Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- AndAL anubhavam on ThiruvEnkatam- Nacchiyaar Thirumozhi- 1.3

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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… [i ahve also

made use of the most wonderful translation of Srimathi

Kalyani Krishnamachari]

 

matta nan naRu malar murukka malar koNDu

muppOdu munnaDi vaNangi

tattuvamili enRu nenju erindu

vAcakattazhittu unnai vaidiDAmE

kottalar poonkaNai toDuttuk koNDu

gOvindan enbadOr pErezhudi

vittakan vEnkaTa vANan ennum

viLakkinil puga ennai vidikkiRRiyE 1.3

 

KAmadEvA, I worship your respected feet three times a

day with white flowers that please you such as

oomattam and murukkam (palASam) flowers. Please unite

me with my lover. You have a reputation that you are

the expert in uniting lovers together with your flower

arrows; don't lose this reputation. Do not give room

for anyone to be able to say that you are a powerless

god and can't be trusted. Make an arrow with bunches

of blossoming flowers, and, meditating on GovindA's

auspicious name, please make me merge with the light

called SrI vEnkaTa vANan, who is known for His

soulabhyam and kalyANa guNAs.

 

Thus, in this pASuram ANDAL is praying that kAman

should quickly aim his arrow and unite her with the

Light called tiruvenkatamudaiyAn, and ensure that

there is no room for being called a powerless god who

can't fulfil the prayers of those who worship him.

PeriyavAccAn piLLai points out that godhai who is used

to gathering tuLasi leaves, is now going after the

kinds of flowers that are consistent with the rajo

guNam typical of one in love.

Here AndAL collects the flowers that are pleasing to

manmathan. A daughter of PeriyAzhwAr, who herself is

like the thuLasi [Kesava priya] who is meant for Him

alone and who needs to collect only thuLasi and offer

to only Krishna is now collecting some ordinary

flowers and that too for manmathan.

 

Because, her love and languishing for Krishna is so

intense and viraha thaapam is so much that she asks

every other one to let her be united with KaNNan. Here

she pleads manmathan [as he was the one who sacrificed

himself for the sake of letting Parvathi join Rudran

and got himself burnt by him].

When we go to meet someone or need something from

someone, we need to offer that which pleases them and

not us; here manmathan’s flowers that please him are

oomattham and palAsam and hence she offers the same.

This is similar to NammAzhwAr telling the crane that

if you go and tell the Lord that I am suffering and

waiting from Him, I would give you fish. [also when we

go to pay our obeisance to Acharyan, we should offer

at His feet, what pleases him and not ours].

 

AndAL ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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