SrI: SrImathE Gopaladesika Mahadesikaya nama: Dearest all, Let us continue to enjoy Swami Nammazhwar's glories. We will enjoy the great praises by Swami Desikan and Sri Manavala maamunigal.. Sri Manavalamamuni on Nammazhwar: yEraar vaigaasi visaagathin etrathai paaror ariya pagargindren seeraarum vedham thamizh seydha meyyan ezhil kurugai naadhan avadharitha naal" "undo vaigaasi visaagathuku opporu naal undo sadagoparku opporuvar undo thiruvaaimozhikoppu then kurugaikundo orupaar thanil okkumoor" uNdO vaikAsi VisAkatthuk koppuru nAL? ( Is there any auspicious day that matches the glory of the VaikAsi VisAkam day? Never) uNdO SatakOparkkopporuvAr? (Is there anyone that can match the illustrious glory of our Kulapathi, NammAzhwAr? None. ) uNdO ThiruvAimozhikkoppu? ( is there any divya prabhandham that can be equal to the magnificience of ThiruvAimozhi? None can dare match ) tenn KuruhaikkundO oru paar tanil okkumUr ? (Can there be any divya desams that match the auspiciousness of ThirukkuruhUr that gave birth to our Kulapathi? Absoultely not ). These emphatic responses indirectly enshrined in these questions declare the greatness of Swami NammAzhwAr and His divine works. His upakaram is amazing and greatest for Srivaishnavam.. Because of his grace and mercy, we are able to pleace our heads at the lotus feet of The Peerless Lord The Only One Sriman narayanan- Says Swamy Desikan thandhai ena ninRa thanit thirumaal thaaLil thalai vaitthOm SatakOpan aruLinAlE Let us first look at the upakArams done by the divya dampathis for us . Swamy Desikan says: anthamilA pErinbham arundha yERkkum adiyOmai ARIVUDANE yenRum kaatthu munthai vinai nirai vazhiyil ozhuhAthemmai munnilayAm DESIKAR TAMM MUNNE SERTTHU MANTHIRAMUM MANTHIRATTHIN VAZHIYUMK KATTI vazhippadutthi VAAN YERRI ADIMAIK KOLLA Tanthaiyena ninRa tanit ThirumAL ThALil Talai vaitthOm SatakOpan aruLinAlE This work of Swami Sri Desikan is understood as the VyAkhyAnam for the Sri Sookthi of NammAzhwAr revered as THIRUVIRUTTHAM and particularly its first paasuram (poy ninRa Jn~Amum --ViNNaPPamE ). The revered AchAryA His Holiness Srimad ParavakkOttai Andavan Swami during the teleupanysam few years ago selected this paasuram of Swami Desikan and dwelt on the chosen words in this paasuram and linked it to other powerful words from the NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi{TVM }, (e-g)., " annAL nee tantha AAKKAYIN vazhi uzhalvEn " ( TVM: 3.2.1). [From srI Satakopan Swami translation of the upanyasam] Sri Andavan pointed out that the Divya Dampathis help us in every way. Mainly, there are 54 incomparable upkArams that are performed by them for us, SamsAris, with the view to join us to Their parama Padham in the spirit of NammAzhwAr's TVM Vaakhyam: " Vaikuntham puhuvathu maNNavar VidhiyE " . He reminded us of Sage MaarkanDEyA's Vaakhyam in this context :lOkAnAm MaathA PithA cha MADHAVA : The reference here was to " Tanthai yena ninRa Tanit ThirumAL ', section of the above verse to the sarva vidha Bhandhu , SarvEswaran . Before He joins us to Sri His Vaikuntam for nithya kaimkaryam , ThirumAl performs many upakArAms that is hard for us even to keep track off ( NaaraNan maayayai aRibhavar yArO --TVM: 1.3.3 , AtthA nee seythana naan aRiyEnE! ). His upakArams are giving us aakkai (sarIram ) to house the Jivan ; He bleesed the Jivan to be eternal ( nithyan ) in svarUpam and blesses the Jivan with Dharma BhUtha JnAnam and makes it the Jivan's nithya guNam and protects thus the Jivan's svarUpam and SvabhAvam .This is the connection to the paasura pasage , " adiyOmai yenRum aRivudanE kaatthu " in the UpakAra sangraham . Srimath Andavan went on to explain the other key passages in that important paasuram of Swami Desikan. The meanings are : anthamilAp pErinbham arundha yErkkum adiyOmai = for us, who are fit to enjoy the limitless bliss of the great Moksha anubhavam arivudanE yenRum kaatthu , munthai vinai nirai vazhiyil ozhuhAthu emmai munnilayAm Desikar tamm munnE sErtthu = blessing and protcting us with the eteranl dharma bhUtha Jn~Anam and