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srImathE SaTakOpAya namah
srImathE rAmAnujAya namah
srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah
srImathE vara vara munayE namah

dear bhAgavathAs,

adiyEn had stopped this series during anadhyayana kAlam, and
only recently got time to start this series again. I apologize
for the rather long break, and hope that our Lord allows
this small effort to continue without break this time.

In each thiruvAymozhi, AZhvAr enjoys a kalyANa guNa of the Lord.
In the previous thiruvAymozhi, AzhvAr enjoyed the sweetness 
of the Lord (inimai-k guNam). In this thiruvAymozhi, he enjoys 
and sings about a guNa of the Lord known as "Arjavam".

Arjavam is the tendency to be straight/upright (sanskrit - Rju,
meaning tending in a straight direction, straight, upright,
honest, sincere..). The quality of thinking, saying and doing
the same thing (as against thinking one thing, saying another
thing and doing yet another thing) is called Arjavam. The
tamizh word for this guNa is "semmai". This guNa is enjoyed
in this thiruvAymozhi.

Those who are caught in the cycle of birth and death (samsaris)
are such that their thoughts, sayings and actions are not the same,
but very varied and different. While moving with such people, the
Lord goes in the direction they go & (saves them!) This great 
guNa of the LOrd (the quality of His moving with everyone and
taking them into service, irrespective of how varied they are
- i.e. He does not move with only a subset and take them into
servitude) is celebrated as Arjavam/semmai in this thiruvAymozhi.


thiruvAymozhi nURRandhAdhi - 8

Odu manam seigaiyrai onRi nillaadhaarudanE*
koodi nedumaal adimai koLLum nila * nAdaRiya
Orndhu avanRan semmai urai seidha maaRan ena*
YEindhu niRkum vaazhvaam ivai*

When we remind ourselves (do anusandhanam) that nammAZhvAr is
the one who understood and told everyone about the great
quality of semmai (Arjava) of the Lord by which He moves (and
takes into service) with all kinds of samsaaris who have
minds, sayings and doings that always run after things other 
than the Lord and are never the same, the qualities for us
that are appropriate to the nature of our soul (bhagavad
anubhavam/servitude) will be reinforced.

AzhvAr clarifies the doubt that may arise - Can the Lord move
and take into service, the samsAris whose thoughts, sayings and
doings are different? AzhvAr clarifies this doubt - similar to
people who do everything to push water up a mountain, the Lord
also moves with everyone irrespective of their qualities and takes
them into service [i.e. no difference seen among people and the LOrd
goes to great lengths to maintain His quality of thinking, saying
and doing the same thing - of being the Asrita vatsalan; the
words in this bracket are not a paraphrasing of srI PBA svAmi's
words in the book, but are provided to make the meaning a bit
easier to understand on first reading]. If we think of such an 
AzhvAr who showed us the great quality of the Lord, our good 
qualities (vaazhchchi) will be reinforced.


AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam,
adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan,
thirumalai anandAnpiLLai varadhan

(Source of the material: Translation of the pravESas of the simple
version of divyArtha deepikai, found in the book "aNNa svAmiyin
amudha mozhi aayiram, 401st - 500th mozhigaL; divyArththa deepikai,
nihyanusandhaanam - simple edition, thiruvAymozhi nURRandhaadhi
portions)





azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
 
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