PRIDE AND
PREJUDICE
Haughtiness is not a virtue.
Blowing ones own trumpet is not a sign of good character.
Pride is not to be celebrated.
Still our AzvAr-s appear to exalt this.
The pride associated with Devotion
to Lord and His devotees is welcome. This is the exception to the general
rule.
Challenges Thirumazhisaip
pirAn 'nAraNanEa nE ennai anRi ilai' nAnmugan
ThiruvandhAdhi 7.
Though this is haughtiness, pride
of being a SrivaishNavite is celebrated.
Sri PeriyAzvAr realising this
exception, celebrates as 'abhimAna thungan-
Selvan' Thiru-p-pallANDu 11 and 'nalirndha sElan nayAchalan abhimAna thungan nADORum TheLIndha selvan' 4-4-8 of PeriyAzvAr Thirumozhi. How can
haughtiness be commended. Sri MAmunikaL clears this doubt in a lucid manner in
his inimitable style.
Sri MAmunikAL
commentary is exemplary in this context.
naLirndha sElan is
a very good quality.nAyAchalan is practising this.
abhimAna thungan
is pride being a devotee emanating from knowledge.
nADoRum theLindha
selvan- is this pride would never become the haughtiness in mundane sense.-this
is sAthvEka ahankAram.
The text is
wonderful
1.naLirdha selan
enbadhu guNam.
2. nayachalam enbadhu
anushtAnam
3. abhimAna thungan
-ivatRAl vandha serukku- gnAna kAryam
engiRadhu.
4. nAdoRum
theLindha- ich seRukkOdu oru nALum viBharEdham kalasAdhu
engiRadhu.
AbhimAnam is pride and thungan is
Commendable.
Commendable Pride.unalloyed
pride.
Going a step further, AzvAr
declares himself as one toeing such line-Selvanaip pOlEa
thirumAlEA nAnum vunakkup pazha adiyEan..
He is also proud to be called
so.
Thus, not just being proud Sri
VishNU chithAn is prejudiced in favour of being so.
SathvEka
ahankAram
Sri Selva Nambi of ThirukOshtiyUr
was devoted to EmperumAn and SrivAshNavites which is hihgly eulogised by our
PeriyAzvAr.
SaThvika ahankAram is virtue
and
this pride is welcome and
therefore prejudice towards this pride is appreciated
and that is
Pride and
Prejudice
from our
PeriyAzvAr
dasan'
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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