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THE PERIYA
THIRUMANTHIRAM
MANTHIRATHAL-àààààààààààà-
The probing questions of Sri PeriyavAchAN
piLLai may sometimes make even AzvAr wonderstruck. Such is the depth into wich
the KIng of Commentators indulges in.
Kaliyan recommends to his mind to cherish
EmperumAn with Tirumanthiram - not with idhihAsa, purANam or upanishads- but
with Tirumanthiram.
manthirathAl maRavAdhu enRum-àààààààààààà àààààà
ààààààà-TirunedunthANTakam 4.
Now comes the
question?
How does manthiram refer to
Tirumanthiram?
There are so many manthiram-s. As said in
SahasranAmam which originated to describe the ausipicious qualities of the Lord,
the divine names are endless.
Why Periya
Thirumanthiram?
Well, Tirumanthiram is the one whcih
exactly represents the omnipresence and the Lord pervading into one and
all.
There is no other manthiram which exaclty
represents this fact. That is why this is termed as
'vyApaka manthiram'
What is the need for such manthiram
now?
The contexrt of pAsuram will mirror this
point. The pAsuram says that He is the prime to all devathAs, He is the
indweller of five elments, He is the directions, the primary languagues and so
on.
Which is the exact term which exactly
reflects this . The Periya Tiurmanthiram. Is it not?
Further, is this not the manthiram in
whcih Kaliyan got submerged at the outset and burst out the
words
'nAN kaNDu koNDEan nArAyaNA
-ennum nAmam'
âàààà ààààà àààààààà ààààààà ààààààà
àààààâ
Thus, Sri PeriyavAchAn PiLLai not just
justiies, that the term manthiram in the fouth pAsuram of ThirunedunthANTakam is
Periya Thirumanthiram but also proves beyond doubt that
this cannot be any other
manhtiram.
This goes to fathom his ability to pierce
the atom and extract the power in that and disseminate to the benefit of one and
all.
Is it not?
(to be continued)
dasan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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