Tirumaalai aRivOm-12

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SrI:

 

 

 

Dear Srivaishnavas,

 

 

 

(11)

 

oruvillaal Onku muNNeer

 

aDaiththula kankaLuyya,

 

seruvilE yarakkar kOnaich

 

seRRanam sEvakanAr,

 

maruviya periya kOyil

 

mathiLthiru varanga mennA,

 

karuvilE tiruvi lAtheer!

 

kAlaththaik kazhikkin ReerE.

 

 

 

Even after explicitly mentioning on the extremely easily available Lord's

presence at Srirangam, due to bhAgyahAni, people are not even chanting His

tirunAmam. Instead they are spending their time in useless activities. So,

Azhwar now tells them that Sriranganathan was worshipped by sAkshAt

SrimmannArAyana avatara SrIrAma and that's why He is called periyaperumAL

and the temple is called periyakOil. People ask AzhwAr why he pointed to

SrIraAma once and SrIkrishNa later & Whom to take asylum with? While

answering these people - who, as per AzhwAr, did not have the Lord's

kaTAksham while they were in their mother's womb - Azhwar tells them that

Sriranganathan is SrIrAma (numperumAL) and SrIkrishNa (periyaperumAL).

 

 

 

(oruvillaal Onku muNNeer aDaitthu) : Just with a single arrow, SrIrama

accomplished 3 things :

 

(i) garvabhangam (hurting the ego) of Samudra rAjan or

varuNa devata. PVP beautifully puts that the samudram did not heed to the

prapatti but only to the arrow.

 

(ii) bhAgavatha ugappu : sEthubandhanam helped the eagerly

awaiting vAnarAs to cross over the ocean and participate in SrirAma

kaimkaryam.

 

(iii) Showed the world that SaraNAgati done to dEvatAntarams

is useless. Benefitted immensely by his SaraNAgati at SrIrAma's lotus feet,

SrIvibheeshNa advised SrIrAma to surrender to samudram to get a way for

crossing across the coean. SrIrAma wanted to show His beloved devotee that

it does not help in surrendering to one who is not under his own control

(they are controlled by triguNAs only).

 

 

 

In pAduka sahasram, while extolling pAdukA prabhAvam Swami Desikan gives the

following rasOkti. Swami tells that the ocean water could not be dried by

rAmabAnam because of the abundant water that kept coming from the

tirumanjanam offered by SrI bharatAzhwAn to SrI rAma pAdukA. This infact

helped in showing that samudrarAja or varuNa devata was not in his perfect

control and prapatti done to him was of no use.

 

 

 

'Ongu munneer' does not indicate the natural turbulence of the ocean. Seeing

the terrific posture of SrIrama holding the bow, samudrarAja appeared

immediately sending water until SrIrAma pAdam and showed his back to

construct the bridge on it.

 

 

 

(ulakankaL uyya) : (i) Afraid of rAvaNa, many people could not do yagjnam

and also devEndran et al were disturbed frequently. The single bAnam sent by

SrIrAma cleared the way to go further to lankApuri; win rAvaNa in the battle

and free the world of fear. (ii) Even lowly people became pious witnessing

and hearing to that action of SrIrama.

 

 

 

(nam sEvakanAr) : He is the saviour of us. When SrI Nanjeer was walking on

the street meditating on the meaning of this pAsuram, he saw a soldier

challenging his wife after a small fight. That lady told the soldier that

the king would take care of ladies and helpless people. Hearing to this,

nanjeer correlated it to namperumAL, Who does sEvakam to people, who take

refuge at His divine feet.

 

 

 

(maruviya periyakOil mathiL arangam) : After rAvaNavadam, the Lord came to

Srirangam and now He is doing yOganidra there, for the sake of people who

did not have bhAgyam to see the vibhava avatAram. This temple is called

'periya kOil' as SrI Rama Himself worshipped this Lord. Apart from that,

this temple has divine 7 prAhArams, built fondly by bhagawathas and that

also make it a 'big temple'.

 

 

 

(karuvilE tiruvilAtheer) : " jAyamAnam hi purusham yam paSyEt MadhusUdhana:

sAtvika: sa tu vigyEya: sa vai mOkshArttha cintaka: " PerumAL gives a cool

gaze at people while they are in the womb itself. That cool kaTAksham makes

them realize their natural pAratantriyam and improve their sAtvika gunam.

Some people do not have such a blessing and hence waste their time in

mundane activities. In other words, people blessed with the kaTAksham of

rajOdEvata brahma or tamOdEvata rudra would be immersing in samsAra cycle

only.

 

 

 

sAram of the pAsuram : SrIrAma is doing yOganidrA at Srirangam for the sake

of people who did not have the bhAgyam to see Him during His avatAra kAlam.

So, do not behave like people who were not blessed with perumAL's kaTAksham

while residing in the womb.

 

 

 

dAsan