AchArya Hrdhayam sUthram 221
Contd.
The Third Ten
It was seen that the prime quality of
the Lord highlighted in this ten is omni-presence. It was also noted that though
He is spread everywhere, He is not easily pereceptible due to our limited nature
of sensory organs. He is not affected by the defects of the souls or insentients
where He is present.The Lord grants release from cycle of births to those souls
who consider Him as means and end. The initial grant of physical body was wasted
and it distanced one from the Lord Almighty. This led to a situation where the
soul knew only to enter various births but did not understand how to get
release. The yearning grew for AzhwAr towards the Lord which culminated in the
Lord showing Him His abode and granting it to AzhwAr. In the previous ten AzhwAr
desired the brightest mOksham. What is it actually? Service unto the Lord.
AzhwAr cherished the beauty of the Lord with His divine ornaments. The
service mentioned above was desired by AzhwAr at all places, at all times and at
all states. The Lord who is the Lord of the one and all displayed His
presence in all states, all places which AzhwAr apprecaited greatly. :
After having enjoyed the Almighty's prsence in everything, AzhwAr became very
mirthful which trsnposed into AzhwAr appreciating the LOrd through deeds, words,
mind and so on. This led to a state where AzhwAr subservience did not just
stop with the Lord but extended towards His devotees. The service not just
to Him but to His devotees, the shEshathvam not just to Him but to His devotees
is the ultimate, which AzhwAr's mind culminated into. The Lord Almighty's bed is
thiru ananthAzhwAn whose eyes also perform the role of ears. Likewise, AzhwAr
also desires that these mixed roles to enable him to experience the Lord's
beauty. AzhwAr wants to perform the role of deeds by his mind, role of hand by
his mind, role of eyes by his hands, role of ears by his eyes thus overshooting
the determined roles of the organs. AzhwAr is not just creator of
poems/psAlms to sing praise of mortals. He is the royal poet of the Lord
Almighty. The Lord Almighty has created all this world. AzhwAr is His
poet-padaithAn kavi. : AzhwAr does not have any
disappointment with regard to the exprience with the Lord Almighty. There is not
even an iota of displeasure or despair in AzhwAr's mind after experience with
the Almighty. There is no grief as AzhwAr had approached Him as natural
Almighty-vagutha shEshi. There is no discomfort beacuase the experience is here
in this world-lElA vibhUthi. Thus, AzhwAr had reached the level of pinnacle of
joy equal to joy as experienced by the mukthar-s in that world by AzhwAr in this
world. All this has been expressed by AzhwAr himself in the thiru-voi-mozhi
"sanmam pala pala seidhu"--3-10.
This Great LOrd is very easily accessible. The accessiblity is so
simple when compared to even the saulabhyam mentioned in the 3rd thiru-voi-mozhi
of the first ten-eLIvarum iyalvinan. The simplicity mentioned there becames as
big as parathvam when compared to the simplicity as mentined in this
thiru-voi-mozhi 3-6 "seiyya thAmaraik kaNNanAi". The
emphasis here is that the Lord is easily accessible, very easily accessible and
in fact most easily accessible.
Further,
Text: "A. avanAgum saulabya
kAshtaiaik kAtti, vazhiayith tharumavan niRka izhiyak karudhuvadhu ennAvadhu,
vENdiRRu ellAm tharum, thannAgavEa koLLUm, kavi solla vammin enRu....B.
mukthaiswaryathai munnittu, swavvrithiyai mARRi swavruthiyil mUttugiRAR
mUnRam pathilEA....."
Summary: A.The Lord thus becomes the easiest
accessible one. The form you think, He takes that form. He is the one who shows
us the path that lead to the srEvaikuNtam- archirAdhi mArgam. Despite this fact,
the souls are singing praise of earthly mortals. He is the one who can grant all
that is desired. Hence, stop singing ordinary mortals and "come on! sing in
praise of the Lord which is our natural deed" is AzhwAr's call to the fellow
souls.
B. Thus, the experience of the Lord, Reaching Him and
getting a state of equity with Him -SamyA mOksham- are the real
wealth.Therefore, serving others are proscribed and naturally serving unto HIm
is prescribed by AzhwAr in this Third Ten.
pAsuram-s: Do not serve
ordinary mortals. Sing in praise of the Lord Almighty who is capable of granting
all your desires . This is spelt out in detail in the thiru-voi-mozhi "sonnAl virOdham idhu" 3-9.
"vazhiaith tharumavan niRka , izhiyak karudhuvadhu"--thiru
voi mozhi 3-9-3 ---> He is the one who can grant the path of salvation.
archirAdhi mArgam. Do not try to think of lower things.
"izhiyak karudhi Or mAnidam pAdal
ennAvadhu"------thiru voi mozhi 3-9-3 -----> Singing
in praise of ordinary mortals will lead you to nowhere.
"vENdiRRu ellAm
tharum"-------thiru voi mozhi
3-9- 5 -------> He
will grant all your desires.
"en vaLLal maNi vaNNan thammai
kavi solla vammin" --thiru voi mozhi 3-9-5.
(to be continued)
vanamamalai padmanabhan
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