thiru viNNagarath thEn - part 6 - poRuththa thEn

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thiru viNNagarath thEn - part 6 - poRuththa " thEn "

 

(Summary:

In this part it said as to how the hurting words become the

praising words. It is also talked about why the Lord wait around

when HIS bhakthALs are ill-treated. But, it was not only Sri AzhwAr and

perumAL who were tolerating and being patient, the real " thEn " or

honey was also waiting for use by perumAL. Finally, the nitya

" thEn " is the thAyar who is residing in perumAL's " nenchu " and

waiting to bless one and cleanse all their sins).

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

" After all, a " sol " can be made a " puN sol " (abusive &

hurting word) or " pon sol " (golden word) only depending on the

vishayam or subject it talks about. Since they used all these

abusive words at me it made me think that I am after all an " alpa

vishyam " so that they used all these hurting words at me. or else I

may be thinking that I was something great. If one has to use these

words at the Lord such words can never be a " pun sol " . ie.. They

will automatically become " pon sol " . They become pon sol the moment

they are used for the Lord. So I thought about YOU and all

these abusive words were replaced by nice words that one can use

about YOU, and those golfen words came to my mind. Then, it kind

of gave me an incentive such that why can't I use these good words

myself to sing on YOU. ie.. Oh Lord, It made me praise YOU with so

many good and beautiful " thEn " words. I may have tried to do thuthi

pAdal (sing in praise of) on " aRpars " (useless people) using the

good and beautiful words that are meant for the Lord. I think that

is the reason I learnt this lesson (ie.. I must sing in praise of

YOU using the good words given by YOU) in a hard way. ie. probably

learnt to control my feelings (in a hard way) only after I was

criticised using abusive and hurting remarks " . However Sri AzhwAr

must have taken this as an indicator in his path to reach perumAL's

thiruvadi. In fact " Eedu " gives a small story about how a Sri

vaishnava by name Sri miLagAyvAn, being happy when he was ill-

treated by an avaishnava (*). Just as how it is the quality of an

avaishnavan to ill-treat a Srivaishnava, it is a quality of a

Srivaishnava to tolerate it and understand it as an indicator in

his being a Srivaishnava.

 

The tamil word poRuth " thEn " means 'poruththuk koNdu irun " thEn " .'

" poruththathu AzhwAr mattum illai. perumALum koodaththAn. perumAL

thiru viNNagarath thEn AgaiyAl perumAlum, oru SrivaishnavaNai oru

avaishnavar Esiyathai prouththuk koNdu irunthA " thEn " . porumai

yilum thEnai pOla inimaiyAnavar perumAL " .ie.perumAL is a very soft

and sweet One as similar to honey even when HE is very patient on

certain things. " peumAL poruththuk koNdu iruntha thEn? " or

poRuththa " thEn " ie.. Sri Oppiliappan is the " thEn " that was

tolerating this insult and abuse of a Srivaishnava by an

avaishnava? Why this " thEn " was tolerating so long? It is said

that unless otherwise it is threatening the sampradAyam perumAL

wait until the Srivaishnava goes to paramapatham to settle this

account of insults hurled at them.(**) It seems after a Sri

vaishnava (prapannA) goes to parama patham the remaining " sins "

that the Srivaishnava have in his account will goto those

enemies or virOdhis or bhandukkaL who hurled such insults and

used abusive words at him. The puNNiyams of that Srivaishnava goto

those who were good to him as similar to a friend.

 

The word " poRu " also means wait or be patient. The thEn first wait

until the bee picks it from the flowe. Then, the " thEn " is usually

collected by many bees in a hive. While they are being collected

they wait until the hive somewhat gets full. PoovukkuLLE thEn

vaittha thEnappan, vAndukkum adhai sollivaikka, koottukkuL thEn

irukka namakkum adhai TheLLi vaikka, thEnukkuL suvai irukka

seythavanum avanEthAn. ie.. the " thEn " avanudiya ubayOgatthukkAga

poRutthuk koNdu irunthathu pOlum. The more we wait to pick this

" thEn " it is very sweet and very viscous. It was not only the turn

for Sri AzwhAr to wait around (until perumAL blesses him). " thEn "

also has to wait around untill it is fetched by the destined " user " .

ie. the best use for such thEn is when it is used for perumAL's

thiru manchanam. Sameway, it seems all the sweet words of Sri

AzhwAr were also waiting to be used for " Sri thEnappan ennum Sri

Oppilappan " .

 

These are all the thEn that one can see and easily derive from the

first thEn reference in 'poRuth " thEn " pun sol nenchil'. As per

adiyEn's anubavam, Sri AzhwAr implies that the first and the best

of all the thEn is the thAyAr who is " nenchil poRutthu iruntha

thEn " for perumAL. ie. thAyAr is the honey who is always residing

at perumAL's nenchu or chest or thiru mArbu. It seems when the

amirtham was churned out of thirup pARk kadal, it was in demand

not only due to its very nature to provide immortality and other

boons to dEvAs. It was in demand due to its sAmeebyam to thAyAr so

long in thiRup pARk kadal. Even this amirtham obtained its very

nature due to its association with thAyAr in thiRup pARk kadal.

Even amirtham knew that it is not sweeter or pure as compared

to the nectarine thAyAr. She is the one and only " nechil poRuththu

iruntha thEn " . It is only proper that Sri AzhwAr calls for HER

first to tell his plight.

 

Sri kumuthavaLLi nAcchiyAr samEtha Sri thirumangai AzhwAr

thiruvadikaLE saraNam

 

Sri boomidEvith thAyAr samEtha Sri Oppiliappan thiruvadikaLE saraNam.

adiyEn irAmAnusa dAsan

thiruk kudanthai Sampath Rengarajan

 

(*) Please read " Eedu " vyAykAyAnam or Sri Nrusimhap priya july

2001 issue for this small story.

 

(**) Waits to use article 356 to intervene until it is threatening

the society!!

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