Thiruvinnarappan's Paasurams :Additional Reflections on PeriyaThirumozhi 6.2.8( Part XVI )

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs of ThiruviNNagarappan :

 

Today , let us enjoy the 8th Paasuram of Kaliyan's Periya Thirumozhi

from 6.2 decad :

 

theevaay valvinayAr udan ninRu siRanthavar pOl

mEvA vennarahatthu idar uRRU virainthu vanthAr

Moovaa Vaanavar tamm MudalvA ! mathik-kOLL viduttha

DevA ! NinnadainthEn ThiruviNNagar MeyavanE !

 

(Meaning) : Oh Lord of the DevAs and Nithya Sooris ( eternally

liberated souls) , who never age ( Moovaa vaanavar tamm

Mudalvaa ) ! Oh the king of Vaidhyars/Doctors , who cured

adiyEn's mind of the ksahya rOgam/ consumptive disease

( mathi kOLL viduttha DEvA ) through Mantra UpadEsam !

The grand sins (vinaikaL) with destrcutive fire in their mouth

acted as adiyEn's well wishers and followed adiyEn everywhere

to cease the opportunity to push me in to the fierce fires of

hell (narakam) . As they hastened to fulfill their wish , adiyEn

ran away from them to the safety of Your ThiruvadivAram

(Sacred feet ) . It is now Your duty to protect adiyEn from

all these calamities .

 

Special Notes:

 

" Thee Vaay val-vinayArhaL " refers to the vinais or accumulated sins

(VinaikaL) talking the shape of humans with closed mouths . Once the mouth

is opened , destructive fire came out of them . These Vinais mean nothing

but inauspiciousness , destruction and naraka vaasam . The Vinais

pretended as though they were anukoolars ( well wishers) just like

the Raakshasi Poothanai did by hiding herself as a beautiful lady

interested to feed the infant KrishNa with her breast milk .

These horrible sins came rushing to adiyEn with the sole intent of

pushing me in to the hot embers of Narakams like Taptha

Kumbham , KumbheebhAgam , Taptha lOham , Mahaa JwAlam

( for the one who insults Vedam or teaches it for money ) , VilOhitham ,

Krumeepaksham , adhOmukham ( narakam for one who recieves dhAnam

from lowly ones and for those who predicts about future happenings

without the study of JyOthisha sAsthram ) and other narakams

like agni jwAlam . adiyEn could have saved myself by performing

appropriate PrAyscchitthams . adiyEn did not do them and it is

no wonder these sins have been chasing me to trip me and to dump

me in hot fires of hell .

 

In the NaimichAraNya Paasurams , Kaliyan has elaborated on

one such hell ( Taptha Kumbham )reserved for those , who lust after

the wives of other men :

 

vampalAm koonthal manayviyai thuRanthu

piRar poruL thaaram yenRivaRRai

nampinAr iRanthAl naman tamar paRRi

yERRi vaitthu yeriyezhuhinRa

chempinAl iyanRa paavayai Paavee

tazhuvu yena mozhivatharkkanji

NampanE , vanthun thiruvadi adainthEn

NaimichAraNayutthuLL YenthAi

 

Abandoning one's wife and going after the other person's wife yields

a special type of punishment in narakam ; the sufferings of such

a person is described by Thirumangai in the above Paasuram .

Out of fear for this and other narakams , Kaliyan states that he has

arrived at the sacred feet of the Lord of NaimichAraNyam .

 

Kaliyan is not guilty of any of these sins but he reminds the sinners of

the world about the consequences of their actions so that they can do

appropriate redemptive vrathams ( PrAyascchitthams ) like EkAdasi

vratham , Yaagam , penance , Kruchra-sAnthrAyaNam et al. The best

among all these Praayascchittham is the reflection on the glories of

Lord KrishNa ( KrishNAnusmaraNam ) :

 

prAyascchitthAn asEshANi tapa: karmAthmakAni vai

yaani tEshAm asEshANam KrishNAnusmaraNam Param

 

Meditation on Lord KrishNa is the cure for " TheevAi valvinayAr idarkaL " .

That is Sarva Paapa PrAyaschittham . anusmaraNam implies sEshathva

anusandhAnam ( rememberance of the relationship of ours as the bonded

servants of the Lord in an indissoluble manner ) . There are no restrictions

on

the time or place for KrishNAnusamaraNam . It can be done anywhere at

any time . This anusmaraNam of the Lord will kindle the ruchi (desire) for

the observance of Bhakthi or Prapatthi yOgam . That person , who engages in

KrishNAnusmaraNam will never end up in narakam but will reap Moksha

Sukham .

 

Thirumangai explains his predicament and announces to the Lord that

he has arrived now at the safe haven around the Lord's sacred feet to escape

the chase from the fierce sins chasing him ( NinnadainthEn ThiruviNNagar

MEyavanE ) in this Paasuram .

 

Daasan , Oppiliappan KOil V.Sadagopan

SrImath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam .

 

Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka

Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama: