Thondardaipoodi AzhwAr's ThirupaLLIyezhucchi Paasurams: Part I

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SrI:

 

SrI RanganAtha ParabrahmaNE Nama:

 

Dear BhakthAs:

 

ThirupaLLiyezucchi means awakening of the Lord from

His sleep (Yoga NidhrA) in the early morning ;

ThirupaLLiyezhuchci literally refers to the Lord's

arising from His bed of AadhisEshA to go about His

duties of Jagath SamrakshaNam , Sishta ParipAlanam

and Dhushta Nigraham .The parijanams (servants) of

the Lord awaken Him and wish Him an auspicious

awakening (SuprabhAdham) and perform SaaRRumuRai

for Him . At SrIrangam , ThoNDardippodi AzhwAr

awakened the Lord with his dhivya prabhandham of

ThiruppaLLiyezucchi and offered the fresh garlands

of TuLasi and fragrant flowers to Lord RanganAthan.

 

The Yoga Nidhrai of the Lord at SrIrangam

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Swamy NammazhwAr salutes the resting Lord

as: " uRanguvAn pOl yOgu seytha PerumAn "

( The One who acts as though He is sleeping ,

while engaged in the act of Yoga Nidhrai ).

Our Lord is always awake. In that case ,

why should the AzhwAr awaken Him ? When the AzhwAr

had succcumbed to aanAdhi MayA and was " sleeping "

( not steeped in Bahgavath anubhavam) , the Lord woke

the AzhwAr up and rescued him. AzhwAr refers to those

miserable times he experienced in one of his ThirumAlai

Paasurams:

 

Soothanaai kaLvanAhi dhUrttharOdu isaintha kaalam

Maatarar kayaRkaNennum valaiyuL pattazhunthuvEnai

pOtharE yenRu solip punthiyiR-puhunthu ,TannpAl

aadharam peruhavaittha Azhahanoor ArangamanRE

--16th SlOkam of Thirumaalai of ThoNDaradippodi

 

(meaning ): The place of residence of my beautiful

Lord is SrIrangam . He is the One , who during the time of

my deciet and thievery arising from my association

with the unrighteous ones and during the time when adiyEn

was lost in the net of the fish like eyes of the women

through enjoyment of their physical pleasures took pity on

me and gave me His hand to lift me out of my miseries

and blessed me by entering my heart grew my affection

for Him.The preferred place of residence of that most

merciful Lord , who saved me is SrIrangam.

 

This Lord , who engages in Yoga NidhrA ( NaahaNaimisai

thuyilvAn pOl ulahellAm nankodunga yOgaNAivAn)is always

thinking about how He can come to the rescue of all of

the suffering SamsAris. Such thoughts dominate Him

during His yOganidhrA. ThoNDaradippodi has the desire for

the Lord to come to the rescue of all these suffering

jeevans just as He came to his rescue at a time of distress

in his ThiruppaLLiyezucchi Paasurams.

 

VaithALikAs and Vandhis

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The servants of the Lord who awakens Him

in the morning to the accompaniment of MangaLa

Vadhyams is known as VaithALikAs . The kings of

the old times had VaithALikAs to awaken them.

SrI RanganAthan is the King of Kings , Emperor of

Emperors (RangarAjA). All the Universes are under

His control. He has two categories of Servants :

One to awaken Him (VaithALikAs)and the others

to eulogize Him (Vandhis/BhAgavathAs) during

the morning hours and to perform SaaRRumuRai for Him .

Vedams and Upanishads also serve as the Vandhis.

Many parijanams take part in the awakening ceremonies

and serve as VaithALikAs. For MahA Lakshmi , the Vandhi

and VaithALikAs for ThirupaLLiyezucchi are one and

the same (Viz).,the elephants standing by the side of

Her Lotus forest ( asvapoorvAm raTamadhyAm HasthinAdha

prabhOdhinIm).

