SaTAri Satakam – 26 (ErAr guNamum sIrAr SaTAriyum)

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SrI:

SrImahtE SaThakOpAya nama:

SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:

SrImathE nigamAnta mahA dESikAya nama:

 

Dear SrI vaishNavAs,

 

eNperukku annalattu oNporuL EeRila

vaNpugazh nAraNan tiNkazhal sErE– (tvm 1.2.10)

 

 

Details presented in this post:

 

1. Prabhandam - pAsuram 33 & 34

2. Pearls from the poems

 

The mapping of nammAzhvAr's magnum opus, tiruvAimozhi, is signified

here.

 

SS-33

 

nURupattAl nURupattu nURugaLAl pattenRu *

kURum tirumAl guNangalaiyE – pERumARum *

AayirattAl mAmAlE Aamtiru vAimozhi *

tUyavan tAdit toDai.

 

The tAtparyam of whole tiruvAimozhi is that the divya dampati is the

prApyam and prApakam (goal and the means). To establish this, ten

Satakams(hundreds) reveal ten kalyANa guNAs of the Lord. The hundred

dasakams(tens) respectively establish the guNAs brought out by the

Satakam representing them.

So, the dasakams establish one hundred bhagavat guNams in total.

The purity of tiruvAimozhi is comparable to that of Sruti.

(prAkrutam SrImath azhagiya singar has blessed us with a grantam

called ` ErAr guNamum ezhiluruvum'. This grantam explains the

kalyANa guNAs of SrIman nArAyaNA, as propounded by bhagavat

rAmAnujar in his gadyams; and the divya mangala vigraham of perumAL

in detail and lucid manner.)

 

SS-34

toDaivakuLam sUDi tozhudezhundu mARan *

maDaitiRanda veLLamAi mAlai – iDaiviDadu *

uLLam anubhavit tuttamamAi pongavaruL *

vaLLalAnAr vaNkurugUr vandu.

 

After surrendering to perumAL nammAzhvAr was enjoying His kalyANa

guNAs, uninterruptedly. All his anubhavam outpoured from him and was

well documented by `vaNkurugUr nambikku AaL uriya' SrI madurakavi

AzhvAr. Here, nammAzhvAr is venerated as `vaNkurugUr vanda vaLLal'

similar to svAmi dESikan's adoration of SrImath rAmAnujar

as `perumpUdUr vanda vaLLal'. (The treasure given by both vaLLals is

to be here for many many generations to come, unlike the material

treasure given by Lord KrishNA to kuSElA or any other vaLLals known

from history.)

 

Pearls from the poems:

Similar to the Lord's kalyaNa guNAs, nammAzhvAr has vaLLaNmai as one

of his divya guNAs.

 

[saTAri Satakam is one of the many classic works of srI. U.vE.

M.S.Hari. Email: mshari]

 

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