Thiruppavai Meanings: Paasuram 11:: Karru Karavai Kanangal

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Serve to make Him happy:

 

The gOpikA spoken about in this pAsuram is known for her slender

physical feature and AnDAL calls her as " porkodi " . More importantly

AnDAL sings about her family for having discharged duties bestowed on

them. Her father is renowned for having performing his duties of

milking hundreds of cows in AyarpADi. AnDAL makes a special mention

of such dutiful men for a simple reason that these duties have been

given to us by the Lord Himself through the scriptures. Performing

these rituals is to bring happiness to the Lord and hence falls in

the category of His service. Any such duty that we perform is done as

a service to the Lord.

 

Enemies to SrivaishnavA:

 

Another important issue to be noted in this pAsuram is " SetRRAr

thirlazhiya " . She speaks about the enemies to SrivaishnavA's, where

enemies are none other than those who want to harm Sri Krishna. This

is so because SrivaishnavAs cant even have enemies. Anybody who is

against the Lord or His scriptures are the enemies of SrivaishnavA.

 

Service is the ultimate goal:

 

A special mention is to be made here about these divine friends of

AnDAL. Though all of them have taken refuge in the Lords feet we see

a few sleeping peacefully but a few awake in an urge to serve Him.

But we should understand that there exists no difference between them

whatsoever.

 

SwAmi PiLLailOkAchAryA in mumookshupaDi discusses the ideal

characters of an individual who has taken refugee in the Lords lotus

feet. He says, " pERu thappAdhenRu thunindhirukkai " and " pERRukku

thwarikkai " . Former means that we should have enough confidence that

we will be bestowed divine service at the Lords feet but at the same

time we should have a constant urge to achieve that. Those who are

sleeping belong to the first category and those awake belong to the

second.

 

In this pAsuram AnDAL sings about " suRRaththu thOzhimAr " . The

exclusive character of these divine friends is that their ultimate

goal is to serve the Lord expecting nothing in return, but His

happiness and satisfaction.

 

 

" eRRukkurangum poruL "

 

 

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