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Dear Swamin,
Thank you for sharing the rasamana vyakhyanam for the proverb. Adiyen
was also thinking about the same proverb sometime back and got a
different meaning of it. 
Adi means Sri Ramanujan
Anna means Sri Balaraman
Thambi means Sri Lakshmanan
Though both Sri Balaraman and Sri Lakshmanan are also incarnations of
Adhi Sesha, it was only Sri Ramanuja who showed us the path of Prapatti.
Therefore the Adi (Sri Ramanujan is also called as the Thiruvadi of
Swami Nammazhwar) will definitely help us to get the liberation from
this samsaram.
Thought share with you....
Thanks again,
Adiyen Ramanujadasan Kannan

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Subject: [SriRangaSri] adi udhavum


Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

Many a times it is said while handling persons or individuals, in
particular children, punishment is the best form of motivation. In
management parlance also, it is accepted as 'fear motivation'. Perhaps
it is also added by the management experts, that, this may not always be
successful way of motivation. 

This mode of 'giving punishment' has also lead to coining a proverb "adi
udhavuvadhu pOla aNNan thambi kooda udhava maattaargaL" - meaning "even
brothers may not render help like meting out a punishment.

Many a times, I used to wonder how a punishment will help better than
brothers. After attending a few management sessions, I was convinced
about the genuineness of the proverb. But always there was the other
side, which was irking me on this. Yesterday when I opened a tamil
magazine, there sri kaanchi mahaa periyavaaL had given a new dimension
to this proverb. That made me to share that new direction with you all.
Hence I am sending this mail. 

adi does not mean punishment. 
adi means paadham - feet - kaaladi - the lord krishNa's lotus feet. 

Now you read the proverb again with the new meaning - 
"adi udhavuvadhu pOla aNNan thambi kooda udhava maattaargaL" 
        -       if you surrender to krishNaa's feet, those feet will
save you from all your troubles 
        -       like those lotus feet of krishNa, even you own brothers
will not help. 

That is the real meaning for this proverb. Not the one, we had or meant
or conceived all these days, nor the theory stated above of modern
management.

Just remember krishNa's charama slOkam - "maam Ekam charaNam vraja" -
"maa sucha:". When the surrender is done "yoga kshEmam aham vahaami" - I
will bear all your "yoga and kshEmam". So "adi udhavugiRadhu".    

Now link that to the oft repeated kuRal 
paRRuga paRRaRRaan paRRinai appaRRai
paRRuga paRRu vidaRku 
meaning: Catch hold of the feet of that lord who has no desires, for you
to get relieved of the desires.

here the word paRRu is used as 
1. a noun meaning  paRRu - adi - paadham - feet, 
2. another noun paRRu - aasai - desire 
3. verb paRRu - catch or get a hold on those feet of the lord.

That is what is said in that adi in the proverb. So dear bhakthaas,
Hereafter whenever you use this proverb, think of the proverb in the new
light and not the old stuff, thereby get that eeswara smaraNai always.

 Dhasan

 Vasudevan m.g.





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