Dear SrEvaishNavites,
The Lord knows any feigning of worship as He
is inside the jEvAthmA. 'vuLLuvAr vuLLiRRellAm vudan irundhu.." says thoNdar
adip poDi. Here Thirumangai AzhwAr says that he is a cheat in the sense that he
has misconstrued as the jEvAthmA as his.
Usually, we observe poets talking about swans while
narrating style and beauty of walk. Here in ThriuchERai it is the other way
round. The swans simulate the walking style of the beutiful women and did they
succeed in that ?
Finally, Thirumangai AzhwAr prescribes dedicating this
pAsuram to Almighty with folded hands.
All these are aptly summarised by Smt Sumithra
VaradarAjan.
dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan
Sri Parthasarathi
thunai SrimathE ramanujaya
Namaha Sri Vara Vara munayE
Namaha Sri vAnachala maha munayE namaha
Howzzat? ?kallaththEn poiyagaththEn AdhalAl pOdharukAl kavalai ennum vellaththErkku enkolO? ?I am a perfect
cheat. I stole my athma ?chOrEna
AthmA apahArinam? and till today haven?t accepted the same. Due to this I have been suffering in the
world of miseries without any break.
In spite of all these, how is it that I have received a outcome that is
attained by those who surrender their athma to the lord and at all times are in
his memory? Wonders kaliyan in the 9th paasuram of the kan sOra
venkurudhi padhigam. My heart is a barren
land filled with hard stones. How
did love and respect, that too towards bhagavatas, who I consider to be just
like me (sajadeeyargal) creep inside my heart? Deeply wonder?s azhvar in the
last but one paasuram in this canto. Usually the last
paasuram in any padhigam except for a few exceptions is a pala shruthi
paasuram. Pala shruthi paasuram
declares who wrote the above paasuram and what result those who chant these
paasurams will obtain. This canto
is one of the rare ones that does that say the palam (result) directly. Kaliyan
says,
The Failed Simulation ?poomAn sEr karunkuzhalAr
pOl nadanthu vayal nindRa pedaiyodannam tEmAvinin nizhalil kanduyilum taN sErai
yammAn tannai vAmAn sEr parakAlan kalikandri olimAlai
kondu thondeer toomAn sEr ponnadimEl sootumin num tuNai
kaiyAl thozhudhu nindrE? [The birds in the fields of thiruchchErai divya desam try to imitate the beautiful walking style of the long dark haired maidens of the place and not being able to do the same even in the company of the female birds due to shy, sleep under the shadow of the trees. Kalikandri, who is capable of winning over his enemies like Parthasarathi who rode the chariot of arjuna in such a way to win over the war wrote this beautiful tamil poetry. Oh! Those who are interested in bhagavat vishayam, oh! Bhagavatas submit this beautiful paasurams to the sparkling divine feet of emperuman. While doing so let your hands be folded while standing in front of him.]
Dedicating the thirumozhi to the Lord-The End in itself.
What is the pala shruthi
here? Folding hands in front of the lord and chanting the paasurams of kaliyan
itself is the palan. How? Sri
Parasara bhattar in his guna ratna kosam says, ?Ishvaryam akshara gathim paramam
padham vaa?.? Oh! Ranganayaki your head is bowed down I have found the
reason. This person came in front
of you and prostrated you with folded hands. You gave him all the wealth, kaivalyam
and even paramapadam but still you are not satisfied with granting the required
for what he did. So your head is
bowed due to shyness. That is the
generosity/magnanimity of piratti.
The same is with perumal. It
is even enough if we stand in front of him with folded hands. What to say, if we chant azhvar?s
paasuram, that too the paasurams that elaborate the greatness of bhagavatas very
near to emperuman?s heart (?jnAni tu Athmaiva mE matham? ?mama prAnAhi
pAndava:?)?
Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja
dAsee Sumithra
Varadarajan azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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