Sri
Parthasarathi thunai Paasuram-15 ?paladEvarEththap padikadandhAn pAdham malarERa vittiraNji
vAzhththa-valarAgil mArkaNdan kaNda vagaiyE
varunkaNdeer neerkAndan kaNda
nilai? Many people
get betrayed due to falling into the feet of incapable devas declared azhvar in
the previous paasuram. Now azhvar
talks about the state of those incapable devas, who many people consider to be
their sole saviour, and what they are actually doing under the divine feet of
emperuman and hence shows the way for everyone to fall to emperuman?s feet and
get uplifted. (paladEvarEththap padikadandhAn) Amidst the praise of the devas including
the head of the devas, nAnmuka brahma the supreme lord measured the three
worlds. With the lord?s feet on top
of their heads what other go does the devas have other than to accept his
supremacy even if they had taunted on their own supremacy at other times. Thirumazhisai azhvar himself in another
paasuram says, ?kuraikonda nAnmukan kuNdikai neer peidhu maRaikonda
mandhiraththAl vAzhththi? When brahma himself does this what is left for the
other devas, other than to follow the leader? (pAdham malarERa vittiraNji vAzhththa-valarAgil) If you pray to that supreme lord and do pooja to his divine feet with beautiful flowers (?kallAr tuzhAyum kaNavalarum koovalaiyum mullAr mulariyum Ambalum?) said azhvar. We replied:
Oh! We have already done that pooja. Azhvar: Yes
you have done it but not to the divine feet of emperuman but instead to those
devathas who once themselves prostrated to the lord?s divine feet. They are his servants. Why waste time praying to them? The same
could be done to the divine feet of emperuman as per the sastras. Whatever pooja you do to those devas
they instead are doing the same to the divine feet of emperuman then why don?t
you directly do the same to the supreme lord. We don?t need anyone to mediate between
the lord and us as we have a direct connection with
him. (valarAgil)
Azhvar shows a sign of doubt here as the number of people who directly fall to
the feet of Sriman Narayanan is very less when compared to those going astray
(Asaipattu Alwar palar) Ok! If we
follow your advice then what will happen? (neerkaNdan
kaNda nilai mArkaNdan kaNda vagaiyE varum kaNdeer) Here the words of the
paasuram have been rearranged for easy understanding of the meaning. This is called as
?anvayam? The state of
neerkaNdan-Sivan/Rudran (Rudran swallowed the alakAla poison that appeared from
the parkadal during the churning of ocean for the benefit of all. While the poison was in his throat
parvathi caught hold of rudran?s throat and hence the poison was stopped from
going into the stomach. Thereby the
throat of rudran remained blue in colour and hence he is called as
neelakaNdan/neerkaNdan).
MarkandEyan, the son of mrugandu maharishi came to know about his death
in a few days and hence went to rudra and asked for extended lifetime and then
moksha. Rudra hesitated and then
slowly told markandEya that he cannot grant moksha as lord janardhana is the
sole head who can grant moksha and that he was also one among the many who do
sAdhanAnushtAnams. Thereby
markandEya did tapas towards the supreme lord and became a great vishnu bhaktha
and finally his wish was fulfilled by the nirheduka krupai of emperuman. So markandEyan fully understood the
state of rudra. So if we pray to
that emperuman with doing pooja to his divine feet we will be able to realize
the actual state of other devas like markandEya and if we continue to fall into
his divine feet then we are sure to be blessed with the state obtained by
markandEya. Note:
MarkandEya vriththAntham has been clearly stated in 12th skandam of
Sri bhagavatham and mahabharatham Aranya parva. Number of azhvar paasurams can also be
quoted to indicate to the same episode. (To be
continued) Azhvar
emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam Adiyen
ramanuja dAsee
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