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> Post 2
> 
> Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
> 
> In the previous post we saw the two paasuram> '> s words are rearranged to 
> form following sentences. Now we will take up each sentence for analysis and 
> enjoy the guna anubhavam of the lord. 
> 
> 1.    sOlai soozh kunRu eduththaai - eNNil anRu nee baalan [words of 69th 
> paasuram ].
> 2.    maNNUm malaiyum maRikadalum maaruthamum viNNum nee vizhungiyadhu mei 
> enbar - eNNil anRu nee baalan.
> 3.    Ezhu ulagu uNdu thanadhu uruvaai aal ilaiyin mEl vaLarntha mei enbar - 
> eNNil anRu nee baalan.
> 4.    aal anRu vElai neer uLLadhO - sollu
> 5.    seeraazhiyaaikku alagu uNdO sollu - aLavu uNdO? sollu.
> 6.    un vaai aLavu kaNda iv vulagu uNdO sollu
> 7.     un vaai alavu kaNda alagu uNdO sollu
> 
> 1.    sOlai soozh kunRu eduththaai - eNNil anRu nee baalan.
> *     point: an youngster can not pluck a hill with lot of groves on the 
> hillock - sOlai soozh kunRu - just like that, and hold it aloft continuously 
> for a long period, to save the cows and cowherds from torrential rain. That 
> itself proved, you are not a baalan -but that > "> leelayaa gOpa vEsha> ">  
> lord krishNa. 
> *     But, you came, oh lord, in baalan thanadhu uruvaai vaLarntha mei - in 
> the body of an youngster. That > '> maayam> '>  is sathyam - mei enbar. Other 
> aazhvaar - who enjoyed you as child treating himself as the mother yasOdha - 
> has given 10 beautiful paasurams on this one act of you, oh, krishNa 
> [bhakthaas refer > '> attukkuvi> '>  - gOvardhanam ennum koRRak kudaiyE 
> paasurams of periyaazhvaar and MGV> '> s write up in bhakti list].
> 
> 1.    Now we will see first > "> Ezhu ulagu uNdu thanadhu uruvaai aal ilaiyin 
> mEl vaLarntha mei enbar - eNNil anRu nee baalan> "> .  [In the next point we 
> will enjoy > "> maNNum> "> ]
> 
> Point: This word > '> thanadhu uruvaai> '>  is very special. He is the 
> supreme lord - so he can take any roopam 
> *     a visva roopam or viraat roopam, 
> *     a male or female [recall mohini avathaaram in churning the milk ocean 
> episode] 
> *     a boy in vaamanan or an animal roopam in boar- first a small figure - 
> later very big - grew as thanadhu uruvaai - vaLarntha mei 
> *     or a mixture of man lion - narasimham
> *     here he has taken the baala roopam - a sisu - a boy under 8 years in 
> age.  
> *     That thanadhu uruvaai vaLarntha mei - it is sathyam - truth.
> 
> Another point - is vaLarntha mei - just stopped as baalan - if required could 
> have grown - further as the word used - vaLarntha mei - the action is not 
> complete - grammatically if you say, it is iRantha kaala vinai yechcham - 
> vinai muRRup peRavillai - so vaLantha mei udaiya baalan.
> 
> Now see the srimadh bhaagavatham slokam in 12th skandham chapter 9 slokam 20 
> and 21
> 
> sa kadhaachith Bhramamsthasmin pruthivyaa: kakudhi dhvija: |
> nyagrODhapOtham dhadhrusE phala phallava sOBhitham || 20
> 
> meaning: when he roamed that brahmaNa [meaning maarkaNdEya] saw in a tender 
> leaf grown in a branch of fig tree which was hanging downwards, a dark 
> shining child.
> 
> praaththarasyaam saakhaayaam thasyaapi dhadhrusa sisum |
> sayaanam parNaputakE grasantham praBhayaathama: || 21
> 
> meaning: In that branch which was in the north direction, the child was 
> sleeping rolling that leaf as the bed putting the foot in the mouth.
> 
> [May be the translation in giving the meaning is poor - pardon me for that]
> 
> The point here is that word - sisu - meaning given in Monier williams 
> sanskrit english dictionary, is > "> a boy under eight years in age> ">  - 
> baalan in tamil. Is it perhaps aazhvaar has just used words of bhaagavatham?
> 
> 1.    now the next - maNNUm malaiyum maRikadalum maaruthamum viNNum nee 
> vizhungiyadhu mei enbar - eNNil anRu nee baalan
> 
> As we already saw 
> maNNum - bhoomi + some thing
> malaiyum - hills, mountains + some thing
> maRikadalum - oceans which have incessant waves lashing the shores + something
> maaruthamum - the wind + some thing
> viNNum - the sky + some thing
> vizhungiyadhu - swallowed
> mei enbar - they said it is truth - sathyam  enbar .> 
> 
> It is stated the supreme lord is the source for all 5 basic elements - pancha 
> bootham -. Here you are able to see four - maN - earth, maRikadal- water, 
> maarutham - wind, viN- sky or space. The fifthone - fire is missing - that is 
> mentioned as > '> um> '>  with every other four. Since it all sathyam - that 
> it is his mei - his body - the fifth can not be missed but said indirectly as 
> > '> um> '> . Oh, what a great paasuram.
> 
> 2.    aal anRu vElai neer uLLadhO? - viN adhO? MaN adhO? sollu. - aal is aala 
> maram - banyan tree - vata vruksham. 
> 
> This > '> vata> '>  in form of verb in sanskrit also mean > '> surrounded, 
> encircled, spread, covered, etc. vata in noun form means a globule, the 
> banyan or fig tree. It was a practice in those days to use tamil words for 
> sanskrit meaning and sanskrit words in tamil meaning etc. that way aal anRi 
> vElai neer uLLadhO - with out the earth encircling where is the ocean and its 
> waters. Or if you are not there as the base where is all these oceans, sky, 
> earth etc.- hey krishNa - please tell me. [vELaa in sanskrit is samudhram- 
> that has become vElai in tamil]
> 
> 3.    seeraazhiyaaikku alagu uNdO sollu - aLavu uNdO? sollu.
> Aazhi means a chakram -discus, kadal - ocean, a round plate, sun sooryan. 
> Considering aazhiyaaykku to mean, the lord who bears a discus - chakradhaari 
> -which also the meaning considered by UV swamy here - who can measure the 
> discus for it spits fire - sudharsanar can not be just measured aLavu uNdo 
> sollu - how to measure sudharsanar using what scale - alagu uNdO sollu.
> 
> 4.    un vaai aLavu kaNda iv vulagu uNdO sollu,  un vaai alavu kaNda alagu 
> uNdO sollu. - who on the earth, can measure the width of the supreme lord> '> 
> s mouth - then say it is 2+ times the dia of the earth in his viraat 
> swaroopam, or in baala roopam it was 1.25 inches wide etc. or use what scale? 
> Oh krishNa sollu. This ulagu here is idavaagu peyar - representing people of 
> this world. 
> 5.    two really great paasurams indeed. again and again, read and enjoy 
> these paasurams.  In the next post we will see the bhagavatham slokams as a 
> continuation. 
> 
> Dhasan
> 
>  Vasudevan m.g.
> 

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