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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri Vanachala mahA munayE Namaha

 

?mAthA pithA yuvadhayas thanyA vibhoothi:

sarvam yadhEva niyamEna madhanvayAnAm I

Atyasya na: kulapathEr vagulAbhirAmam

Srimath thathangri yugalam pranamAmi moordhnA II? 

 

Today (12th June 2003) is vAikAsi visAkam, the thirunakshatram dhinam of our 
beloved prapannajana koodasthar, ?vEdam thamizh seida mAran?, saTakOpan, 
kurugoor nambi, Sri Nammazhvar. ?vundO vaikAsi visAkaththukku opporunAl vundO 
saTakOparkku opporuvar, vundO thiruvAimozhikku oppu then kurugaikkundO O-r 
parthanil okkumoor? wonders Sri manavAla mAmunigal in his excellent upadesa 
ratinamAlai. What else can be told about the greatness of Sri nammAzhvar, his 
divine work thiruvAimozhi, the day and star on which he was born and of course 
the divine place which gave birth to this born genius? Madurakavi Azhvar, the 
brilliant shisya of nammazhvar adorns azhvar as everything to him and says he 
knows nothing other than azhvar and his sweet paasurams ?dEvu mattrareyEn 
kurugoor nambi pAvin en esai pAdi thirivanE?. The head of our sampradayam is 
nammazhvar and our sampradayam?s keyword is madurakavi bhAvam (Acharya shisya 
lakshanam, panchamOpAyam).  

 

Nammazhvar is considered as the angi (soul) of all the other Azhvars, who are 
considered as his body. Today whatever 4000 paasurams which we have, even 
though they were originally given by various Azhvars, have reached us only 
through nammazhvar who first gave it to nAthamunigal. Just sitting under a 
tamarind tree if a person can do wonders then it is none other than 
the?mayarvaru madhinalam arulappettra? nammAzhvar. He not only changed ordinary 
people and attracted them towards his sampradayam through his paasurams, his 
charm attracted even the various divya dEsa emperumans who came in front of 
azhvar themselves to get azhvar?s mangalAsAsanams. Thirumangai azhvar reserves 
the greatness of going to each and every divya desam and doing mangalAsAsanams 
but nammazhvar never visited any divya desam but instead only the perumals 
visited him to get mangalAsAsanams from the mouth of azhvar. Such an exotic 
azhvar?s greatness cannot be explained by mere words (?vAchAma gOcharam?).

 

Now let us see how Sri Aalavandaar enjoys calling nammazhvar as all sort 
ofrelation to him. The above given stotra is one of the gems from the stotra 
ratnam (5) composed by Sri Aalavandaar.

 

Meaning: Adiyen prostrates to the divine feet of that great azhvar, who has 
been the mother, the father, spouse, kid, huge wealth and everything for all my 
ancestors, always, and that azhvar who is our kulapathi, whose divine feet is 
adorned with a magizhamAlai and filled with srivaishnavasri.

 

Vyakhyanam:

 

mAthA - A mother, She longs for a kid and hence does all sort of vrathas before 
the child develops in the womb, her mind always worries about the same, then 
she holds the baby safely in her womb for 10 months, then she bearsthe pain 
during delivering the child, then she takes atmost care of the child till it 
grows without caring about all the filthy things the kid does, she feeds the 
child in time irrespective of the child crying or not, ultimately only thing 
she wants is the child?s love towards her and wants to be together always. Sri 
Nammazhvar wants to be always in the bhagavata sathsangam of each of one of us 
and hence is like our mother.

 

pithA ? A father, who always works for the upliftment of the child. Whena child 
does a mistake a mother still showers her love but a father scoldsthe child 
inorder to correct his mistakes and make him a better person. Sri nammazhvar 
does hithOpadhEsam (advice) to all of us irrespective of us shutting our ears 
towards him.  

 

Yuvadhya: - After an age, the youngster forgets both his mother and father and 
gets attracted towards his spouse, because of the sweetness and love between 
them. Sri Nammazhvar and his prabhandams are so sweet that we get attracted 
similarly.

 

thanayA: after the spouse gives birth to a child, one is always concentrated on 
the child who relaxes him with his childhood activities, the child who will 
take care of him when he becomes old and sick, the son who will do his last 
rites and hence prevent him from going to the naraka called the ?puthu?. Sri 
nAmmazhvar is like a son to each one of us since he takes care of each one of 
us by showing the path of divinity to us and taking us all to moksha through 
his paasurams.

 

Vibhoothi: Ishwaryam is absolutely necessary for anyone to get involved with 
any of the above. So nammazhvar is our wealth.

 

Sarvam: Not only the above, but azhvar is all sort of bhokyams (enjoyment)to us.

 

yadhEva: such an azhvar, whose divine feet

 

niyamEna: always, being with him always like before and never going away from 
him.

 

madhanvayAnAm: to all the people of my clan (?vidhyaya janmanA vA?)

 

Atyasya: being the pradhamAcharya (foremost teacher) for the vaidhika santhAnam

 

na: kulapathE: like a lady attaining the same gothra of the husband after the 
marriage nammazhvar has become our kulapathi.

 

vagulAbhirAmam: the one who is adorned with the garland of vagula flower 
(magizhampoo). The sweet smell of his thiruvadi mesmerizes us and puts us 
always under his divine feet.

 

Srimath: one who is always filled with srivaishnasri (kainkarya sri). 
?antharikshagadhas sriman? ?sathu nAgavara: sriman? ?lakshmanO 
lakshmisampanna:?. In all the above cases the only wealth, all of them have 
isthe bhagavat kataksham and kainkaryam. Nammazhvar has all the wealth to 
shower on all of us for our upliftment.

 

thadhangriyugalam: we can just say ?that? but can never completely talk about 
the same. ?yugalam? shows the beauty in the togetherness of the divine feet

 

pranamAmi moordhnA: thinking and talking about the greatness of azhvar 
onecannot stop with just saying nama: but will immediately fall into his divine 
feet.

 

Here Sri aalavandaar has considered Sri Nammazhvar as his parama seshi (head) 
and has surrendered to his divine feet. One question, which arises, is:How can 
there be two heads for a prapannan? Here Ishwaran is the prathamaseshi and 
bhagavatas (nammazhvar as the head) are the dvaraseshi, those who lead us 
towards the prathama seshi viz., emperuman. Thereby there is no contradiction 
says vyakhyana chakravarthi Sri Periya AchAn pillai.

 

Adiyen has tried to give the meaning of the stotra according to Sri 
periyavAchAn pillai?s vyakhyanam to stotra ratnam as correctly as possible. 
Adiyen begs the pardon of the bhagavatas for any knowingly or unknowingly 
committed mistakes. Learned bhagavatas may please correct the mistakes so 
thatothers do not get misleaded due to adiyen?s ignorance.

 

?Adiyen ciria jnanaththan? (adiyen is a dull headed person). Adiyen surrenders 
to the divine feet of Sri nAmmazhvar on this divine day for makingeven mandha 
bhuddhis like adiyen to write a few words about the divine soul following the 
footsteps of our acharyas in the great forum of bhagavatas.Let us all join 
hands to sing the praise of the great soul Sri saTakOpan on this day and ever 
and do mangalAsAsanams to the divine feet of emperuman.

 

?saTakOpa munim vandhE satAnAm bhuddhidhooshakam I

agnAnAm jnAnajanakam thintrinee moolasamsrayamII?

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 



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