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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-33
 

?MeiyellAm pOga vittu vizhi kuzhalAril pattu

poiyellAm podhindhu konda pOikkanEn vandhu nindrEn

IyanE! AranganE! Vunarul ennum Asai thannAl

PoiyanEn vandhu nindrEn poiyanEn poiyanEnE.?

 

MeiyellAm pOga vittu vizhi kuzhalAril pattu: Alwar in the previous paasurams 
told that he has no good in him to make perumal show his krupai on him. So 
perumal asked if he atleast followed any sAmanya dharmas like sathyam. In this 
paasuram alwar says I do not have any sort of truth in me. When we have dushta 
sangam then all our good qualities vanishes. Similarly I gotattracted by the 
evil effects of lowkikam and got attracted to beautiful ladies and hence lost 
all my good qualities. 

 

poiyellAm podhindhu konda pOikkanEn vandhu nindrEn: I am full of untruth. 
Generally emperuman is like a mirror. If a person is 100% true to him emperuman 
is also 100% true. But if a person is only 50% true then emperuman reflects the 
same. The jeevatmas lack mahavishvAsam in bhagavan and argue that they will 
accept only if they see him but then bhagavan argues that hewill give darshan 
only if they believe him totally. This argument will never come to an end 
without a mediator. Periya piratti and our beloved acharyas act as purushakara 
and make us realize the bhagavan and also make him accept us. If we think he is 
there, then he is fully present. If we thinkotherwise he acts otherwise says 
the Vedas(?asan nEva sa bhavathi asath brahmEthi?). Only way to realize the 
truth is due to satsangam. Since alwar lacked satsangam he says he has lost all 
his good qualities and now heis standing in front of emperuman as a 
personification of falsehood.  

 

?Mei? in tamil refers to sareeram but in actual it is temporary and hence 
false. So alwar says I didn?t think about the soul and hence left it in the sun 
to get burnt but I considered the sareeram which is ?Poi? asthe most important 
and hence did everything to decorate it and take atmostcare of it(?dehaththai 
nizhalilE vaiththu AthmAvai veiyililE ettAr?). So now I come and stand in front 
of you as a collection of all falsehood.  

 

IyanE! AranganE! Vunarul ennum Asai thannAl: ?Iyan? refers to a father. When 
perumal asked alwar with so many untruth and no good qualities why do you come 
and stand in front of me? Alwar says because you are my father. There is one 
saying, ?pettra pAvikku vida pOgAdhu?. How ever bad a son may be can the father 
just ignore him? He still has the affection towards his son. So though I am not 
eligible to get your karunyam still since you are my father I have no other go 
than to come and stand in front of you. Only wish I have Oh! Ranganatha is to 
get your divine grace on me so Iam standing here inspite of all my mistakes.

 

PoiyanEn vandhu nindrEn poiyanEn poiyanEnE: But since I have come to your 
sannadhi and is begging for your grace it doesn?t mean that I have changed 
still I am not true to what I am doing. Emperuman in some way or the other 
wanted to shower his grace on alwar so he said, you may not possess any of the 
good qualities but you have one good thing in you that is to accept your 
mistakes and declare in front of me that you are akinchanyan and you do not 
have any other gathi and hence you have come to surrender to me(ananyagathi 
sharanya). But alwar refutes this also and says, oh my lord I am such a great 
cheat that even you have got cheated. What all I declared till now is not whole 
hearted. I am a cheat and remain to be the same.  

 

In the next paasuram, alwar says more, how he has cheated emperuman. We will 
continue in the next posting.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 



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