The Thatvathtrayam
As per our philosophy thathvam-s are three i. chith -the sentient ii. achith -non-sentient and
iii. Esvarn -The Supreme.
Our vyAkyAna karthAs- at the most appropriate pAsuram-s bring out this, in the most befitting manner not only to establish that these are the three thathvam-s but also to bring home the point.
Here is one example.
In the penultimate pAsuram of TiruvAimohzi (10-10-10)
'sUzhndhaganRAzhndhUyarndha mudivil perum-pAzhEyOA,( note 1 )
Suzhndhadhanil periya para nan malarch SodhIYOA,(note 2)
Suzhndhadhanil periya SudargnAna inbamEaYOA..' (note 3)
àààààààààààààààààààààààà àààààààà àààààà àààààà! ( note 1 )
àààààààààààà ààààà àà ààà àààààààààààà! (note 2)
àààààààààààà ààààà ààààà àààà àààààààà!(note 3)
AzvAr,while narrating his own experiece narrates that the whole mass of land and other milky,way galaxy which goes down deep and up tall and encompasses around is further encompassed by the
Atman which is further encompassed by EmperumAn.
The prakruthi thathvam engulfs on all the ten directions- eight on the sides, one up and one down.
the Atman is bigger than this.
and The Supreme is bigger than these.
Here the words
Note 1: perum-pAzh-prakruti- is the achith thathvam-non-sentient
Note 2: para nan malarchOdhi is chith -sentient and
Note 3: sudar gnAna inbam is Eswara thathvam- The Suprme.
AzvAr just expressed these subtle terms perum-pAzh, para nan malarch Sodhi and sudar gnAna inbam.
It is Sri NampiLLai who 'considered the lines together' and then goes on to the next line of the pAsuram:
sUzhndhadhanil periya en ava.
àààààààààààà ààààà ààà ààà
The desire of AzvAr for EmperumAn is bigger than the three mentioned above.
Sri NampiLLai clinches the meaning in one sentence. The text of the vyAkyAnam goes as follows
'thathvathrayathaiyum viLAkkolaik koNDu (note 4) avai kuLap paDiyAm padi peridhAna'
'àààààààààààààààà àààààààààààààààààà ààà ààààààààààààààà
àààààààà'
Note 4.: viLakkolai is piercing out due to sheer size.
For example if a dazan bananas is put in a small bag, the bananas will pierce open from different places of the bag, due to sheer size.
'The desire of AzvAr pierces the three thathvams'
Not only Sri NampiLlai summaraises the crux as thus but in this process also brings forth the three thathvams in our SampradhAyam.
svami NampiLLai thiruvadigaLEa charaNam.
(to be continued)
dasan
vanamamalai padmanabhan