MoondrAm thiruvandhAdhi-1

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE

Namaha

 

One person asked, " A

Christian's holy book is Bible, for a muslim it is The Quran and what is it for

the Hindus? " Immediately, as a

response to this question our thought dvelves around the Vedas, Upanishads and

Bhagavad geetha. The said three are

categorized as " prastAnastrayam " by the elderly scholars. Having said that, the immediate question

follows: What about for the humans in the common masses? Our acharyas got everyone into a common group

called as thondar kulam – servants of the supreme lord. One who realizes the supremacy of Sriman

Narayana is called a Srivaishnava and the holy books for Srivaishnavas are dual

in nature ( " ubhayavedantham " ) namely

'prastAnatrayam' (restricted to scholarly people, with knowledge of

Sanskrit and also born with the eligibility to learn and propagate them) and

'nAlAyira divya prabhandam'(divine works of azhvars in sweet and easy tamil

language which is easy to learn even for smaller children with the same depth

in meanings). Anyone can read, enjoy and

practice this holy text. To make it

clear that it is common to all, emperuman gave these divine texts from the

divine mouth of the divya sooris (the azhvars) born in different caste and

creed. Nammazhvar, the prapanna jana

koodastar (head of prapannas, Srivaishnavas who have surrendered to the divine

feet of Sriman Narayana) was not born in the so called high caste!

 

The first among the azhvars are called as

mudal azhvars and they were not born from a womb of a mother but they appeared

from a flower. Though the first

paasurams to touch this world were done by these 3 first azhvars still while

ordering the works of azhvars the mudal, erandhAm and moondrAm thiruvandhAdhi's

find place only in the 3rd thousand-Iyarpa.

 

Due to the divine grace of

Godha sametha Sri Parthasarathi emperuman we will try to dwell in the divine

anubhavams of the third among the mudal azhvar, peyAzhvar's moondrAm

thiruvandhAdhi. We will go through the

meanings of each and every paasuram in this prabhandam as given by the great

commentators Sri Periyavachan pillai and Sri Appillai and with the help of the

vivaram by Sri Puttur krishnaswamy Iyengar and divyarthadeepikai of Sri Kanchi

prathivAdhibayankaram mahAmahimOpAdhyAya annangarAchAryar swamy.

 

Though whatever written will

be from the words of our poorvacharyas the level of understanding and

reproduction in English will of course be restricted to adiyen's

ignorance. Hence adiyen in advance begs

the pardon of all bhagavatas for any knowingly or unknowingly committed

mistakes. If there is some good outcome

due to this adiyen's daring effort, all the credits are due, to the divine feet

of adiyen's acharya HH Sri Kaliyan vanamamalai Ramanuja Jeeyer swamy who has

made even a mud clay like adiyen to get

involved in such a divine kainkaryam "poruallAla ennai porulAkki adimai kondai"

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer

thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsan

Varadarajan