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srI:
srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha

Tiruppavai - Pasuram 4 : nAmA 10 & 11 (oozhi mudhalvan) (padmanabhan) 


aazhi mazhaik kaNNaa! onRu nee kai karavEl 
aazhiyuL pukku mugandhu kodu aarththERi 
oozhi mudhalvan uruvam pOl mey kaRuththu
pAzhiy am thOLudai paRpanaaban kaiyil 
aazhi pOl minni valamburi pOl ninRadhirndhu 
thaazhaadhE saarngam udhaiththa saramazhai pOl 
vaazha ulaginil peydhidaay * naangaLum
maargazhi neeraada magizhndhElOr empAvAi. 
In this pasuram 4, AndAL glorifies two nAmAs : oozhi mudhalvan and 
padmanabhan.Oozhi represents entire prapancham the leela vibuthi viz. 7 lokams 
starting from bhu (our earth) until satya lokam (abode of brahma) and 7 lokams 
below our earth called rakshasa lokam and the entire celestial planets. For 
this entire oozhi, he is mudhalvan, the first and primodal. "EshO ha vai 
nArAyana asit, na brahma, na isanaha" Swamy Nammazhwar in his tiruvAimozhi 
"onrum devum ulagum uyirum yadum illa anRu, nAnmugan thaNodu devar ulagodu uyir 
padaithAn". Here AndAL praises his gunA of Jagat karana bhoothan. Is this can 
be considered as a guNam of the Lord. This is leela of the Lord and hence aptly 
called leela vibuthi.

The next nAmA is padmanAbhan. He is holding the entire jagat in his nabhi in 
the form of lotus, giving us the assurance that he is the protector or jagat 
rakshakan. 

The next nAmA 12 appears in pasuram 5 - "mAyan", which is his inherent gunA. 
(to be continued)

namO nArAyanA

G.Sundarrajan


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