Peyazhwar Thirunakshathram- aippasi sathayam

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SrI:

SrimathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

 

Today aippasi sathayam is Peyazhwar Thirunakshathram

third of mudhal azhwars. Also consdiered as acharyan of thirumazhisai azhwar.

 

Let us enjoy one of his verses and pay our obesiance to azhwar's lotus feet.

 

nenjAl ninaippu aRiyan yElum nilai peRREn

nenjamE pEsAi ninaikkumkAl --nenjatthup

pErAdhu niRkum perumAnai yen kolO

OrAthu niRpathuNarvu

 

Oh my dear mind! Even if the Lord is not so easy to be realized in His

fullest entirety by meditation , please be firm and involve yourself in the

utterance of His divine names and become blessed. you praise Him

steadfastly. Why is it that you are distracted to other sensual pleasure and

material subjects , when the object of your meditation, the Lord Sriya:

Pathi sriman Narayanan is so accessible to you without separation even when you

think of Him just once ? (ninaikkum kaal nenjatthu pErAthu niRkum

perumAnai uNarvu OrAthu nirpathu yen kol)

 

Sri Satakopan Swami adds: [about Mudhal azhwars in one of his wonderful

postings]

 

Swami Desikan acknowledges in Srimadh Rahasya Traya Saaram (

AchAryakruthyAdhikAram ) the purposeful deed of the Lord in pressing tightly the

three AzhwArs huddled together in the rEzhi of Mruugandu maharishi's aasramam

this way :

 

pAttukkuriya pazhayavar moovarai(p) pandorukkAl

mAttukkaruL taru mAyan malinthu varutthuthalAl

nAttikkiruL seha nAnmaRai anthi nadai viLanga

veetukkidaikkazhikkE veLikkAttum ammeyviLakkE

 

( Meaning ) : The Lord of wonderous deeds , who blesses

His wealth (viz) the chEthanAs, pressed Himself tightly once

upon a time at ThirukkOvalUr the three of His great bhakthAs ,

who were extraordinarily qualified to sing about Him .

 

When squeezed tightly by Him in a limited space , there

arose the true lamp of light ( the three ThiruvandhAthis ) ,

which served to banish the darkness of false knowledge

and helped to illumine the world with the effulgence of

the essence of the four vEdAs and revealed the two upAyAs ,

Bhakthi and Prapatthi for our salvation .

 

In the next verse , Swami Desikan still has the blessings

of these AchAryAs in mind and acknowledges their munificient

help this way :

 

teruLuRRa senthozhiR selvam peruhi iRanthavar paal

aruLuRRa sinthainAl AZHIYAA VILAKKU YERRINARE

 

(MEANING ) : with a mind full of DayA , they ( the AzhwArs as

AchAryAs ) lit the undimming lamp of sampradAyam with

their vivEkam-filled words to enhance the kaimkarya sampath

of the distinguished disciples of theirs .

 

Swami Desikan salutes the Lord of ThirukkOvalUr , who elected

the three capable Tamil poets as " mAttukkaruL taru mAyan " .

Here , Swami recognizes the Lord as Aayan or the herder of

cows (chEthanAs). He wonders why GopAlan decided to focus

on these three AzhwAr instead of the illustrious sage MrganDu

in whose house this drama was played out .

 

Swami answers by suggesting that these three AzhwArs

had not only vEda vEdAnga Vij~na sampath ( eiswaryam )

but they also were skilled in distilling the essence of

the vEdAs (paramArtham ) in chaste and sweet Tamil

for the easy comprehension of the mumukshus .

 

The Lord's compression led to their enjoyment of the blessed

anubhavam of His sowseelyam and sarva Jana RakshaNa

deekshai and resulted in the advent of the three thiruvandhAthis

dealing with the tattva-hitha -purushArthams celebrated

by the three vEdAs

 

Swami Desikan suggests that the three andhAthis

are the elaboration of the three rahasyams . Just as

the lamp lit in the rEzhi illumines the inside and outside of

the house , the lamp of true knowledge lit by the three AzhwArs

revealed through its jyOthi the meanings hidden in the vEdAs ,

viz., artha prapancham and sabdha prabhancham .

 

Elsewhere , Swami Desikan points out that

the sugar cane that incarnated on the banks of

peNNai river (artha Brahmam ) got squeezed

intensely by the three AzhwArs and yielded the sweet sugar

juice of the three prabhandhams ( sabdha Brahmam ) and

became the honey to enhance the sweetness of His lotus feet .

[Thanks to Swami for his permission to share]

AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

Regards

namo narayana

dAsan