Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha
Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha
Sri Vanachala mahA munayE namaha
Our Sri Ramanuja siddhAntham strongly believes in ?mithuna sEshatvam? (all
jeevatmas are servants to the divine couples). What is the main role of
piratti? She does purushakaram (talks in favour of the poor soul and lessens
the anger of emperuman, thereby overcoming his svathantriyam (independence)
and making him accept the jeevatma into his divine feet.) In the
seventeenth paasuram, andal due to her great thirst to enjoy krishnAnubhavam
directly awoke krishna. But then she realized that in the time of
surrendering it is necessary to fall to the divine feet of piratti first and
with her support then approach the lord. In ayppadi the piratti close to
emperuman was nappinnai (neela devi) and hence in the eighteenth paasuram
?vundu madhakalitran? andal awakens nappinai piratti.
If in paramapadam we have to first fall to the divine feet of all the three
devis, Sri, bhoo and neela. In the vyahAvatara, in ksheerAbhdhi we have to
first surrender to the divine feet of Sri and bhoo devis. In ramavatara,
Sita piratti was the purushakara bhoothai (?aval sannadhiyAlE kAkam
thalipeRRadhu aval ellamaiyAlE ravanan madindhAn? Inspite of the great sin
kAkasuran did due to the grace of Sita devi he lost only his eyes. But
since piratti was not near chakravarthi thirumagan during the Rama-Ravana
yuddham ravana lost his life). In varahAvatara, bhoo devi alone is the
purushakArabhoothai. Whereas in krishnavatara when krishna was in gokulam
nappinai alone was his divine consort.
Krishna cherished to be the son of nandagopan and hence his divine consort
also cherished to be called as the daugher-in-law of nandagopan and hence
andal calls her as ?nandagopalan marumagalE? Nandan was liked by everyone in
gokulam that is why these small gopis take the liberty to call him by name
as if he was their close friend. In gokulam all were bhagavatas there was
absolutely no age or sex differentiation. What they all wanted was
krishnAnubhavam. They will do anything for the sake of their dear krishna.
That is why andal and the gopis go in front of each and every house to
awaken everyone to jointly enjoy krishnAnubhavam.
This very paasuram is very near to the heart of Swamy emperumanar,
ThiruppAvai jeeyer.
(To be continued)
Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam
Adiyen ramanuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan
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