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Dear All,

 

‘aaNnaikaaththo raaNnaikonRa thanRiyaayar piLLaiyaay…’

 

The above line is from Thirumazhisai Azhwar’s Thiruchandaviruttam. Azhwar asks

Perumal about His leela in protecting one elephant where as killing another one.

Kannan killed the elephant called Kuvalayapeetam when He was approaching

Kamsan’s palace. This act was well enjoyed by Thirumangai Azhwar in the first

pasuram for Thiruvallikkeni. Thirumazhisai Azhwar talks about protecting

Gajendran, another elephant in the above line of his pasuram in

thiruchandaviruttam. Thirumangai Azhwar enjoys the same act in different pasuram

on Thiruvallikkeni. He sings on Gajendra Varadan in Thiruvallikkeni by

describing the act of protecting Gajendran from the jaws of a crocodile. Here is

the beautiful pasuram,

 

‘meenamar poygai nNaaNmalar koyvaan vEtkaiyi NnOdusen RizhinNdha, kaanamar

vEzham kaiyeduth thalaRak karaavadhan kaalinaik kadhuva, aanaiyin thuyaram

theerappuL LoornNdhu senRunNin Raazhithot taanai, thEnamar sOlai maadamaa

mayilaith thiruvallik kENikkaN dEnE’

 

Why should Perumal act differently to the same jAthi of living being? The act of

killing Kuvalayapeetam was very obvious because it stood against Kannan. In the

second case, more justification is needed. Kannan Himself talks about this in

Bhagavat Geeta. He tells Arjuna,

 

‘Oh Arjuna, the entire world of samsara is kind of a net out of which you can

never come out’

 

Arjuna was very scared to listen to this, and wanted to get back to the same

thought of not going for battle. Krishna repleid to Arjuna in the same context

with the following,

 

‘Arjuna, you need to listen to me fully. I told that you can never come out of

this samsara net. This is the case when you try to come out of it. With the

Grace of me, you can easily come out of the net of samsara’

 

There was an araiyar in Thirunaraiyur, who used to tell that even the fly's net

is very difficult to break, how could it be possible for us to break the net of

samsara, that was built by Perumal.

 

If we go back to the story of Gajendran, he was trying to break the net by

himself all through, and finally decided that he could not come out of the jaws

by himself. Hence, he left the flowers he was holding and screamed ‘Adhi

moolame’ to offer that pushpam at His feet. Perumal immediately came to the

rescue of Gajendran. This story was narrated by Thirumangai Azhwar when he sang

on Gajendra Varadan. With his usual and unique style, he finished the pasuram by

worshipping that Gajendra Varadan in Thiruvallikkeni.

 

Let us enjoy Thirumangai Azhwar’s anubhavam on Thelliya Singam in the next

posting,

 

aDiyEn,

 

ramanan