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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe rAmAnujaya Namaha

Sri vara vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

In the very first paasuram in thiruppAvai ?mArgazhi thingal? soodikkoduththa 
nAchiyar sri andal praises emperumAnar as, ?kadir madhiyam pOl mugaththAn?. 
Swamy?s face glowed like the sun when he did sribhasya kalashepam and 
established the significance of our srivaishnava sampradhayam whereas while 
swamy did bhagavat vishaya kalashepam on thiruvAimozhi swamy?s thirumugam was 
like a cool full moon.

 

In the second paasuram kOdhai nAchaiyar shows how perumbhoodhur mAmuni is none 
other than the divine serpent, adishesha on which the lord reclines. The lord 
Sriman nArayanan lays as an impeccable divinity, as the start and end for 
everthing, the Adimoolam on top of ananthan, the divine serpent. Ananthan who 
is the divine bed to emperuman, is blessed with a rekha called savasthikam and 
has 12000 heads, in this kaliyuga has taken birth as Sri rAmAnuja in 
sriperumbhoodhur on chittrai thiruvAdhirai. Swamy went all over the place and 
spread the fame of emperuman and paved way for bhakthas to reach the holy feet 
of emperuman. So nAchiyar says, ?pArkadalul payyath thuyindra paraman adi pAdi? 
having EmperumAnAr in her minds.

 

In the third paasuram, ?Ongi vulagalandha? Sri andal talks about the charitable 
nature of EmperumAnAr. She regards swamy rAmAnujar as a cow full of charitable 
love, which sheds the milk without anyone milking it. Swamy doesn?t allow his 
shisyas to just glance through any divine meanings instead he fills their mind 
with deep knowledge and makes them great jnani?s.That is what anju kudi koru 
sandhadhi Andal says, ?kudam niraikkum vallal perum pasu?. The big cow 
EmperumAnAr fills the minds and hearts of his disciples with deep knowledge and 
anubhavams.

 

In the fourth paasuram, ?Azhi mazhai kanna!? andal refers to swamy as her elder 
brother. In tredha yugam adisesha became the younger brother of Sri rama, 
lakshmana. In the dvapara yugam he became the elder brother of Sri Krishna, 
balarama. The same adisesha in kaliyugam is going to become theelder brother of 
nAchiyar, Sri Andal in order to establish the srivaishnava sampradayam and give 
the great Sribhashyam. So Andal proudly calls her brother as ?Azhi mazhaikku 
annA!?

 

In the fifth paasuram, ?mAyanai mannu vadamadurai maiyindhanai? Andal proudly 
declares the efficiency of swamy ethirajar to win over the mayAvAdhis. Like 
Krishna who won over all his enemies through his mayai, emperumAnar won over 
all the mayAvAdhis and established our sampradayam. So andal refers to swamy as 
?mAyanai?. In yethiraja vimsathi, mAmunigal praises EmperumAnAr as ?mAyavAdhi 
bhujanga bhanga garuda: trividhya choodAmani:?

 

We will proceed to see how andal, soodikoduththa nAchiyar, perumbhoodhur 
mAmunikku pinnAnal, enjoys glorifying the divine qualities of her elder brother 
ethirajar in rest of her paasurams in the next postings.

 

(To be continued)

 

Azhvar EmperumAnAr Andal Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



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