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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-29
 

?OorilEn kAniyillai oravu mattroruvar ellai

pAril nin pAdha moolam pattrilEn parama moorthi

kAroli vannanE! KannanE! KadaruginrEn

Arular? kalaikanammA! arangamAnagarulAnE!?

 

This is an excellent paasuram in which alwar literally cries that he has 
noother go, so perumal should by all ways save him and remove all his samsAric 
miseries. This paasuram and the second paasuram ?pachai mA malai pOl mEni? are 
two paasurams which come to our memory as soon as we think of the thirumaalai 
prabandham since they are so very captivating. Adiyen really enjoys 
Unnikrishnan singing these two paasurams in sweet music which really makes all 
of us forget ourselves. Let us now dive deep into the meanings of this paasuram 
as given by Sri PVP(though the writing will be limited to adiyen?s lack of 
knowledge and ignorance).

 

OorilEn kAniyillai oravu mattroruvar ellai: Alwar says he doesn?t have any 
place to live and no relatives. Alwar left his birthplace Thirumandangudi and 
left all his property and happily came to Srirangam to do bhagavat/bhAgavata 
kainkaryam. We may now wonder if alwar is feeling for the same. Some people 
sell their property and then feel for doing the same due to theattachment they 
have on them. But alwar is not one among them, then why does he feel that he 
doesn?t have any land or relatives? Lets see what answer Sri PVP has for this.

We do not understand alwar?s mind but thank god we have our beloved acharya Sri 
PVP to tell us the correct meaning.

 

The vyakhyanam goes as follows: ?dEvareer nithya vAsam pannum oorilE pirakka 
pettrilEn? ? salagramam thiruvayOdhi koil mudaliya thirupadhigal??.

 

One should be blessed to be born in a divya desam. A child born in a 
divyadesam, from its childhood is always under the kataksham of bhagavan and 
bhagavatas. Sri Alavandar says ?Oh! My lord give me a janma, even if it isa 
keeta janma(low birth) only in Srirangam where I will be blessed with 
bhAgavatas pAdha dhooli?. In Thiruvallikeni we find even small small kids 
reciting prabhandams fluently and taking part in ghostis with great enthusiasm. 
During the summer vacation kids like to enjoy playing but here kids enjoy 
spending their time making vahanams for kutti perumal and decorating their 
perumal for veedhi purappadu with Sri Parthasarathi. This is the magimai of 
taking birth in a divya desam. The minds of even the kids are always filled 
with bhagavat vishayam. So according to alwar ?oor? means only divya desam. 
Even if we are not blessed to be born or to live in a divya desam if we have a 
land or property over there then atleast to look afterit we will frequently 
visit the divya desam. At that time we can visit the perumal over there. Even 
if we are not interested in going to the templestill the temple gopuram will 
surely give darshan to us even from a far ofdistance. Perumal will come in 
purappadu and we will have his darshan. Our acharyas say, that is why in those 
days they built such tall gopurams since even the gopuram darshanam can wash 
all our sins. What an excellent vyakhyanam. ?dhanathAlum vilaiyAlum vundAi 
avvoorilE sendru kAniyAlum padiyAi sparusam vundAi errukka?.

 

Here alwar feels for not possessing even such a land in a divya desam so that 
he will visit often, atleast due to the interest he has in maintaining his 
property safely. Then atleast if we have a relative in a divyadesam thenwe will 
visit them frequently thereby visiting the divyadesam. Alwar has left his 
sareera bhandus and not much interested in them but here he feels that he 
doesn?t have a athma bandhu in Srirangam to visit. But it is a amazing truth 
that all Srivaishnavas have in some way some relative in Srirangam since it is 
our head quarters and Sri ranganatha and ranganachiyar likes Srivaishnavas to 
always live under their shade. That is why acharyas born in various places 
finally came and settled in Srirangam under the divinegrace of the divya 
dampathis. Sri Ranganatha ordered Sri Ramanuja to stayin Srirangam itself and 
not to go anywhere else in his last days(?Atraiva SrirangEsa sugamAsva?). Sri 
Manavala Mamunigal in his Arthi Prabhandamproudly declares ?Thiruvarangar seer 
arulukku elakkAgap pettrOme, thiruvarangam thirupadhiyE erruppAga peetrOme?.

 

If we see closely alwar doesn?t say just he has no relatives rather he says he 
has no other relative. Is there a relative for him in Srirangam, then? YES. He 
has one athma bandhu who is his relative forever, Sri ranganatha. So now alwar 
continues to talk to the same bandhu.

 

pAril nin pAdha moolam pattrilEn parama moorthi: But then oh! Ranganathathough 
you are my only bandhu I have failed to fall under your feet and beg for your 
help.  

 

kAroli vannanE! KannanE! KadaruginrEn: Oh! The lord who is black in color like 
the clouds, which gives a cooling effect to our eyes and one who has aeye 
filled with karunyam, kannan ! I am crying due to deep sorrow

 

Arular? kalaikanammA! arangamAnagarulAnE: But then who is there other thanyou 
to remove my sorrow? Oh lord, who is in Srirangam, please save me fromthis 
misery , cries alwar.

 

Swami desikan in his kAmAsikAshtakam beautifully says, ?tvayi rakshathi 
rakshakai: kimanyai: tvayi chA rakshathi rakshakai kimanyai:?

In a hospital a person is in his death bed. All his relatives and friend say 
don?t worry we are there here to save you. We are all with you. Willthis do 
anything to save the man if bhagavan has decided to take his life off? If the 
man is destined to die then can even the best doctor in the world save the 
person? Similarly there is a fight between two persons. One person says I will 
kill you! but then the other person is a bhakthan and emperuman has decided to 
save him can the first person do any harm to him? So no one can do anything 
against bhagavan?s sankalpam. So alwar here says only person who can remove my 
miseries is emperuman and none other.

 

In Mahabharata, DuriyOdhana wanted to win the war so he came to sahadEva who 
was a great scholar, one of the pancha pandavas himself to get a date for the 
bali which has to be given before the war for victory. SahadEva being a true 
scholar couldn?t say something untrue so he told him to do the same on the 
amavasya day. If DuriyOdhana did give the bali on that day thenhe is sure to 
win but Sri Krishna has decided the result of the war to be otherwise so he 
went to the extent of changing even the amavasya day to give victory to his 
bhakthas, the pandavas. Such is bhagavat sankalpam.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



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