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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,

 

Paasuram-28(contd)

 

namparamAyadundE?: Though emperuman considers all jeevatmas to be equal still 
when there is a problem between his bhaktha and some one else he comes to save 
his bhaktha. Sri PVP says, ?Ashritha vishayaththil pakshapAthiyAghi rakshikkum 
avan?. One doubt may arise here. If he supports one, thenhow can we consider 
him to be equal to all? He is equal. In Mahabharata he did give the same option 
of choosing his army on one side or he alone onthe other to both arjuna and 
duriyOdhana. Is it not equality? But then his bhaktha (arjuna) always wants 
emperuman alone and nothing else so emperuman was on his side and saved him 
from all trouble but duriyOdhana thought that emperuman was less capable than 
his army and hence wanted only the army. Such is the case with others. They 
think there are other modes to save themselves but bhakthas always depend on 
emperuman and surrender to him andhence he comes running to save them.

 

nAykalOm sirimaiyOrA empirArku AtseiyAdhE enseivAn thOndrinEnE?

 

Sri Rama piran considered both his kula guru vashistar and a tribal king guhan 
to be equal. Valmiki says, ?purOhitasya Atmasamasya? while talkingabout 
vasistar and while telling about guhan says ?Ramasya Atmasamasaka?. We see that 
perumal doesn?t differentiate by birth, wealth or education. He sees only the 
pure devotion in all our minds. He has done so much for all of us. Even a dog 
is grateful to a person who puts a piece of bread to eat and it waves its tail 
to him. If the same person puts a piece of bread two or three days then the dog 
comes and stays in front of his house and does service to him, safeguarding him 
and his property. Alwar says how sad we do not have even that gratefulness 
towards the lord who has bestowed us with so many things. We have become even 
lower than a dog in thought. For all the things given to us by emperuman we all 
should be in his kainkaryam always. We should be his servants and enjoy doing 
kainkaryam to him without any tiresome. But for this, why have I taken birth 
atall? wonders alwar. If we donot do kainkaryam to bhagavan then our birth 
becomes useless. After Sri Rama went to forest bharathan coming to know about 
it criessaying, ?Why did I ever take birth? If I was not born then kaikEyi 
wouldn?t have asked for the kingdom for me and sent perumal to vana vAsam?. So 
bharatha curses himself for have taken birth. Similarly alwar here curses 
himself saying that if he couldn?t do kainkaryam to the bhagavan who has 
showered his krupai on him then what was the use of him taking birth?

 

Thondaradipodi alwar first talked about the importance of nama sankeertanamand 
then he condemned all the other madhams and supported the srivaishnavamadham. 
He then involved himself in talking about the magimai of lord Ranganatha and 
his divya desam, Srirangam surrounded by kaveri. Starting fromthe 25th paasuram 
he feels for not possessing any sukrutham(good deeds) toenable emperuman to 
shower his krupai on him. Alwar says that he doesn?t possess karma, jnana or 
bhakthi. Then he says not only that I do not even do any sAmanya kainkaryam 
like archanam or keertanam. When perumal askedif he has atleast done any 
yadrichika kainkaryam then alwar says that he has never done any kainkaryam 
even like the squirrel. Then emperuman asked if he had atleast called for him 
in some danger for which alwar replies that he has never called him like 
gajendran. Finally emperuman asks if he atleast as some plus like divya desa 
vAsam or some bhAgavata relation for which alwar answers in the next paasuram 
which we will see in the next posting.

 

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



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