Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- AndAL anubhavam on ThiruvEnkatam- Nacchiyaar Thirumozhi- 1.1

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest all,

 

After PeriyAzhwAr anubhavams, let us now continue on

his darling daughter GodhA PiraaTTi’s Naacchiyaar

Thirumozhi verses... on ThiruvEnkatam… [reproduced

below is the most wonderful translation of Srimathi

Kalyani Krishnamachari]

 

thaiyoru thingaLum tharaiviLakkith

thaNmaN dalamittu maasimunnaaL,

aiyan^uN maNaRkoNdu theruvaNinthu

azhaginuk kalankarith thanankathEvaa,

uyyavu maankolO venRusolli

uNnnaiyu mumbiyai yumthozhuthEn,

veyyathOr thazhalumizh chakkarakkai

vEnkata vaRkennai vithikkiRRiyE 1

 

Thus having decided to pray to kAmadevan for the

privilege of being able to do antara~nga kaimkaryam to

tiruvEnkatamuDaiyAn, godhA proceeds to outline her

plans for her vrata anushTAna-s towards this objective

in the next pASuram.

 

There is reference to godA involving herself in

cleaning the floor and decorating the place etc. SrI

tirukkaNNa mangai ANDAn, the author of the first

taniyan of nAcciyAr tirumozhi that we started with,

was also one who did this kaimkaryam to BhagavAn. SrI

periavAccAn piLLai points out this similarity.

One could legitimately ask the question - how come

godhA worships kAman? Is this not improper? She is

only worshiping kAman with the objective of getting

BhagavAn. She has no other goal in life. It is her

desperation to reach Him that is causing her to do

whatever it takes to get to Him. It is as if this is

her sthala- Suddhi in order to perform kaimkaryam to

Him ultimately.

 

Srivaishnava Acharyas have also commented that here

when it refers to manmathan- it implies the manmatha

manmathan- Sriya: Pathi Siman Narayanan and not the

manmathan… saakshaath manmatha manmath: is Sriman

Narayanan. He is the indweller of Manmathan and when

manmatha is referred to, AndAL addresses the

indweller..

 

Her praying to kAman and sAman together reminds us

also of the phrase " namOstu rAmAya salakshmaNAya " .

The reference to manDalam is the period of 45 days for

which some vrata-s performed for attaining benefits.

 

AndAL ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

[Apologies for not being able to post last whole week

as I was on an overseas trip].

 

 

 

 

 

 

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