Dear BhakthAs
:
The sacred month of Dhanur
Maasam is about to begin
on Wednesday , Dec 15 . It is also a
SravaNa dinam .
Every Dhanur Maasam , adiyEn tries
to reflect on some of
the sacred topics such as TiruppAvai
, ThiruppaLLiyezucchi
or ThiruppallANDu . You may ask why
ThiruppaLLiyezucchi ?
Dhanur Maasa aarambha dinam is
considered by the residents
of Srirangam as ThiruppaLLiyezucchi
AvathAra dinam . Although
Sriman T.C.A. Venakatesan has
covered the avathArikai and
the first Four Paasurams of
ThiruppaLLiyezucchi in an excellent
manner , Six more remains to be
covered and adiyEn
is sure that
he will continue with his
kaiamkaryam during this season . You can
access his excellent write ups ,
which are VyAkhyAna Saarams of
Swamy Nanjeeyar and Swamy
PeriyavAcchAn PiLLai . The URL is:
adiyEn will share with you personal
anubhavams of
the coverage of the ten paasurams of
ThoNDaradippodi
AzhwAr , who blessed us with
Thirumaalai and ThirupaLLiyezucchi
( TPZ) .
adiyEn will also cover the Sanskrit
Commentary of Sri Upanishad
BhAshyakArar on ThiruppallANDu .
SriPeriya ParakAla Swamy ,
Thirukudanthai Desikan and
Thirukudanthai Sri RanganAtha Swamy
have written in the last three
hundred years have written additioanl
commentaries on THIRUPPALLANDU . All
of these have been edited by
SrimAn V.N.Vedanatha Desikan on
behalf of his AchAryan ,
HH Srimath PoundarIkapuram Andavan
Swamy in 2002. Since all
of them
are in MaNi
PravALam or in Sanskrit , my own contribution
would be to summarize the highlights
of these commentaries on
ThiruppallANDu in English for
extended enjoyment .
adiyEn will start with the
ThiruppaLLiyezucchi Paasurams today .
There are specific references that
you would like to have for deeper
study of ThiruppaLLIyezucchi ( TPZ )
. Here they are :
1. The ThirupaLLiyezucchi of Sri
ThoNDaradippodi AzhwAr
by
Dr.V.K.S.N.Raghavan , VisishtAdhvaitha PrachariNi sabha .
2. Sri UtthamUr Swamy's commentary
, Ubhaya VedAntha Grantha maala
series , 1956
.
3. Sri P.B.Annangarachar Swamy 's
commentary ,
DhivyArTa
Dheepikai Series , 1996
4. Sri K.C.Varadachar Swamy's
commentary , Alwars of South
India ,
BharathIya VidhyA Bhavan , 1966.
5. ThiruppaLLiyezucchi and Sri
Venaktesa SuprabhAtham ,
M.K.Rangaswamy Iyengar ,
1996.
6. ThirupaLLiyezucchi and
Thiruppaavai: V.Sadagopan's
writings on
ThiruppAvai from previous years.
6. Taniyan VyAkhyAnams for
ThiruppaLLiyezucchi ,
Sri Vatsya
Ahobilacharya .
Let us reflect for a moment on the
name chosen by this Azhwar
from ThirumanDangudi ( close to
PuLLambhUthangudi dhivya dEsam) :
THONDARADIPPODI
( Anbar ThALL
ThULi : UpadEsa Ratna Maalai: 4) .
BhAgavatha Seshathvam is saluted
here as being superior to Bhagavath
Seshathvam . The three Sanskrit
slOkams quoted usually in this context are :
yEthath samastha paapAnAm
prAyascchittham manishibhi:
nirNitham bhagavadh-bhaktha
paadhOdhaka nishEvaNam
(Meaning) : For
all the sins acumulated by human beings , there is
a sure remedy : partaking of the
BhagavathAs' Sri Paadha Theertham .
yasya murdhni sthitham
yAvath VaishNavAngri-rajas-subham
GangAdhi SarvateerthAni
tavattisthantyasamsayam
(Meaning): There
is no doubt about the auspicious dust from the
sacred
feet of Sri VaishNavAs being
superior to holy waters like GangA et al.
nirapeksham Munim santam nirvairam
samadarsanam
anuvrajaai aham nithyam pUyEya
ithyangrirENubhi:
(Meaning): adiyEn follows always the VaishNavite Sages ( BhagavathAs)
,
who are known for their vairAgyam ,
equipoise and freindship to all ,
so that the dust from their sacred
feet can sanctify me.
KulasEkhara
AzhwAr celebrates the BhakthAngri rENu ( the
dust from
the sacred feet of BhagavathAs) in
his PerumAL Thirumozhi: II.2
" ThoNDardippodiyAda nAmm peRil ,
Gangai neer kudainthAdum
vEtkai yennAvathE " (
What will happen to our desire to immerse
deeply in
Gangaa theerttham , if we had the opportunity to
wear
on our head
, the sacred dust from the feet of the servants of the Lord
?).
Swamy NammazhwAr (
ThiruvAimozhi 4.6.6) celebrates the holiness of
the dust from the feet of the
servants of the Lord and exhorts us to adorn it :
" Maayan Tamaradi neeRu
koNDu aNiya (vENum)"
.
PeriyAzhwAr observes that this
world has great good fortune through
the contact with the dust from the
BhagavathAs , who perform AaarAdhanam
for Lord Narasimhan
:
" Naathanai Narasinghanai
navinREthuvArkaL uzhakkiya padha thULi
paduthalAl ivvulakam
bhAkkiyam seythathE " ...PeriyAzhwAr Thirumozhi: 4.4.6
ThoNDardippodi AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE
SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan KOil
VaradAchAri Sadagopan
P.S: Please do remember to help in
housing the priests
of Lord Ranganatha at the Pomona
temple , well versed in
Ubhaya VedAntham . We have 20
days left to conclude this
kaimakaryam for the BahgavathAs
serving the Lord at HIs
Pomona , NY home .
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