAr and Acharya krupai. All errors,

mistakes are entirely due to adiyEn lack of (or no)

jnAnam.

 

NammAzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

 

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