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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

 

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

 

Srimad Vara Vara munayE Namaha

 

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

 

 

Paasuram-22

 

 

 

" azhagiyAn thAnE ariyuruvan thAnE

 

pazhagiyAn thAlE paNimin-kuzhaviyAi

 

thAnEzhulagukkum thanmaikkum thanmaiyanE

 

meenA yuyiralikkum viththu "

 

 

 

Thirumazhisai azhvar deeply enjoyed the divine beauty of Narasimha perumal in

the previous paasuram. Azhvar couldn't just stop with self-enjoyment. Azhvar

felt very bad for all the jeevatmas who miss this enjoyment due to their

ignorance. How could people be without enjoying the divine beauty of

narasimhan? So azhvar sings this paasuram as an advice to the common folks to

fall to the divine feet of the sowndarya moorthi, narasimha perumal, azhagiya

singar.

 

 

 

(AzhagiyAn thAnE.) This is as a continuation of enjoyment of the divine beauty

of narasimhan. Is he the only person filled with divine beauty? Doesn't

paramapadanAthan possess the same beauty?

 

 

 

(ariyuruvan thAnE) No. only the one who came to this world, as narasimhan

possesses the ultimate beauty. The beauty of paramapadanAthan is like light

that glows in the morning. While the sun shines if one lights a lamp then the

light of the lamp is of no use. Whereas if the same lamp is lit on a dark

night, then it has its special significance. Similarly narasimha perumal is a

light lit in darkness. ParamapadanAthan is the embodiment of grace alone but

narasimhan showed both grace and anger at the same time ( " dushta nigraham, sista

paripAlanam " ). " seeRRathOdu arul peRRavan " . In paramapadam emperuman shows his

beauty to those filled with ultimate knowledge (sarvagnar) whereas narasimha

perumal showed his beauty even to the ignorant (agynar). ParamapadanAthar's

beauty can be enjoyed only in words but for narasimha moorthi " eraNiyanAgam

pilandhu ariyAi udiramalaindha kaiyOdirundhAnai ullavA kandArular "

[peri-thiru.4-1-1]

 

 

 

(azhagiyAn thAne ariyuruvan thAnE) This is that lord who is celebrated as

" Azhagiya singar " by the whole world.

 

 

 

Note: Hope by this time all of you have enjoyed the divine beauty of Azhagiya

singar at thiruvallikeni and joined the ghosti of " kandArular " as sung by

periazhvar.

 

 

 

The Sri Vishnu SahasranAmam celebrates this perumal as " nArasimhavapu: SrimAn "

 

 

 

(AzhagiyAn thAnE ... paNimin) When we see some thing attractive to our eyes we

keep on seeing and enjoying it but we never get the idea of falling to its feet.

So what is so special of narasimhan that instigates us to fall to his feet?

 

 

 

(ariyuruvan thAnE . paNimin) He is purushOtaman, the one supreme male. He is

Abhatsakam (who comes to our rescue at the time of danger). When a person has

both the strength and wish to come to our rescue while in danger and also filled

with divine beauty will not one surrender to his feet? Anyway is it enough if

he is powerful and beautiful and doesn't know what our problem is and how to

actually solve it?

 

 

 

(pazhagiyAn thAlE paNimin) This body is our disease that has to be shed and what

we have to actually attain is the divine body. We are ignorant of this fact and

hence keep taking utmost care of the body whereas he very well knows what has to

be shed and what should be attained. So it is important for us to fall to his

feet and get over our miseries. If you consider his divine feet as upayam and

upEyam and surrender then he who knows the reason behind you entering this body

and suffering (karma) at all times viz., past, present and future along with the

solution for the same (his nirheduka krupai) will surely save you from all the

miseries.

 

We all go to the doctor to cure our diseases since we believe that the doctor

knows well about the disease and the method to cure the same. The only doctor

to cure our disease of samsAram is none other than hari.

 

" maruththuvanAi nindra mAmani vannA "

 

" vaithyOnArAyanO hari: " " bhEshajam bhishak " (Vishnu SahasranAmam)

 

" eruththukodiyAnum piramanum Indiranum maRRum oruththarumip piravi ennum noikku

marundharivArumillai maruththuvanAi nindra mAmanivannA! (peri-thiru-5-3-6)

 

Forget the brahma rudras who are also suffering with the disease of samsAram and

fall to the divine feet of emperuman the only doctor who can cure this disease.

 

" avaidhya: prakrutha: prOkthO vaidhyO vaishnava uchchetE "

 

[samsaris are called as avaidhyas and vaishnavas are called as vaidhyas]

 

If people connected with him are themselves called as vaidhyas then what to say

about the lord himself?

 

How to believe that he knows well about this body to be shed and that body to be

attained?

 

 

 

(thAnE thanmaikkum thanmaiyanE) The elements behind the creation of prakruthi

(nature) viz., mahan, ahankaram, panchabhoodhangal and the similar 7 ingrediants

and the pancha bhoodhas formed from sabdha (sound), sparsa (touch), roopa

(form), rasa (taste), gandha (smell) tanmAthras all reside inside emperuman.

'thanmai' refers to the tanmAthras, the pre-state of all the panchabhoodhas

before their complete formation, the very state in which all the special

qualities of the pancha bhoodhas are in the hidden form. For eg., the special

quality of sky (Akasam) is sound (sabdha guna). The pre-state of Akasam is

sabdha tanmAthrai that hides the quality of sound inside. Similar is the case

with other bhoodhas. There is a lot of difference between tanmAthrai and

quality. TanmAthrai is an ingredient and forms the essential part in the

formation of the bhoodha. Thereby " thanEzhulagukkum.. thanmaiyanE " refers to

emperuman not only being the final product but also the reason behind the

ingredients necessary for formation.

 

Here " Ezhulagu " refers to the creating objects, mahan, ahankaram and the pancha

bhoodhas or otherwise,

 

 

 

(thAnEzhulagukkum thanmaikkum thanmaiyanE) Here 'ezhulagu' refers to the seven

lokas viz.,bhuvarlokam, suvarlokam etc at the top and 7 seven lokas viz.,

athala, vidhala etc underneath that includes all the chetanas and achetanas.

" thanmaikkum " refers to the achetana gunas viz., sabdha, sparsa etc and chetana

gunas. Thus it is seen that emperuman is behind all the chetanas/achetanas and

acts as the controller and guiding torch of all their qualities.

 

 

 

If read as " than vaikkum thanmaiyanE " then it means that emperuman has all the

seven worlds inside him naturally.

 

Is there any instance where he has protected us?

 

 

 

(kuzhaviyAi meenAi vuyiralikkum viththu)What has he not done to protect us?

During the pralaya period he saved all of us by safely keeping us in his stomach

and he lying on a banyan leaf coolly.

 

" meenathanus tvam nAvi nidhAya

 

stirachara parikara manu manu bhagavan I

 

vEda sanAbhi svOkthi vinOdai: -

 

agali talaya bhayala vama mumavaha: II [ra-stv-2-60]

 

[Oh lord! You took the form of a fish you placed all the flora and fauna near

manu on a boat and saved all the creations with your great words equivalent to

Vedas without any fear]

 

In this way, during the manvantrapralaya, you placed all the living creatures,

including its head manu on a boat due to your sankalpa and took the form of a

jalajanthu (water creature) and saved the boat without being destroyed due to

the flooding water. You returned the Vedas to brahma and made him capable of

creation once again.

 

 

 

(viththu) As per the sAstra " sadEva sOmya " [chan-6-2-1] he is trividha karana

for creation (nimiththa, upAdhAna, sahakAri karanas)

 

 

 

(To Be Continued)

 

 

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

 

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

 

Sumithra Varadarajan