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Pasuram-9 - thoomaNi mAdatthu

 

 

 

thoomaNimAdatthu suttrum viLakkeriya

 

dhoopamkamaZa thuyilaNai mEl kaNvaLarum

 

maAmanmagalE maNIkkadhavam thAl thiravai

 

mAmeer avaLai ezuppeerO nummagaLthAn

 

oomaiyO anri sevidO ananthalO

 

EmApperunthuyil mandhirappattALO

 

mAmAyan mAdhavan vaikunthan enrenrum

 

nAmam palavum navinrElOrempAvai

 

 

 

Oh

my uncle's daughter, who is sleeping in a couch in a mansion lighted by lamps

all around,with fragrant incense around please open your door. Oh my aunt, wake

her up. is your daughter dumb or deaf or

proud ? Is she under the influence of long sleep? Come and say with us the

names of Madhava, Vaikunta and the great enchanter of all.

 

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commentary

 

In

this world, some come forward to do good things voluntarily.Some will join at

the end. Others will only come when called and some others will not come even

when called. This girl is of the third category.

 

 

 

suttrum vilakkeriya- All the mansions in Gokula are embedded with

jewels and it is bright always with the light of the gems but still they light

lamps for the sake of tradition. So it looks as though there are lamps all

around,

 

 

 

mAman magale- Andal imagines herself to be the resident of Gokula where everyone

is related to the others.

 

 

 

manikkadhavm thAl thirvai- the doors are full of gems and the girls outside

were not able to make out where the

opening is and asks the girl inside to come and open it.

 

 

 

Ummagal thAn oomaiyo----The elders came out hearing the call but the

girl did not and hence they call her dumb, deaf etc.

 

 

 

ananthalo-

pride due to wealth, beauty etc.

 

 

 

Emapperumthuyil mandhirappattALO- A long sleep perhaps induced by the chanting of

some manthra.

 

 

 

mAmAyan mAdhavan vaikunthan enrenrum namam

palavum- tells the elders to wake the girl up by repeating the sahahranama

of the Lord.

 

 

 

The reason of putting the

term 'mAman magal 'is to indicate

that the real realtives are those who are the devotees of the Lord.

 

 

 

The

Lord is called mAmAyan which denotes

His soulabhya, easy accessibility, and also

may mean ma+Ayan, associated

with Lakshmi, mAdhavan to indicate

His association with Sri, hence He is full of mercy, and vaikunthan

which implies His swamithva, being the Lord of the universe.

 

 

 

The

maya of the Lord conceals Him to the world but does not conceal us from Him like

those inside the dark glass window. Viradha says to Rama the 'cows know their

calves and vice versa but you know us but we do not know you.' Ramanuja calls

the maya 'bhagavatsvrupa thirO DhAna

karee,' the one that conceals the svarupa of the Lord. Yamunacharya terms

the maya as 'yavanikA jaganmohinee,'

the veil that deludes the world.

 

 

 

Indra and others even

though aware of the identity of Krishna were

deluded into believing that he was a cowherd lad, which shows the power of His

maya. NammAzvAr says, 'amaivudai nAraNan

mAyaiyai arivAr yAre,' who can understand the maya of the Lord! Desika says

in his yadhavAbhyudhaya 'yadhgarbhE

jagadhakhilam sa Eva garbhO dhEvakyAh samajani dhEvadhEva vandhyah,' The

one who has the whole universe in Him and who is worshipped by the devendhra,

was born from the womb of Dhevaki.

 

 

 

In Varahavathara the ocean was said to cover only the ankle of

the Lord while in Krishnavathara Yasodha was able to bathe him with handful of

water! that is the maya of the Lord! Not only that. The one who told all to bow

down to His feet in the charama sloka, 'mAmEkam saranam vraja,' grasped both the feet of Yasodha while she

bathed Him!

 

 

 

The

central idea of the pasuram is that one should not be deluded into believing

that the house and other possessions, indicated by thoomaNi mAdam etc., are

real and should acquire knowledge about the Lord who is the only reality behind

all.

 

 

 

Chith, achith and Isvara

are the three reals of which achith is ever changing, chith does not change in

form but only in nature and Isvara is

changeless and the real of the reals, 'sathyasya

sathyam.' Therefore He is the 'thoomaNi,'

pure gem. The upanishad tells about this 'thoomaNi' and the veda which houses

it is the 'mAdam,' the mansion. The lamps that show the meaning of veda are the

purANam, smrthi and brahmasuthram. One who has the knowledge of these is said

to sleep in the 'thuyilaNai,' bed

which is the Lord. He is our bed because every night we are sleeping in Him but

we do not know it because of our ignorance.

 

 

 

The lock of the door ,'manikkadhavam thAL,' is our karma

which has to be opened in order to get the knowledge for which we need the

favour of Acharya and the Lord who is the paramAchArya..If one succeeds in

acquiring all this he joins the group of

bhAgavathas when the dumbness, deafness and pride ,meaning that one becomes

deaf and dumb to all talk except of Him, and becomes proud of doing His

kainkarya,. opens his mouth only to sing the glory of the Lord thus engage all his senses in the service of

the Lord.

 

 

 

This

pasuram is supposed to refer to Thirumazisai

azvAr to whom the terms 'mAmAyan,

mAdhavan and vakunthan are

favourite expressions and he used to sing about the Lord in reclining position 'ThuyilaNai---' The word 'suttrum vilakkeriya' refers to his profound knowledge of the vedas

and he was dumb and deaf when he was insulted on receiving agrapuja in a yaga

by brahmins. He was under the influence of Peyazvar 'mandhirappattALO' and sleep for a paramaikanthin is to turn away

from worldly pleasures.

 

 

 

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