Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi- 9th verse- BhoothatthAzhwAr anubhavam

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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 follwing verses of the

work are Acharya’s involvement on each AzhwAr and

their work. He starts off with the anusanthAnam on

mudhalaazhwaars, namely Poigai, bhU and PetAzhwArs.

 

9th verse on BhUtthatthAzhwAr:

 

iRaivanaik kaaNum ithayath thiruLketa NYaanamennum

niRaiviLak kERRiya poothath thiruvati

thaaLkaL,nenchath

thuRaiyavaith thaaLum iraamaa Nnuchanpukaz

OthumnNallOr

maRaiyinaik kaathth_intha maNNakath thEmanna

vaippavarE. 9

 

The darkness that prevails in our minds and prevents

us from realizing the vision of our Sarva sEshi -our

eternal Master Sriya pathi Sriman Narayanan, can be

overcome by (reading) the great merciful work " jnAnac

chudar viLakkERRinEn " of BhUthatthAzhwAr, who lit the

Purest ParipoorNa ParajnAna deepam in his works. Sri

Ramanuja always enjoys keeping this Great AzhwAr's

Lotus feet in his heart. Great scholars and

Bhaagawathaas who always praise the most auspicious

kalyANa guNAs of such Greatest Emperumaanaar Sri

Ramanujacharya, are capable of establishing the Vedic

truths and protect the same and not let them get

destroyed by other religions (with their wrong /

misinterpretations)

 

Poigaiyaar showed vaiyam, vaarkadal and veyya kathirOn

and established that these worldly objects do have

defects. Thus the defects on matters became clearer to

us and vishaya praavaNyam was gotten rid of.

BhUthatthAr bursts out with anbE thagaLiyaa; aaravamE

neyyaaga, inburu chinthai iduthiriyaaga- and

beautifully established ParamAthmA’s vailakshaNyam

that enhances our love and bhakti for Him further.

Thus these two AzhwArs established that other than

ParamAthmA nothing else deserves care and taught

vairAgyam, and Praapyam [the means] the clear

knowledge about Paramaathmaa and enjoy His glories and

greatness- is Emperumaanaar ThiruvuLLam [understanding

of these AzhwArs]

 

A Glance at their marvelous compositions: [though

posted y’day- resending for the sake of

completeness.]

 

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