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Dear All,
 
Pranams!
 
Since Thirumangai Azhjwar's Thirunakshatram is approaching, aDiyEn would like 
to write some intersting aspect that our Acharyas have discussed about this 
Azhwar.
 
 
 
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AtmAvai veyyilil vaithu udalai nizhalil vaithu....

For the souls that are caught in the worldly pleasures of samsara, there is a 
concept of day and night. They keep rotating all through the life span. It is 
not the case for a soul that is caught in the Bhagavat anubhavam. For this 
soul, there is no concept of night at all. One Azhwar sings beautifully as 

?pagal kandEn nArananaikkandEn?

Vedanta say that ?sadhA pashyanti soorayaha?, which means it is always bright 
in the abode of Perumal. Eventually, there is no darkness.

There was a Chola king, who was very similar to ordinary soul. Similar to us, 
he was also immersed worldly pleasure. It is a well known story for all of us 
about this king. In the process of his roberry (popularly known as Thirumangai 
Azhwar Kaimkaryam in our sampradayam) to build the wall of Srirangam temple, 
Perumal and Thayar came in front of him, and eventually by Perumal?s sankalpam, 
Thirumangai mannan became Thirumangai Azhwar due to the Thirumantra upadesam. 
The entire incident happened under the most gifted arasa maram. This is how it 
goes for Azhwar. 

Choza nAttu Arasan became an Azhwar by listening to the arasan of all the 
mantras from vAn Ilavarasu. He immediately realised that he had kept his AtmA 
in veyyil and udal in nizhal earlier, and started singing,

'vAdinEn vAdi....nAdi nAn kandukondEn nArAyanA ennum nAmam'

When Swami Manavalamamunigal visited this place for the first time, He totally 
fell prostrating this place and was full of joy. 

Like how a king became an Azhwar, the tree got the sambandham with Perumal and 
Azhwar.

Other Azhwars were concentrating on paratvam, Vedanta vishayam and all in 
difficult ways to comprehend. In particular PeryAzhwar stood out with pongum 
parivu, followed by Andal with krishna bhakti and Madhurakavigal with Acharya 
bhakti.

All the above are very important concepts in our sampradayam. Our kadaikkutti 
Azhwar stood out among the Azhwar Goshti, in his outpourings on Divya Desams 
(Archai). A prince always takes a spoon of ghee with every in take of food. 
Similarly, our Kaliyan has the speciality for ?adi thOrum archai?, meaning 
finishing with archai Perumal for every pasuram. That is the easiest way for 
all of us. If we are able to think about the fact that great Azhwars, Acharyas 
have stood before those Perumals and sung loads of pasurams with their 
beautiful and hearty words, we could realize how beautiful those Perumals 
should be. Moreover, just because they have done mangalasasanams, Perumal?s 
beauty would have got multiplied than before. 

?piNtiyAr maNtai Enthip piRarmanai thirithan thuNNum, uNtiyAn sApam theerththa 
oruvanoor, ulaka mEththum kaNtiyUr arangkam meyyam kassipEr mallai enRu 
maNtinAr, uyyal allAl maRRaiyArk kuyya lAmE??

More than anything else, unlike Nammazhwar or earlier Azhwars, our Parakalan 
was right in calling himself ?Irunthamizh nool Pulavan?. He was fortunate 
enough to know the works of other Azhwars.

Even Perumal was littel scared of our Kaliyan. We cannot easliy get mantra 
upadesam from Acharyas. Our Parakalan got it from Perumal with a sword.

aDiyEn,

ramanan

 

                
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