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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:
 
http://www.acharya.org/vyakyanam/tpezhu
 
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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