Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha Sri Vanachala mahA munayE
namaha All along andal was talking about something called as
‘parai’ what is that? She gives out the secret in the 29th paasuram
“ciRRam sirukAlE” This paasuram
elaborates about the ultimate goal that has to be achieved by all Srivaishnavas
(prApyavivaranam). ‘parai’ is
nothing but the kainkaryam that is done to the divine feet of emperuman. That too has to be done for his pleasure
and not for our benefit. The same
secret has been declared by the Vedas as “rusham brahmam
janayanta: dEvA akrE tathabruvan” [For the pleasure of the brahmam the
nithyasooris say ‘nama:’]. Ramayana
says, “abhishichya cha lankAyAm-vijvara: pramOdha ha”
[crowning vibheeshana as the king of lanka, Sri chakravarthi thirumagan overcame
his sorrow and felt relieved] Swamy Nammazhvar says, “tanakkEyAga enaikollumeedhE” andal here says, “vunakkE nAm AtseidOm” Nammazhvar in his “emmAveettu”
padhigam declared his bhagavat seshatvam and later in “nedumArkadimai” declared
the ultimate bhAgavata sEshatvam whereas andal in her thiruppavai first declared
her bhAgavata sEshatvam in the earlier paasurams (while waking up all the gopis)
and then in this paasuram declares the bhagavat seshatvam. For any jeevatma both considering himself to be the
saviour and others to be the savior is harmful (‘Esvaranai ozhindavargal rakshagargal allar’ enbadai
prapannapariththrAnaththilE sonnOm-Pillai ulagariyan,
mumukshupadi).
Similarly there are two common errors commonly done by those who consider
emperuman to be the only way (upaya) to attain his divine feet. Due to their poorvavAsanas they have a
taste for the karma yoga and others that are capable of leading us to the divine
feet of emperuman (but not now after a very very long time). Next though we fall to the divine feet
of emperuman we by mistake consider our act of surrender itself to be the upaya
to grant us his divine feet. It has
to be strongly kept in mind that he alone is the sole upaya who can undoubtedly
grant his divine feet. Andal
explained about these mistakes while saying “tooyOmAi
vandhOm” and “tooyOmAi vandhu nAm” and got rid of these in the previous
paasuram. Similarly there are mistakes (asuddhis) even while
talking about the sAdhyam (result).
That is doing kainkaryam for the sake of something to attain our wish or
doing kainkaryam for our pleasure.
In this paasuram andal gets rid of these two asuddhis and makes it clear
that the kainkaryam they are asking for, is not for getting anything from the
lord nor is it for their pleasure.
Thondaradipodi azhvar gave two names for those who have overcome these
hurdles “AsaRRAr” and “mAsaRRAr” The previous
paasuram elaborated the verse “sarva darmAmscha santyajya”
and this paasuram elaborates “sarva kAmAmscha
santyajya” (To be continued) Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja dAsee Sumithra Varadarajan azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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