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 THE CRISIS OF 
MELTDOWN 
The melting glaciers of iceland and the 
two opposite poles of our planet, menancingly threat to become into liquid state 
adding to the mass of water to result in imbalance in composition of the earth. 
The global warming, el-nino  and the like factors are said to be the cause 
of this. The human inhabitants fear this and the fear is not unfounded, perhaps 
the reasons are. 
The space mission accompoished by our 
space scientists recently, is hallmark of their achievements. Yes, indeed the 
allusion is towards the space vessel whcih returned to earth safely. The space 
shuttle re-entering earth at an immense speed, gathering momentum in geometric 
proprotions as it pierces the earth's atmosphere has to be deccelerated lest the 
heat melts down the  materials encompassing the satellite, blowing it off 
into bits and pieces, in seconds. 
These apprehensions are not new.Centuries 
ago, the divine apostles indeed feared such meltdown not to the planet but to 
themslves. One may question, why should AzvAr-s who are supposed to be above 
their self, fear such meltdown . As their name takes from the fact that they are 
deeply submerged in the auspicious qualities of EmperumAn, they fear that such 
meltdown should deny them the luxury of experienceing the pleasure of basking in 
the glory of Lord's kalyANa guNangaL.  
On seeing Periya PerumAL reclining on the 
serpant couch, Sri ThoNdaradipodi  AzvAr wondered how the public at large 
were able to withstand such an attack of Mercy flowing from the Lord's beauty. 
'vudal enakk vurugumAlOA! en 
seigEan vulagathErEa' thirumAlai. 
Sri PeriyAzvAr mentions that he consumes 
the Lord which melts dowon his physique. 'vudal vurugi vAi thiRandhu maduthunnai niRaithuk-koNDEan' 
PeriyAzvhwAr thriumozhi 5-4. 
Sri Nam AzvAr appeals to the Lord Himself 
to remove all such crisis of meltdown. "Oh! Lord, Please remove all such 
obstacles which will deprive me of cherishing your 
auspicious qualities' The ThiruvAimozhi 
nUtrandhAdhi pAsuram descirbes this in no uncertain terms. 
'piRandhulagam 
kAthaLikkum  pEAr arut kaNNA vun  siRandha guNathAl vurugm sElath thiram thavirndhu...' ThiruvAimozhi 
nUtrandhAdhi 50; 
The appearance of the Almighty, His 
auspicious attributes meltdown AzvAr-s.  
The Lord, who is source of immortal, 
ceaseless, eternal sweetness, bestows His mercy on those who have no refuge. 
This unabated flow of divine ambrosia, shatters the aplomb of AzvAr-s and makes 
them meltdown.  
The EmperumAn in this case is none other 
than Sri ArA amudhan and the quality is His 'mAdhuryam'.The streaming flow of this attribute is 
described by AzvAr in the first line of thriuvAimozhi dedicated to this 
EmperumAn 
'ArA amudhEa adiyEan vudalam 
nin pAla 
anbAyEa, mERai alaindhu 
karaiya vurukkuginRa nedu mAlEa' 5-8-1 of ThiruvAimozhi; 
Sri Azhagiya maNavALap perumAL nAyanAr 
zeroes in on this particular attribute, peculirar to this 
 
particular EmperumAn and coins this 
as 
'kaLai kAN aTRArai vurukkum mAdhuryam kudamUkkil 
pravahikkum' 164 of AchArya Hrhdyam. 
Sri 
MaNavALa mAmunikal in his commentary explains thus ' Those who have no 
refuge other than Him-kaLaivAi thunbam kaLaiyAdhu 
ozhivAi- are showered with His sweetness -mAdhuryam-ARAvamudhEa and they 
meltdown in this -ArAvamudhEa -nErAi alaindhu karaiya 
vurukkuginRa nedumAlEa.  
The medical counsellors proscribe all 
sweet things especially when one crosses the middle age. This sugar is said to 
meltdowon organs slowly.  
This divine sweetness is 
indeed a welcome one-the mAdhuryam of 
Thirukkudanthai 
The pictures can be seen 
at 
dasan 
vanamamalai padmanabhan 
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