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AchArya Hrdhayam 127 - sUthram 220 Contd.
Second Ten Contd.

Continuing on the second ten of thiru-voi-mozhi it was noted that the Lord who 
is the cause of all the worlds and souls, blessed AzhwAr with knowledge who 
desired for mOksham and nithya sUri ghOshti. AzhwAr became crestfallen on not 
getting this. The Lord poured His affection on Him which flowed down to 
generations of AzhwAr's sambhandhi-s. However, when the Lord tried to grant 
salvation, AzhwAr rejected on the grounds that it should be for His sake and 
not for the sake of AzhwAr and He always required His divine feet, thus 
underlining the nature of both. Further, It was seen that those qualities which 
go to establish the supremacy -parathvam-namely, sagala pala prathathva, 
kAraNathva, shEsha sAyithva, sriyapathithva and saulabhyAdhigaL were seen in 
the thiru-voi-mozhi-s "thiNNan" and "aNaivadhu aravaNai". Further,


Text: "kaLvA, thErthan enRu vachana prathyakshangaLaik kAtti..."

Summary: Sri azhagia maNavALap perumAL nAyanAr points out one "utterance" and 
one "vision" from shivA and arjunA which go to establish His supremacy.

" ."kaLvA" is the word uttered by shivA towards Lord krishNA.

thiru voi mozhip pAsuram 2-2-10 describes this event:
"kaLvA! emmaiyum, Ezhulagum nin vullEa 
thORRiya iRaiva! enRu veL ERan,
nAnmugan, indhiran, vAnavar, puLLUrdhi kazhal paNindhu
EthuvarE" 

"You deceit! You are the person who has created me and the whole world" with 
this word shiva worshipped Lord krishNA.
What is this episode?

shivA desired a boon from the Lord. He wanted the Lord to take a boon from Him 
so that everybody will believe in his superiority.Lord krishNa went and 
approached shivA and asked for a son for rukminip pirAtti. Oh! Lord, YOu are 
the creator of us and the whole world and if you ask for such a boon who will 
believe this. Deceit-kaLvA.
"thErthan" '

'thErthan ulagalandha sEvadi mEal pUndhAmam, sErthi avaiyE
sivan mudi meAl than kaNdu pArthan thelindhozhindha painthuzhAyAn perumai
pErthum oruvarAl pEsak kidandhadhE" thiru voi mozhi 2-8-6;


arjunA wanted to worship shivA for attaining pAsupadhAsthram. For this purpose, 
Lord krishNA offered His divine feet on which arjuna showered flowers which he 
later saw in the head of shivA. Then, he realised the Lord's supremacy.

The words "thAn kaNdu' is of essence here. It is not hearsay for arjunA. He 
himself had the vision-first hand experience. Should such experience be 
subjected to further analysis?
Edu vyAkyAnam reads as follows: "Apthar sollak kEatkai anRikkEa, sruthi 
smrithigaLAl anRikkEa, thAnE kaNdAn AyiRRu"
arjuna did not realise this fact by hearsay from friends or comprehended the 
supremacy from sruthi or smrithi. He was a witness to the vision for 
understanding the supremacy of the Lord.

(to be continued)
vanamamalai padmanabhan









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