SaTAri Satakam - 5

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SrI:

SrImahtE SaTakOpAya nama:

SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:

SrImathE nigamAnta mahA dESikAya nama:

 

Dear srI vaishNavAs,

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" I have no Lord other than nammAzhvAr. I will go everywhere, singing and

spreading his sweet pAsurams " – Madurakavi AzhvAr

 

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Details presented in this post:

1. VazhttuppA 8,9 & 10

2. Abstract

 

8

 

kamazhvakuLat tArsUDi kaNDukoNDu nAngu *

 

tamizhmaRaigaL tantaruLvAr dAsark – kamizhdAga *

 

tattuvangaL nallidammAl tALaDimaip pERumchin *

 

muttiraiyAl mARan muRai.

 

AzhvAr’s chinmudrA prabhAvam is shown in this pAsuram. (In 'chinmudrA', index

finger and the thumb are joined in a circle while the other three fingers are

held together).

 

Being a steady contemplator on srIman nArAyaNA, the AzhvAr who wears the garland

of vakuLa flowers, made the VedAs in most enjoyable tamizh and gave it to

bhAgavatAs as a rain of nectar. With his right-hand chinmudrA itself, he blesses

us with the knowledge of tatva-hita-purushArtam.

 

 

 

9

 

kulapati * tALaDaivAr kOSaTAri * vEdA

 

chalapatitAL keezhpugunta sArvu – talapatiAi *

 

sEDa tiruppuLikeezh chinmut tiraipiDittAr *

 

nADikuru gUraDainten nAn.

 

As kulapati of srIvaishNavas and head of lineage of prapannAs, AzhvAr did his

bhara-nyAsam (with all its elements namely

AanukUlya sankalpam, prAtikUlya varjanam, mahA viSwAsam,

gOptruva varaNam and kArpaNyam) declaring ‘vEdAchala patiyAm srInivAsan

aDikkeezh amarndu pugundEn’. To teach what he practiced, he held chinmudrA and

sat in meditation under the ‘AdiSesha-incarnate’ Tamarind tree. To get his

blessings, just visit AzhvAr’s birth place, tirukkurugUr.

 

10

 

kaNNanaiyE kAmuRRu kaNDu kurugUril *

 

kaNNanaippOl AanAr namkArimARan – eNNinEnkai *

 

kanjamchin muttiraiyaik kAttayAn Aatcheiyya *

 

tanjamaDain tEnSaTAri tAL.

 

After surrendering to perumAL, nammAzhvAr underwent the experiences of

parabhakti, paragyAnam, paramabhakti and finally bhagavat sAkshAtkAram. Like

kaNNApirAn holding chinmudrA while doing gyAnOpadEsam, nammAzhvAr also held

chinmudrA in his flower-like-soft tirukkaram. This pAsuram emphasises on

surrendering to the sacred feet of AzhvAr to get uninterrupted kaimkarya

bhAgyam.

 

Abstract:

 

These 3 poems cover the opulences of chinmudrA of nammAzhvAr.

 

We shall continue the vAzhththu-poems in the next postings.

 

[saTAri Satakam is one of the many classic works of srI. U.vE. M.S.Hari. The

vyAkyanam was done by him in maNipravALa naDai. aDiyEn requests you to kindly

bear with me on unintentional typos and translation errors.]

 

 

aDiyEn

Mukundan rAmAnuja dAsan.