Tirumaalai aRivOm-9

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SrI:

 

Dear Srivaishnavas,

 

 

 

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veRuppodu samaNar muNDar

 

vidhiyil sAkkiyarkaL, ninpAl

 

poRuppari yanakaL pEsil

 

pOvathE nOya thAki

 

kuRippenakku aDaiyu mAkil

 

koodumEl thalaiyai AngE,

 

aRuppathE karumam kaNdAy

 

arankamaa nakaru LAnE!

 

 

 

Even after AzhwAr's advice, some people continue to talk unbearably against

perumAL. AzhwAr says, let such talks become a disease and kill them; Or else, if

the AzhwAr is given a chance and power, he will cut the head of such a bhagavat

dvEshi.

 

 

 

(veRuppodu) : People following other philosophies have dvEsham and are hostile

to the parama vaidIka matam. The list includes jainAs, saivAs and sAnkyAs. They

are all abhAgyaSAlis (vidhiyil), as they have not realised their eternal

sambandham with the ubhayavibhUtinAthan (The Lord of all worlds and

Srivaikuntam)

 

 

 

(poRuppariyana pEsil pOvathE nOyathAki) : Let the unbearable talks of these

people become my disease and kill me, if I'm not ableto do anything against it

(or become their desease and kill them). The example (udhAharaNam) of one

Acharyan, SrI thirunaRaiyurar who embraced a disease and left for paramapadam

after hearing to the intolerable nindanam on perumAL by some people, is recalled

here.

 

 

 

A samvAdam between bhattar and nanjeeyar is also recalled in this context.

Nanjeeyar asked why prahlAdAzhwAn - who had no liking for the material wealth -

cursed his grandson mahAbali to loss all his wealth, after the later's repeat

nindanam on the Lord? Bhattar replied 'to punish a dog, one has to take away its

most-liked dirty food and not sandal paste'.

 

 

 

Here AzhwAr differentiates bouddhAs from other abhAgyaSAlis such as jainAs,

saivAs, sAnkyAs and the likes, who spread hatred against parama vaidIka matam.

BouddhAs, on the other hand did not have an original intention to spread a new

religion, but they only insisted too much on the normal dharmAs such as ahimsA

and bhUtadayA. Infact, killing a being is not a mahApApam compared to these

people completely denying the existence of sarwESwaran Himslef. After condemning

all such baseless religions including Buddhism strongly, now AzhwAr focuses on

the philosophers who spread dvEsham only in the guise of religion.

 

 

 

(kooDumEl) : This word follows 'kuRippenakku aDaiyu maakil'. This is to insist

that he will even go to such an extent of behading those mahApApis, if that will

help for the betterment of the world.

 

 

 

sAram of the pAsuram : AzhwAr is satisfied that destroying vEdabhAhyAs (those

spreading hatred against vEdAntins) is a dhArmIka karmA only.

 

 

 

dAsan

 

 

 

P.S:

 

vArtthai, udhAharaNam, samvAdam, nirvAham, itihyam etc. show us our

pUrvAchAryAs' way of explaining Azhwar pAsurams and their way of living as per

the tiru-uLLam of Azhwars, acharyas and the Lord.