Whose Look out is it,
Anyway?
en-nilamai
vuraiyAyEa
AzhwAr's rejoicement over the Lord
ofthiru-vAli settling in his mind developed into cumulatvie expectaions of
the Lord granting the opportunity to serve Him. However, this did not fructify
and AzhwAr was again thrown into agony of separation and commences in feminine
accent.
She starts sending emissaries in the form
of beetles and birds. This is a unique situation . Well, swAmi
nam-AzhwAr had also sent emissaries.All these thiru-voi-mozhi-s are full of
sending messages through these winged ambasadors. The uniqueness here is that,
the first four pAsuram is about sending such information to the Lord and the
rest AzhwAr talks herself.
Whenver a person is sick, a person
is sent to bring the doctor. Nobody just goes to the doctor and say that "such
and such person is sick in this place". The doctor is informed the address,
requested for a vist and in several cases is brought along to cure the
patient.
However, AzhwAr who is suffering from
pangs of separation, asks the emissaries just to inform Him -the Lord of
thiru-vAli.
Now, it is His decision to come or not to
come. It is His role to reclaim and rescue the souls. Therefore, ]it is enough
if you just mention my positon ' is AzhwAr's stance.
Why is this so? That is because, the souls
are the assets of the Lord and it is His grace and taks to reclaim them. This is
seen clearly from sri periya-vAchAn piLLai's vyAkyAnam
"thUviriya malar
vuzhakki, thuNaiyOdum piriyAdhEa, pU viriya madhu nugarum porivariya siRu
vaNdEa,
thE-viriya maRai vaLarkkum
pugazhAlar thiru-vAli,
yE-vari
ven-silaiyAnukku, en-nilamai vuraiyAyEA" 3-6-1;
parakAla nAyaki requests the beetles to
fly across to thiru-vAli and inform the Lord of her state of
affaris.
vuraiyAyEa--> "kodu
vara vEandA, aRivikkum athanai iREa ithalikku vEaNduvadhu;varugai avan paNi
iREa; vArAdhozhiumanRu rakshaganukku kuRaiyAmEa; nEngaL aRivitha ananthram
kEattu thAnEa vArA niRkum"
"oh! beetles, you need
not bring him alongwith you, back here. It is just enough to inform Him. It is
His duty and look out to come and rescue. If he does not turn up, it is a
deficiency in the act of rescue. He will definitely come on
information"
en-nilamai
vuraiyAyEa
It is His
Look-out.
(to be continued)
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
vuraiyAyEA
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