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AchArya Hrdhayam
pathAm pathu

sUthram 228-20

BIGGER THAN THE BIGGEST

"mudahl aLavu thurakkaiyAlEa peRA ANai Akkina"
Till the ninth pAsuram of the final thiru-voi-mozhi, AzhwAr swore by the Lord 
and periya pirAtti and put forth his points which was irrefutable.

The base for all this arguments was AzhwAr's immense love, affection, pining, 
longing, desire and so on and so forth. This became insignificant in front of 
Lord's desire, pining longing. love and affection towards AzhwAr. The Lord's 
love and affection made AzhwAr's love and affection look like nothing. How?

Our philosophy is full of paradox. Can anything be bigger than the biggest? 
This is again a case of paradox.

All the worlds is a hybrid mixture of all inanimate objects-achith. All the 
things are encompassed in these. Hence, relatively, the achith comprising all 
the worlds is very big- the endless big mass- mudivil-perum-pAzh. 10-10-11;

The soul which can pervade, permeate and pierce all through this in subtle and 
other forms, more knowledgede, capable of enjoying and superior is defifnitely 
bigger than this. the chith- para-nan-malar-chOdhi.10-10-11;

The Lord who is the ultimate-who is the one and all- who is the cause of all - 
who is governor of both the above is in fact the 
biggest.-chudar-gnAna-inbam.10-10-11; Eswaran.

What is bigger than this ? As per AzhwAr his desire on the Lord, his affection 
and love towards the Lord is bigger than the above three.sUzhndhadhanil periya 
en avA. 10-10-11;

Then if AzhwAr's desire is bigger than all the three -chith, achith and 
Eswaran-thathvathrayam- then AzhwAr's desire/love and affection is the biggest, 
being bigger than the aforementioned three.

However, AzhwAr finally adds that the desire of the Lord, the Love and 
affection of the Almighty towards nam-AzhwAr ultimately encompasses his desire, 
belittling his desire, which is considred as the biggest -being bigger than the 
three.

Putting in the ascending order, the achith, chith, Eswaran, AzhwAr's love and 
affection and
The Lord's love and affection towards AzhwAr. 

That is nothing but:
BIGGER THAN THE BIGGEST

vanamamalai padmanabhan




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