Sri Vishnuchitta kulanandana kalpavalli (Part-28)

January 25, 2005

Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha

Andal’s thiruppavai is not big with thousand paasurams but it is short and sweet comprising of just thirty jems. Even among them our acharyas consider two paasurams to be very precious. The two paasurams are, “ellE elankiliyE” (15) and “chittram sirukAlE” (29). “thiruppAvaiyAgiradhu eppAttiRE; bhagavat vishanyaththilirukkumpadi ellAm ‘chittram sirukAlE’ yilE sollugiradhu. BhAgavata vishayaththilirukkumpadi ellAm eppAttilE sollugiradhu “ – ArAyirapadi. [‘Chitram sirukAlE’ shows how bhagavan should be and ‘ellE elankiliyE’ talks about the bhagavatas]

This fifteenth paasuram clearly shows the Srivaishnava lakshanam. The speciality of this paasuram is that here there is a clear conversion between those outside and the gopi inside. The gopi inside is waiting for everyone in gokulam to join the ghosti since she doesn’t want anyone to miss this great satsanga anubhavam. While discussing among themselves the mistakes on either side the gopi finally realizes that it is wrong for her to argue with a Srivaishnava and says “nAnEthAn Ayiduga”. This is the ultimate Srivaishnava lakshanam. “ellAdha kuRRaththai silar vundendrAlum adhai ellai seiyya murpadAdhE esaigai andrO vaishnavalakshanam”

The best person who showed the perfect Srivaishnava lakshanam in Sriramayanam is BharatAzhvan. He says, “matpApamEvAthra nimiththamAseeth” [it is my sin which is the reason] Bharathan tried the find the reason for Sri Chakravarthi thirumagan to be sent to the forest. First he tried to blame manthara but then she was after all a servant who wanted the welfare of kaikEyi. Then he thought that kaikEyi was only responsible for this. Again kaikEyi did it due to her vatsalyam (mother’s love). Why did dasaratha listen to her words when he was the king and had all the rights to take any decision? So dasaratha should be held responsible. But he did it to uphold his words. Why did Sri rama listen to it? He did it to make his father and stepmother happy and further to maintain the dignity of his clan by upholding his father’s words. So finally bharathAzhvan decided that no one other than his own fate and all his sins were responsible for Sri rama being sent to forest. There is absolutely no fault on bharatha and he was not even present in ayodhya when all these happened still he took the responsibility on his heads. That is the perfect Srivaishnava lakshanam. He further says if I haven’t even taken birth then kaikEyi wouldn’t have behaved like this at all.

(To be continued)

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

January 26, 2005

Perhaps this again brings us the discussion points of sri bharathAzhwAn's suprirority in pArathanthriyam. Is it not?

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan

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Sumithra Varadarajan

vanamamalai ; ramanuja

Cc: Oppiliappan

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:55 PM

Sri Vishnuchitta kulanandana kalpavalli (Part-28)

Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha

Andal’s thiruppavai is not big with thousand paasurams but it is short and sweet comprising of just thirty jems. Even among them our acharyas consider two paasurams to be very precious. The two paasurams are, “ellE elankiliyE” (15) and “chittram sirukAlE” (29). “thiruppAvaiyAgiradhu eppAttiRE; bhagavat vishanyaththilirukkumpadi ellAm ‘chittram sirukAlE’ yilE sollugiradhu. BhAgavata vishayaththilirukkumpadi ellAm eppAttilE sollugiradhu “ – ArAyirapadi. [‘Chitram sirukAlE’ shows how bhagavan should be and ‘ellE elankiliyE’ talks about the bhagavatas]

This fifteenth paasuram clearly shows the Srivaishnava lakshanam. The speciality of this paasuram is that here there is a clear conversion between those outside and the gopi inside. The gopi inside is waiting for everyone in gokulam to join the ghosti since she doesn’t want anyone to miss this great satsanga anubhavam. While discussing among themselves the mistakes on either side the gopi finally realizes that it is wrong for her to argue with a Srivaishnava and says “nAnEthAn Ayiduga”. This is the ultimate Srivaishnava lakshanam. “ellAdha kuRRaththai silar vundendrAlum adhai ellai seiyya murpadAdhE esaigai andrO vaishnavalakshanam”

The best person who showed the perfect Srivaishnava lakshanam in Sriramayanam is BharatAzhvan. He says, “matpApamEvAthra nimiththamAseeth” [it is my sin which is the reason] Bharathan tried the find the reason for Sri Chakravarthi thirumagan to be sent to the forest. First he tried to blame manthara but then she was after all a servant who wanted the welfare of kaikEyi. Then he thought that kaikEyi was only responsible for this. Again kaikEyi did it due to her vatsalyam (mother’s love). Why did dasaratha listen to her words when he was the king and had all the rights to take any decision? So dasaratha should be held responsible. But he did it to uphold his words. Why did Sri rama listen to it? He did it to make his father and stepmother happy and further to maintain the dignity of his clan by upholding his father’s words. So finally bharathAzhvan decided that no one other than his own fate and all his sins were responsible for Sri rama being sent to forest. There is absolutely no fault on bharatha and he was not even present in ayodhya when all these happened still he took the responsibility on his heads. That is the perfect Srivaishnava lakshanam. He further says if I haven’t even taken birth then kaikEyi wouldn’t have behaved like this at all.

(To be continued)

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan