AchArya Hrdhayam 219

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sUthram 229-1

 

 

 

WHY THE INORDINATE DELAY?

 

" vuRAmiyOdEa vuRREAn AkkAdhoyindhadhu, nAdu thirundha, nacchup poiga

Agamaikku, prabhandham thalaikatta, vEAr chUduvar maNpaRRu pOleA ennum

avaRRilum, " ini, ini " enRu irupadhinkAl kUppidum, Arthi adhigAra pUrthikku,

ennumadhu mukyam "

 

 

AzhwAr commenced with thiu-virutham " poi ninRa gnAnam...ini yAm vuRAmai.. "

expressing his distaste in this world and desire to attain Him. The Lord who is

supreme could have removed the hurdles and have granted AzhwAr the salvation

then and there instantaneosly. Why was this not done?

 

 

The prominent reasons for the delay are:

 

a. nAdu thirutha: To rectify the other souls in this world. The Lord had

Himself taken incarnations. He had followed several methods. Still the souls did

not completely educated. To rectify and rescue them, AzhwAr was left in this

world.

" vUrum, nAdum vulagamum, thannaip pOle, avandaiya pEArum ,thArgaLumEa pidhaRRa "

thiru-voi-mozhi 6-7-2;

 

b. nacchup poigai AgAmaikku: If AzhwAr is granted salvation immediately on

surrender, it will set a bad precedence in the sense that, it will propogate

wrong signals that if sombody surrenders unto Him, they have to vanish from this

world forthwith. This is akin to a person entering a poisonous pond. To avoid

this, a dealy is warranted.

 

c. prabhandham thali-katta: To get the prabhandham, the great thiru-voi-mozhi,

the magnum-opus, the bhagavadh vishayam, rendered by swAmi nam-AzhwAr. To reap

the fruits of this prabhandham by not only the world, us but by the Great

Almighty Himself.

 

d. The attachment of the Lord towards the physicique of AzhwAr: The Lord

Almighty's immense affection towards AzhwAr permeated as affection even towards

AzhwAr-s physcial embodiment. Hence, a further detention in this world was

necessitated out of the affection towards AzhwAr's physical thiru-mEani..

 

e.'ini,ini':The primary reason however being to breed and harbour the tendency

or attitude of " eagerness " or " longingness " to reach Him. AzhwAr has explicitly

expressed this in twenty thiru-voi-mozhi-s " ini " irupadhu.

 

(to be continued)

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