Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe ramanujaya
Namaha Srimad Vara Vara MunayE
namaha Sri Vanachala mahA munayE
namaha All of you will be aware of the sudden natural calamity in TamilNadu, Indonesia and other parts of the world. Didn’t all our minds think “Oh! What’s life, everything has been washed out in seconds. “ We earn all our lives to live peacefully in a latter period. But does that latter period really come? Let’s now see what is living according to our beloved nAchiyar. Andal calls the gopis as “vaiyaththu vAzhveergAl” that implies that
there are others in this world who are “thAzhvargal” Even thondaradipodi azhvar
terms those who fall into the divine feet of emperuman by controlling their
senses as “vAzhum sombar” indicating all others who
laze out due to tamasa gunam as “tAzhum sombar”. This is a world of failures. Can one live successfully here? Yes the
Srivaishnavas who live under the shadow of emperuman live peacefully. The vyakhyanam goes as follows, “neruppu sattiyilE tAmarai poo mulaipadE! SAdanAnushtAnam
pannum boomiyilE palanai anubhavikkum bhAkyasAligalE!” Have you ever heard a lotus growing on a
hot plate! This world is filled with only people interested in doing something
to attain something they require, but these gopis (Srivaishnavas) are enjoying
their ultimate goal. They get the
divine bhagavat anubhavam that has to be attained in the moksha mandalam here
itself since they don’t believe in their efforts but have surrendered to the
divine feet of emperuman and believe “narayananE namakkE
parai tharuvAN” They may be illiterate gopis but they very clearly have
the artha panchaka jnanam (para svaroopam, athma svaroopam, upaya svaroopam,
upEya svaroopam and virodhi svaroopam). These gopis according to Sri Andal have
got the greatness, a step higher than the nithya sooris. Since in the nithya mandalam everything
is perfect so the kalyana gunas of emperuman are like light in day but in this
world of darkness the divine qualities of emperuman serve as light in darkness
and hence it is a real credit for the gopis to have got to enjoy the bhagavat
gunAnubhavam in this world. If one
knows about the greatness of this enjoyment he will never opt to go to even
Srivaikundam. That is why azhvars
say, “achchuvai perinum vEndEn” and “kaNdakaNgal maRRondrinai kAnAvE” When chakravarthi
thirumagan called even the grass and bushes in ayodhya to accompany him to
Srivaikundam his close bhaktha, anjaneya refused saying, “bhAvO nAnyatra gachchathi” [my mind doesn’t enjoy even
vaikundanAthan as it has got fixed with SitarAman]. The best birth is to be born in gokulam
that too during krishnAvatara that too as a gopi and to be young like krishna
and enjoy with all the other gopis the divine kalyana gunas of emperuman, feels
Andal. Her father periazhvar
searched for bhagavatas, “vAzhAtpattu nindreer ullErEl” but Andal didn’t have
that difficulty since the whole place was filled only with
“vAzhAtpattavargal”.
Many of you may ask “Was Andal born in
gokulam during krishnAvatara?” No she was born only in Srivilliputtur as the
daughter of periazhvar in kaliyugam.
But she sang thiruppavai in anukAra bhAvam (imagination). She considered Srivilliputtur to be
AypAdi, herself and all her friends to be the gopis who underwent the marghazhi
nombu, the temple of vadaperunkOil udaiyAn to be the house of nandagopar and
vadaperunkoiludaiyAn to be Krishna.
She got so deeply immersed that even her talk reflected the
edaichis. Our acharyas wonder,
“bhAvaprakarshatAlE evalukku edai nadaiyum, edai
mudiyum, edaipEchchum mudai nARRamum
vundAyina” (To be
continued) Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja
dAsee Sumithra
Varadarajan
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