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

Given that the nature of the bhagavad anubhavam is such that it
cannot be enjoyed by oneself, and is more enjoyable when it is
shared with others, nammAzhvAr (just as Lord KrishNa says in srImad 
bhagavad gIta, macchitaa: mad gatha: praaNaa" bOdayantha: 
parasparam), searched for people with whom he can enjoy the 
anubhavam of the Lord mutually (parasparam). But, everyone were 
samsAris; Just as AzhvAr was immersed in bhagavad anubhavam, the 
others were very immersed in material things; On seeing all 
the samsAris wasting away their lives, AzhvAr could not keep 
away/quiet. He wondered how he could change the samsAris.

nammAzhvAr thought - "These people are intelligent sentient beings; 
they are capable of thinking about what is good and what is 
bad and take only the good things in material life; They are 
applying their mind to things such as fruits and vegetables are 
are determining what is good and what is bad; they are failing to 
think beyond that; maybe if I explain to them the inherent 
goodness of bhagavad vishayam, and the inherent badness of the 
material things, they will think about the truth and they may 
leave the things that needs to be left and will adopt the good 
things that needs to be adopted; so, let us do the upadEsa of 
what is good and what is bad". 

He explains (i) the goodness of emperumAn (ii) the fleetingness and 
worthlessness of the material things that the samsAris are 
going after and exhorts the samsAris to leave their attachment to 
the material things and develop bhakti towards emperumAn.

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)




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