Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi- 16th verse- GodhA PiraaTTi anubhavam

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SrI:

SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

 

Dearest all,

 

Sri Ramanuja was as much enamoured of Tiruppavai as he

was of the Lord, which earned him the title

" Tiruppavai Jeer " . Sri RamunujachArya

regarded the AndAL’s Thiruppaavai the very essence

of the

four Vedas It is the seed of all Vedas. It is

" Upanishad sAram " .

He himself recited it everyday of his life

( " soodi-kOdutthaval tol-aruLAl vAzhginra vaLLaL

Ramanujan " ), proudly declaring to the world as he went

around the streets of Srirangam during his uncha

vritthi.

 

Sri Periya Vacchaan Pillai opines that AndAL is far

superior to all other AzhwArs. If we keep all

AzhwArs’ works as compared to PeriyAzhwAr’s

PeriyAzhwAr’s plate would go down [when weighed in a

scale of quality]; and as compared to PeriyAzhwAr’s

andAL’s works would go down due to its heavy weight.

It is to be regarded in nahi nidhA nyAyam. It only

praises ANdAL’s work and not to belittle other

AzhwArs’ works.

 

Let us enjoy the 16th verse on EmperumAnAr’s

enjoyment of ANdAL’s srI sookthi as beautifully

narrated by Amudhanaar:

 

thaazvonRil laamaRai thaaznthu thalamuzu thumkaliyE

aaLkinRa naaLvanN thaLiththavan kaaNmin arangarmauli

choozkinRa maalaiyaich chootik kotuththavaL

thollaruLaal

vaazkinRa vaLLal iraamaa Nnuchanennum maamuniyE. 16

The One who had the greatness of having placed the

fragrant garland of flowers on her head and thereby

made them more fragrant and more divine for Sriman

Narayanan, was Sri AndAL. The recipient of Her natural

dayA and compassion was Sri Ramanuja, whose breath and

life was only the thoughts of Sri AndAL. And Her

grace. What this Ramanuja muni- King among Saints-did

was: He took avataara, when the blemishless,

faultless, Vedas were wrongly interpreted and

misinterpreted and were completely destroyed by

" other " religious sects and darkness engulfed the

whole world with kalipurushan reigning the whole

earth; He established the Vedic truths unambiguously

and accurately, not contradicting with any other

sruthis/ Vedic statements with his philosophy and

protected the Vedas, the world (form the darkness) and

thereby mankind. (So, you too shall take refuge at His

Lotus Feet like me; for He has saved you too from the

darkness!)

Pepole were misled by avaika religions and baahya

kuthrushtis and were not able to comprehend or

understand that Sriman Narayanan alone is Parathvam

[as unamibiguously declared and established in Vedas]

and He possesses innumerable kalyANa guNAs with dhivya

mangaLa vigraha srI visishtan. People were getting

under the influence of Kali purushan slowly and

steadily. The Lord took pity on them and instructed

Bhumi PiraaTTi being most merciful and compassionate

on human beings and She took avathAram as Sri AndAL as

the [adopted] daughter of PeriyAzhwAr. She appeared in

his nandha vanam near thuLasi plant. Herr wonderful

works Thiruppaavai and Nacchiyaar Thirumozhi are the

essence of Vedas and are thus able to teach people

about His glories and save them from the hands of

Kalipurusha. They are so sweet to recite and enjoy.

With such simple chaste tamil, the Lord decided to

save the humanity. The entire Srivaishnava doctrine

and philosophy, religious practices are declared in

Thiruppavai. The love for the Lord is declared so well

in Nachiyaar Thirumozhi and Rsivaishnava sampradayic

concepts are subtly expressed therein. It is the Lord

who then made Ramanuja appear to expound these

concepts of Thiruppavai and Nacchiyaar Thirumozhi of

AndAL as the essence of Bhagavath vishayam and

Upanishad Truths and propagate the same as Sri

Ramanujacharya’s instruction. He is reverently

called as Thiruppavai Jeer.

 

EmperumAnAr’s mother was called BhoodEvi. BhUdEvi

ANdAL herself perhaps appeared to give birth to

Ramanuja. She is also called as Ramanuja’s younger

sister. [Perumpudhoor maamunikku pinnaanaaL vaazhiyE].

Thus she was in his mind always and thus enabled him

to propagate her works which are vedic truths. Thus he

crushed the Kali purushan’s influence in this world.

 

 

Sri Nammaazhwaar had declared this kali purusha

conquered by Ramanuja much before Emperumaanaar’s

arrival:

 

" Poliga Poliga Poliga Poitru valluyir saabam " and

hence rejoice..!!, rejoice..!! and rejoice..!! -

" Poliga..!!, Poliga..!!, Poliga..!! " .

 

when Emperumaanaar had come to this world as our

Lokaachaaryan, Kali will get crushed and there will be

only good and no influence of Kali purusha.

 

EmperumAnAr is even addressed at AndAL's elder

brother...

 

EmperumAnAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan