THE SEVEN PRONGED
APPROACH
The desire and attachment towards
relatives do not yield any positive results, was enunciated in
'Asai vAi
senrA' 4-5 Thirumozhi .
A question may be asked - Ok AzvAr! what
you say may be right. What is your approach?
Generally people have attachment towards
their wife, house, even their farm/gardens, well, lands and so
on.
Their possessiveness towards these become
an obsession. Such attachment deter them from detaching themselves
and attaching themselves to
Him.
Now, if all these attachment transform
into attachment towards EmperumAn, then nothing like it
AzvAr classifies EmperumAn's dvine feet
into 7 groups
Towards each group he attributes
attachment, desire, love and affection which is normally done towards each of
the following
1. ThOttam
-Garden
2. illaval
-Ones Wife
3. A -
Cow
4. Thozhu
-cowshed
5. Odai small
pond
6. thudavai
-lands
7. KiNARu
-Well
The affection which a perosn may have
towards all these,AzvAr is having towars EmperumAn's Divine
Feet
ThOTTAm -illavaL-A- Thozhu
-ODai-Thudavaiyum kiNaRum ivai illam
vATTam inRi vun
ponnadik kEzhEA vaLaippagam vaguthuk KOnDu.5-1-5 of PeriyAzvAr
Thirumozhi.
This is a very unique thought. Imagine- a
perosn would never want to leave his house or never get separated from his wife
or possessvie towards his lands.( This can be read as farmhouse, car,
apartments, laptop, camera and so on in the contemporary
period)
The cow and cowshed are symbiolic of
wealth.
AzvAr has all these attachments towards
EmperumAn. Unimaginable but True
That is PeiryAzvAr for You in
his
The Seven Pronged
Approach
dasan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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