Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi- 8th verse- Poigai AzhwAr has interwoven Vedanthic truth and Sweet chaste Tamil into the divine verses!

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SrI:

SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

 

Dearest all,

 

Unto seven verses, it is considered as an introduction

to Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi. They were also to extol

the greatness of Ramanuja. The following verses of the

work are Acharya’s involvement and enjoyment of each

AzhwAr and their work. He starts off with the

anusanthAnam on mudhalaazhwaars, namely Poigai, bhU

and PeyAzhwArs.

 

8th verse is on Poigai Azhwaar.

 

varuththum puRaviruL maaRRa,em poykaippi raanmaRaiyin

kuruththin poruLaiyum chenthamiz thannaiyum kootti

onRath

thiriththan Reriththa thiruviLak kaiththan

thiruvuLLaththE

iruththum paraman iraamaa Nnuchanem iRaiyavanE. 8

 

Without realizing the eternal belongingness/

association of the soul (athmA) to Emperumaan

Sriya:Pathi Sriman Narayana, human beings worry

unnecessarily about the external material objects

lying in the outside world. To remove such a worry

from humans, the most merciful PoigaiAzhwAr combined

the pure Tamil and the deep vedaanthic meanings to

sing the great Tamil pAsurams describing the basic

Vedic truth housed in simple Tamil words, " Vaiyam

thagaLiyaa " (such that we all can understand) so

nicely.

 

Sri Ramanujacharya, who endears of such great work of

PoigaiAzhwAr (which is like a lustrous lamp) and

thinks of those verses always in his mind, is always

my Master- my Lord.

 

The first ThiruvanthAthi of Poigai AzhwAr [out of

first three nudred verses of mudhal AzhwArs] is tamil

verses interwoven with Vedanthic truth. This is the

most wonderful weaving. With this, the jnAna viLakku

[lamp of knowledge] gets rid of attachment and dirt of

craving for other material objects and desires. This

is the ThiruvuLLam of Emperumaanaar about mudhal

ThiruvanthAthi is Amudhanaar’s view. All three

hundreds do have this characteristic. Based on

individual verse lines, the meaning needs to be

interpreted.

 

A Glance at their marvelous compositions:

 

1. poigaiAzhwAr composed the first 100 pAsurams

" mudhal thiruvandhAdhi " (andhAdhi means the first word

of one verse will be last word of the previous verse

)starting with the first one:

 

vaiyam thagaliyA, vArkadlE neyyAga/ veyyakkadirOn

viLakkAga/ sudarAzhiyAn adikkE soottinEn son mAlai/

Idar neenghugavE enRu/

 

Meaning: Lord nArAyaNa, who holds the Divine

chakrAyudha, is the cause of this wonderful universe

and the seas. I am singing these mAlai(Garland) of

verses(pAsurams) and dedicating to Him, whose vision I

had is the light of the lamp of the earth, and oil

being the seas, the sun being the source of the light;

 

 

2. BhoodaththAzhwAr composed the second 100 pAsurams

" irandAm thiruvandhAdhi " starting with the first one:

 

anbE thagaliyA, ArvamE neyyAga/ inburugu sindhai idu

thiriyA/ naNpurugi GnAna chudar viLakku EtrinEn/Gnana

thamizh purindha nAn/

 

meaning: Here, it is the love as the lamp and

involvement as the oil and azhwAr says " I dedicate

myself to the service of the lord, by singing this

song that blesses wisdom(GnAna), with love as the

lamp, endearing involvement as the oil(Ghee), and

knowledge as the wick of the torch " .

 

3. PEyAzhwAr composed the third 100s called " moonRAm

thiruvandhAdhi " , with the first one as follows:

 

thirukkaNdEn, ponmEni kaNdEn- thigazhum/arukkan Ani

niRamum kaNdEn-seruk kiLaRum/ ponAzhi kaNdEn puri

sangham kai kaNdEn/ en Azhi vaNNan pAl inRu/

 

AzhwAr just says: " I have seen and found the Glorious,

GOLDEN hued form of the SrI Visishtan. I have seen the

Glory of Sri and nArAyaNa and His beauty and His blue

hued ocean colour, His brightness and brilliance like

the Sun and His sanghu (Divine Conch) on one hand and

chakrA (Discuss) on the other.

 

EmeprumAnAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

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