Sri Parthasarathi
thunai Srimathe ramanujaya
Namaha Srimad Vara Vara MunayE
namaha Sri Vanachala mahA munayE
namaha “endrO
thiruvAdi pooram emakkAga andrO engu Andal
avadhariththAl kundrAdha vAzhvAna vaikunda vAn pOgan
thannai egazhindhu Azhvar
thirumagalArAi” Says swamy manavala mAmunikal in his
upadesa rathinamAlai. “EmakkAga andrO
engu Andal avadhariththal” Sri bhoomi piratti took avatara as andal
only for the sake of all innocent souls like us. If perumal alone took an avatara then he
will land up not catching even a single jeevatma since all the sins of the
jeevatma will first come in front of his eyes. If then piratti is by his side then she
does the purushakAram and makes the krupai of emperuman fall on the poor
jeevatmas. So whenever emperuman
takes an avatara, piratti also comes down due to her immense grace on all of
us. When that is the case with Sridevi
nAchiyar the grace of bhoomi devi nachiyar wins over sridevi. How? Sridevi takes avatara only when
perumal takes avatara but bhoomi piratti took a special avatara leaving all her
joy in vaikundam “vaikunda vAn pOgam thannai
egazhindhu” as Andal, the daughter of periazhvar for the sake of her
kids. In this avatara she did two
services liked very much by emperuman. “poomalai toduththu pAmAlai pAdudhal” She made beautiful
flower garlands following the kainkaryam of her father and also sang beautiful
paasurams on emperuman. Our acharyas say that being “anju
kudikkoru sandhadhi” the child of all the azhvars andal excelled her
fathers. Nothing can be equated to
her thiruppAvai paasurams. Ayee
jananyAcharya swamy in his IrAyirappadi vyakhyanam to thiruppAvai shows one
excellent Ithihyam. The verse is
quoted below: “EmperumAnArai ‘Oruru thiruppAvaikku arththam arulich cheiyya
vEnum’ enna; ‘ThiruppallAndukku Al kidaikkilum thiruppAvaikku Al
kidaiyAdhu..mOvAyezhuindha muradar ketkaikku adhikArigalallar. MulaiezhundhAr
kEtka vEnum. Avargalilum
emperumAnai thAngal anubhavikka vEnum endrirukkum parivANichchigalAna
pirAttimArkkum ketka nilamalla; pala solli en? Paththu azhvargaludaiya
sArabhoodhaiyAna thAnE solli thAnE kEtkumiththanai’ endru
arulichcheidhAr” A few came to emperumanar and requested
him to deliver the meanings of thiruppavai to them. EmperumAnAr replied, “It is possible to
find a person to tell the meanings of thiruppalAndu but it is not possible to
find one who can say the meanings flooded in thiruppavai. Moreover the tough men with beard are
not eligible to hear. Only ladies
that too those who think that they are going to enjoy emperuman are not
eligible. Why should I say so much;
Andal who is considered as the essence of all the azhvars only has the
eligibility to tell and listen to thiruppavai”. If these words came out of the mouth of
swamy emperumAnAr adorned as ThiruppAvai jeeyer by our poorvacharyas what to say
about the others? EmperumAnAr was immersed in 30 paasurams-ThiruppAvai and swamy
parasara bhattar who had the paripoorna katAksham of swamy right from his birth
was immersed in another 30 paasurams- ThirunedunthAndakam say our
acharyas. Since emperumAnAr himself says that no
one has the eligibility to talk about thiruppavai shall we just stop now? No if
that was our acharyas anushtanams we wouldn’t have got so many vyakhyanams and
will not hear thiruppAvai upanyasams everywhere this marghazhi month. It is the prime duty of each one of us
to try to learn atleast a drop in that ocean of thiruppavai each day. Surely due to the grace of bhoomi
piratti and her beloved Sri Parthasarathi emperuman we will succeed atleast in
enjoying the essence of that divine prabhandam to the smallest extent
possible. (To be
continued) Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja
dAsee Sumithra
Varadarajan azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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