Sri Parthasarathi thunai SrimathE rAmAnujaya
Namaha Srimad Vara Vara munayE
Namaha Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE
Namaha ?mEshE chittA samuthbhootham pANdyadEsE
kaNamsakam I SriparAnkusa sathbhaktham madhuram
kavimAsrayE II? Continuing with the divine anubhavam of
swamy Nammazhvar, azhvar adds more adjectives to ?paththudai adiyavarkku
eliyavan? as ?malarmagal virumbhum nam arumperaladigal? Who is that?
Peyazhvar answers this question, ?endhai oruvalli thAmaraiyAl ondriya seer mArban thiruvallikeni yAn sendru? In both the paasurams ?malarmagal?
and ?thAmaraiyAl? refer to Sridevi. Emperuman is sriyapathi. Sridevi nAchiyar with great love towards
the lord (virumbhum) seated herself on the lord?s divine chest (ondriya). So it is been clearly proved that the
bhakthavatsalan talked about by nammazhvar is none other than our dear
parthasarathi with the mark of udharabhandayam on the hip and Sridevi nAchiyar
on his chest. Nammazhvar has requested and cried for
the divine darshan of lord Krishna as the geethacharyan, Parthasarathi in many
places. Let us see one such example
now. ?teerpAraiyAm eni enganum nAdudum!
Annaimeer! OrpAl evvaNNudal uttra nal nOyidhu
tErinOm PorpAguthAn seidhu andraivarai vel
viththa * mAyatErp PAganArkku eval sindhai tuzhAi
disaikkindradE? The above paasuram clearly shows that parankusa nAyaki (swamy nammazhvar) has lost his heart to that divine charioteer who did all amazing things and made the pancha pAndavas victorious in the bharatha war. Is there necessity for any other proof to substantiate the love and devotion azhvar had towards our dear Parthasarathi? But in the vyakhyanam to the above paasuram it has been stated that azhvar here refers to the vibhavAvathAra Krishnan. First of all, emperuman took archavatArams only for those who have missed the opportunity to have darshan during the vibhavAvatArams. So there is no difference between the vibhava lord and the lord in archai. Secondly, if we think a little deeper then we will actually feel sorry for nammazhvar who was unfortunate. Why because he took avatara just after the krishnAvatAram and hence missed the darshan and after crying to have the darshan of the lord he ascended to the divine abode even before parthasarathi came down to thiruvallikeni from thirumalai. So azhvar missed both the darshans being born in the intermediate period and hence was unable to enjoy the divya leelas of kannan both in vibhavam and in archai. In Periya thiruvandhAdhi, azhvar challenged emperuman stating ?yAn periyan nee periyai enbhadhanai yAr arivAr?. Since azhvar had got emperuman into his heart he considered himself great but actual ?periyan? is we all who are blessed to have the divine darshan of Parthasarathi and his leelas today. Aren?t we blessed to have the divine darshan of MA indicating to his heart where we find nammazhvar who had placed our dear Parthasarathi inside and the very same Parthasarathi in archai doing all sorts of leelas in front of us simultaneously? What a wonderful darshani he gives us all in various thirukOlams ?DinE DinE navam navam? ?nam kannai vittru agandridAdu kaliyan Anai AnaiyE? MA started his prabhandam undoubtedly
with the mangalAsAsanams to our dear Parthasarathi being close to his acharyan
Nammazhvar?s heart but that was not his motto. MA considered only his acharya as his
god and hence surely he wanted to show that his acharya had a stand higher than
even parthasarathi. That is due to
his acharya nishtai that is celebrated by all Srivaishnavas (emperuman himself)
even today as ?Madurakavi bhAvam?.
In the 8th paasuram MA says, ?arul kondAdum adiyavar
enbura arulinAn avvarumaraiyin
porul arulkondu Ayiram enthamizh
pAdinAn arulkandeer evvulaginil
mikkadE? Here MA once again talks about our dear
Geethacharyan. Emperuman Sri
Parthasarathi due to his bhakthavatsalyam for the joy of all his devotees gave
the essence of all the Vedas in a single bhagavat geetha with 700 slokas. Though it is a concise one it is in
Sanskrit and not that easy for all to understand and practice. So azhvar due to his ultimate grace on
one and all sang the 1000 sweet and lucid tamil paasurams so that everyone can
understand, cherish and get benefited.
What a divine grace! A comparison arises only when two people
are related in some manner. Here MA
compares the grace of Nammazhvar to that of our dear Parthasarathi to show that
the grace of his acharya is even greater than the lord who his acharya considers
to be full of grace. That is
acharya nishtai. There is a legend
in our sampradayam where erumbiappa, one of the ashtadiggajas of Swamy manavala
mAmunikal once carried mAmunikal?s thiruvArAdhana perumal in one hand and swamy
mAmunikal?s divine padhuka in the other.
Swamy mAmunikal on seeing this criticized the act to be insulting
emperuman. But at that time
erumbiappa replied, ?My perumal (acharya pAdhukai) is never lesser in greatness
to your perumal (emperuman)? Such was the acharya bhakthi of our
poorvacharyas. Such high devotion
towards the acharya was initiated by MA but it is not that he didn?t realize the
greatness of emperuman close to his acharya?s heart that is why though we say
his prabhandam is fully about Swamy Nammazhvar we are able to spot two instances
where MA has sung about our dear Parthasarathi who was surely inside MA?s heart
though indirectly (MA?s heart-Nammazhvar; Nammazhvar?s heart-Parthasarathi
emperuman so Parthasarathi also stays inside MA?s heart) So from the above it is
very clear why MA gives special darshan in thiruvallikeni alone indicating to
his heart. It is just to make us
all amazed by seeing the very same emperuman once visualized by nammazhvar in
his heart straight in front of us in archa roopam. Next posting will be the concluding
posting.
Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja
dAsee Sumithra
Varadarajan
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