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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Pranams,

By the divine grace of the Sriya:pathi Sriman
Narayanan let us all now enjoy the beautiful meanings
in the Prabhandam of Sri Thondaradipodi Alwar?s,
THIRUMAALAI. Adiyen?s posting will be based on the
upanyasams of Sri Sri Krishna Premi anna on Thirumalai
based on Sri Periyavaachan Pillai?s Vyakhyanam. This
is a great task which adiyen hopes to complete
successfully by the divine grace of Sri Parthasarathi
emperuman. I beg the pardon of the members for any
errors which may arise due to adiyen?s ignorance and
lack of knowledge.

? Mattrondrum Venda Maname Madhilarangar
Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra
Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi Emperumaanai
Eppozhudum peesu?

?Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo yaamuna soonave 
yetkadakshai kalakshyanam sulabha: Sridara: sadaa?

The charitram of Sri Thondaradi podigal is known to
all. Emperuman played his leela on this Alwar and
changed Vipra Narayanan to Sri Thondaradi podi Alwar. 
After experiencing the hardship due to the kama of
worldly pleasures alwar realizes the ultimate joy In
bhagavat vishayam. This is the summary of the
prabhandham we are going to talk about. Book
knowledge is valid only to a level, experience is
absolute. When even for a lowkika job experience is
asked for. Similarly to attain kainkarya of bhagavan
in paramapadam also we need experience in this world
on the same. Alwar thus advices us to fall under the
divine feet of emperuman, telling us his experience of
miseries in this world and also the joy he got from
bhagavat bhaagavata sheshatvam. Let us all plunge into
the divine arthas of the prabhandham.

When there are so many other prabhandhams why chose
Thirumaalai. Let us just look into this first. This
prabhandam is not very short like Amalanaadhipiran 
nor is it very big like Thiruvaimozhi or Periya
thirumozhi. It is a prabhandam which is short and
sweet in easy tamil. But since I say easy tamil it
doesn?t mean the standard of tamil is less it is in
Sanga Tamizh. Any person born in this world as a
Tamizhan that too a Srivaishnavan should surely
byheart this prabhandham. It is not difficult , even
a small child can byheart this without difficulty. 
Within this small prabhandham alwar gives almost all
the essential arthas. It doesn?t contain Vedanta like
Thiruchandavirutham but contains all the necessary
arthas for the upliftment for any jeevatma. Alwar
talks the parathvam of emperuman in such a superb
manner that we can say no other alwar has so
explicitly talked about the same. Though this
prabhandam is basically to prove only the thirunama
magimai. Alwar talks about the govinda nama at large.
Suddenly the alwar gets involved in the divya mangala
vigraham of the bhagavan when he says ?pachaimaamalai
pol Meni? etc. Then he does Jnana and vairakya
upadesam to samsaris like us. He also condemns the
durmathangal and establishes the vaideka matham that
too the vaishnava matham . Then he preaches bhakthi
and prapatti. He even teaches us how to sing/cry in
front of the bhagavan whole heartedly(?Voorilane
Kaaniyillai vuravu mattroruvarellai?). He gives us the
jist of how a bhagavat bhaktha should be.

Sri Periyavaachan Pillai whose glory cannot be
explained with words has given an excellent
vyakhyanam to this prabhandam. When we read alwars
prabhandam we feel that we understand the meaning(due
to the eay tamil used by alwar) but when we go through
the vyakhyanam of Sri PVP we will surely find many
more arthas(inner meanings) that can never strike our
mandha bhuddhi. That is why our acharyas always talk
only with respect to the vyakhyanams and others who
talk as they feel are considered as moorkhas. As Sri
Mamunigal says ?Thanjenjil thoondrinadhaye solli edu
suttha upadesa vaarthai enbaar moorkaraavar?. 

We all think that we are undergoing so much miseries
in this world . Very often people curse bhagavan to
have put us into such difficulties and think what ever
effort they do is great but actually emperuman
undergoes more pain by seeing his children suffering
and tries to take us out of this in some way or the
other. But we samsaris stick to the world and refrain
from even going near bhagavan. Even though Emperuman
is Sathya sankalpan and has all divine qualities we
prove to be more powerful and so we make it a point
not to give bhagavan even a small chance to release us
from this samsarakadal. As she Nammazhvar said we
prefer to eat and say here itself(?atthai thindru ange
kidakkum?).
So Sri PVP starts his avadharikai asking who is a
samsari? Why does PVP ask such a question? He could
have asked who is a Jnani who is a Nityasoori etc
since we cannot find many Jnani here or a Nitya soori
but why does he ask who is a samsari? We will find
the answer to this in the next posting.

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan


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