Tirumaalai aRivOm-5

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SrI:

 

Dear Srivaishnavas,

 

 

 

(4)

 

moyththaval vinaiyuL ninRu

 

moonRezhuth thudaiya pErAl,

 

kaththira bandu manRE

 

parAngati kaNDu koNdaan,

 

iththanai yaDiya rAnArk

 

kirankumnam aranganAya

 

piththanaip peRRum anthO!

 

piRaviyuL piNanku maaRE!

 

 

 

From this 4th pAsuram upto 14th pAsuram, AzhwAr expresses his inability to

bear with the status of samsAris who just toil for their Sareeram, without

engrossing in bhagavadbhakti. He is surprised and at the same time yells at

them for their unworthy activities.

 

 

 

He persuades them to chant bhagavAn's tirunaamam and get out of their

sufferings. In this 4th pAsuram, he narrates the account of one purANic

character, Kshatrabandu..

 

 

 

Kshatrabandu was a cruel person (son of a sUryakula King, viSvavrata:) with

unbecoming conduct (moyththaval vinaiyuL ninRu). He was forcibly sent out to

forest by his relatives, wherein too he continued to hurt and harm

everybody, especially the Rshis of the forest and had his livelihood by

torturing others. Once, by chance, he helped a mahAmuni, who pitied for this

cruel person and heard his history. With an intention of helping him out,

the Rshi advised him to chant the three-letter tirunaamam 'gOvinda:' With

this Acharya kaTAksham and upadESam, a change happened in the mentality of

such a cruel person and he started chanting this tirunaamam always.

Gradually, Kshatrabandu transformed into a new person. After death,

Kshatrabandu was born in a vaidIka kulam, endowed with the knowledge of his

previous birth. In this birth he became a paramabhAgavatha and made a firm

determination to free himself from the clutches of samsAram . At the end of

this birth, he got moksham (parAngati). Kshatrabandu's account is seen in

the 97th chapter of SrI Vishnudharmam.

 

 

 

It was like nAlUrAn in the gOshTi of Srivaishnavas that Kshatrabandu's

presence was in Rshis' assembly, (nAlUrAn did asahyApacharam to

kooratthzhwAn) says SrI PeriyavacchAn piLLai. Even such a bad person became

the object of perumAL's grace.

 

 

 

(iththani aDiyarAnar) Even a worst sinner like Kshatrabandu, who had only

very little Anukoolyam could get out of the mortal coil, only because of the

Lord's grace. It is applicable to others too, who do not disagree when the

Lord says, 'I'm your sEshi and you are my sEshan'.

 

 

 

(arangan Aya pitthan) : AzhagiyamanavALan (arangan) behaves like a vyAmohan

(pitthan) in the case of bhakthas.

 

 

 

(piRaviyuL piNangumARu) : With such a simple upAyam available, it is

surprising to see samsAris still suffering in new births. They toil for

getting a good post in this birth and also in future births (posts of dEvAs)

 

 

 

The 4th pAsuram of Swami Desikan's 'Adaikkalap paththu' prabandham mentions

about kAkAsuran, Kshatrabandu et al.

 

 

 

sAram of the pAsuram : namasankeerttanam gradually leads to liberation from

mortal coil, even for a mahApApi.

 

 

 

dAsan