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SrimatheE rAmAnujaya Namaha
SrimatheE rAmAnujaya Saranam Saranam Prapathye

Dear Smt. Sumithra Varadarajan

Pranams.

We are all very happy that you are attempting to write commenteries on "nAnmugan thiruvandhAdhi". We pray to emberuman and emberumanar and all our great acharyaas that your efforts will succeed and they will be with you to guide you through the process. However, I have a simple request. For people like me, who is in the very elementary stages of learning, please provide an introduction of what is "nAnmugan thiruvandhAdhi" and the vaibhavam of the prabandham and also about the author. If the foundation is set well, the understanding of the prabandham will be much more enjoyable and fruitful.

Alwar EmperumAnAr Acharyan thiruvadigale saranam


Adiyen

Sampath Kumar..




sumithra varadarajan wrote:

Sri Parthasarathi thunai
SrimathE rAmAnujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

Dear bhagavatas,

Meditating on the divine feet of Sri rukmini samEtha Sri Parthasarathi emperuman and the divine 
grace of asmad Acharyan HH Sri Vanamamalai Jeeyer swamy and the blessings of all the bhagavatas 
adiyen is venturing into this daring effort to write about the divine work of Sri bhakthisArar 
(thirumazhisai pirAn), nAnmugan thiruvandhAdhi. Adiyen wants to take this task as a process of 
learning and enjoying the greatness and divine anubhavams of the arulicheyal with our poorvacharya 
vyakhyanams with you all. Adiyen requestsall the learned bhagavatas to correct me wherever necessary 
and prevent any wrong interpretations spread to many ignorant people like adiyen. Adiyen’s 
writeup will be based on periyavAchAn pillai’s vyakhyanam, Appilai’s vyakhyanam and 
the simple divya prabhandha sAra vyakhyanam written by Sri Krishnaswamy iyengar (sudarsanar).

In this posting we will start with the thaniyan to nanmugan thiruvandhAdhi.

“athivAdhee bhava” (argue that the paramapurushan is superior) orders the vedas. That is what all our Azhvars did. But unfortunately the statements of the Azhvars, including nammazhvar were not consistent. 
In some places they gave room to doubts though their basic intention was only to provethe parathvam of Sriman Narayanan. Though nammAzhvar established his matham in “ondrum devu” (ThiruvAimozhi(Tv) 4-10) 
still kudrishtis pointed only to “muniyE nAnmuganE” (Tv-10-10-1)“ariyai ayanai aranai alattri” (Tv-10-10-11) and similar verses and started writing books on “satakOpan 
samarasam” “Azhvar samarasam” etc. The same is the case with mudal Azhvars, though they clearly stated “ammoovarullum mudalAvAn moorineervannan” (mudal thiru-15) “mAmalarAn 
vArsadayAn endrivarkatku eNNaththAnAmO emai” (moondram thiru –97) still the well spread verses are “thAzhsadaiyum neelmudiyum…thirumalai mEl endhaikku eranduruvum ondrAi esaindhu” 
(moondram thiru-63) but our thirumazhisai azhvar, praised as
uraiyilidAdhavar gives no room for such arguments. No were in his prabhandam can there arise any query about the parathvam of Sriman Narayanan.
Thaniyan

“nArAyanan padaiththAn nAn mugamAi, nAnmuganukku
A-rAr sivan pirandhAn ennum sol- seerAr
mozhi seppi vAzhalAm nenjamE, moipoo
mazhisai paranadiyE vAzhththu”

As you all already know thaniyan is a “thani padal” that is a paasuramthat does 
not belong to the prabhandam but it is chanted before chanting the prabhandam in order to 
praise the greatness of either the prabhandam or the author of the prabhandam. Due to his 
divine grace on us Sri pillailokam jeeyer (grand son of Sri pattarbiran jeeyer, one of the 
ashtadiggajas of Swamy Manavala mAmunikal) has rendered commentaries for all the thaniyans in 
nalayira divya prabhandam. We will thereby enjoy the meaning of this thaniyan also based on 
his vyakhyanam.

This thaniyan was authored by the second son of Sri KoorathAzhvan, a very close disciple of 
swamy EmperumAnAr, and the younger brother of Sri Parasara bhattar, Sri veda vyasa bhattar 
alias Srirama pillai. In this thaniyan, Sri Veda vyasa bhattar instructs his heart, 
“Oh! My heart let us chant this prabhandam of bhakthisArar, which explains in detail 
about the greatnessand superiority of emperuman and get uplifted. For that first of all you 
do mangalAsAsanams to the divine feet of that great thirumazhisai Azhvar”.

(To be continued)

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan



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