Sri Vishnuchitta kulanandana kalpavalli (Part-7)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha

 

“endrO thiruvAdi pooram emakkAga

andrO engu Andal avadhariththAl

kundrAdha vAzhvAna vaikunda vAn pOgan thannai egazhindhu

Azhvar thirumagalArAi”

 

Says swamy manavala mAmunikal in his upadesa rathinamAlai. “EmakkAga andrO engu Andal avadhariththal” Sri bhoomi piratti took avatara as andal only for the sake of all innocent souls like us. If perumal alone took an avatara then he will land up not catching even a single jeevatma since all the sins of the jeevatma will first come in front of his eyes. If then piratti is by his side then she does the purushakAram and makes the krupai of emperuman fall on the poor jeevatmas. So whenever emperuman takes an avatara, piratti also comes down due to her immense grace on all of us.

 

When that is the case with Sridevi nAchiyar the grace of bhoomi devi nachiyar wins over sridevi. How? Sridevi takes avatara only when perumal takes avatara but bhoomi piratti took a special avatara leaving all her joy in vaikundam “vaikunda vAn pOgam thannai egazhindhu” as Andal, the daughter of periazhvar for the sake of her kids. In this avatara she did two services liked very much by emperuman. “poomalai toduththu pAmAlai pAdudhal” She made beautiful flower garlands following the kainkaryam of her father and also sang beautiful paasurams on emperuman.

 

Our acharyas say that being “anju kudikkoru sandhadhi” the child of all the azhvars andal excelled her fathers. Nothing can be equated to her thiruppAvai paasurams. Ayee jananyAcharya swamy in his IrAyirappadi vyakhyanam to thiruppAvai shows one excellent Ithihyam. The verse is quoted below:

 

“EmperumAnArai ‘Oruru thiruppAvaikku arththam arulich cheiyya vEnum’ enna; ‘ThiruppallAndukku Al kidaikkilum thiruppAvaikku Al kidaiyAdhu..mOvAyezhuindha muradar ketkaikku adhikArigalallar. MulaiezhundhAr kEtka vEnum. Avargalilum emperumAnai thAngal anubhavikka vEnum endrirukkum parivANichchigalAna pirAttimArkkum ketka nilamalla; pala solli en? Paththu azhvargaludaiya sArabhoodhaiyAna thAnE solli thAnE kEtkumiththanai’ endru arulichcheidhAr”

 

A few came to emperumanar and requested him to deliver the meanings of thiruppavai to them. EmperumAnAr replied, “It is possible to find a person to tell the meanings of thiruppalAndu but it is not possible to find one who can say the meanings flooded in thiruppavai. Moreover the tough men with beard are not eligible to hear. Only ladies that too those who think that they are going to enjoy emperuman are not eligible. Why should I say so much; Andal who is considered as the essence of all the azhvars only has the eligibility to tell and listen to thiruppavai”.

 

If these words came out of the mouth of swamy emperumAnAr adorned as ThiruppAvai jeeyer by our poorvacharyas what to say about the others? EmperumAnAr was immersed in 30 paasurams-ThiruppAvai and swamy parasara bhattar who had the paripoorna katAksham of swamy right from his birth was immersed in another 30 paasurams- ThirunedunthAndakam say our acharyas.

 

Since emperumAnAr himself says that no one has the eligibility to talk about thiruppavai shall we just stop now? No if that was our acharyas anushtanams we wouldn’t have got so many vyakhyanams and will not hear thiruppAvai upanyasams everywhere this marghazhi month. It is the prime duty of each one of us to try to learn atleast a drop in that ocean of thiruppavai each day. Surely due to the grace of bhoomi piratti and her beloved Sri Parthasarathi emperuman we will succeed atleast in enjoying the essence of that divine prabhandam to the smallest extent possible.

 

(To be continued)

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan