SrI: SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah: Dearest all After Nammazhwar anubhavams of Thiruvaymozhi [on Thiruvenkatamudaiyaan], let us take up his other works namely Tiruviruttham and Periya anthAthi. Intro about Tiruviruttham: [from sri satakopan Swami?s write up] It is the first of the four prabhandhams of Swamy NammAzhwAr. It is considered as the essence of Rg Vedam. It has 100 paasurams set in the AndhAthi manner, where the last word of one paasuram becomes the beginning word of the next paasuram. Tiruviruttham of Swamy NammAzhwAr is set in the Viruttham metre and deals with the description/ narration of an important event (VrutthAntham) in AzhwAr's life. This event is the realization of the Divine Lord by AzhwAr. He experiences the union with the Lord and that dhivya anubhavam causes him bliss and the paasurams are the narration of that ultimate ecstasy after disspiriting trials and tribulations. The name Thiruviruttham has been explained as the viruttham of Thiru (ParAnkusa Naayaki).The divine love of SN for the Lord as a woman in a Rg rk sense is being developed as a theme here. The Rg rk is I.164.16: Sthriya: sathIsthAm u meh pumsa aahu: pasyadh akshNvAn na vi chEthadh andha: (Meaning): They , though females , have been called males, so we hear! He who has eyes beholds. That the Supreme Being (Sriman NaarAyaNaa) is the only Male, who can save the souls, which are all females is brought out by this Rg rk. He is the Parama purusha; PurushOtthama. AchAryAs prepare us as brides for the Lord , even if we may be gender wise males. Using this doctrine, SN enters the divine love stage as a woman and surrenders to the Lord as 'her" Naayakan .The paasurams describe the experiences of a love-smitten Naayaki , who through prayer, eulogy and constant rememberance(avicchanna smruthi) of her Lord, overcomes dEhAthma Bramam and climbs through several levels of SaadhanA to conclude the spiritual pilgrimage at the feet of the Lord's (Naayakan's) Thiruvadi to enjoy the ParipUrNa BrahmAnubhavam. 'Tiruviruttam' (Tiru Viruttam) is a poem of a hundred four-lined stanzas. Each stanza is a 'Kattalai Kalitturai', a special type of verse, each line having five feet and all the four lines in the stanza rhyming initially. Viruttam, besides denoting a kind of verse, means a message or an event. It is generally held that the poem is a submission made by Nammalvar to God of an event, the event of his falling in love with Him. Thaniyan on Thiruviruttham [by Kidambhi aachaan] karuviruth thakkuzhi nIththapin kAmak kadunkuzhivIzhndhu, oruviruth thambuk kuzhaluRu vIr!uyi rinporuLkatku, oruviruth thambugu thaamal kurukaiyar kOnuraiththa, thiruviruth thaththO radikaR RirIr_thiru nAttakaththE. Kidambi AacchAn points out that Tiruviruttham was composed by AzhwAr to save the masses of samsAris , who have fallen into the deep pit of inferior births and further have descended into another pit of KaamA and are aimlessly wandering there throughout their lives without hope for any salvation.Swami Nammazhwar through this verse gives a powerful helping hand to lift them out of their miseries experienced in these deep , dark pits so that they can see the light (have Jn~Anam) and enjoy the anantha kalyANa GuNams of Sriman NaarAyaNA and set themselves on the course to gain Moksha Siddhi. AzhwAr performs uplifting Upadesam for these suffering samsAris out of his daya befitting a ParamAchAryan. This poem takes the form of a dramatic sequence in which a few characters figure in what may be called a play on love, the love of God being presented in terms of the earthly love between a man and a woman. It is natural for the human soul to identify itself in this symbolism with the woman who loves and to view God as the all-loving, eternal lover. In a number of stanzas in the poem, Nammalvar's yearning for God expresses itself through a woman's love-tossed heart. Today?s verse on ThiruvEnkatam from this wonderful work is the 8th verse of Tiruviruttham Let us continue to enjoy kaaNkin RanakaLum kEtkin RanakaLum kaaNil,in^n^aaL paaNkunRa naadar payilkin Rana,idhel laamaRindhOm maaNkunRa mEndhidhaN maamalai vEngadath thumbarn^ambum chENkunRam chenRu,poruLpadaip paan_kaRRa thiNNanavE. 8 Essence: The damsel mentions to her friend that her beloved man is planning to leave her to earn some wealth. Oh my dear friend [thozhee]! The chief of hill station- my master- today behaves differently to me. He takes more care of me and it looks obviously explicit and artificial. They don?t appear natural. >From that I infer that he is planning to leave me and go somewhere else for better prospects perhaps. He intends to go for cool, great ThiruvEnkata mountain the residence of Lord KaNNan [who had lifted the huge Govardhana mountain]. He will go there where even Nithyasuris wish to reside and earn material wealth therein. For that only, he has chosen to behave and act funnily today talking some sweet words with [artificial] love and sugar coating.. Inner meaning: Srivaishnava Bhaagawathotthamas attempt to leave AzhwAr and plan to go for ThiruvEnkatam. AzhwAr understands the same based on their talk and hence unable to bear their separation, AzhwAr addresses as above. AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam Regards Namo Narayana dAsan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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