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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

? Mattrondrum vEinda Maname Madhilarangar

Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra

Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi Emperumaanai

Eppozhudum peesu?

 

? Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo yaamuna soonave 

yetkadAkshai kalakshyAnAm sulabha: Sridara: sadaa?

 

Pranams,

 

In our sampradayam, kainkaryam is very important. What a Srivaishnava begsfrom 
the lord is his kainkaryam. For that they are ready to sacrifice thedivine 
anubhavams too. When Sri Parthasarathi comes out for veedhi purappadu there are 
many who enjoy the divine beauty of the bhagavan but can the SripAda thangees 
who carry perumal enjoy the same? But they are the actualbhakyashalees since 
they give the happiness to the whole crowd of bhakthaswithout selfishness doing 
thondu to bhagavan. Everyone cannot get this bhakyam. This is possible only if 
perumal chooses us for that kainkaryam. Alwar in the following paasuram talks 
about the kainkaryam bestowed by Sri Rama piran on a small squirrel(Anil 
Kainkaryam).

 
Paasuram-27
 

?kurangugal malayainooka kuliththu tham purandittOdi

taranganeer adaikkaluttra salamilA anilam pOllEn

marangal pOl valiya nenja vanjanEn, nenju thannAl

aranganArkku AtseiyAdhe aliyeththEn ayarginrEnE.?  

 

kurangugal malayainooka: Alwar talks about the sEthu bhandhana Vaibhavam here. 
Hanuman, angadhan and other big monkeys are bringing big big mountains to build 
the bridge across the ocean. Neelan(Amsa of vishvakarma) is thegreat monkey 
engineer who is planning the construction of the bridge. They are in a great 
hurry to complete the bridge as soon as possible. Sugreeva who wanted to urge 
the monkeys to do the job faster told them that the afternoon 
mandagapadi(thiruvArAdhanam and lunch) for perumal will happen onlyin the other 
shore, says Sri PVP in his vyakhyanam. The sugreeva parivar had so much love 
for perumal that they can never even imagine to leave perumal hungry. So they 
speeded the process as far as possible so that they could reach the other shore 
in time for the thiruvArAdhanam. They are carrying big big mountains. What will 
they get as salary for this job? Will perumal pay them in some way? Oh! They do 
not expect any sort of payment fromperumal. Just his kataksham is enough for 
them. One monkey which carrieda big mountain and put it in the sea while 
returning saw that perumal was looking at him and hence gained a lot more 
energy and brought two big mountains the next time, with great enthusiasm. 
Though the job was done by onlymonkeys which lacked the sixth sense, still the 
construction process was highly organized. Some monkeys were holding ropes in 
the sea so that a straight bridge could be constructed and all the other 
monkeys dropped the mountains in a orderly fashion.

 

kuliththu tham purandittOdi taranganeer adaikkaluttra salamilA anilam pOllEn: 
There was one small squirrel which was looking at all the enthusiastic monkeys 
doing rAma kainkaryam. The squirrel was highly inspired and wantedto get 
involved in the divine kainkaryam. But this project is a very big one. Since 
the bridge had to be constructed across the sea and the material used were not 
stones but big mountains. In every big kainkaryam, there is always a hidden 
small part to be done which most of us overlook and feel that the kainkaryam is 
too big for us to get involved. But this small squirrel wanted to do kainkaryam 
in some way or the other. For instance, all our divyadesams have to be taken 
care regularly. Instead of collecting people or blaming the temple authorities 
and others for not maintaining the temples, why can?t we just broom the temple, 
remove the unwanted bushes grown around and keep the temple clean ourself. 
Won?t it be nice if we couldput a beautiful kOlam in front of the temple and 
sannadhis and light a lamp? Actually this job is not so difficult. If each one 
of us instead of pointing towards others do small small kainkaryams like this 
then for sure all our temples will be well maintained. We all maintain our 
houses, similarly if we consider the temples also to be ours then we are sure 
to take the little strain(actually doing kainkaryam in the temples is a 
pleasure) to maintain our temples and make perumal happy. We can surely see 
perumal smiling at us enjoying the small kainkaryams we do, as he did in the 
case of thesmall squirrel doing kainkaryam among the big monkeys. We shouldn?t 
combine with people who demoralize us rather join hands with those who will 
make us more enthusiastic to do bhagavat kainkaryam. That is why satsangam is 
so essential for building one?s character. The monkeys where bringing only 
mountains but to build the bridge both stones and mud is essential. So the 
squirrel decided to carry mud for the construction. It was a very intelligent 
squirrel. It very well knew that it can carry only very little mud with its 
small hands. So it dipped into the water and rolled over the mud and it ran 
inbetween the mountains and dropped all the mud all over its body. Probably the 
squirrel also knew that before doing kainkaryam to bhagavan it has to take a 
bath and be pure. The squirrel was both pure at heart and body. The squirrel 
knew that large amount of mud was needed to bind two mountains still it didn?t 
get disheartened. It wanted to do as much as possible, the maximum it can do. 
That is why alwar praises the squirrelto be ?salamilA anilam?(the squirrel 
which works without any tiresome).  

Actually the squirrel was doing a highly risky job. The strong waves of the 
ocean are unsafe for the small squirrel to dip in and the squirrel may even get 
stamped by the big monkeys carrying big mountains in a hurry. Thereis a high 
possibility that the monkeys may overlook this small creature and step over it. 
The squirrel never gave thought to any of these. It had pleasure in doing 
kainkaryam to perumal and hence continued to do the same without any halt.  

 

Is there any result or palan which the squirrel will obtain by doing this 
kainkaryam? Why is it doing it so enthusiastically? What did Rama piran doabout 
it? Let us see the answers to these questions in the next posting.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



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