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SrimathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

Dearest all,

Today aippasi sathayam is Peyazhwar Thirunakshathram
third of mudhal azhwars. Also consdiered as acharyan of thirumazhisai azhwar. 

Let us enjoy one of his verses and pay our obesiance to azhwar's lotus feet.

nenjAl ninaippu aRiyan yElum nilai peRREn
nenjamE pEsAi ninaikkumkAl --nenjatthup
pErAdhu niRkum perumAnai yen kolO
OrAthu niRpathuNarvu

Oh my dear mind! Even if the Lord is not so easy to be realized in His 
fullest entirety by meditation , please be firm and involve yourself in the 
utterance of His divine names and become blessed. you praise Him 
steadfastly. Why is it that you are distracted to other sensual pleasure and 
material subjects , when the object of your meditation, the Lord Sriya:
Pathi sriman Narayanan is so accessible to you without separation even when you 
think of Him just once ? (ninaikkum kaal nenjatthu pErAthu niRkum 
perumAnai uNarvu OrAthu nirpathu yen kol)

Sri Satakopan Swami adds: [about Mudhal azhwars in one of his wonderful 
postings]

Swami Desikan acknowledges in Srimadh Rahasya Traya Saaram ( 
AchAryakruthyAdhikAram ) the purposeful deed of the Lord in pressing tightly 
the three AzhwArs huddled together in the rEzhi of Mruugandu maharishi's 
aasramam this way :

pAttukkuriya pazhayavar moovarai(p)  pandorukkAl 
    mAttukkaruL taru mAyan malinthu varutthuthalAl 
nAttikkiruL seha nAnmaRai anthi nadai viLanga 
     veetukkidaikkazhikkE veLikkAttum ammeyviLakkE 

( Meaning ) : The Lord of wonderous deeds , who blesses 
His wealth (viz) the chEthanAs,  pressed Himself  tightly once 
upon a time at ThirukkOvalUr  the three of His great bhakthAs ,
who were extraordinarily qualified to sing about Him .

When squeezed tightly by Him in a limited space , there
arose the true lamp of light ( the three ThiruvandhAthis ) ,
which served to banish the darkness of  false knowledge 
and helped to illumine the world with the effulgence of 
the essence of the four vEdAs and revealed the two upAyAs ,
Bhakthi and Prapatthi for our salvation . 

In the next verse , Swami Desikan still has the blessings 
of these AchAryAs in mind and acknowledges their munificient
help this  way :

teruLuRRa senthozhiR selvam peruhi iRanthavar paal 
aruLuRRa sinthainAl AZHIYAA VILAKKU YERRINARE 

(MEANING ) : with a mind full of DayA , they ( the AzhwArs as
AchAryAs )  lit the undimming lamp of sampradAyam with
their vivEkam-filled words to enhance the kaimkarya sampath
of the distinguished disciples of theirs .

Swami Desikan salutes the Lord of ThirukkOvalUr , who elected
the three capable Tamil poets as " mAttukkaruL taru mAyan " .
Here , Swami  recognizes the Lord as Aayan or the herder of 
cows (chEthanAs). He wonders why GopAlan decided to focus
on these three AzhwAr instead of the illustrious sage  MrganDu 
in whose house this drama was played out . 

Swami answers by suggesting that these three AzhwArs 
had not only vEda vEdAnga Vij~na sampath ( eiswaryam ) 
but they also were skilled in distilling the essence of 
the vEdAs (paramArtham )  in chaste and sweet Tamil 
for the easy comprehension of the mumukshus .

The Lord's compression led to their enjoyment of the blessed 
anubhavam of His sowseelyam and sarva Jana RakshaNa 
deekshai and resulted in the advent  of the three thiruvandhAthis 
dealing with the tattva-hitha -purushArthams celebrated 
by the three vEdAs

Swami Desikan suggests that the three andhAthis 
are the elaboration of the three rahasyams . Just as 
the lamp lit in the rEzhi illumines the inside and outside of 
the house , the lamp of true knowledge lit by  the three AzhwArs 
revealed through its jyOthi the meanings hidden in the vEdAs ,
viz., artha prapancham and sabdha prabhancham . 

Elsewhere , Swami Desikan points out that 
the sugar cane that incarnated on the banks of 
peNNai river (artha Brahmam ) got squeezed 
intensely by the three AzhwArs and yielded the sweet sugar 
juice of the three prabhandhams  ( sabdha Brahmam )  and 
became the honey to enhance the sweetness of His lotus feet .
[Thanks to Swami for his permission to share] 
AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
Regards
namo narayana
dAsan


      

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