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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 :
********************
" 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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