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Dear bhAgavatas,

I think there has been a misunderstanding of my example.

I did not say that the father was "taking the child
wherever the cure is" (which would then lead to the wrong 
inference that Andal did not know that Sriman Narayana is
the only one who can answer her pleas). The example I
chose was where parents would take the child to a person
who they knew could not help, but nevertheless they had
to try because the right doctor was not responding. Here,
the agnyAnam is that they know it is the wrong solution,
but still they give it a shot.

Please note that Andal later on uses birds, flowers,
clouds etc to try and reach Him. It is not that Andal
does not know that He is the only upAyam - here too, 
adiyEn simply infers that she is willing to try 
anything.

Regarding the other query, perhaps the more pertinent
question would be: how could Andal's divine suktis be
not part of the divyaprabandham? Particularly one in
which she says "vengkadavaRku ennai vithi", "mAnidavark-
kenRu pEccupadil vAzakilEn", "kesava nambiyaik kAl
pidippAL".

The phrase "include" gives the impression that there 
was a choice in front of Sriman Nathamunigal on what 
to include in the compilation of the prabandhams. From 
what I have read about his vaibhavam, he was given the 
4000 verses by Swami Nammazhvar and he collected them 
and set them into the order we see today. If that is 
the case, then it is Nammazhvar's thiruvuLLam and there
is no need for us to question its presence. We can of
course look to acharyas for their interpretations on
the significance of the pasuram and its meanings.

apacArAnimAn sarvAn kshamasva purushottama.

adiyEn
TCA Venkatesan

--- Nanmaaran <nanmaaran@xxxx> wrote:
> Dear Swamins,
> Shri TCA Venkatesan has given an example of a worried
> father to take his child wherever the cure is. This
> example will not suit to Andal as she clearly expresses
> her conviction that "narayananE namakkE paRai tharuvaan".
> So she cannot be comapared to people with wandering mind
> due to agyaanam.
> And back end question is that why the pasurams sung in
> praise of kamadeva (anya devata) included in divya
> prabandams ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nanmaaran
> 
> 


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