Thiruppavai 6 puLLum

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Pasuram-6-PuLLumsilambinakaaN

 

 

 

PuLLum silambina kaaN puLLraiyan kOyilil

 

vellaivili sangin pEraravam kettilaiyO

 

piLLaai ezundhiraai pEymulainanjundu

 

kaLLcchagadam kalakkaziya kaalOcchi

 

veLLatthu aravil thuyilamarndhavitthinai

 

uLLatthu kondu munivargaLum yogigaLum

 

meLLa ezundhu hari enrapEraravam

 

uLLam pugundhu kulirndhelO rempaavaai

 

 

 

Translation:

 

 

 

Oh

young one, wake up. Don't you hear the chirping of birds and the loud sound of

conch blown at the temple of the Lord. The sages and yogis get up slowly and

chant the name of Hari, who is in their heart and who is resting in the bed of

Seshnag in the middle of the ocean, the same Hari who killed poothana and

sakatasura. The namasankirtana sounds is tumultuous on account of the intensity

of devotion.

 

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Commentary:

 

 

 

In the first five pasurams the

pavainonbu was extolled . In the next five describe the arousal of the girls

who are devotees of Krishna and who wish to observe

the pavainonbu.This implies the thruppaLLi ezucchi of the bhagavathas for

Bhagavatkainkartya.

 

 

 

Why should one go in a goshti or

group to worship the Lord?

 

 

 

1.An

ardent devotee will forget himself in the presence of the Lord and will even

lose the power of speech and so to have both feet on the ground they wish to go

in groups.

 

.

baddhenaanjalinaa nathena

Sirasaa gaathraissaromodgamaih

kanThena svaragadgadhena

nayanenodgeerNabaaShpaambunaa

nithyam tvaccharaNaaravindayugala Dhyaanaamrthaasvaadhinaam

asmaakam

saraseeruhaaksha sathatham sampadhyathaam jeevitham

 

 

2.Moreover any experience

of joy is doubled when shared.

 

 

 

3.Also

anything delicious should not be enjoyed alone. Bharatha, among the sins he

enumerates that would befall to him if he had any suspicion of the intention of

his mother, cites the sin of eating a delicious sweet without sharing with

others in the house.

 

 

 

4.It is always appropriate

to approach the Lord preceded by bhagavathas.

 

 

 

5.Women by nature are

softhearted and want to share their joy with others.

 

 

 

PuLLum silambina - Birds have better sense of time that humans and

wake up before them.

 

It may have been argued by the girl

whom Andal tries to awaken that the birds woke up hearing the churning of the

curd by the gopis, who perhaps being old could not sleep. So the next sign of

dawn is cited.

 

 

 

Pullaraiyan kovilil veLLaiviLi sangin

pEraravam - PuLLaraiyan may mean

Garuda in the sense of his being the king, araiyan of the birds, puLL. It could also mean the Lord

Himself as He is the kO , master of

the puLLaraiyan, that is, Garuda. KOil means the il,abode of the kO.

 

 

 

The reason why the word puLLaraiyan is used maybe due to the

auspiciousness of the garudadwani, the sound made by garuda and the darsana of

garuda.

 

 

The worship of Garuda is extolled as

being the antidote for diseases, troubles from enemies and all misfortunes. It

is said that when Garuda flaps his wings the planets are moved.

 

 

 

VeLLaiviLi sangu is white conch used in the temples. The white

colour stands for suddhasatthva.

 

 

 

PEraravam

- The sound of the conch calling the devotees for worship sounds magnificent to

them as it rouses the Lord in their hearts.

 

 

 

PiLLaai

- The word may refer to a young girl or one who is new in the group of devotees. Commentators see a reference to

Periazvar by this term as he was like a child, piLLai, in forgetting the glory

of the Lord and sang Pallandu for Him as though fearing for the casting of evil eye on Him. PuLLumsilambina

may refer to the garden in which Periazvar reared for worship.

 

 

 

PEy

mulai najundu refers to Poothana and kaLLa

chagadam, to sakatasura.Krishna feigned sleep when Poothana was feeding Him

because she should not get His kataaksha. Inspite of that through His sparsa,

body contact itself she went to better loka. Desika says in his

Yadhavabhyudhaya that for those who even think about this episode will not be

born again

 

 

 

When Krishna

kicked at the asura who came in the form of a cart-wheel it went to pieces but

there was not even its dust remained, says Narayana Bhattadri in

Narayaneeyam. This, he says, happened because the asura merged with the

sudhdhasattva of Bhagavan and therefore there was no rajas, with a pun on the

word rajas which means dust.

 

 

 

 

 

veLLatthu

aravil thuyilamarndhavitthinai uLLatthu

kondu- The Lord is the vitthu , the seed or origin of the

world, reclining on Adisesha in the milky ocean, whom the sages and yogis preserve in their hearts. So they

are getting up from their sleep slowly meLLa

ezundhu in order not to disturb Him.

 

 

 

 

The idea that this pasuram refers to

Periazvar conforms to the expression veLLatthu

aravil-----uLLatthu kondu as per his pasuram in which he says 'aravtthamaliyinodum azagiyapaarkadalodum aravindhappavaiyum

thaanum agampadi vandhu pugundhu,' (Periazvar thirumozi-452)describing how

the Lord entered his heart along with adiseah ,parkadal and Lakshmi.

 

 

 

Hari enra pEraravam - When all the sages and yogis in all the worlds

chant 'Hari' it becomes a tumultous sound.

 

 

 

ULLam pugundhu kuLirndhelO rempavai - the hari nama enters through the ear and reaches

the heart and like cool showers bring solace to the devotee freeing him from

the woes of the world. Rukmini says in the bhagavatha in her letter to Krishna, ' sruthvaa

gunaan bhuvansundhara srnvathaam the nivisya karnavivaraih haratho

angathaapam.' To those who hear His gunas they enter the ears and relieves

the torment of the body due to the ills of samsara. The angathapa here is the

viraha or separation from the Lord for the devotee.

 

 

 

The spiritual meaning of this pasuram

is explained thus: PuLL refers to

Hamsavathara when the Lord took the form of the Hamsa, swan to teach the

sanakadhi the Brahmathathva. silambanam

is the speech of the Lord. Since this pasuram has reference to Periazvar it

reminds us of his verses in the sengeeraipparuvam where he gives importance to

the hamsavathara by saying, 'annamum

meenurumaaLariyum kuraLumaamaiyumaanavane, ennavalam kalaivai aaduga

sengeersai,' thus mentioning the hamsavathara before matsya,and other

avatharas.(Periazvar thrumozi-74)

 

 

 

PuLLraiyan

can also mean that He is the master of all of us who are termed as puL in the sense of beings like birds

and animals without jnana.

 

 

 

Kovil

is the ashtakshar mantra while the sangu, conch is praNavasvarupa.

 

Poothana stands for

avidya, ignorance giving rise to

ahamkara mamakara.

 

KaLLAcchgadam refers to the indriyas which

takes the sarira, the cart to evil

path while veLLattharavu is the sea

of samsara and the Lord is feigning sleep inside our heart ready to wake up the

moment we call Him. Hari enra peraravam is the call for help of

the devotee to the Lord to come and destroy, haraNath HariH, the duhkha.