Guest guest Posted June 12, 2003 Report Share Posted June 12, 2003 Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha Sri Vanachala mahA munayE Namaha “mAthA pithA yuvadhayas thanyA vibhoothi: sarvam yadhEva niyamEna madhanvayAnAm I Atyasya na: kulapathEr vagulAbhirAmam Srimath thathangri yugalam pranamAmi moordhnA II” Today (12th June 2003) is vAikAsi visAkam, the thirunakshatram dhinam of our beloved prapannajana koodasthar, “vEdam thamizh seida mAran”, saTakOpan, kurugoor nambi, Sri Nammazhvar. “vundO vaikAsi visAkaththukku opporunAl vundO saTakOparkku opporuvar, vundO thiruvAimozhikku oppu then kurugaikkundO O-r parthanil okkumoor” wonders Sri manavAla mAmunigal in his excellent upadesa ratinamAlai. What else can be told about the greatness of Sri nammAzhvar, his divine work thiruvAimozhi, the day and star on which he was born and of course the divine place which gave birth to this born genius? Madurakavi Azhvar, the brilliant shisya of nammazhvar adorns azhvar as everything to him and says he knows nothing other than azhvar and his sweet paasurams “dEvu mattrareyEn kurugoor nambi pAvin en esai pAdi thirivanE”. The head of our sampradayam is nammazhvar and our sampradayam’s key word is madurakavi bhAvam (Acharya shisya lakshanam, panchamOpAyam). Nammazhvar is considered as the angi (soul) of all the other Azhvars, who are considered as his body. Today whatever 4000 paasurams which we have, even though they were originally given by various Azhvars, have reached us only through nammazhvar who first gave it to nAthamunigal. Just sitting under a tamarind tree if a person can do wonders then it is none other than the “mayarvaru madhinalam arulappettra” nammAzhvar. He not only changed ordinary people and attracted them towards his sampradayam through his paasurams, his charm attracted even the various divya dEsa emperumans who came in front of azhvar themselves to get azhvar’s mangalAsAsanams. Thirumangai azhvar reserves the greatness of going to each and every divya desam and doing mangalAsAsanams but nammazhvar never visited any divya desam but instead only the perumals visited him to get mangalAsAsanams from the mouth of azhvar. Such an exotic azhvar’s greatness cannot be explained by mere words (“vAchAma gOcharam”). Now let us see how Sri Aalavandaar enjoys calling nammazhvar as all sort of relation to him. The above given stotra is one of the gems from the stotra ratnam (5) composed by Sri Aalavandaar. Meaning: Adiyen prostrates to the divine feet of that great azhvar, who has been the mother, the father, spouse, kid, huge wealth and everything for all my ancestors, always, and that azhvar who is our kulapathi, whose divine feet is adorned with a magizhamAlai and filled with srivaishnavasri. Vyakhyanam: mAthA - A mother, She longs for a kid and hence does all sort of vrathas before the child develops in the womb, her mind always worries about the same, then she holds the baby safely in her womb for 10 months, then she bears the pain during delivering the child, then she takes atmost care of the child till it grows without caring about all the filthy things the kid does, she feeds the child in time irrespective of the child crying or not, ultimately only thing she wants is the child’s love towards her and wants to be together always. Sri Nammazhvar wants to be always in the bhagavata sathsangam of each of one of us and hence is like our mother. pithA – A father, who always works for the upliftment of the child. When a child does a mistake a mother still showers her love but a father scolds the child inorder to correct his mistakes and make him a better person. Sri nammazhvar does hithOpadhEsam (advice) to all of us irrespective of us shutting our ears towards him. Yuvadhya: - After an age, the youngster forgets both his mother and father and gets attracted towards his spouse, because of the sweetness and love between them. Sri Nammazhvar and his prabhandams are so sweet that we get attracted similarly. thanayA: after the spouse gives birth to a child, one is always concentrated on the child who relaxes him with his childhood activities, the child who will take care of him when he becomes old and sick, the son who will do his last rites and hence prevent him from going to the naraka called the “puthu”. Sri nAmmazhvar is like a son to each one of us since he takes care of each one of us by showing the path of divinity to us and taking us all to moksha through his paasurams. Vibhoothi: Ishwaryam is absolutely necessary for anyone to get involved with any of the above. So nammazhvar is our wealth. Sarvam: Not only the above, but azhvar is all sort of bhokyams (enjoyment) to us. yadhEva: such an azhvar, whose divine feet niyamEna: always, being with him always like before and never going away from him. madhanvayAnAm: to all the people of my clan (“vidhyaya janmanA vA”) Atyasya: being the pradhamAcharya (foremost teacher) for the vaidhika santhAnam na: kulapathE: like a lady attaining the same gothra of the husband after the marriage nammazhvar has become our kulapathi. vagulAbhirAmam: the one who is adorned with the garland of vagula flower (magizhampoo). The sweet smell of his thiruvadi mesmerizes us and puts us always under his divine feet. Srimath: one who is always filled with srivaishnasri (kainkarya sri). “antharikshagadhas sriman” “sathu nAgavara: sriman” “lakshmanO lakshmisampanna:”. In all the above cases the only wealth, all of them have is the bhagavat kataksham and kainkaryam. Nammazhvar has all the wealth to shower on all of us for our upliftment. thadhangriyugalam: we can just say ‘that’ but can never completely talk about the same. ‘yugalam’ shows the beauty in the togetherness of the divine feet pranamAmi moordhnA: thinking and talking about the greatness of azhvar one cannot stop with just saying nama: but will immediately fall into his divine feet. Here Sri aalavandaar has considered Sri Nammazhvar as his parama seshi (head) and has surrendered to his divine feet. One question, which arises, is: How can there be two heads for a prapannan? Here Ishwaran is the prathama seshi and bhagavatas (nammazhvar as the head) are the dvaraseshi, those who lead us towards the prathama seshi viz., emperuman. Thereby there is no contradiction says vyakhyana chakravarthi Sri Periya AchAn pillai. Adiyen has tried to give the meaning of the stotra according to Sri periyavAchAn pillai’s vyakhyanam to stotra ratnam as correctly as possible. Adiyen begs the pardon of the bhagavatas for any knowingly or unknowingly committed mistakes. Learned bhagavatas may please correct the mistakes so that others do not get misleaded due to adiyen’s ignorance. “Adiyen ciria jnanaththan” (adiyen is a dull headed person). Adiyen surrenders to the divine feet of Sri nAmmazhvar on this divine day for making even mandha bhuddhis like adiyen to write a few words about the divine soul following the footsteps of our acharyas in the great forum of bhagavatas. Let us all join hands to sing the praise of the great soul Sri saTakOpan on this day and ever and do mangalAsAsanams to the divine feet of emperuman. “saTakOpa munim vandhE satAnAm bhuddhidhooshakam I agnAnAm jnAnajanakam thintrinee moolasamsrayamII” Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee Sumithra Varadarajan Free online calendar with sync to Outlook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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