Tirumaalai aRivOm-2

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TIRUMAALAI

 

 

 

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kaavaliR pulanai vaiththuk

 

kalithanaik kadakkap paaynthu,

 

naavalit tuzhitharu kinROm

 

naman_thamar thalaikaL meethE,

 

moovula kuNdu mizhntha

 

mudhalva!nin naamam kaRRa,

 

aavalip pudaimai kaNdaay

 

arankamaa nakaru LaanE!

 

 

 

Simple meaning:

 

My dear Sriranganatha! Having learnt your tirunaamam, all my indriyams have come

under my complete control and all my sins were wiped away. With jayagOsham, we

are now walking fearlessly over the heads of yamakinkaras (servants of the Lord

of hell).

 

 

 

(kAvalil pulan) : Ravana controlled his indriyams and did severe penance to get

many boons. The angry indriyams were awaiting a chance to destroy him and they

won over him, the moment he abducted SrI Sita. But in this AzhwAr's case, he was

angry over the indriyams, as they easily take people away from

bhagavadanubhavam. When the AzhwAr and his followers learnt to chant the

tirunaamam of Sriranganatha, at once they could easily win over the indriyams.

Fearless AzhwAr and his followers now walk over yama's and his assistants'

heads, doing jayagOsham. ( jihvE keertaya kESavam : oh my tongue, do

sankeerttanam of kESava nAmam)

 

 

 

(kalithannai kaDakka-p pAinthu ) : Chanting bhagavannAmam, we are able to

transcend to krutayugam. 'kaliyum keDum kaNDukoNmin' says nammAzhwAr also.In

gIta, bhagavan says that indriyams pull a person away easily but they can be

brought under control by the constant darsanam of emperuman's tirumEni (archa

tirumeni in our case)

 

 

 

(naman thamar thalaikaL meethu) When dhruvan was boarding the divine vimAnam

which was to take him to dhruvapadam, yama helped the little boy to step over

his head to climb up the plane. Yama and his servants come happily to hold by

their heads, the divine feet of bhagavathas who are always chanting SrI Hari's

names.

 

 

 

(nin nAmam kaRRa Avalippu) Here AzhwAr does not say 'nin mantram' because

'tirunaamam' can be chanted by anybody at any place and at any time. For 'mantra

japam' there are many niyamams. A 'samvAdam' between bhattar and nanjeer is

interesting in this regard. When nanjeer asked for the niyamams for chanting

tirunaamams, bhattar said 'there is no need to take a bath in a small puddle

before going for gangAsnAnam'.

 

 

 

(arangamAnagaruLAn) : Srirangam has the natural kshEtra visEsham; kAvEri which

is flowing through this kshetram is considered holier than the ganges; periya

perumAL, who was worshipped by brahma, is residing here. So, even if we chant

the name of this kshEtram, we will win over the indriyams and yamakimkarAs.

 

 

 

sAram of this pAsuram : Doing nAma sangeerttanam in kaliyugam is equivalent to

up-keeping krutayuga dharmam. It becomes easy to keep senses under complete

control and there is no fear about anything. nAmoccAraNam is very enjoyable

also(paramabhOgyam), which will be explained in further pAsurams.

 

 

 

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