MoondrAm thiruvandhAdhi avathArikai (Introduction)-3

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

Parabhakthi- ParajnAnam –

Paramabhakthi

Para bhakthi – The master of

the 2 vibhoothis (leela and nithya) due to his unconditional grace showed his

svaroopa (characteristic), roopa (form), svaroopagunas (character) and roopa

gunas (attributes) through a flourishing knowledge injected into azhvar

(parabhakthi). Poigai azhvar cherished

the divine grace and enjoyed the intelligence and appropriately narrated the

same in the form of poems (paasurams) starting with 'vaiyam thagaliya' and

talked elaborately about the lord with amazing roopa, guna, vibhoothi and also

about the characteristics of a jeevatma through 'vAy avanai alladhu'

'thirumAlai alladhu EththEn' paasurams that explain the ananyArhasEshatva

svaroopathvam (the characteristic of being a servant only to the supreme master

forever). And the end result of this

ananyArha sEshatvam is ever tirelessly doing nithya kainkaryam to the divine

feet of emperuman (supreme master) [ " voozhiyAn pAdham maruvA dhArkkuNdAmOvAn " ,

" Oradiyum sAdudaiththa " ]

That end result can be given

to us, again only by his divine feet.

Thereby the goal and means is the same – His divine feet – concluded

poigai azhvar in his mudal thiruvandhAdhi.

Next, BhoodhatAzhvar continued

in the same way to enjoy the roopa guna vibhoothis of the supreme master, but

due to the lord's unconditional grace his parabhakthi developed into parajnanam

(Devotion with love), thereby he enjoyed deeply the kalyana gunas (divine

qualities) of the lord. Not wanting to

stop with self enjoyment he gave the same to the world through his irandAm

thiruvandhAdhi.

Next, pEyAzhvar who enjoyed

the divine anubhavams of the first two through their paasurams, was further

enhanced with parama bhakthi again due to the unconditional grace of the

supreme master and landed up having the sAkshAtkaram (divine darshan) of the

supreme lord. Like a person who has dived

into an ocean seeing the corals and pearls scattered throughout, pEyAzhvar

enjoyed each and every part of the supreme lord starting with 'ThirukkandEn'

Though all 3 azhvars underwent

all 3 stages of development the way it was showed to the world was successive

due to the divine sankalpa (wish) of emperuman.

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE

sharaNam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsan

Varadarajan