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AchArya Hrdhayam sUthram 221 Contd.

The Third Ten
It was seen that the prime quality of the Lord highlighted in this ten is 
omni-presence. It was also noted that though He is spread everywhere, He is not 
easily pereceptible due to our limited nature of sensory organs. He is not 
affected by the defects of the souls or insentients where He is present.The 
Lord grants release from cycle of births to those souls who consider Him as 
means and end. The initial grant of physical body was wasted and it distanced 
one from the Lord Almighty. This led to a situation where the soul knew only to 
enter various births but did not understand how to get release. The yearning 
grew for AzhwAr towards the Lord which culminated in the Lord showing Him His 
abode and granting it to AzhwAr. In the previous ten AzhwAr desired the 
brightest mOksham. What is it actually? Service unto the Lord. AzhwAr cherished 
the beauty of the Lord with His divine ornaments. The service mentioned above 
was desired by AzhwAr at all places, at all times and at all states. The Lord 
who is the Lord of the one and all displayed His presence in all states, all 
places which AzhwAr apprecaited greatly. : After having enjoyed the Almighty's 
prsence in everything, AzhwAr became very mirthful which trsnposed into AzhwAr 
appreciating the LOrd through deeds, words, mind and so on. This led to a state 
where AzhwAr subservience did not just stop with the Lord but extended towards 
His devotees. The service not just to Him but to His devotees, the shEshathvam 
not just to Him but to His devotees is the ultimate, which AzhwAr's mind 
culminated into. The Lord Almighty's bed is thiru ananthAzhwAn whose eyes also 
perform the role of ears. Likewise, AzhwAr also desires that these mixed roles 
to enable him to experience the Lord's beauty. AzhwAr wants to perform the role 
of deeds by his mind, role of hand by his mind, role of eyes by his hands, role 
of ears by his eyes thus overshooting the determined roles of the organs. 
AzhwAr is not just creator of poems/psAlms to sing praise of mortals. He is the 
royal poet of the Lord Almighty. The Lord Almighty has created all this world. 
AzhwAr is His poet-padaithAn kavi. : AzhwAr does not have any disappointment 
with regard to the exprience with the Lord Almighty. There is not even an iota 
of displeasure or despair in AzhwAr's mind after experience with the Almighty. 
There is no grief as AzhwAr had approached Him as natural Almighty-vagutha 
shEshi. There is no discomfort beacuase the experience is here in this 
world-lElA vibhUthi. Thus, AzhwAr had reached the level of pinnacle of joy 
equal to joy as experienced by the mukthar-s in that world by AzhwAr in this 
world. All this has been expressed by AzhwAr himself in the thiru-voi-mozhi 
"sanmam pala pala seidhu"--3-10.
This Great LOrd is very easily accessible. The accessiblity is so simple when 
compared to even the saulabhyam mentioned in the 3rd thiru-voi-mozhi of the 
first ten-eLIvarum iyalvinan. The simplicity mentioned there becames as big as 
parathvam when compared to the simplicity as mentined in this thiru-voi-mozhi 
3-6 "seiyya thAmaraik kaNNanAi". The emphasis here is that the Lord is easily 
accessible, very easily accessible and in fact most easily accessible.


Further,

Text: "A. avanAgum saulabya kAshtaiaik kAtti, vazhiayith tharumavan niRka 
izhiyak karudhuvadhu ennAvadhu, vENdiRRu ellAm tharum, thannAgavEa koLLUm, kavi 
solla vammin enRu....B. mukthaiswaryathai munnittu, swavvrithiyai mARRi 
swavruthiyil mUttugiRAR mUnRam pathilEA....."

Summary: A.The Lord thus becomes the easiest accessible one. The form you 
think, He takes that form. He is the one who shows us the path that lead to the 
srEvaikuNtam- archirAdhi mArgam. Despite this fact, the souls are singing 
praise of earthly mortals. He is the one who can grant all that is desired. 
Hence, stop singing ordinary mortals and "come on! sing in praise of the Lord 
which is our natural deed" is AzhwAr's call to the fellow souls.
B. Thus, the experience of the Lord, Reaching Him and getting a state of equity 
with Him -SamyA mOksham- are the real wealth.Therefore, serving others are 
proscribed and naturally serving unto HIm is prescribed by AzhwAr in this Third 
Ten.

pAsuram-s: Do not serve ordinary mortals. Sing in praise of the Lord Almighty 
who is capable of granting all your desires . This is spelt out in detail in 
the thiru-voi-mozhi "sonnAl virOdham idhu" 3-9.

"vazhiaith tharumavan niRka , izhiyak karudhuvadhu"--thiru voi mozhi 3-9-3 ---> 
He is the one who can grant the path of salvation. archirAdhi mArgam. Do not 
try to think of lower things.
"izhiyak karudhi Or mAnidam pAdal ennAvadhu"------thiru voi mozhi 3-9-3 -----> 
Singing in praise of ordinary mortals will lead you to nowhere.
"vENdiRRu ellAm tharum"-------thiru voi mozhi 3-9- 5 -------> He will grant all 
your desires.
"en vaLLal maNi vaNNan thammai kavi solla vammin" --thiru voi mozhi 3-9-5.

(to be continued)
vanamamalai padmanabhan




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