Arul Maa Kadal of Thiru
SiRu Puliyoor Dhivya Desam *******************************************************************
In the previous Paasuram ,
Thirumangai asked us to worship
the holy feet of the
BhagavathAs , who worship Chala Sayana
NaaTan's Thiruvadi , to get
rid of our sorrows and sins .
In this Paasuram , Kaliyan
reveals that the many archAvathArams
taken by the Lord is to
increase the population of BhAgavathAs , who
develop Bhakthi for those
ArchaavathAra Moorthys ; the growth in
the community of
BhAgavathAs is willed by the Lord for our redemption
:
sEyOngu taNN
ThirumAlirumchOlai malai uRayu(m)--
MaayA ! yennakku urayAyai
ithu MaRai nAnkin uLAyO
theeyOmpu kai maRaiyOr Siru
PuliyUr Chala Sayanat--
thAyO Unathu adiyAr
manatthAyO aRiyEnE --( Periya Thirmozhi : 7.9.7)
(Meaning) : Oh Lord who is
enjoying Your residence with the tall hills
and the cool
dhivya desam
of ThirumAlirum Cholai ! Oh Mysterious One !
Please tell me
one thing . Are
You residing inside the four VedAs ?
Or are You residing in
the dhivya dEsam
of SiRu PuliyUr , where the Veda Viths
performing Yaagams
and Yajnams in
VadhikAgni are abundantly present ?
Or are You residing inside
the minds of Your
adiyArs ? I do not know
the correct answer . Please
tell me what is your favorite residence !
Special
Notes:
*********************
Kaliyan starts this Paasuram
with a question to the Lord of ThirumAlirumchOlai,
while he is standing before
SiRu PuliyUr EmperumAn performing MangaLAsAsanam
for latter . It sounds odd
context . ThirumAlirum ChOlai is qualified by Kaliyan with
the VisEshanam ,
"sEyOngu taNN
ThirumAlirum ChOlai malai uRayum Maayan " .
In our sampradhAyam , VyUha,
Vibhava and Archaa Moorthys are recognized as
arising from Para VaasudEva
Moorthy at Sri Vaikuntam . Kaliyan hints that
Para VaasudEvan descended
from Sri Vaikuntam and landed on the tall mountains
of ThirumAlirum ChOlai
nourished by the cool waters of Noopura Gangai . He
is
Maayavan or mysterious one .
His sankalpam will not be transparent to us . He has
descended on the tall
hills of ThirumAlirum ChOlai . The Para VasudEvan
at
ThirumAlirum ChOlai is
located south of SiRu PuliyUr. In the last paasuram
mention was made of narakams
, which are considered in the southern direction
under water . One who
destroys Narakam through His anugraham is known as
NarakAnthakan . Kaliyan
thinks of the Para VaasudEvan at ThirumAlirumchOlai
as
THE NarakAnthakan .
Hence by osmosis of thoughts about narakam , Kaliyan
minds flashes to ThirumAlirum
ChOlai MaayOn . After that experience , Kaliyan
wanted to pin point the Lord
about the other places , which are His
preferred
residences among the three
possibilities :(1) Inside the four Vedams or
(2) dhivya dEsams like Siru
PuliyUr , where
BhAgavathAs skilled in nurturing
VaidheekAgni for the
performance of Yaagams eulogizing SiRu PuliyUr EmperumAn
or (3) the minds of Siru
PuliyUr EmperumAn's adiyArs . Kaliyan concludes
that the Lord
stayed inside all these sites to enter the minds of adiyArs
as
the most relished site by Him
for His residence . Among all the dhivya dEsams
including ThirumAlirum ChOlai
, SiRu PuliyUr is the best because of its
abundance of Vedic scholars
gifted in performing Yaagams and Yaj~nams
to perform the aarAdhanam of
Chala Sayana NaaTan . They become dear to
AruL Maa Kadal EmperumAn
of SiRu PuliyUr . These bhAgavathAs are
blessed by
the Lord of SiRu
PuliyUr to increase in size so that they can be
approached by
all of us as
aasrayaNa purushALs . By worshipping their
holy feet , we gain
BhAgavatha
Seshathvam and become dear to
the Lord of SiRu PuliyUr
and thus reach
sathgathi .
These Vedic Scholars of SiRu
PuliyUr were not only experts in Karma
KaaNDam ( Poorva MeemAmsai )
but were thoroughly conversant with
Jn~Ana KaaNDam ( Utthara
MimAmsai or Brahma MeemAmsai) . They
knew very well that Poorva
and Utthara MeemAmsai together is yEka
Saasthram
( Unitary Saasthram and not
in conflict with each other ) . Poorva MeemAmsai
starts with " aTAthO Dharma
Jign~asaa and the vichAram ends up with
the last soothram
of Brahma
MeemAmsai : " anAvrutthi sabdhAth ,
anAvrutthi SabdhAth "
.
Brahma Jn~Ana sampAdhanam (
acquirement ) was not specifically
mentioned by Sage Jaimini in
his Poorva MeemAmsai although he was
a sishyar of Veda VyAsa , the
author of Uthara MeemAsai or Brahma
MeemAmsai .The AchAryan ,
Sage VyAsa united the two MeemAmsais
in to a continum by including
the third adhyAyam ( Saadhana adhyAyam )
of the Brahma SoothrAs as a
link to Karma VichAram emphasized in
Poorva MeemAmsam . From the
third adhyAyam of Brahma Soothram ,
the evolution is towards the
fourth adhyAyAm of Phala adhyAyam
emphasizing MOksham (
PiRavAmai ) as the Phalan of Brahma VichAram .
Poorva MeemAmsa VichAram
arrives at the conclusion that the KarmAs
described in Poorva MeemAmsa
Saasthram are insignificant (alpam )
and not lasting ( asTiram) .
BruhadhAraNyakam (5.8.10) points out :
" anthavathEvAsya
tath bhavathi " (
the Phalans obtained by KarmAs
described in Poorva MeemAmsai
are persihable ) . MunDaka Upanishad
1.2.7 states : " adhruDA:
Yaj~na roopA : " ( The boats called Yaagams are
feeble boats to take you
across the ocean of SamsAram ) . It is essential
therfore to study Karma
KaaNDam to know about the karmAs yielding
alpa , asTira Phalans . After
that and a s a result of that study ,
Brahma VichAram starts (
Brahma Jig~nAsaa) . Upanishad vaakyams
in support are :
" na punar
MruthyavE tadhEkam pasyathi" ( For gaining
the Phalan of not being born
into samsAric world again , the Jeevan sees
the matchless Parama Purushan
) . ChAndhOgya Upanishad ( 8.16.2) declares :
" na pasyOMruthyum pasyathi "
( The one who
sees Him does not see SamsAram ) . SvEthasvathAram (1.6)
says : "TEna
amruthathvamEthi " ( The Jeevan attains
immortality through
Him ) .
Purusha Sooktham caps all these declarations with
its own
declaration : "
TamEvam VidhvAn amrutha iha Bhavathy "
( One who understands/
comprehends Him
this way attains immortality
in this birth already )
.
Such is the power of the
BhagavathAs of SiRu PuliyUr and aasrayaNam of
their Thiruvadi leads on to
Sathgathy for the aasthika janangaL
.
Srimath
Azhagiya Singar Thiruvadi ,
Oppiliappan Koil
VaradAchAri Sadagopan
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