Today being Sri Vamana Jayanthi (12th sept 2008) let us all
enjoy the greatness of Sri Vamana Moorthi as enjoyed by Sri
Peyazhvar.
Paasuram-18
"vAi
mozhindhu vAmananAi mAvalipAl moovadimaN
neeyaLandhu konda nedumAlE â
tAviyanin
enjA eNaiyadikkE Ezhpirappum
ALAgi
anjA thirukka varul"
"àààà àààààààà
àààààààà ààààààààà àààààààà
àà àààààà ààààà àààààààà! - ààààààààà
ààààà
àààààààààà àààà ààààààà àààààà
ààààà ààààààà ààààà"
vAmanan Ai â In the form of Vamana;
mAvalai pAl â In front of mahabali;
vAi
mozhindhu â (childish) uttered some words;
moo
adi maN â 3 foot steps of land (begged for);
aLandhu kOnda â measured and got;
nedumAlE â sarvEshvara, Oh! Supreme lord;
enjA
â (In beauty) no shrinking;
tAviya â leaped;
nin
eNai adikkE â for your 2 divine feet;
Ezh
pirappum â In all the 7 births;
Al
Agi â becoming the servant;
anjAdhu erukka - be without
fear;
nee
aRul â you please grace me;
Introduction
(vAi
mozhindhu) you who do not allow your property to go astray should take control
of me and grant me your divine service and remove all the fear in my mind that
arises due to the hurdles in this samsara says azhvar
Commentary
(vAmananAi vAi mozhindhu) Oh! Supreme Lord you hid your true nature and
posed to be a small vAmana and stood in front of mahabali begging for 3 feet
of land.
(mAvalipAl moovadimaN nee aLandhu koNda nedumAlE!) You begged for 3
feet of land as a small boy and once it was granted stretched yourself as
Trivikrama to measure all the 3 worlds;
(nedumAlE) You are sarvEshvaran (Master of all) as you placed your
divine feet on everyone's head. Though you could have
easily killed mahabali and granted Indra his property due to your
bhakthavatsalyam, you subdued youself and stood like a beggar in front of
mahabali.
(tAviya nin enjA enaiaddikE) to that 2 divine feet which measured the
worlds effortlessly, that which belongs to the remarkable
master, that which has an everlasting ultimate beauty and those 2 that match
only each other;
The
"Ekaram" refers to anaryArhasEshatvam â surrendering only to those divine
feet;
Since only those divine feet touched all our heads; and since it alone
belongs to the vaguththa sEshi (unchangeable master) and due to its
mesmerizing divine beauty there is no chance that one will leave these and
surrender to any other feet; Like the toddler admiring the breast of the
mother more than any other part of her body a devotee/prapanna cherishes only
the divine feet of the lord more than any other part of His divine
body;
(Ezh
pirappum ALAi) Doing divine service for all the births to
come;
Swamy nammazhvar reiterates the same, "ozhivil kAlamellAm vudanAi manni
vazhuvilA adimai seyya vEndum nAm" [Thiruvaimozhi
3-3-1]
JitantE stotra declares"In all my births I aspire only for
vaishnavatva"
Sri Andal says, "Eraikkum Ezh Ezh piravikkum vundannOdu vuRROmE AvOm
vunakkE nAmAt seyvOm"
(anjAdirukka aRul) Please allow me to live devoid of
fear.
What is azhvar's fear? Stirred by the distractions
in the samsara there is always a fear of loosing the divine
service. So peyazhvar here prays to Sri Vamana bhagavan to
remove his fear and grant him uninterrupted divine service.
If the Lord does that azhvar is ready for any number of
births. But why atall azhvar wants to take more
births? We are all afraid of snakes because it is poisonous
but a person immunized and treated and capable of getting over the effect of
the poison doesn't mind the snake bitting him and demonstrates it like a fun
game to the spectators. Similarly Life in this world is
filled with hindrances and hurdles but for those who have be treated with
divine grace of the lord taking birth is never a problem and it is like
enjoying in the divne abode of the
Lord.