Thiruppavai Meanings: Paasuram 9:: Thoomani Madaththu

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Owner and His Property:

 

The girl woken up in this song is one with unintimidated belief that

Lord alone is the means to Liberation. When HanumAn meets SeethA

pirATTi at LankA and suggested that He carries Her back to RAmA.

PirATTi refused it immediately and said that by doing that HanumAn

would have done something similar to rAvanA. Just that rAvana robbed

SeethA, an important possession of RAmA from Him but HanumAn is

robbing the Lord of His divine quality of " sarva lOka rakshakatvam " ,

i.e., His sole right to protect all. Further She says, " Your burning

tail was cooled by my chastity and with that I could have saved me

myself. But by doing that I would have only spoilt RamA's reputation.

He alone by His power should rescue me and establish by His valiance. "

She said, " tat tasya sadrusam bhavEt " , that alone would be befitting

Him. HanumAn was awestruck by this reply and hailed PirATTi.

On similar lines to SeethA pirATTi, this girl had utmost faith on the

Lord and having transfered her burden on Him, was enjoying a sound

sleep. This is how a soul after surrendering to Sriman NArAyanA should

behave. The utmost faith that the owner will take care of His property

is what every single soul should exhibit.

 

Celestial Relationship:

 

AnDAL refers to this gOpikA as, " mAmAn magaLE " , i.e., Her uncles

daughter. Though they do not have actual blood relationship, She is

referring to the relation that their inner souls are enjoying as

devotees of the Lord. Generally blood relationships are condemend by

our AchAryAs as they bring with them material interest and worldly

attachments. But on the other hand, they welcomed it if such relations

help in serving the Lord and His devotees. SwAmi NammAzhwAr blesses us

to live with reations, earn a rich living etc in ThiruvAimozhi

(8.10.11). Immediately in the next decade(9.1.1) He condemns it for

the above said reasons. KoorathAzhwAn used to feel for not having a

blood relation with SwAmi RamAnujA unlike MudhaliyAndAn or EmbAr.

 

Contradicting Qualities Together:

 

Further AnDAL coins a phrase with three important names of EmperumAn.

She calls him " mAmAyan mAdhavan vaikundhan " . In this the first name

" mAmAyan " , refers to the simpleness of EmperumAn when He came down as

KrishnA to play childish tricks, steal butter and get along with us

like one amongst us. The third name " vaikundhan " refers to His

greatness as the ultimate power, owner of the universe and ruling it

sitting at His eternal abode the Srivaikuntam. The former quality is

called " sowlabhyam " and the latter as " parathvam " . It has always been

a constant question to AzhwArs as to how EmperumAn alone could

incorporate both these qualities together as they are mutually

contradicting. AnDAL interestingly used the term " mAdhavan " in between

the other two. " MAdhavan " means the one in whose possession is

Madhavi, i.e., Sri MahAlakshmi. Or in other words, it is because of

PirATTi's uninterrupted presence with Him, these two otherwise

mutually contradicting qualities are present in Him.

 

 

" ~nAmam palavum navinRu "

 

 

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