SrI: SrImathE Ramanujaya namah: Dearest all, Unto seven verses, it is considered as an introduction to Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi. They were also to extol the greatness of Ramanuja. The following verses of the work are Acharyaâ??s involvement and enjoyment of each AzhwAr and their work. He starts off with the anusanthAnam on mudhalaazhwaars, namely Poigai, bhU and PeyAzhwArs. 8th verse is on Poigai Azhwaar. varuththum puRaviruL maaRRa,em poykaippi raanmaRaiyin kuruththin poruLaiyum chenthamiz thannaiyum kootti onRath thiriththan Reriththa thiruviLak kaiththan thiruvuLLaththE iruththum paraman iraamaa Nnuchanem iRaiyavanE. 8 Without realizing the eternal belongingness/ association of the soul (athmA) to Emperumaan Sriya:Pathi Sriman Narayana, human beings worry unnecessarily about the external material objects lying in the outside world. To remove such a worry from humans, the most merciful PoigaiAzhwAr combined the pure Tamil and the deep vedaanthic meanings to sing the great Tamil pAsurams describing the basic Vedic truth housed in simple Tamil words, "Vaiyam thagaLiyaa" (such that we all can understand) so nicely. Sri Ramanujacharya, who endears of such great work of PoigaiAzhwAr (which is like a lustrous lamp) and thinks of those verses always in his mind, is always my Master- my Lord. The first ThiruvanthAthi of Poigai AzhwAr [out of first three nudred verses of mudhal AzhwArs] is tamil verses interwoven with Vedanthic truth. This is the most wonderful weaving. With this, the jnAna viLakku [lamp of knowledge] gets rid of attachment and dirt of craving for other material objects and desires. This is the ThiruvuLLam of Emperumaanaar about mudhal ThiruvanthAthi is Amudhanaarâ??s view. All three hundreds do have this characteristic. Based on individual verse lines, the meaning needs to be interpreted. A Glance at their marvelous compositions: 1. poigaiAzhwAr composed the first 100 pAsurams "mudhal thiruvandhAdhi" (andhAdhi means the first word of one verse will be last word of the previous verse )starting with the first one: vaiyam thagaliyA, vArkadlE neyyAga/ veyyakkadirOn viLakkAga/ sudarAzhiyAn adikkE soottinEn son mAlai/ Idar neenghugavE enRu/ Meaning: Lord nArAyaNa, who holds the Divine chakrAyudha, is the cause of this wonderful universe and the seas. I am singing these mAlai(Garland) of verses(pAsurams) and dedicating to Him, whose vision I had is the light of the lamp of the earth, and oil being the seas, the sun being the source of the light; 2. BhoodaththAzhwAr composed the second 100 pAsurams "irandAm thiruvandhAdhi" starting with the first one: anbE thagaliyA, ArvamE neyyAga/ inburugu sindhai idu thiriyA/ naNpurugi GnAna chudar viLakku EtrinEn/Gnana thamizh purindha nAn/ meaning: Here, it is the love as the lamp and involvement as the oil and azhwAr says" I dedicate myself to the service of the lord, by singing this song that blesses wisdom(GnAna), with love as the lamp, endearing involvement as the oil(Ghee), and knowledge as the wick of the torch". 3. PEyAzhwAr composed the third 100s called "moonRAm thiruvandhAdhi", with the first one as follows: thirukkaNdEn, ponmEni kaNdEn- thigazhum/arukkan Ani niRamum kaNdEn-seruk kiLaRum/ ponAzhi kaNdEn puri sangham kai kaNdEn/ en Azhi vaNNan pAl inRu/ AzhwAr just says:" I have seen and found the Glorious, GOLDEN hued form of the SrI Visishtan. I have seen the Glory of Sri and nArAyaNa and His beauty and His blue hued ocean colour, His brightness and brilliance like the Sun and His sanghu (Divine Conch) on one hand and chakrA (Discuss) on the other. EmeprumAnAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam Regards Namo Narayana dAsan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/XUWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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