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nampILLai

It was seen in the earlier postings swAmi nam-piLLai's commentary was dense 
with explanations on adjectives, real life examples, real life events, multiple 
interpretatilons. 

swAmi used to give precise definitions for general terms :

i. in the context of the pAsuram and
ii. in srevaishnavic context.

In the absence of this, the term is likely to be interpreted in a manner by one 
and all to ones whims and fancies.

A pAsuram in fourth ten will highlight this aspect.

"vEdham vallArgaLaik koNdu vinnOar perumAn thiruppAdham paNindhu" thiru voi 
mozhi 4-6-9; 

The meaning of the line mentioned is ' The Lord be worshipped through those who 
are proficient in vEdhAs'. 

Now a question can be raised? What is proficiency? Does it point to those who 
are great in recitaion of all the vEdhAs?Or does it indicate who are good at 
memorising those important vEdhic portions? Or does it indeed signify those who 
have comprehended the true import of the vEdic menaings? Or does it 

swAmi nam-piLLai does not take a roundabout in this regard. The definiton is 
very simple:
'sarvEswaran prApyamum, prApakamum ' enRa vEdha thAthparyam kaikkoNdavargaLaik 
koNdu'. Those who have comprehended that the Lord is the means and end to 
attain Him. This has been clearly underlined here as the vEdha thAthparyam, by 
swAmi nam-piLLai.

(to be continued)
vanamamalai padmanabhan



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