The SrevaishNavite
Physician
The branches of medical sciences have advanced to such an extent, that
the specialisation has been to extreme micro levels. The cardiology, dermatology
apart, expertise has now spread
to more and more
subjects.
Nevertheless, the physician being
specialised in srEvaishNavism and otherwise is indeed not a common
observation neither these days
nor then. No, we are not talking of doctorates in the subject of our philosophy.
We are indeed dwelling on the medical sciences.
Indeed, when svAmi Nam-AzvhAr fainted
owing to separation from EmperumAn, the nearby doctor was summoned to anlayse
the reasons behind the disease and cure her from the ills.
Being, the mundane and earthly physician,
the lady applied her usual means of diagnosing and attributed the
origin of the problem to some
small deities and prescribing medicines apposite to the nature of those
devathAs. "Yes", she declared," the problem appears to be because of the dhEvathAnthram-s and
their appeasement is the uppermost priority and need of the hour" and
started ordering for liquor, and non-vegetarian items and polluted the entire
atmosphere. The environment not only got contaminated because of these
undesirable commodities but the very concept of influence of dhEathAnthram-s. To
imagine, that svAmi Nam-AzvAr had succumbed to such ghastly effects is in
itself, highly irrational,
and over and above, treating
with the dastardly means,is indeed appalling.
That the friends of AzvAr -female thOzhi-s
- declared that this acts of the physicians who cannot think in the
srEvaishNavite angle would do no good but only aggravate the situation and
proscribed these acts and offered EmperumAn's Thirunam as panacea. It is another
matter that this whole subject matter is called 'veRi
vilakku'; in tamil literature.
Thirumangai AzvAr is more fortunate in
this regard. Her strange acts of commissions and omissions have also drawn
attention and the physicians did diagnose. The luckiest part is that they were
able to think in SrEvaishNavite angle and proclaimed forthwith with incisive
precision that the problem lied with EmeprumAn Himself and who other than Him
can rescue parakAla nAyaki from these pangs of separation and the ensuing eerie
acts of suddenly wearing silk robes and indifference to earthly
toys.
Neither, the problems of physical state of
AzvAr emanating from his mental affliction nor that of the acts of Kaliyan
originating from the attachment to EmperumAn are imaginary. These are evidenced
right from their own prabhandham-s.
AzvAr-s problems resulting in
non-SrEvaishNavic doctor implementing absurd means and Thirumangai AzvAr's
doctor being a inclined to think with our angle and soon diagnosing the problem
and taking the logical resoning to the Lord Himself are seen
from
I.ThiruvAimozhi
'thErpArai
yAm-ini' 4-6.
The thOzi declaring ultimately 'kALLum iRaichiyum thUvEan min' and
the eternal medicine 'yEazh piRappukkum sEamam in-nOikkum EDhEa marundhu'
retrieving SaTakOpan from the suffering and
II
Kaliyan's pangs and the immediate
prescription is noted from the Thiru-NedunthANtaka pAsuaram
11
paTTudukkum ayarthirangum pAvai
pEANAL...
and the final line summing up the whole
issue as 'kaDal vaNNar idhu seidhAr kAppAr
AREA?
Not only one needs a
sRevaishNavite association but
also perhaps also a srEvaishNavite doctor.
adiyEan
ramanuja dAsan
vanamamalai
padmnabhan
tailpiece: eruthuk
koDiyAnum brahmanum indhiranum mathum orutharum ip
piRavi ennum nOikkum
marundhaRivArum illai
maruthuvanAi ninRa mA maNi vaNNa maru piRavi
thavira.."
periyAzhvAr Thriumzohi
5-3-6;
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