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THE IMMACULATE DIVINE POET AND HIS ETERNAL MAGNUM OPUS

Why is Sri Nam-AzhwAr so great? For his great devotion? Immense affection? For 
his dedication or for his steadfastness of considering the EmperumAn as His 
food and water throughout his life?

When we talk of Thirumangai AzhwAr we eulogise him as 'nAlu-kavip perumAL' and 
consume his great poetic prowess. Is ParAnkusa a lesser poet? While Sri 
Nam-AzhwAr used  the great tamil language as a platform for his mission, Sri 
Thirumangai AzhwAr used it as a language. Does that make him a lesser poet?

Coming to think of it, the Thiruvirutham, the ThriuvAsiriyam, The Periya 
ThiruvandhAdhi and The ThriuvAimOzhi are all andhAdhi-s.
Composing andhAdhi for a few songs is the most difficult thing in life and 
these string of divine works speaks volumes of his greatness. 

The next question comes up. He might have composed andhAdhi-s but are the 
contents dense ? The love and affection and the emotions come out as pAsuram-s  
and therefore indeed the contents are packed with love, bakthi, affection and a 
leading path for us. These pAsuram-s talk of the Lord.

Well, the doubting thomases still say 'even vAlmiki has come out with a 
wonderful work called 'srimadh RamAyaNam' talking of Chakravarhtith Thriumagan. 
ParAsara maharishi involved himself in the making of KrshNA's pranks and 
valours'.So what is great? they may question.

The nithya-sUrigaL in the parama-padham are always in the 'service to EmepurmAn 
-The service for EmperumAn'. They do not have any other thinking. The mukhtAs 
are also similar to this state. Hence, these two do not have any thought of 
composing such works.

vAlmiki bhagavAn is attached to Sri RamAvathAram. Sri parAsara vyAsA-s have 
dedicated their poems to krishNAvathAram.
Sanakamuni is for archAvathAram.

Then who is there to compose divine psAlms and hymns of devotion of EmperumAn 
-The EmepurumAn Parathvam -The EmperumAn vyUham- The EmperumAn vibhavam -The 
EmpeurmAn antharyAmi and The EmepurmAn archAVathAram.

It is SwAmy Nam-AzhwAr who has the great power of composing divine songs on the 
EmperumAn Parathvam -vAnak kOne;
The EmepurmAn vibhavam- kudamADi; The EmeprumAn antharyami- eNdisaiyum 
thaviRAdhu ninRAn;

And this is declared by Sri ParAnkusA himself in the ThriuvAiMoshi

'vAnathum vAnathuL vumbarum-maN vuLLum -maNNin kEzh dhAnathum,
eNdhisaiyum thaviRAdhu ninRAn thannai,
kUnaR sangath thadaikkai avanai, kudamADiyai,
vAnak kOnai kavi solla vallEARku ini mARuNDEA" 3-5-9;


Is there any other divine poet at par  with him?

'ini mARuNDEA?


dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan




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