tiruppavai unakkE nam atseivOm

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srI:

srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha

 

Dear Baghavatas,

 

In our sattrumurai prakaranam, we recite AndAl's 29 and 30th pasurams of

tiruppavai namely " sitram siru kalE " and " Vanga kadal kadaindha " . During last

week tirumanjanam celeberations, one of the bAghavatas was mentioning that the

words " unakkE nAm AtseivOm " appearing in 29th pasuram reflects AndAl mentioning

that she will do kaimkaryam only to Lord nArAyanA and not to any other demi-gods

and hence if there is anything in her mind " matrai nam kamam matru " . I tried to

recount the number of namAs of the Lord that Andal is mentioning in her 30

pasurams (I could count 93 namAs off-hand, probably some baghavatas may stretch

this to satha ashtotram). After having sung 28 pasurams only in the name of

Lord Krishna, whether AndAl can even think of service to other demi-gods.

Paramkarunikar Sri Periyavachan Pillai, who has done vyAkyAnams to all the 4000

pasurams has given a vishesha vyAkyAnam to " unakkE nAm AtseivOm " .

 

There are 3 types of people in this world as under :

 

1. Namakke nAm AtseivOm : It means some people (a) tannayum marandhu (doesn't

differentiate between shareeram and atma) b. ishwaranayum marandhu (doesn't

understand that there is a supreme god to whom we should reach one day) c.

kaimkarayattayum marandhu (forgets to do nithya kaimkaryams and enjoys in wordly

pleasures) d. kaimkaryam izhandom enra ninaivum inRu (not worried that we have

lost so many years without performing our nitya kaimkaryams). He continues

serving his own body and family. Maram suvar madhileduthu, marumaikke verumai

poondu says Thondar Adi Podi Azhwar. For this birth, he accumulates so much

wealth and not care about atma which will take him to future births. Namakke nAm

atseivOm means we will go to hell and next birth will be certainly down from

this one.

 

2. unakkum enakkum AtseivOm : Most of us fall into this category. We will do

service to the Lord and in turn expect him to service us (kaivalya moksham) by

giving us prosperity, wealth, health, education and et all. If we do this type

of service, we can utmost go to heaven and after spending some good time there,

should come back here to this samsaram.

 

3. unakkE nAm AtseivOm : This is the most rare category and AndAl prays to be

in this category. Here, we service to Lord only for his pleasure and expect

none other than service to him (either here or in vaikuntam). Hence, what AndAl

prays in the 29th pasuram is eternal service (etraikkum ezh ezh piravikkum) to

you and we will not assume any happiness in serving you and you bless us (thArai

parai) to continue the services eternally.

 

Pasuram 1 : 1. Nandagopan kumaran 2. Yasodhai iLam singam 3. karmeni sengkannan

4. kadhir madiyam pol mugathan 5. nArAyanan

Pasuram 2 : 6. pArkadaluL paiya thuyindra paraman

Pasuram 3 : 7. Ongi ulagaLantha Uthaman

Pasuram 4 : 8. oOzhi muthalavan 9. Padmanabhan

Pasuram 5 : 10. mAyan 11. vada mathurai maindhan 12. yamunai thuraivan 13. Ayar

kula aniviLakku 14. dAmodharan Pasuram 6 : 15. puL arayan 16. vella tharavil

thuyil amarndha vittu (ksheerapdi nathan) 17. Hari

Pasuram 7 : 18. nArAyanan 19. mUrthi 20. kEsavan

Pasuram 8 : 21. mAvAi piLandhavan 22. mallarai mattiyavan 23. dEvAthi dEvan

Pasuram 9 : 24. mAmAyan 25. mAdhavan 26. vaikundan

Pasuram 10 : 27. natra thuzai mudi nArAyanan 28. puNiyan

Pasuram 11 : 29. mugil vannan

Pasuram 12 : 30. then ilangai komanai setravan 31. manathukku iniyan

Pasuram 13 : 32. pullin vai keendan 33. polla arakkanai killi kalaindhan

Pasuram 14 : 34. thadakkaiyan 35. pangaya kannan

Pasuram 15 : 36. vallanai konravan 37. matRu azhikka vallan 38. mAyan

Pasuram 16 : 39. nAyakan 40. mAyan 41. maNivannan

Pasuram 17 : 42. Ongi ulagalandhavan 43. umbar kOman 44. baladevanin umbi

Pasuram 18 : 45. nappinai maithunan

Pasuram 19 : 46. malar marban 47. maithadam kanniyin manalan

Pasuram 20 : 48. amararkku mun senravan 49. kappam thavirpavan 50. kali 51.

seppam udayavan 52. thiral udayavan 53. setrarku veppam koduppavan 54. vimalan

55. nappinnai manalan

Pasuram 21 : 56. Pasukkal atra padaithanin magan 57. ootram udaiyavan 58.

periyavan 59. thotramAi ninra sudar

Pasuram 22 :

Pasuram 23 : 60. seeriya singam 61. poo vannan

Pasuram 24 : 62. (mundru) ulagam alanthavan 63. ilangai setravan 64. sagadam

uthaithavan 65. kanrai kunilai erinthavan 66. (govarthana malai) kudaiyai

eduthavan 67. pagai keduthavan 68. sevagam (e) koLbavan 69. (gopika

sthregalukku) irangubavan.

Pasuram 25 : 70. (kamsan) tavarana karuthai pizhaipittavan 71. nedu mal 72.

parai (kaimkaryam) tharubavan

Pasuram 26 : 73. mAl 74. manivannan 75. alin ilayai

Pasuram 27 : 76. koodarai (those who don't wish to associate with HIM) velbavan

77. gOvinda

Pasuram 28 : 78. Ayar kulathil pirandha punniyan 79. kurai onrum illadha gOvinda

80. iRaiva

Pasuram 29 : 81. potramarai adiyan 82. (petram meithu unnum) kulathil

pirandhavan 83. (bAghavatA's) kutra evalgalai kollubavan 84. gOvindha 85. matra

kamangali matrubavan

Pasuram 30 : 86. mAdhavan 87. kEsavan 88. parai (kaimkaryam) koduppavan 89.

irirandu thoL udayavan 90. mAl 91. sengkannan 92. selvan 93. thirumAl

 

namO nArAyanA

 

G.Sundarrajan

Indonesia