Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha Sri Vanachala mahA munayE
namaha The divine arthas given by andal in the “karavaigal pin sendru” paasuram are really extraordinary. Thiruppavai is considered to be “vedam anaiththukkum viththu” (the seed that grows the Vedas). No wonder that each paasuram is flooded with so many divine meanings. Each and every word deserves pages and pages of explanations that have been beautifully elaborated eminently by our poorvacharyas. Limited to our knowledge and time we have been enjoying just few drops from that outstanding divine ocean. So half-heartedly adiyen continues with explaining just a single part in this paasuram, though the whole paasuram is really avid. Adiyen’s sincere request to all bhagavatas is please do try to go through the thiruppavai commentary atleast once in your life time else you are sure to miss a great treasure. (ariyAdha pillaigalOm
anbinAl vunthannai sirupEr azhaiththanavum seeri arulAdhE) Andal
said “kurai vondrumillAdha govinda” and “koodArai vellum seer govinda” that got
immense pleasure to the divine hearts of krishna. But then he questioned, “Oh! Andal now
you are calling me with the name that is very dear to me but why did you
initially call me with other names?” What are the other names krishna is
referring to? It is really amazing that here krishna is referring to that very
thirunamam that has been greatly adorned by the sastras “nArayanan”. Even by the number of letters “govinda”
is only less but how did “narayana”
become “sirupEr” (small name). It is small in the heart of
krishna. “Narayana” may show his
paratvam but not his sowlabhyam.
Only to show his sowlabhyam did emperuman leave all his joy in his divine
abode and takes avatara as krishna amidst the gopalas and became govindan. The greatest crowning for krishna was
the “govinda pattabhishekam”. He
was not satisfied even being crowned the king of ayodhya by all the maharishis
but he was elated to be crowned as “govindan” in front of the gopalas. Understanding the divine feeling of krishna andal
says, “Oh! Lord due to the immense love we have towards you we don’t know what
we are really talking and hence we have called you as narayana earlier but now
we apologize for our ignorance.
Elders with big heart forgive the small mistakes of innocent folks; won’t
you forgive and forget our mistakes? Arjuna also apologized for calling krishna with small
names. What were
they? “sakEthi matvA prasabham
yadhuktham hEy krishna! HEy yAdhava! hEy sakEthi!
ajAnathA mahimAnam tavEmam mayA
pramAdhAth pranayEna vApiII” Arjuna perplexed by having the divine vishavaroopa
darisanam considers calling parthasarathi earlier as “krishna, yAdhava etc” to
be a big mistake. But in the case of andal, she surrendered to the divine lord
considered him to be the upaya and upEya and due to her deep bhakthi the name
narayana, the indication of the lord’s paratvam was small and govinda that
indicated his sowlabhyam the apt name.
(To be continued) Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja dAsee Sumithra Varadarajan azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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