Pushpa, ThyAga, BhOga ...6

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We saw that satyam refers to the synchronised fashion of working of body and

mind. Here is an interesting pasuram from ‘IrandAm ThiruvandhAdhi’ sung by

BhootathAzhwar,

 

'pOthaRinthu vaanarangaL pooncunaipukku, aangalarntha pOtharinthu koNdEtthum

pOthu,uLLam - pOthu maNivENG kadavan malaradikkE sella, aNivENG kadavanpE

raaynthu'

 

Even the vaanarakkoottam in Thirumalai wakes up in Brahama Muhurtam and performs

kaimkaryam to ThiruVenkadamudayAn by manas, vAk and kAyam. Even if a

vanaarakottam is able to do that kaimkaryam, even our souls should be able to do

that.

 

Let us dwell little bit on Jnana pushpam part. Every one of us recites ‘uttrOmE

AvOm unakkE nAm atcheyvOm….’ in sAttrumrai pasuram daily. This again shows that

we are always there to just do service to Him, and only to Him. In the first

pasuram of ThiruppAvai, Andal uses the name Narayanan. In the end she says that

she had called Him with SirupEr initially. Now, she calls Him as ‘kurai ondrun

illAtha Govinda’. Though Andal has not directly referred to any archAvatAram in

ThiruppAvai, she sang about the greatness of Govinda nAmam.

 

Let us again go back to the Narayana nAmam and see how Thirumangai Azhwar

enjoyed ThiruVenkadamudAdyan with this name. Here it is,

 

pEsuminthirunNaamamettezhutthum sollinNinRu, pinnarum,

pEsuvaarthammaiyuyyavaangkip piRappaRukkum piraanidam, vaasamaamalarnNaaRuvaar

pozhilsoozhtharumulagukkellaam, dhEsamaaytthigazhummalai

thiruvEngkadamadainNeNYchamE

 

 

 

Azhwar asks his nenjam to keep reciting the AshtAkshara ThirunAmam and proceed

to vaasamaamalar pozhil soozhtharum ThiruVenkadam.

 

Kulasekara Azhwar wants to become anything on ThiruVenkadam. In his Perumal

Thirumozhi, he says,

 

‘EmperumAn pon malaiyil aEthEnum avEnE’

 

We can keep enjoying ThiruVenkadamudayAn without an end. For us, the

SriVaishnavaites, everything starts and ends in Azhwars and AchAryAs.

 

Let us look at NammAzhwar’s ‘Ozhivil…’ pathikam again. He clearly says that,

 

‘vEnka dangaLmeym mElvinai muRRavum, thaangaL thangatku nallana vEseyvaar, vEnka

datthuRai vaarkku namavenna laanga damai,a thusumanN thaarkatkE’

 

After reaching ThiVenkatadam, we don’t even have to do the kaimkaryams that

vaanarakoottam do there. All we need to do keep remembering is namaha after

reaching ThiruVenkadam, which means we are not ours, we are His property. He is

the one who does everything on us. Thus, we just need to carry nothing but the

thought that we are His property and we need His 'NirhEtuka Krupai'.

 

If we could recollect where we started from, we are finishing in the same place.

Again we have come to,

 

‘sumamanthu mAmalar……’

 

Thus we can see there is no end to anubhavam of ThiruVenkadamudayAn. We are

caught in the loop that Azhwars and AchAryAs have made for us. This is the loop,

which will definitely take us to the abode of ‘Pirapparukkum pirAn’. Now we can

get reminded about the vEda vAkyam,

 

‘na ca punarAvartatE na ca punarAvartatE’. We will never come back to this cycle

of samsara if we are caught in this loop.

 

 

 

‘vEnkatAdri samam sthAnam BrahmAndE nAsti kincana, vEnkatEsa samO dEvO na bhUtO

na bavishyati’

 

aDiyEn,

 

ramanan

 

 

 

 

 

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