Tirumaalai aRivOm-13

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SrI:

 

 

 

Dear SrIvaishnavas,

 

 

 

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Namanum muRkalanum pEsa

 

Narakil ninRArkaL kETka,

 

narakamE suvarkka mAkum

 

nAmankaL uDaiya nambi,

 

avanathoor aranga mennA(thu)

 

ayarththu veezhnthaLiya mAnthar,

 

kavalaiyuL paDukin RAren(Ru)

 

athanukkE kavalkin REnE!

 

 

 

People ask what is the use of telling tirunAma prabhAvam to samsAris who do

not bother about that. Azhwar quotes the story of Mudkalan, which is found

in the 90th chapter of SrI VishNudharmam. Even the hell turned into heaven

when Yama and one Mudkalan were having conversation wherein Yama talked

about the greatness of perumAL's tirunAmam. Azhwar pities at people who do

not even chant 'arangam' and are suffering in samsAram.

 

 

 

(namanum . suvarkkamAkum) : A mahApApi with the name Mudkalan was brought by

yamakimkaras to hell after his death. Yama came to welcome him and requested

Mudkalan to pardon his servants who handled him roughly. When Mudkalan asked

the reason for the honour awarded to such a sinner like him, Yama replied

'once, when you were donating a cow you told 'KrishNAya' and gave the cow in

dAnam; 'KrishNa' is bhagavannAmam. This itself is an adequate reason for me

to honour you'. Hearing to the divine nAmA of the Lord, people suffering in

the hell forgot everything and were filled with joy. Even the hell became

heaven during the conversation. Similar instance was seen during RamavatAram

also. Lankapuri was called 'tAmasapuri' until Ravana was ruling it. When

VibheeshaNa was crowned the king of Lankapuri, immediately it became

'sAtvikapuri'. So, hell will turn into heaven with namOccAraNam (and bad

place into a good place with bhAgawatha sambandham)

 

 

 

(nAmankaL uDaiya nimbi) : Azhwar's srisuktis 'pErAyiram koNDathOr

peeDuDaiyan; nAraNan annai narakam pukAL' etc tell that tirunAma vaibhavam

is greater than that of the Lord. Here Azhwar says 'the Lord has such great

names' instead of saying 'the names belong to the great Lord'.

 

 

 

(avanathoor arangamennAthu) : SamsAris are those who do not even want to

hear bhagavAn's names and hurt the sentiments of people chanting the divine

names. Although the sAdanam (method) of chanting the divine names is very

easy, these people are not able to do so, because of the weight of their

accrued sins.

 

 

 

(ayarththu . kavelkinREn) : People suffering in the hell want to come out of

their pain; bhagavannAmam brought utmost happiness to them. But people in

samsAram are going behind the pleasure of sinful activities and hence they

do not appreciate the sweetness of tirunAmam. Azhwar is worrying about such

people.

 

 

 

sAram of the pAsuram : It's pitiable to see people going behind the

temporary pleasures and suffer due to that. If they chant or hear to the

word 'arangam', they will come out of all such miseries.

 

 

 

dAsan