The Advanced Thoughts of
PeriyAzvAr - PeriAzvAr the Gentleman
A student of twelfth class commented to
his classmate ' My father is a gentleman. He glosses over my
misdeeds'.
Sure. The misdeeds, if taken seriously
would explode into public and tranform into a bad name.
The best thing is to gloss
over.
It is said that if you cannot defeat
somebody, join them.
Perhaps, one may think that these are
indeed applicable to mundane and materialsitic things. These probably are the
thinking of modern man rolling on materialsitic pursuits , wealth creation
and therefore does not have time to think on ethical values.
NO Sir. Our Great PeriyaZvaR a responsible
father had the dilemma of his life.
The first shock he had in his life was Sri
ANDal offering the garland already worn by Her (Sudik
kodutha sudarkkodi)
This gave way to more and more shocks and
surprises. The fact that she did not look on earhtly souls (MANIdavarkku enRu pEAchup padil..) but hell bent on SRi
EmperumAn HImself as Her life saviour gave Sri PeriyAzvAr jitters.
He could sense the gradual progress of
this child infatuation growing in leaps and bounds as adoration, bakthi,
affection and unstoppable love towards The Supreme HImself. Sri PeriyAzvAr was
no chemist but he definitely knew that any potions if over boiled would lose its
potency and any potion under boiled would not have the
efficacy.
This fear was lurking in
him.
What shall this gentleman do? He had no
way to educate her or make amends. He could not teach her to hate Him as He
HImself was the one who taught this. He could not obliterate the devotion as he
was the sower of the seed of devotion in Her heart. Hearts of Hearts perhaps, he
liked this. He started liking this, possibly.
He did not want a public scandal of Sri
ANDAl being taken off from the Scene by Periya PerumAL.
However, He did not want ANDal to sulk and
die of madness of separation, either.
The best way, he thought was to
acknowledge this relationship and Send Her to Him. Well this would obviate all
the complications. This would take away all the impending doom which may fall on
the family.
and that is what He did
ultimately.
Perup perutha kaNNAlam
seidhu pEANI nam illathuLLEA
iruthuvAn enReNNi nAm irukka
ivaLum OnReNNuginRAL
maruthuvap padham nEnginAL
ennum VArthai paduvadhan mun
orupaduthumin ivaLai
vulagaLanDhAn idaikkEA 3-7-10 of PeriyAzvAr Thirmozhi;
Having ideas of performing a grand
marriage and housing the bride, she is having different
ideas.
Well it is better off to lead Her to
Him-The ultimate.
dasan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org
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