Tiruppavai - guNanusandhanam - nAmA 7 (pARkadluL paiyathuyinRa paraman)

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srI:

srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha

 

Tiruppavai - Pasuram 2 : nAmA 7 (pARkadluL paiya thuyinRa paraman)

 

vaiyaththu vAzhveergAL! naamum nampaavaikku *

 

ceyyum kirisaigaL kELeerO * pARkadaluL

 

paiyath thuyinRa paraman adi paadi *

 

neyyuNNOm pAluNNOm nAtkAlE neerAdi *

 

maiyittu ezhudhOm malarittu naam mudiyOm *

 

ceyyAdhana ceyyOm theekkuRaLai cenROdhOm *

 

aiyamum piccaiyum aandhanaiyum kai kaatti *

 

uyyumaaReNNi ugandhElOr empAvAy

 

In the second pasuram, AndAL glorifies only one nAmA : 7. " pARkadluL paiya

thuyinRa paraman " to praise his " Bhogyatvam " .

 

AndAl after having sung the para vasudevan residing in Vaikuntam, praises the

second form " vyUham - ksheerabthi nAthan " , who is reclining in the milky ocean.

AndAl says praising the nAmA " pARkadluL paiya thuyinRa paraman adi pAdi

neyyuNOm, pAluuNOm " confers all bhogyams on us, if we sing this nAmA. Hence, we

don't need to consume consume ghee, milk etc. This nAmA confers all bhogyams.

 

Swami Nammazhwar confers " unnum sorum, parugum neerum, thinnum vettilayum, ellam

Kannan " . For azhwar, praising the gunam, leelas and nAmA itself is bhogyam.

 

Lord Krishna laments in Bhagavad Gita " vasudEva sarvam iti, sa mahAtma

durlabaha " - Arjuna, today I cannot find a great soul, who considers vAsudEva as

everything. Nammazhwar was born a few days after Lord Krishna left to his

eternal abode. Our poorvAchAryas used to mention this as " paviyEn pallilE pattu

teripadEn " . If Lord Krishna would have waited for some more time, he would have

found that soul swamy nammazhwAr.

 

Swami Periazhwar sings in his tirumozhi - " unnA nAL pasiyAvathu onRillai, OvAthE

namO nArAyanA enRu nanna nAL, anRu enakku pattini nALE " . If I don't take food

for a day, I am not hungry. If I don't utter a day, the nAmA of nArAyanA, that

day only I am hungry.

 

The next nAmAs 8 & 9 in pasuram 3 - " Ongi ulagaLanthavan " and " uthaman " to be

seen at same time to understand his " vAtsalyam " .

 

namO nArAyaNA

 

G. Sundarrajan