 

After awakening from His Yoga NidhrA , the Lord

ascends His Padhukai .The Upanishads and Vedams

serve as Vandhis and vaithLikAs at this time:

 

YadhArOhasya VedAnthA: Vandhi-VaithALikA: Svayam

--SrI RanganAtha paddhathi: VaithALikA Paddhathi: SlOkam 1

 

Lord Raamachandran's ThiruppaLLiyezucchi

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On the banks of river GangA , Sage ViswAmithrA

awakened the resting Lord RaamachandrA and

reminded Him about the arrival of prAtha: sandhyA kAlam

for the performance of His morning anushtAnams:

 

KousalyA SuprajA Raama poorvA-sandhyA pravartatE

utthishta narasArdhUla karthavyam dhaivamAhnikam

--SrImadh RaamAyanam

 

(meaning): Oh the glorious and celebrated

Suputhran of Queen KousalyA! Oh RaamachandrA!

Oh the Supreme One(Tiger) among Males! The dawn is

blossoming . The nithya karmAs intended for

the dEvAs (SandhyAvandhanam et al) that need to be

performed by us are waiting to be done by You.

Please arise and attend to them.

 

Uthsavar RanganAthan is none other than Lord

Raamabhadran. The above ThiruppaLLiyezucchi

is therefore very appropriate for Lord RanganAthan.

 

Govindhan's ThiruppaLLiyezucchi

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Moolavar RanganAthan is DaamOdhara KrishNan .

Hence SuprabhAdham to Him as Govindhan is

also appropriate:

 

utthitthOthishta Govindha utthishta Garudadhvaja

utthishta KamalAkAntha ThrailOkyam mangaLlam kuru

--SrI Venkatesa SuprabhAtham

 

(Meaning): Oh GovindhA ! Please arise from Your nidhrA!

Oh Lord with Garudan on Your flag ! Please arise!

Oh the Lord of SrI DEvi! Please awaken ! Please

bless all the three worlds with auspiciousness

through Your karuNA KatAksham!

 

This slOkma is used at Thirumalai for Lord's

SuprabhAtham with the auspicous ghOsham of

GovindhA , GovindhA !

 

SuprabhAdham at ThiruviNNagaram (OppilA appan Koil)

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utthishtOutthishta SarvEsa! Utthishta DharaNIpathE !

UtthishtaAbrapurAdhIsa ! lOkAnAm mangaLam kuru

 

(meaning): Oh Lord of All chEthanams and achEthanams!

Please awaken and arise from Your night's rest .

Oh Lord of BhUmi Devi! Please awaken !

ThiruviNNagrappA! Please arise and cause

auspiciousness to the Universe !

 

ThirupaLLiyezucchi at Srirangam

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ThoNdaradippodi AzhwAr describes to the Lord

the events associated with Dawn and explains to

Him as to why He should get up and go about

discharging His sworn duties. These wonderful

thoughts of the AzhwAr are captured in the ten beautiful

Paasurams of ThirupaLLiyezhucchi, which has echos of

many pasages from Andal's ThiruppAvai .

 

ThoNdaradippodi AzhwAr was awakened

from his deep samsAric slumber at one time

by Lord RanganAthan at the goading of His

PirAtti , SrIranganAyaki. AzhwAr was forever

grateful to the dhivya dampathis of SrIrangam

and prayed to Them to confer similar blessings on

the slumbering Jeevans and awaken them from their

deep sleep of ajn~anam and viparItha Jn~Anam

and unite them with AchAryAs for the UpAya

anushtAnams.

 

ThoNDaradippodi AzhwAr reminds the Lord about

the signs of day break , alerts Him about

the enormous assembly of DEvAs, Maharishis,

GandharvAs , KinnarAs, VidhyAdharAs , Navagrahams,

kings waiting for the Lord's darsana soubhAgyam

at the early hours of the day.

 

The ThiruppaLLIyezhuchci Paasurams invite Sri RanganAthA's

attention to the unmistakable signs of day break and

appeal to Him to awaken from His Yoga NidhrA

and bless all those ( Brahma , DEvAs , Rishis , Kings ,

maruths, KinnarAs , YakshAs, gandharvAs and others)

assembled in front of His PraNavAkAra VimAnam .

 

adiyEn will cover the two Taniyans of ThiruppaLLiyezucchi and the First

Paasuram in the next posting.

 

ThoNDaradippodi AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE Saranam,

AdiyEn , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan

 

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