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Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

We saw the thirup paLLI ezhuchchi being sung to my Krishna as 'kaNNa
ezhindhirum piLLaai'. We also saw the meaning of the krithi. Now we will
see how the duplicate mother yasOdhaa, periyaazhvaar - why I call him
duplicate mother is mother yasOdhaa is the first one to do all these
sisrushai to the child - piLLai vaLarppu - caring the child -  till he
grows. Here aazhvaar, since has become another mother like yasOdhaa, he
is a duplicate mother.

[the original mother dhEvaki is not at all considered here - oruththi
maganai piRandhu Or iravil oruththi maganai vaLarndhu - today's
thiruppaavai paasuram - so the vaLarththa mother is more considered -
piRappiththa mother dhEvaki is pushed to corner to do all that dhEvaki
pulambal - of kulasekhara - aalai vaai 7th padhigam of perumaaL
thirumozhi]. 

Let us see the duplicate mother's verse.
aravaNaiyaai, aayar ERE, ammam uNNath thuyil ezhaayE
iravum uNNaadhu uRangi nee pOi inRum uchchi koNdadhaalO
varavum kaaNEn vayiRu asaindhaai vanamulaigaL sOrndhu paaya
thiruvudaiyavaai maduththuth thiLaiththu udhaiththup parugidaayE 
2-2-1 periyaazhvaar thirumozhi.

Meaning as stored in bhakti-list archives given by sri V.Madhavak kaNNan
Swamy of Singapore  - [re Aug archives of 2002] quote --
"Oh Chief of cowherd folks! One who has AdhisEshan as the bed! Wake up
to drink the breast milk. One night has gone and even the noon has come
today. You have not drunk yet. AlO! (romba varuttham) How sad!  I feel
sad and worried as you have not drunk for more than a day. You are also
not coming on your own. The stomach moves (due to hunger) while you
sleep. Due to the milk being full in my breasts, they have sagged due to
weight. Hence, with your divine mouth, drink this abundant milk, kicking
my stomach with your strong feet (strengthened by drinking milk)

The AdhisEshan who is your bed - it appears he is here also; that's why
you never appear to get up. That bed is so comfortable that the Lord
never gets up for eating or drinking. When you came from MathurA he
appeared as umbrella (senRaal kudaiyaam). I suppose he should be the bed
now for you.

Ammum- the drinking milk -is addressed as ammam.. The child also tells
mummum (for food). Also when the baby drinks milk, it looks at ammaa's
face, eyes and talks to her saying.. hmmmm hmmm with a smiling face.
Thus it is called ammam. It is my misfortune that your divinely
beautiful mouth is not joining my breasts. This mouth of yours can drink
any amount of milk - Now you are not all drinking. How sad!
Unquote.

Of course, our point was not ammam uNNal but waking up the child kaNNan
from bed. 

See the address in both cases -
kaNNa ezhundhirum piLLaai - 
aravu aNaiyaai - aayar ERE - thuyil ezhaayE
in both places - mother yasodhaa only wakes up. 

That is known by 'piLLaai' addressing, in first, of OVS, and confirmed
by "iru iru ammaa enRu ennennavO pEchchu" - meaning 'Wait ammaa'. 
In the second, it is more straight and clear 'ammam UNNa'. Who else will
ask the child to wake up for getting fed, that too by breast milk. 

Only reasons for waking up kttik kaNNan are different - OVS gives
several reasons, 
        *       sun has come up, 
        *       moon is going down, 
        *       elder balarama is making fun, 
        *       dad king nandha is waiting, 
        *       butter in the pot is just waiting for you to be consumed
        *       it is your birth star today
        *       sage garga is waiting, 
        *       sage naaradha is waiting etc.

aazhvaar -duplicate mother - says - hey my child you have not taken
breast milk since last night, so may be you are hungry, so the belly is
moving which shows up or inviting the mother to feed, my breast are also
heavy full with milk. 
[The mother only knows when the child is fed and to be fed, since how
long he sleeps without being fed of the breast milk, for she also has
her reactions physically etc]. 

another interesting point is - in OVS krithi, we have a beautiful
description of the lord -
uNNaaramuda mozhiyaanE engaL uLLam koLum neela vizhiyaanE 
thaNNaar suruNDa kuzhalaanE padham thaththikkum thaNdaik-kazhalaanE 

uNNaaramuda mozhiyaanE = uNNa uNNa aaraadha amudha mozhiyaan is kaNNan. 

generally any mazhalai words of a child is sweet - that too, if it is
our own child, it is more sweet - that is why thiruvaLLuvar also says 
kuzhalinidhu yaazhinidhu enbar tham
makkaL mazhalaichchol kELaadhavar -
meaning people will say music from the flute is sweet, veeNa is sweet,
who have not listened to their own child's prattle [which is more
sweet]. 

Aazhvaar has simply put all in three addressing - aravu aNaiyaai, aayar
ErE, thiru udaiya vaai - that paaRkadalil paLLi koLLUm paraman having
snake bed - needs any description for his beauty - all what is required
is said in these two words 'aravu aNaiyaai'. That paraman who has come
as aayan - not a simple common folk aayan - one among many simpletons -
but an ACE, a bull. How is his mouth - thiru udaiya vaai - kuNungu
naaRum vaai - because butter eating and mother's milk. Also having
consumed the mud - a special smell of mud - is also there - such a mouth
is called thiruvudaiya vaai.

In another krithi 'senRu vaa raadhE' by OVS, he says - in particular
about this mouth of kaNNan - 
sonnaalum puriyaadhE unakkuth-thannaalum thOnRaadhE andha
mannanai nambaadhE andha maayan vaakku ellaam maN tinRa vaai thaanE

that maN thinRa vaai is thiruvudaiya vaai. Oh krishNa - what are all the
words with which you are addressed.

This also triggers to the quotation from bhaagavatham - King parikshit
who was listening to the recitation of srimadh bhaagavatham asked the
sukha maharshi - in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.8.46).

nandha: kim akarOdh brahman srEya Evam mahOdhayam
yasOdhaa va maha-bhaga papou yasyah sthanam hari:

"O braahmaNa [meaning sukhar], what pious activities did Nandha Maharaja
perform to receive that Supreme Personality Krsna as his son? And what
pious activities did mother YasOdhaa perform that made the Absolute
Supreme Personality Krsna call her "mother" and suck her breasts?'

perhaps this slOkam only has lead to the three krithis with central
theme 'enna thavam seidhanai yasOdhaa'. [please refer a three part essay
on these 3 krithis in the archives or refer www.karnatik.com website
under articles title] 

For the lord himself says in bhagavath geethaa - Of the pious of men
there are four kinds that are devoted to Me, O Arjuna: the distressed,
the inquisitive, the ones desiring material gain and the ones who know
things as they are as well, o great one of the Bhârata's.

chathur-vidhaa bhajanthE maam janaah sukrthinO'rjuna
aarthO jignaasur arthaarthee jnaanee cha bharatharshabha 

O best among the bhaarathaas, four kinds of pious men begin to render
devotional service into Me -- the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the
inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute. 

So the pair nandha and yasOdhaa should have done a lot things in the
fourth category and that is why having the lord himself as their child.
Now enjoy that krishNa the child thru krithi as well paasuram of
aazhvaar - to at least fall in any of the first two categories. 

Dhaasan

 Vasudevan m.g.







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