Arul Maa Kadal of Thiru SiRu
Puliyoor Dhivya Desam *******************************************************************
In the previous paasuram ,
Klaiyan sought the Lord's anugraham
so that he will not come
close to any one of the narakams .
In this paasuram , Kaliyan
shares the answer that he recieved
from BhagavAn on how to avoid
those narakams
by observing
an anushtAnam at SiRu PuliyUr
:
Muzhu neelamum malar
aambalaum aravindhamum viravi
kazhuneerodu madavAr avar kaNN vaay mukham malarum
sezhuneer vayal tazhuvum Siru
PulyUr chala sayanam
thozhu
neermai athu udayAr adi thozhuvAr thyur ilarE ---7.9.6
The key words of the Paasuram
are : " SirupuliyUr Thozhum neermai
athu
udayAr adi
thozhuvAr thuyar ilarE " .
(Meaning of the Paasuram
): SirupuliyUr is abundant with ponds ,
where the fully blue Uthpala
pushpam (NeelOthpalam = Kumudham ) ,
blossoming white & red
Aambal (arakkAmbhal) pushpam , red lotus
(SenthAmarai) and
Senkazhuneer flowers bloom . The individual beauty of these
multihued flowers remind one
of the
soundharyam of the individual limbs of
the charming women
: their blue
eyes , face , red lips and white teeth .
Kaliyan points out that
even if the beauty
of the flowers
that you see
at
the paddy fields
and ponds of
SiRu PuliyUr may distract you ,
think of the temptations of
the lovely ladies and the associated sensory
pleasures but escape
from those temptations by taking the cue from " Viraktha
SikhAmaNis " ( Masters of
dispassion from SamsAric Temptations) , who
live at SiRu PuliyUr and
worship the Lord there . Worship the sacred feet of
those Viraktha BhagavathAs
( TadhiyALs ) ,
who perform Kaimakryam to
the Lord of
SiRu PuliyUr
by mind , body and
speech every moment of their lives .
Fall at
the holy feet of
these BhagavathAs and that anushtAnam alone will free You
from all samsAric
temptations
and resulting sorrows . Through the observance
of
this
easy-to-practise anushtAnam , You will escape the residence
in
the different narakams . This
is the method for staying far away from
those fearsome and eternal
narakams : " nandhA narakam naNUhA
vahai " .
Special Notes
:
*******************
Thirumangai points out that
worshipping the Lord of SiRu PuliyUr
is the svabhAvam (
neermai) , the intrinsic nature of these BhagavathAs
of this dhivya dEsam .
Kaliyan salutes them as " SiRu PuliyUr Thozhum
neermai athu udayAr " .
avarkaL antha niyathi , neermai UdayavarkaL .
In this paasuram , Kaliyan
performs upadEsam on one of the two
central doctrine of
Sri
VaishNavam as it applies to SaraNAgathAs :
(1) not to
committ BhAgavathApachAram , which is treated as
an asahyApachAram
by the
Lord and (2) the second asahyApachAram
of anyadEvathA worship
, which will
make saraNAgathy fruitless .
Kaliyan's upadEsam here is
the worship of the Lord's BhAgavathAs.
Bhagavath
bhakthi devoid of Bhagavatha bhakthi is
svaroopa viruddham (Contrary
to one's svaroopam
as a sesha- bhUthan, the
servant of the Lord ) . Therefore ,
it is important to please
those dear to the
Lord so that the Lord
Himself will be pleased .
Kaliyan is
following here the upadEsam of
Swamy
NammAzhwAr
captured
in his "NedumArkkadiamai " and
" Payilum SudaroLi "
Paasurams .
Kaliyan has also his own pathikam of
ten paasurams
( ThirucchERai
Paasurams : Periya Thirumozhi : 7.4 ) ,
which are
known as his "
NedumARkkadimai " Paasurams . Here are
some
excerpts from the
ThirucchERai Paasurams , which bring out
the importance of the
adoration of the BhagavathAs by us :
1 )
ThaNNsERai EmperumAn thALL thozhuvAr KaaNNmin
yenn talai mElArE --- Periya
Thirumozhi ( PT) : 7.4.1
( adiyEn will prove to you that the sacred
feet of those
BhAgavathAs , who
worship the Lord at His cool dhivya
dEsam of
ThirucchERai , will be found on the top of my head ) .
2) EmpermAn thALL thozhuvAr
yeppozhuthum yenn manatthE
irukkinRArE --- PT : 7.4.2 ( Such BhaagavathAs , who worship
Lord
SaaranAthan are always residing in my mind ) .
3) They are greater than
Nithya Sooris and therefore deserve to
be
worshipped ( pOthodu punal thUvum PuNNIyarE ViNNavaril
polihinRArE -- PT 7.4.3)
.
4) adiyEn will never seperate
from these BhAgavathAs , who recite
the
Sahasra Naamams of the Lord of ThirucchERai ( PErALan
pErOthum
periyOrai orukAlum pirihilEnE ---PT: 7.4.4).
5) " yenn IyaaRivium
koNDAnukku AaLAnArkku aaLAm yenn anpu thAnE"
----PT 7.4.7 ( My mind is slave to
those , who recognize that the Lord
of ThirucchERai is the One , who
controls and stills the chEshtais
of the mischief making Cognitive
senses ) .
6) In the 8th Paasuram of
ThirucchERai , Kaliyan states clearly that
those
worshipping the BhagavathAs of the Lord will not be touched
by
Yama
dharman and as a result , these fortunate ones will never see
the inside
of hell ( vemm KooRRam uNNAthu ) ; the ever spreading
sins of
the SamsAric world will not touch those , who worship the
Lord's
BhAgavathAs ( Jn~Anis) .
From what he elaborated about
the BhagavathAs in his ten ThirucchERai
Paasurams , Kaliyan
summarizes that in one line of his SiRu PuliyUr Paasuram :
" SiRu PuliyUr chala sayanam
Thozhum neermai athu udayAr thuyar ilar " .
( Those MahAns ,
whose jeevanam is the worshipping of the Lord of SiRu
PuliyUr have the power
to remove all the samsAra bheehti of people ,
who prostrate before them .
Those MahAns save the people from entering
into various narakams ( "
NandhA nedu narakatthu idai naNuhA vahai "
seyhiRArkaL ) .
Srimath
Azhagiya Singar Thiruvadi ,
Oppiliappan Koil
VaradAchAri Sadagopan
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