Arul Maa Kadal of Thiru
SiRu Puliyoor Dhivya Desam *******************************************************************
In the previous Paasuram ,
Kaliyan asked the Lord to reveal
where He resides primarily
and form the answers concluded that
the Lord of
SiRu PuliyUr's
preferred residence is the mind of His
BhAgavathAs.
In this Paasuram , Kaliyan
qualifies himself to approach the Lord
directly after saluting His
BhagavathAs and gains the fitness to approach
Him for the granting of the
boon of PiRavAmai ( Moksham) :
mayyAr vari neelam
malark-kaNNAr vittittu
uyyvAn Unn kazhalEthozhuthu
yezhuvEn, kiLi madavAr
sevvAy mozhi payilum SiRu
PuliyUr Chala Sayanatthu
eivAy aravaNaimEl uRai Amalaa
! aruLAyE ! ----Periya Thirumozhi: 7.9.8
(Meaning ) : SiRu PuliyUr is
the dhivya dEsam , where the pet parrots
learn Your AshtOttharams
and Sahasra Naamaas from the alluring
red mouths of
charming ladies
devoted to You . At Your dhivya dEsam ,
where the parrots train
themselves to perform Your Naama Sankeerthanam ,
You are resting comfortably
on Your soft bed of the five-headed AadhisEshan .
Oh Blemishless Lord ( Amalaa
) ! Please bless
adiyEn to reject the temptations of
young women with
beautiful and long
eyes lined with colleriyum . May adiyEn's
mind
be totally
free from thoughts about them and concentrate always on
Your sacred feet to gain
Moksha sukham . Please bless adiyEn with this boon .
Special Notes :
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" The words " KiLi Madavaar " has also been
interpreted as parrot-like
beautiful women . " SevvAi Mozhi payilum
SiRu PuliyUr " has been
interpreted as SiRu PuliyUr , where
beautiful ladies learn the dhivya
prabhandham of Swamy NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAi
Mozhi . The implication
is that the ladies are the reciters of the
Tamizh Vedham at this dhivya dEsam .
AzhwAr's prayer to the Lord of SiRu PuliyUr
is " Unn KazhalE thozhuthu
yezhuvEn . AruLAi " . Oh AruL Maa Kadal
NidhiyE ! adiyEn longs for
ujjevanam from worshipping Your sacred feet
alone . Please remove any
impediments that will come my way and bless
me to recieve the fruits of
the requested boon . What are
the major impeediments ? They are :
The temptations
in the form of charming ,
young women with long eyes
reminding one
of the beauty of
NeelOthpalam ( Neelam malar KaNNAr )
and having minute red
lines inside those eyes and
decorated outside with
black colleyrium
( MyAr vari nelam malar
KaNNAr) . AzhwAr declares that
he is of firm
determination to abandon any
thoughts about such tempting
eyes ( Manam vittittu) and seek only the Lord's sacred feet for his
ujjevanam
from the samsAric
sufferings and to gain
Moksha sukham with His
anugraham ( Unn KazhakalL thozhuthu
yezhuvEn ! aruLAi ! ) . Your
Thiruvadis alone are my means ( UpAyam
) and goal ( prApyam ) for
Moksham .
Follwing the foot steps of ThiruppANa
AzhwAr , Kaliyan
addresses the Lord of SiRu PuliyUr as "
Amalaa ! " . ThiruppANar
declared that his eyes will not see
anything other than Sri RanganAthan
in his first Paasuram starting with the
word , "Amalan "
and ending up with the last paasuram , "
MaRRonRinaik kANAvE " :
" Amalan AadhipirAN
---- yennuLLam kavarnthAnai
ANDarkOn ANiyarangan yenn
amudhinaik--
kaNDa kaNkaL MaRRonRinaik--kANAvE "
In this Paauram , ThiruppANar
confesses : " My eyes , which have
seen my nectar in the
form of lovely RanganAtha , who has the color of
the blue clouds , whose mouth
ate butter , when He became a cowherd,
who stole my heart , who is
the ruler over all the worlds and their
residents -- THOSE EYES OF
MINE WILL NOT SEE ANYTHING ELSE " .
Why would not ThiruppANar's
eyes see any thing else ? It is
because every thing else
other than the Lord has some dhOsham
( blemish= malam ) . He is
the only One without any dhOsham ( Amalan ).
In the very first Pasuram of
the Prabhandham of ThiruppANar , he
addresses the Lord as "
Amalan AadhipirAn adiyArkku yennai aatpaduttha
Vimalan , ViNNavarkkOn " .
Saranga Muni has lifted ThiruppANar from
his shoulders and placed the
AzhwAr down right in front of Lord RanganAtha .
The AzhwAr , who had closed
his eyes all along opened his eyes to see
the Lord and the first word
that came to his mind on darsanam of the Lord's
Thiruvadi was : "Amalan " (
the ever pure One ) . The first gaze of the AzhwAr
was on the sacred feet of
Lord RanganAtha (" Lashmee BhUmyO:
kara-sarasijai: laaLitham PaadhAmbhOjam " ) . Those Kamala ThiruppAdhams were saluted first by AzhwAr
. In his eulogy of the Lord at Srirangam ,
ThiruppANar used four words ,
which have more or less the same meaning :
Amalan , Vimalan , Nimalan
and Ninmalan . All mean that the Lord has no Malam
or blemish . Sri D. Ramaswamy
IyengAr describes this amalathvam as
" Purity in excelsis . It is
" PavithrANAm Pavithram " in the words of BheeshmA
.
That great purity is
reflected in HIs capacity to make the impure (us) pure " .
Kaliyan sees the Baala
RanganAthan at SiRu PuliyUr and is moved to
describe Him as Amalan in the
way in which ThiruppANar saluted Him
at Srirangam
.
Kaliyan has clebrated the
importance of adiyArs ( BhagavathAs) of
the Lord in previous
paasurams on SiRu PuliyUr . Those streams of
thought can be connected to
another epithet used by ThiruppANar
in his prabhandham : "
adiyArkennai aatpadutthiya Vimalan " . Here ,
Sri D.Ramaswamy IyengAr
comments : " Lord RanganAthan is the Vimalan ,
who is so unselfish as not to
appropraite me and my servitude to Himself
alone , but made me a
servant of the true and faithful devotees of His
( adiyArkaL ) . He made
me a slave for His devotees ( adiyArkkennai
aatpadutthiya Vimalan ) . The
Seshathvam or servitude of a chetana
should not stop with the Lord
but must extend to His devotees . This is
known as PurushArTa
Kaashtai in VaishNavism . A true VaishNavite
hankers to serve not only His
Lord , but as a corrolary to his
Bhagavath Kinkarathvam
, he wants to serve a devotee's devotee's
devotee ( seven stages down)
; vide KulasEkara AzhwAr's Mukunhda
Maala passage : " Thvath
parichAraka Bhruthya bhruthyasya---"
and Swamy NammAzhwAr's
ThiruvAimozhi passage : " adiyAr adiyAr
tamakkadiyAr --- "
. Bhagavatha
sEshathvam is celebrated here .
In the next Paasuram (Ninth) , Thirumangai
declares : " UnathadiyE
SaraNAmE " ( Your ThiruvadikaLE
SaraNam , UpAya UpEyam ) .
Srimath
Azhagiya Singar Thiruvadi ,
Oppiliappan Koil
VaradAchAri Sadagopan
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