Thirumangai mannan Thirunakshathram (Sri Vijay Triplicane's brilliant enjoyment)

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SrI:

SrimathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all

 

Today is Kaartthikai Kritthikai- Thirumangai AzhwAr Thirunakshtharm.

I would like to share aa brilliant post written by Sri Vijay Triplicane so

enjoyable...

 

" pEdhai n^enjE! inRaip perumai aRin^dhilaiyO! ... "

This is how Sri maNavALa mAmunigaL starts while singing about my

dearmost AzhvAr Sri thirumaN^gai mannan's thirunakshathram. Once you

start, you can never stop talking about our " mAyOnai vAL valiyAl

man^dhiraN^koL maN^gaiyarkOn " . What a versatile poet! What an

inspiring story!! Maan! nam kaliyan is Great...

 

Lemme just briefly talk about an interesting portion from siRiya

thirumadal. (It is in fact very difficult to 'select' a beautiful

portion from siRiya thirumadal. )

 

Some background:

SiRiya thirumadal is a special style of poem where our AzhvAr

assumes the role of the n^Ayaki madly in love with the perumAL. Here,

She sends her heart as a messenger to perumAL. A lot of poets have dealt

with this. But nam kaliyan is so very special.

 

" ArAnum onnAdhAr kELAmE sonnakkAl

ArAyumElum paNi kEttu AdhanRenilum

pOrAdhozhiyAdhE pOn^dhidu n^I enRERkuk

kArAr kadal vaNNan pin pOna n^eNJamum

vArAdhE ennai maRan^dhadhudhaan... "

 

ArAnum onnAdhAr kELAmE sonnakkAl - While you go and tell him about me

you should very carefully look around to see if there is anybody who

might influence him badly. You should avoid such enemies. You should

whisper in His ears so that nobody listens to it.

 

ArAyumElum kEttu paNi - On seeing you, if He gets very concerned about

me and enquires , " How is she? is she alive? If I leave rightaway would I

be able to see her and unite with her? Could I get her?... " , listen to

all his enquiries and then let him know about my status.

Here, She wants Him to enquire about her. She wants Him to feel restless

about her.

 

AdhanRenilum paNi - By chance if he doesn't even recognize me and like

dhushyanthan if he disowns me, even then you should let him know my

status. Don't feel bad and return rightaway. Make sure you explain Him

my status.

 

Look how she, very logically analyzes every situation and teaches her

heart to react properly.

 

pOrAdhozhiyAdhE - But don't keep waiting there, trying to elaborate my

situation.

 

pOn^dhidu n^I - Even if He forgets me, you shouldn't. You must come back

whatever He says.

She makes this point emphatically in another place too, just few lines

before this section. " sIrAr thiruththuzhAy mAlai n^amakku aruLi, thArAn

tharumenRu iraNdaththil orRadhanai... "

She is very particular that her heart should return back to her whatever

be the message.

 

enRERku - I took so much pain to explain in such great detail to my dear

heart, that he should not stay there. But alas! It look like I have made

a negative influence on my heart. On listening to my repeated stress on

not stay back, my heart probably realized that it is a great blissful

feeling to stay with Him. And so it did! :-(

 

( Here enters our parama kAruNIgar Sri peiyavAccAn piLLai with his

imaginative style of commentary. He gives an analogy. A rich landlord

had a servant to look after his paddy fields. The problem was that he

used to hide bags of rice in a corner and would take them home. One day

the landlord caught him redhanded and fired him. He hired a new servant

and the first thing he told him was, " Hey man, you should not hide the

rice in a corner like the old servant did. OK? " You know what happened

with the new servant. The landlord himself taught him a way to steal.

Likewise She herself taught her heart to stay back. )

 

kArAr kadal vaNNan pin pOna neNJamum

vArAdhE ennai maRan^dhadhu dhaan -

My heart went behind the dark coloured kaNNan and never came back.

 

What a sorry state! paavam nam kaliyan...

 

thirumaN^gai AzhvAr thiruvadigaLE SaraNam

adiyEn

-Viji

(Vijay Triplicane)

 

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Thanks to Viji for his permission to share this anubhavam with everyone.

 

It is my pErAsai to enjoy the madals fully... Hope AzhwAr blesses soon

Regards

namo narayana

dAsan