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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

? Mattrondrum vEinda Maname Madhilarangar

Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra

Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi Emperumaanai

Eppozhudum peesu?

 

? Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo yaamuna soonave 

yetkadAkshai kalakshyAnAm sulabha: Sridara: sadaa?

 

Pranams,

 
Paasuram-31
 

?tavaththulAr tammil allEn dhanam padaiththAril allEn

vuvaththaneer pOla enthan vuttravarkku ondrum allEn

tuvarththa sevvAyinArkkE tuvakkara turisanAnEn

avaththamE piravi thandhai arangamAnagarulAnE!?

 

tavaththulAr tammil allEn dhanam padaiththAril allEn : Even the rishis like 
durvyasa got angry quite often and uttered harsh words. But do you have any 
tapas like them? Alwar answers, I have never done any tapas like that.I do not 
have tapas like druvan, or brahmacharyam like bheeshma; or have I done any 
vrattam like rukmangatha or ambareesha; or yagna-yAgas like manu; or do I see 
Brahman everywhere like prahlada. Only due to kOdi janma punyam do we get to do 
such karma yogam and bhakthi which is not so easy. Butsometimes if we have some 
money we may do some kainkaryam or dAna darmam. Sri PVP says, ?artha 
lAbhaththaiyum purushArtha sadhanamAgha solla kadavadhu?. Though artha is not 
the main purushartha it helps us to light a lamp in a temple, renovate a temple 
in poor state, do service to bhagavan and bhagavatas. So alwar here says I do 
not even have that money with whichI can do bhagavat/bhAgavata kainkaryam. 
Thirumangai alwar even went to the extent of stealing the money for the sake of 
kainkaryam. That doesn?t mean we all have to do the same. Only two persons 
thirumangai alwar and bhadrachala ramadass had the courage to build and develop 
temples with othersmoney. They didn?t feel it as a mistake since they 
considered everything in this world to belong to emperuman alone. Here one has 
to remember that bhadrachala ramadass didn?t start constructing the temple at 
bhadrachalam with the muslim?s money he spent what all he had including his 
wife?s jewellery, only after that for the storage he used the tax money which 
had to be sent to the government. Since he felt the money should be 
actuallyused only for the welfare of the public and since the public in that 
area wanted the temple to be renovated he did the same. He did it without the 
permission of the king since he knew that being a muslim king permission for 
renovation of a temple will not be granted. Similarly thirumangai alwar spent 
all what he had and since he needed more he used the Buddha vigraha made of 
gold. He felt that since the Buddhist anyway declare everything to be soonyam 
then why this vigraham that too out of gold(EyaththAl AgadhO! erumbhinAl 
AgAdhO! says alwar). Thirumangai alwar did a good thing of converting the 
avaidhika dhanam to vaidhika dhanam says parasara bhattar. This will give 
punyam to both the owner of the dhanam and thirumangai mannan. Sowe cannot say 
artham or wealth is not totally necessary. But it should bespent in kainkaryams 
to bhagavan and bhagavatas. Whatever we earn we should have a small amount to 
our livelihood(bare minimum) and rest used for kainkaryams. Do we all do that 
today? Alwar says I do not even possess thatmoney to do kainkaryam.

 

vuvaththaneer pOla enthan vuttravarkku ondrum allEn: When splashing salty water 
in our face we feel the pain similarly I hurt the feelings of my relatives 
whenever they think of me. Here alwar considers atma bandhus has hisrelatives 
as he has totally forgotten about his sareera bandhus. Since hehas no good 
deeds and has only bad deeds his atma bandhus feel bad whenever they think of 
him.

 

tuvarththa sevvAyinArkkE tuvakkara turisanAnEn: Alwar did forget his sareera 
bandhus and came to Srirangam leaving his birth place mandangudi but then he 
got trapped in love of deva dEvi, now he says he has even cheated suchladies 
who talk so sweetly but all their words are sugar in a pill. Henceeven they 
don?t like to even see him now.

 

avaththamE piravi thandhai arangamAnagarulAnE: Why did you give me such a lowly 
birth? asks alwar to perumal. Instead of making me a garbha sreeman you have 
created me like this useless for bhagavan and bhagavatas. Is it not cruel for 
alwar to criticize perumal saying ?piravi thandhai? instead of saying ?piravi 
eduththEn? questions Sri PVP in his vyakhyanam and gives the answer himself. 
Emperuman gives birth to the jeevatma according to his previous karmas. He 
gives the jeevan karnakalebarangal and leaves the jeevan to choose either the 
lowkikam or vaidheekam. Whatever the jeevan chooses the paramatma leaves it to 
go in the same way without interveninginto it. Why does the bhagavan remain 
indifferent to what we choose? If he starts stopping us from choosing the wrong 
thing then he has to do it toall, since all jeevatmas are equal to him. In that 
case all the jeevatmaswill do only the good and reach the lord thereby there 
will be no purpose for the creation at all. So he initially gives us an 
independence to choose what we want, the good or bad. For instance, for a tree 
to grow we needa fertile soil and water etc but does this determine what tree 
is going togrow in that place. Can a mango tree grow into a neem tree just 
because we have planted in a particular place? No. Only the seed determines 
what tree it is going to be. Land, water etc are called common factors but seed 
is a specific reason for the tree to grow. Similarly emperuman is a 
commonfactor responsible for the sareeram and our birth but how our life is 
going to be is determined by our karma. Though emperuman is behind everything 
he remains silent and lets our karma take the due course due to his nirangusa 
svathantrayam. So emperuman is reason for everything but we shouldn?t say he is 
the cause for all our bad deeds. Then why is alwar blaming perumal for giving 
him such a birth? Sri PVP answers,

?kinattril vizhundha prajaiyai kandu thAi pEsAmal erundhAl thAi thallinAlenna 
kadavudhirE?

If a kid playing near a well accidentally falls into it and if the mother keeps 
quiet without rescuing it then we can as well say that the mother pushed the 
child to death. If a child fails in his exam and the father questions him why 
he has failed? The child replies, why didn?t you scold me earlier when I was 
playing instead of reading and make me pass. Instead you made more 
sophistication for me to play so you only spoilt me. This the sonsays with the 
right he has with his father similarly alwar talks over here. Is it not your 
duty Oh! Ranganatha to change me and prevent me from going in the wrong path 
since I am your son?

 

Whatever emperuman has told in the sastras to be done is punyam (?Sruthi 
smrithi: mamai Agjna yaha sa vullanga varthathE; Agjna chEbhi mama 
drOhi-Pancharatram) and anything against it is papam. When we do something 
againsthis orders he gets angry which puts us to miseries. If perumal pardons 
usthen he doesn?t get angry and hence we do not suffer. So emperuman becomes 
indirectly responsible for our suffering so alwar says only perumal is 
responsible for his sufferings.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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