1.6.1
parivadhil
eesanaippaadi virivadhu mEval uRuveer
pirivagai inRi nanneer
thooy purivadhuvum pugai poovE
Those
who wish to worship the Lord, who has no blemish like sorrow, by singing His
praise and expand their self to its natural state, do not go away from Him.
Worship Him with water or any holy fumes and any flower.
parivadhil eeSanai- The Lord is heya prathyaneeka
ananthakalyanagiuna viSishtaH, possesses infinite auspicious qualities and free of
blemishes like duhkha or sorrow. The sorrow
occurs only due to samsara caused by ignorance. But the Lord is
sorrowful towards the devotees who suffer and this is not a blemish but a
virtue only. It is due to His infinite mercy which is one of His kalyanagunas.
He feels sorrowful towards His devotees for two reasons. 1. The devotees get
into trouble when they forget that He alone is their saviour and try to react,
influenced by their own impulses like anger, pride etc. 2. Even then He feels
guilty that he did not go to their rescue till they called out as in the case
of Draupadi or Gajendra. Even towards others who err or go against Him, He
feels sorry and that is why He tries to correct them through punishment like a mother
who punihes her child for wrong-doing, but nevertheless feels the sorrow for
his act which necessitated punishment.
Paadi
virivadhu mEval uruveer- refers to
those who desire, mEval uruveer, to attain their natural state of
bliss and worship Him by singing His praise etc. virivadhu is the expansion
of jnana which is the real state of the self. In embodiment the individual soul
experiences the contraction of jnana limited by the conditions of his
embodiment which is called dharmabhoothajnana. When he attains the Lord
becoming free from bondage the jnana reaches the full expansion.
pirivadhu
inRi- without leaving Him again.
Azvar had thought of leaving Him considering his own unworthiness but the Lord
would not let him go and came to him. Once the Lord has decided to come and
reside in the heart nothing can displace Him from there.
Nanner
thooy pugai poovE- Azvar says that
in order to worship Him one need not go into any trouble. Any flower, or holy
fumes or even water is enough to please Him. The Lord says in the Gita, pathram
pushpam phalam thoyam yo Me bhakthyaa prayacChathi thadhaham bhalkthyupahrtham
aSnaami prayathaatmanah. This means, "whatever one offers with
devotion whether it is a leaf, a flower or a fruit or even water, that I will
accept with pleasure." The same view has been expressed by the devotee-saints
like Thyagaraja and Purandaradasa.
Thyagaraja
said,
Manasunilpa
Sakthilekapothe
maDhurakanTavirulapooja
yEmi chEyunu
When
there is no control over the mind what is the use of doing pooja
ostentatiously?
Purandradasa
says that one need not follow any austerities to worship the Lord who is easy
to please.
Japavondhariyenu
thapavondhriyenu
upavaasanariyenedhalaiya bedaa
apaara
mahima sree purandharavttalana
upaayadhindheli
nena manavE
The
meaning is that there is no need to worry about not being able to do japa,
thapas or upavaasa etc. Purandara vittala is Himself the means to attain Him. So just
thinking about Him is enough. But this does not mean casual thinking like we do
of others but intense and continuous thinking of Him alone.
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