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Pasuram19-kutthuvilakkeriya

 

kutthuviLakkeriya kOttukkAl kattil mEl

metthenrapancha sayanatthinmElEri

kotthalar poonguzal

nappinnai kongai mEl

vaitthukkidandha malarmarba vai thiravai

maitthadamkaNNinAi nee

un maNAlanai

etthanai podhum thilezavottAi kAn

itthanai Agilum pirivAtrakillAyAl

thatthuvam anru thagavElOrempAvai

 

Oh Lord,

speak to us. You are lying on a couch, which

has got all the qualities of being the best like

softness, and supported by the tusks of elephants, lit around with lamp, your

chest resting on Nappinnai, who is wearing bunch of

flowers on her tresses. Oh Nappinnai,

with eyes decorated with collirium, you will not

allow him to get up any time as you do not want to part with him, which is not

right, and is against your nature.

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Before approaching the

Lord the divine mother has to be entreated as she is the one who advocates the

case of the devotee to Him, which is called purushakaram in vaishnavism. The mother will give her grace to the devotee

without consulting the Lord but will not punish without

His approval. Sita saved Hanuman from the fire

praying to the fire-god to be cool 'SeethO bhava hanoomathah,' and

saved the rakshasis from the wrath of Hanuman

saying 'na kaSchit naoarAd\DHyathi?'

, "who is without fault?" But she did not curse Ravana

because, she said, she did not have the permission of Rama. This fact is very beautifully explained by Thyagaraja who says in his krthi

'mA jAnaki,' that Sita had

all the powers to kill Ravana with her anger but

desisted because she wanted to give the credit to Rama.

 

 

Kutthuvilakkeriya- the lamp will illuminate itself and the other

things.. Likewise the divine mother shows the Lord to

the devotees and vice versa.

 

kOttukkAl-The

feet of the couch are made of ivory.

 

panchasayanam- an ideal couch must have five qualities. Softness.,whiteness, fragrance,

coolness and beauty. Thus it is called panchasayanam.

 

etthanai pOdhum -----kAN- reference here is to Sita

who did not wake up Rama even when Kakasura attacked her.

 

etthanai yAgilum

pirivAtrakillAy- Sridevi is never separated from her Lord .Azvar calls him 'agalakillEn iraiyum ena alarmEl

mangai urai mArbA.' This is the real meaning of 'nappinnai konhaimEl vaitthukkidandha malarlArba.'

 

thatthuvam anru, thagavEl- thathvam is svarupam, nature, thagavu

is svabhAva, character.. Not

to show mercy on the devotees is neither suited to the nature or character of the divine mother.

 

thath denotes Brahman, that is, bhagavan,

thvam refers to Lakshmi.

Anru means 'not.' She is not Him as she is

full of mercy and will not punish like the Lord.

 

The previous pasuram mentioned with reference to Ramanuja

who was fond of it as it refers to ThAyar, the divine mother. It seems that he was so involved

with this pasuram when he went on the streets singing

it and when AtthuzAi, the daughter of Perianambi, his guru came out to give him biksha, he saw the ThAyAr herself

in her and prostrated before her. Since then this pasuram

is mentioned in connection with him.

 

The present one is

supposed to be the favourite of Parasarabhattar.

 

The pasuram

ambaramE begins with akAra

and the next undhu

madha begins with ukAra

of the PraNava. The 20th one starts with makAra, 'muppatthumoovar' and

this one is said to be inserted in between as the praNva

should not be uttered direct except by vedic scholars

..

 

KutthuviLakku denotes the light of jnana.

which not only destroys the external darkness but also the internal darkness of

ignorance. KutthuviLakku has five faces which denote

here the five states of Bhagavan, namely, Para, vyuha, vibhava, archA and antharyami. Para is the state in vaikunta, as the supreme purusha,

vyuha comprises of the four forms, Vasudeva, SankarshaNa,

Pradhyumna and Aniruddha,

all are one only but distinguished

according to the attributes that go with the bhagavathsabda.

Vibhava are the incarnations, archa

are the forms worshipped in temples and abtharyami

is the indweller of all as their inner self.

The four legs of the

couch denote the concepts that form the basis of the world, causing samsara. The four Purusharathas, dharma,

artha, kama

and moksha, the four asramas,

brhmacharya, grhastha,

vanaprastha and sannyasa,the

four varnas, brahma,kshathriya

vaisya and sudra,

four yugas, sathya, thretha, dvapara

and kali, and, papa, sin, puNya,

merit, papapunya, the sin which appears

as merit and vice versa, puNyapApa. These

are the legs of samsara and the Lord is above 'mEl.' The pancha sayanam denotes the five kinds of life, deva,

manushya, thiryang

and sthAvara and aprAni,

divine, human, animal, plant and inert. the lord is

above the couch , that is beyond all beings . He is malarmArban

of flower like chest, soft hearted.

 

kotthalar----mEl the bunch

of flowers are the jnana on which the bhagavan is resting.

 

maitthadam-----pirivAtrakillai-

when the devotee is applying the collirium of

devotion the Lord is his maNAlan, the

dear one . He does not want to part with the Lord again and lapse

back into the sleep of samsara. This is the thatthuvam the truth. And this will not happen

without the thagavu,

the grace of the Lord.