Thiruppavai Meanings: Paasuram 6:: Pullum Silambina Kaan

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Birds chant His names too:

 

The girls approach the house of the first gOpika to be woken up. They

tell her about the birds chirping, indicating the early dawn hours and

ask her to wake and join them. The gOpikA rejects their reason and

says, " you girls never allow the birds in your town to sleep, neither

do you sleep. You keep chanting BhagavAns name all night long and they

have learned to do the same. So I cant take this as a sign of dawn. "

 

Naming to attain bliss:

 

Then they mention the divine sound of the conch being played at the

" puLLarayan kOil " , the temple of Sriman NarAyana, indicating the early

morning worship and inviting devotees for His service. The phrase "

puLLarayan kOil " is an intersting usage here. The meaning is puL=

garuDa, arayan= king, i.e., the king of garuDa, none other than Sriman

NarAyana, kOil= temple. That is Sriman NarAyanA's temple. But why is

that AnDAL uses such an ambage here. The commentator gives a very

interesting reply here. In RamAyanA when SeethA pirATTi explains Her

abduction by RAvAnA to HanumAn, she says, " ....I was separated from

Rama's younger brother and LakshmanA's elder brother on that fateful

day.... " (rAmAnujam lakshmana poorvajamcha:) Such usage is for an

interesting reason that the Lord feels hapy when His divine name is

coupled with His devotee and so does the devotee. So AnDAL made this

excellent usage of " puL arayan kOil " , referring to the Lord through

His ardent devotee GaruDa.

 

Don disturb the Lord:

 

The next interesting phrase is " uLLaththukkonDu munivargaLum yOgigaLum

mellayezhundhu " . AnDAL sings about the ascetics, who are in the habit

of waking up slowly from their

beds. This, they are in practice so that they don't disturb the Lord,

who has taken an eternal abode in their heart if they wake up in

haste. PrahlAdhA, when pushed down from the

mountain caught His heart firmly so that the Lord residing inside is

not disturbed by the fall. The Lord wanted to help such devotee and

was waiting to receive him in the bottom of the mountain with His arms

spread.

 

Sing His name aloud:

 

AnDAL finishes this pAsuram with another important note, " hari enRa

pErravam " . We should be in the habit of chanting HARI's divine names

when we wake up to cleanse us from the sins committed that night

unknowingly in our sleep. It was for this reason that our poorvAchArya

made this compulsory that we chant His names aloud when we wake up

from bed.

 

 

" uLLam pugundhu kulirndhu "

 

 

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