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We saw that satyam refers to the synchronised fashion of working of body and 
mind. Here is an interesting pasuram from ?IrandAm ThiruvandhAdhi? sung by 
BhootathAzhwar,

'pOthaRinthu vaanarangaL pooncunaipukku, aangalarntha pOtharinthu koNdEtthum 
pOthu,uLLam - pOthu maNivENG kadavan malaradikkE sella, aNivENG kadavanpE 
raaynthu'

Even the vaanarakkoottam in Thirumalai wakes up in Brahama Muhurtam and 
performs kaimkaryam to ThiruVenkadamudayAn by manas, vAk and kAyam. Even if a 
vanaarakottam is able to do that kaimkaryam, even our souls should be able to 
do that.

Let us dwell little bit on Jnana pushpam part. Every one of us recites ?uttrOmE 
AvOm unakkE nAm atcheyvOm?.? in sAttrumrai pasuram daily. This again shows that 
we are always there to just do service to Him, and only to Him. In the first 
pasuram of ThiruppAvai, Andal uses the name Narayanan. In the end she says that 
she had called Him with SirupEr initially. Now, she calls Him as ?kurai ondrun 
illAtha Govinda?. Though Andal has not directly referred to any archAvatAram in 
ThiruppAvai, she sang about the greatness of Govinda nAmam.

Let us again go back to the Narayana nAmam and see how Thirumangai Azhwar 
enjoyed ThiruVenkadamudAdyan with this name. Here it is,

pEsuminthirunNaamamettezhutthum sollinNinRu, pinnarum, 
pEsuvaarthammaiyuyyavaangkip piRappaRukkum piraanidam, vaasamaamalarnNaaRuvaar 
pozhilsoozhtharumulagukkellaam, dhEsamaaytthigazhummalai 
thiruvEngkadamadainNeNYchamE



Azhwar asks his nenjam to keep reciting the AshtAkshara ThirunAmam and proceed 
to vaasamaamalar pozhil soozhtharum ThiruVenkadam. 

Kulasekara Azhwar wants to become anything on ThiruVenkadam. In his Perumal 
Thirumozhi, he says,

?EmperumAn pon malaiyil aEthEnum avEnE?

We can keep enjoying ThiruVenkadamudayAn without an end. For us, the 
SriVaishnavaites, everything starts and ends in Azhwars and AchAryAs. 

Let us look at NammAzhwar?s ?Ozhivil?? pathikam again. He clearly says that,

?vEnka dangaLmeym mElvinai muRRavum, thaangaL thangatku nallana vEseyvaar, 
vEnka datthuRai vaarkku namavenna laanga damai,a thusumanN thaarkatkE?

After reaching ThiVenkatadam, we don?t even have to do the kaimkaryams that 
vaanarakoottam do there. All we need to do keep remembering is namaha after 
reaching ThiruVenkadam, which means we are not ours, we are His property. He is 
the one who does everything on us. Thus, we just need to carry nothing but the 
thought that we are His property and we need His 'NirhEtuka Krupai'.

If we could recollect where we started from, we are finishing in the same 
place. Again we have come to,

?sumamanthu mAmalar???

Thus we can see there is no end to anubhavam of ThiruVenkadamudayAn. We are 
caught in the loop that Azhwars and AchAryAs have made for us. This is the 
loop, which will definitely take us to the abode of ?Pirapparukkum pirAn?. Now 
we can get reminded about the vEda vAkyam,

?na ca punarAvartatE na ca punarAvartatE?. We will never come back to this 
cycle of samsara if we are caught in this loop.



?vEnkatAdri samam sthAnam BrahmAndE nAsti kincana, vEnkatEsa samO dEvO na bhUtO 
na bavishyati?

aDiyEn,

ramanan


                        
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