Guest guest Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 THE CRISIS OF MELTDOWN The melting glaciers of iceland and the two opposite poles of our planet, menancingly threat to become into liquid state adding to the mass of water to result in imbalance in composition of the earth. The global warming, el-nino and the like factors are said to be the cause of this. The human inhabitants fear this and the fear is not unfounded, perhaps the reasons are. The space mission accompoished by our space scientists recently, is hallmark of their achievements. Yes, indeed the allusion is towards the space vessel whcih returned to earth safely. The space shuttle re-entering earth at an immense speed, gathering momentum in geometric proprotions as it pierces the earth's atmosphere has to be deccelerated lest the heat melts down the materials encompassing the satellite, blowing it off into bits and pieces, in seconds. These apprehensions are not new.Centuries ago, the divine apostles indeed feared such meltdown not to the planet but to themslves. One may question, why should AzvAr-s who are supposed to be above their self, fear such meltdown . As their name takes from the fact that they are deeply submerged in the auspicious qualities of EmperumAn, they fear that such meltdown should deny them the luxury of experienceing the pleasure of basking in the glory of Lord's kalyANa guNangaL. On seeing Periya PerumAL reclining on the serpant couch, Sri ThoNdaradipodi AzvAr wondered how the public at large were able to withstand such an attack of Mercy flowing from the Lord's beauty. 'vudal enakk vurugumAlOA! en seigEan vulagathErEa' thirumAlai. Sri PeriyAzvAr mentions that he consumes the Lord which melts dowon his physique. 'vudal vurugi vAi thiRandhu maduthunnai niRaithuk-koNDEan' PeriyAzvhwAr thriumozhi 5-4. Sri Nam AzvAr appeals to the Lord Himself to remove all such crisis of meltdown. "Oh! Lord, Please remove all such obstacles which will deprive me of cherishing your auspicious qualities' The ThiruvAimozhi nUtrandhAdhi pAsuram descirbes this in no uncertain terms. 'piRandhulagam kAthaLikkum pEAr arut kaNNA vun siRandha guNathAl vurugm sElath thiram thavirndhu...' ThiruvAimozhi nUtrandhAdhi 50; The appearance of the Almighty, His auspicious attributes meltdown AzvAr-s. The Lord, who is source of immortal, ceaseless, eternal sweetness, bestows His mercy on those who have no refuge. This unabated flow of divine ambrosia, shatters the aplomb of AzvAr-s and makes them meltdown. The EmperumAn in this case is none other than Sri ArA amudhan and the quality is His 'mAdhuryam'.The streaming flow of this attribute is described by AzvAr in the first line of thriuvAimozhi dedicated to this EmperumAn 'ArA amudhEa adiyEan vudalam nin pAla anbAyEa, mERai alaindhu karaiya vurukkuginRa nedu mAlEa' 5-8-1 of ThiruvAimozhi; Sri Azhagiya maNavALap perumAL nAyanAr zeroes in on this particular attribute, peculirar to this particular EmperumAn and coins this as 'kaLai kAN aTRArai vurukkum mAdhuryam kudamUkkil pravahikkum' 164 of AchArya Hrhdyam. Sri MaNavALa mAmunikal in his commentary explains thus ' Those who have no refuge other than Him-kaLaivAi thunbam kaLaiyAdhu ozhivAi- are showered with His sweetness -mAdhuryam-ARAvamudhEa and they meltdown in this -ArAvamudhEa -nErAi alaindhu karaiya vurukkuginRa nedumAlEa. The medical counsellors proscribe all sweet things especially when one crosses the middle age. This sugar is said to meltdowon organs slowly. This divine sweetness is indeed a welcome one-the mAdhuryam of Thirukkudanthai The pictures can be seen at http://www.pbase.com/svami/image/73481646 dasan vanamamalai padmanabhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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