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Dear Bhagavatas,

Sri M.G Vasudevan and Sri Padmanabhan have written wonderfully about the 
emperuman's love for the calf. 

Emperuman's deep love for the cow and calf is greatly shown in his love for the 
"govinda" nAmam. Sri Ramapiran had to sacrifice his pattabhishekam and go to 
forest but he was not worried about the same. He did not get angry. But when 
Indra showered heavy rain and wanted to destroy the whole gokulam Sri krishna 
was put to immense anger and hence he took the govardhana giri in his hands to 
save all the gokula vasees (mainly the cows and calf which were very dear to 
him). Sri Ramapiran returned back to ayodhya and underwent the pattabhishekam 
to ayodhya samrAjyam but still he was not happy. Very shortly he had to get 
separated from his dear wife seetha once again hearing the words of one of his 
citizens. But in case of krishna, Indra came and did "govinda pattabhishekam" 
which made not only krishna but the whole gokula vasees happy. None of the 
gokula vasees saw krishna as a special person/god even after seeing him do such 
a miracle. Some of the elderly women in gokulam, even
prayed for the welfare of krishna. They did the rites of "drushti kazhithal" to 
kutti kannan so that no evil eyes fell on him. Krishna was so attached to the 
govinda nama. Usually it is kid's play to irritate the other kid with a name 
which the other kid dislikes. Similarly in gokulam the gopis irritated krishna 
by calling him "narayana". According to the gopikas this name "narayana" which 
is considered so near and dear by the vaidhikas was only a very small name 
(siru pEr). Andal in her divine thiruppavai apologizes to have called krishna 
with this name.

(Remember Narayana nama alone is the sole proof for the parathvam of emperuman.)

In the 28th paasuram, "karavaigal pin sendru...." andal says, "sirupEr 
azhaththanavum seeriarulAdhE"

Here the arayirapadi vyakhyanam to this goes as follows:

"(sirupEr) govinda pattabhishEkam pannina pinbhu mudhal thirunAmam sollugai 
kuttramirE"

Here sirupEr refers to nArayana nAmam. Though Indra understood that krishna was 
none other than the ubhaya vibhoothi nAthan still he honoured him with the name 
"govinda:" (the one who is the leader of the cowherd). So this thirunamam is 
considered as par with the nArAyana nAmam. In gokulam, govinda nama has more 
prominance since the gokula vasees were attracted to that nama only. 

"SahasrAsharangal and dvadhasAsharangal thodakkamAna perumpErgalellAm avan pEr 
ettezhuththum kandavArE sirugittru; adhudhAn moodrezhuththudaiya pErai 
kandavArE sirugittru;"

All other thirunamams become lowly names when compared to narayana nAmam but 
even this narayana nAmam was considered less popular compared to the three 
lettered govinda nAmam. According to the vyakhyanam those who say the 
ashtAkshara nAma are considered to be confused and hence the gopikas who are 
clear in mind consider the nArayana nama to be sirupEr. nArayana nAma is to be 
kept as a secret and to be told in the ears by the acharyan and hence it was 
used while krishna was a small kid in the cradle ("mannu nAranan nambi 
pirandhamai", "narayananE azhEl thAlElO"). But since now he is big kannan that 
namam cannot be used.

Erayirapadi reads, "narayananenkai kuttramO? ennil; neermai sambhAdhikka 
pOndhavidaththil mEnmai sollugai kuttramandrO?" 

While emperuman took avathara as krishna to show explicitly his sowlabhyam to 
one and all is it not wrong to point out to his parathvam?

Realising her mistake andal apologizes and says "seeriarulAdhE" Oh! lord please 
don't get angry instead forgive our mistake. On seeing krishna's vishvaroopa 
arjuna apologised for all the mistakes he did considering krishna to be his 
friend. "sowlabhyaththil parimAriya thappugalai parathvam kandavArE porai 
kondAn avan" but here andal does the reverse, "sowlabhyaththai kandu parathva 
bhuddikku kshamai kollugirArgal evargal"

Even today as we enter the foot steps of thirumalai we hear the govinda nAma 
everywhere. But where is the link for govinda nama to thiruvenkatamudaiyan 
(learned bhagavatas can through light on this). Adiyen will present one 
interesting fact. What is the guna showed by thiruvenkatamudaiyan?

"mannOr vinnOr vaippil, pOginra Ezhulagukkum vuyir pAsam vaiththa nigaril 
vAtsalyam mujjvalam" (Acharya Hrudhayam)

What is the definition to the "vAtsalya" guna?

"attra muraikkil adaindhavarpAl ambuyaikOn kuttramunardhu egazhum kolgaiyanO? 
ettrai than kandrinudambin vazhuvandrO kAdhalippadhu andradhanai yeendrugandha 
Aa." (jnana sAram -24)

Does the sripathi: Sriman narayana hate the jeeva who surrenders to him seeing 
all the mistakes he has committed? Doesn't the cow, which is considered as a 
clean animal get rid of all the dirt on its newly born calf's body with love?

So probably thiruvenkatamudaiyan learnt this guna of vatsalyam only from the 
cow and calf and hence the nama govinda is chanted by bhakthas to keep 
reminding him of this great kalyana guna.

Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan



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