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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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