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Sri:

Dear VedAbhimAnis :
 
This will be the FINAL  part of the series on Thiruviruttham ,
where adiyEn will  highlight the saamyam ( resonances) of this 
Prabhandham with selected Rig Veda mantrams .

Viruttham means VirutthAntham ( happennings) , news , activities .
The Jeevan wants to let the Lord know how it is faring under 
the trauma of SamsAric ills and the sufferings caused by seperation
from its Master . 

Thiruviruttham's First Paasuram Passage
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" ImayOr Talaivaa ! mey ninRu kEttu aruLAi 
  adiyEn seyyum VINNAPPAME ".

(Meaning of the Whole Paasuram):Oh the Lord of all Celestial Beings ! 
adiyOngaLs are long suffering SamsAris under the sway of vipareetha 
Jn~Anam and ajn~Anam . We committ many dushkarmAs . We have impure 
bodies due to anAchAram .We are nithya samsAris stranded in this world and 
feel lost/abandoned . Oh Lord ,who comes to the rescue of one and
all through many means including Your various avathArams !  Please appear
before me , your daasan , in your most splendid dhivya ThirumEni and listen
to adiyEn's viNNappam ( PrArTanA poorvaka Vijn~Apanam , prayerful request ).

This respectful ViNNappam is made to DevAthirAjan ( ImayOr Talaivan) , 
the Lord of Kaanchipuram . At the temple of Hasthigireesan at Kaanchi ,
Swamy NammAzhwAr's archai has folded palms and is seen in the state of
making a Vijn~Apanam to the Lord to cut asunder the ills of SamsAram and 
be granted MokshAnugraham and Nithya Kaimkarya bhAgyam at Sri Vaikuntam .

Swamy NammAzhwAr assumes the role of ParAnkusa Naayaki
and pleads with Her Lord as a Pathivrathai for union with Her Lord 
to enjoy married life with Him as His sahadharmachAriNi.

Parankusa Naayaki invites the attention of Her Lord in great sorrow 
about her state of seperation from Him and asks whether this is just 
( Paasuram 4). She seeks the PurushakAra help of the three consorts of
the Lord ( Sri , BhU and NeeLaa DEvis) to unite her with their Lord ( Paasuram 
3).
These are soulful cries of ParAnkusa Naayaki born out of VislEsham and 
Viraha taapam . She seeks unbroken sambhandham with her Lord .
She does not want to go thru samslEsham and vislEsham again and again .
She despairs over how many aeons she has to wait to recieve Her Lord's
anugraham ( Paasuram 13: Yeervana uzhikaL yenai ? ).

Naayaki despairs  over the approach of the darkness of the rainy season 
and her seperation away from her Lord ( Pasuram 16 , 17 & 18 ). She laments
over his broken promise to return before the rainy season . She sends the 
clouds 
and the swans as her messenger to her Lord on Thirumala to appraise Him 
of her sufferings ( Paasuram 30 , 31 & 32). She longs for contact with sacred 
objects like the TuLasi garland , which has HIs dEha sambhandham to stay alive
until He returns.She complains about her Lord's indifferences ( PirAnAr 
KodumaikaL).
She begs the AchAryAs to place Her at the sacred feet of her Lord since she has
no strength left ( Paasuram 54: Yemm Yeesar ViNNOr PirAnAr maasu-il malar 
adik-keezh yemmai sErvikkum).

The concerned Mother of ParAnkusa Naayaki complains to the Lord 
on behalf of her languishing daughter ( Paasuram 62) and challenges
the Lord about the injustice that He is commiting  :

muRayO aravaNai mEl paLLIkoNDa Mukhil vaNNanE ?  

ViNNappam in Rig Vedam & Thiruviruttham
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The key word in Thiruviruttham is " ViNNappam".  In many Rig Veda mantrams , 
many devathAs are approached with ViNNappam by the Jeevans for
gaining one or other desired wishes and " bhOgams". These dEvathaas
like Agni , Indhran , Sooryan et al have to be approached with the full
Jn~Anam that their indweller (SarvantharyAmi) is their empowerer .  

The 64th Paasuram of Thiruviruttham is key in the context of Rg Veda 
Connection of this dhivya Prabhandham :

IrukkAr MozhiyAl neRiyizhukkAmai ulahaLantha
ThirutthALiNai nilatthEvar vaNanguvar-- yaamum-avaa
orukkaa vinayodum yemmOdum nonthu kaninmayin
karukkaai kadippavar pOl ThirunAmacchol kaRRanamE 

( General Meaning) : On His earth , the DevAs of the earth , 
(the BrAhmaNaas/ nilathEvar ) , worship without blemish the sacred
pair of feet of the Lord , which measured the worlds during Thrivikrama
avathAram . For this purpose , the BrahmanNAs use the sacred Sookthams 
from the ancient Rig Vedam . While it is so , we who are limited by our varNa 
dharmAs 
from reciting Veda Mantrams sorrow over the paapams that caused this 
and choose the route of reciting Thribikraman's glories through Naama 
sankeerthanam 
in Tamil thru this Prabhandham of Thriuviruttham . The Brahmins follow the 
rigprous ,
ancient route of Rig Vedic recitation , dhyAnam , archanam , Yajn~am and gain 
the direct visualization of the Lord . We have the Mahaa bhAgyam of attaining 
the same goal through the learning of the  recitation of His NaamAs 
( Naama sankeerthanam ).   

Rig Vedam is saluted by Swamy NammAzhwAr as "Aar Mozhi" or ParipoorNa
speech ( Niraintha Mozhi). Why so ? It is because of its (Rig Vedam's) eulogy 
of 
the Lord and His Vaibhavams , kalyANa guNams without any admixture of other 
dEvathAs. Thrivikrama avathAram is taken up by the ancient Rig Vedam because 
it deals with the Lord's sacred feet , which was washed by Brahama and that 
flow of
Gangaa PravAham is retained by Siva on His matted locks with reverence .   

Swamy NammAzhwAr refers here to the importance of VarNAsrama dharmams , when 
He instructs us : " Vedam vallaarhaLaik-koNDu ViNNOr PerumAn ThruppAdham 
paNinthu ". He states here that the worship of the Lord of the Celestials is to 
be done 
with the help of the Veda mantrams by the experts skilled in Veda adhyayanam . 
This is
so beause the Lord is inside these JyOthirmaya Sruthis as a resplendent , 
ParamjyOthi:
" Sudar mihu SruthiuL ivai uNda SuraNE " .

There are too many Rig Veda Mantrams to cover , if we make a serious attempt 
to link them with the ViNNappam made by Swamy NammAzhwAr in His Thiruviruttham .
adiyEn will attempt such a study on a future occasion  inview of the 
lengthiness of
the current essay .

Next we will study the Atharva Veda Saamyam of Swamy NammAzhwAr's
Periya ThiruvandhAthi .     

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil  VaradAchari Sadagopan


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