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

dear bhAgavathAs,

That the Lord's grace is nirhEthuka (causeless) is told
and enjoyed in this thiruvAymozhi. Some AchAryAs say that
AzhvAr, in this thiruvAymozhi expresses the limitless
happiness that he gained due to the mingling of the Lord
with each of the AzhvAr's body parts, as expressed in 
the previous thiruvAymozhi. Sri parASara bhattar provides
a special explanation of this thiruvAymozhi. It is as
follows.

In the preceding thiruvAymozhi, AzhvAr told that he 
attained great happiness by the LOrd coming and residing
on AzhvAr's head - "enadhu uchchiyil uLAnE" &
"uchchiyuLLE niRkum dEvadEvaRku" are the words he uses.
Now, is there any other anubhavam that can be more
special and superior to that? The answer is no.  The
only thing that is necessary is for that experience to
continue without any interruption, and that  is the
grace of the LOrd only, and depends on His mind (thiruvuLLam).

AzhvAr inquired into the great gift he got
in the previous thiruvAymozhi and thought "The gift 
we got is extremely big; There is no other gift that
is higher than this; How did we get this gift?". As he
inquired/thought about this, he realized that there is
no sAdhanAnushtAnam (act that he did to get the gift)
that is appropriate for the greatness of the gift. He
thought that even if there is something he had, then
it is only adhvEsham and Abhimukhyam that he had and
nothing else. Those two cannot be thought as sAdhanAs.
Given this, even if nammAzhvAr got paramabhakthi,
he did not have anything that could be termed as
sAdhana. Thinking these, nammAzhvAr concludes that
the blessing/gift of the Lord is nirhEthuka (causeless)
only.

svAmi vEdAnta dEsika, in dramidOpanishad tAtparya
ratnAvaLi, uses the word "avyAja udhAra bhAvaath" -
the act of giving without pretext! to describe this.

thiruvAymozhi nURRandhAdhi - 10

porumaazhi sangudaiyOn poothalaththE vandhu *
tharumaarOr Edhu arath thannai * thiRamaagap
paarthu urai sei maaRan madham paNiga en senni*
vaazhththiduga ennudaiya vaay*

Let my head bow, and my mouth do mangaLAsaasanams
to nammAzhvAr, who solidly experienced and told us
about the guNa of the Lord who has the sankha and
chakra, who comes to this earth and without any
action/effort on the part of His devotees, gives
His anubhavam to them.

AzhvAr, who in the previous thiruvAymozhi sang about
the Lord's coming and mingling with all parts of
AzhvAr's body, inquired whether he had any
upAya that could have been the cause for the great
blessing he got; he realized that the nature of the
Lord is to provide special blessings (vishEsha
katAksham) without any sAdhana on the part of the 
bhakta (nirhEthukamaaga), and sings about that
great quality of the Lord in the thiruvAymozhi - 
porumaa neeL padai.

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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