also protecting us from drowning in the timeless flow of the river of karmAs and getting us to the safety of the bank by uniting us with SadAchAryAs for-- manthiramum manthiratthin vazhiyum kaatti vazhippaditthi = (by uniting us with the sadaachAryAs )for upadesam of redeeming sacred manthram , the AshtAksharam and for learning about the inner meanings of that manthram The greatness of this acquisition of knowledge through upadesam has been celebrated many times by AzhwArs and AchAryAs : Srimath Andavan referred to the paasura vAkhyam , MaamAyA ! mikkAr otthAr ilai ! There is no one equal to You or greater than You The VedAntha Jn~Anam imparted to us by SadaachAryAs (Mantharitthin vazhiyum kaati ) is another of these MahOpakArams of the Lord since it leads to the ultimate bliss of ascent by archirAdhi maargam ( vaanERRi adimaik koLLa) and nithya kaimkaryam. (nall vaazhvu) anthaNar maattu anti vaittha MANTHIRATTHAI MANTHIRATTHAAL maravaathu YENrUM VAAZHUTHIYeL VaZHALaM --TNT pasuram :4 (Meaning ): Oh my foolish mind ! If you enjoy the Thirumanthiram , the saaram of the Vedantham , which is the wealth of the Brahmins , and if you reflect upon the meanings of that sacred manthiram , you will surely attain sadhgathi ( nall Vaazhvu ). Srimath Andavan continued with the explanation of the fourth paadham of the UpakAra Sangraha SlOkam : Tanthai ena ninRa tanit ThirumAl ThALil tlai vaitthOm SatakOpan aruLAlE The Lord stood as the Forever-caring Father , who performs great upakArams ( tanthai ena ninRavan ). He is a matchless EmperumAn with the mahimai of PaadhAravindham that ha s no comparison in its redemptive and anugraha qualities ( Tanit ThirumAl ThALil ) . Next Srimath Andavan expalined as to what happened at these sacred feet of the Lord as a result of the grace of NammAzhwar our Prapanna SanthAna Jana kUtasthar. The paasura Vaakhyam is: Tanit ThirumAl ThALil talai VaitthOm SatakOpan aruLAlE. Through the Parama KrupA of NammAzhwAr, we are blessed to attain Sri Vaikuntam and laid our feet at the sacred feet of Sriman NaarAyaNA as the ultimate step in Moksha Siddhi rsultign from SadAchArya Sambhandham and BhagavAn's paramOpakArams. NammAzhwAr is the One, who showed us the way through his Prabhandhams. He used the purvOpakArams done by the Lord to anticipate the future upakArams to come and showed us the way. He was blessed with Bhakthi and Jn~Anam from the Lord of Nithya Sooris. His enjoyment of the Lord blossomed as the Four divya prabhandhams. Thiruviruttham was the first of the Four prabhandhams. Here, he desribes his varalARukaL (Virutthams)and thus this prabhandham came to be known as Thiruviruttham. In the very first paasuram ( Poy ninRa Jn~Amum-- ViNNappamE ), NammAzhwAr reflects on the purvOpakArams (or the upakArams done earlier through conferral of aathma Jn~Anam , Dharma BhUtha Jn~Anam )and sets that up as Infrastructure for the ensuing paasurams and prabhandhams containing his requests for other upakArams that culminate in Moksha Siddhi at the end of ThiruvAimozhi. In this Thiruviruttha Paasuram , NammAzhwaar addresses the Lord as ImayOr talaivA (sarva Seshi) and himselfas adiyEn (sesha bhUthan ). The sEsha-sEshi Sambhandham, Artha panchakam are covered here. The connection of Artha panchakam with brahma SvarUpam is known as Shadatha nirUpaNam . That was what NammAzhwAr instructed. Swami Desikan wished to show us the paramount central message and created UpakAra Sangraham. [Thanks to Sri Satakopan Swami again] Let us recite KaNNinunchiRuthaambu today and pay our obeisance to AzhwAr. Thanks for all your patience for adiyEn rambling... and crude writing. Anything good is due to the vaibhavam of AzhwAr and Acharya krupai. All errors, mistakes are entirely due to adiyEn lack of (or no) jnAnam. NammAzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam Regards Namo narayana dAsan ____________________________________________________________________________________Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/join (Yahoo! 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