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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-35
 

?thAvi andru vulagamellAm thalaivilA konda endhAi!

SeviyEn vunnai allAl sikkana senganmAlE!

AviyE! amudhE! enthanAruyir anaiya endhAi!

pAviyEn vunnai allAl pAviyEn pAviyEnE.? 

 

thAvi andru vulagamellAm thalaivilA konda endhAi!: Alwar now talks about the 
thiruvikramAvataram emperuman did. Emperuman placed his feet on each one of our 
heads due to his apAra kArunyam. He showed to the world that everything belongs 
only to him including each one of us. Still not realizing the truth we fight 
among each other for land and property, saying this is mine that is yours. But 
the emperuman who is the owner of all these things is sitting quite smiling. 
This is like the sons of a father fighting over the father?s wealth. Though 
everything belongs only to the father still the sons fight for their share even 
neglecting the father who becomes a helpless spectator. The unfortunate part is 
people claim even the so called temple property to be theirs today.

 

Aalavandaar in his strotra ratnam says, 

?katha punas sanga rathAnga kalpaga dvajAra vindhangusa vajra lAnchanam 
thrivikrama! Dvath charanAm bhujathvayam madheeya moorththAnam alankarishyathi? 
 

 

Here Alavandaar requests perumal to keep his feet once again on his head. Once 
again implies that there was already one time. When was that? Yes during the 
thrivikramAvataram all of us were present and at that time emperuman placed his 
feet on our heads. But if we have considered it to be our bhakyam at that time 
and cherished emperuman?s feet being placed on our head then we wouldn?t stay 
here now. But then we didn?t realize the same.Now alavandaar says at that time 
you placed only one of your feets on my head now give adiyen the bhakyam of 
having both your feets on my head.

 

SeviyEn vunnai allAl sikkana senganmAlE!: Even if we have to fall under the 
feet of emperuman it occurs only due to bhagavat sankalpam. Alwar saysyou 
wished to make me fall in your feet and hence came in front of me so without 
any hesitation I immediately fall into your feet. And since you aremy sole 
protector who cares about me I will never go to any other sannadhiother than 
yours. Emperuman is always awaiting his devotees to come to him and hence his 
eyes are strained, since we always try to go away from him. So alwar here shows 
the eagerness of emperuman to get us all by referring to him as senganmAl. In 
Ramayana, there is one beautiful place which shows that even the sangam of 
bhagavan is obtained only due to his sankalpam.  

 

Ramalakshmanas came to the mountain were sugreeva was staying. For quite 
sometime both were very close but sugreeva never noticed them but was looking 
at something else in the other direction. Then perumal told lakshmana tolook 
for the king sugreeva who could help them out as told by kabhandan. At that 
instant sugreeva noticed these two men and sent hanuman as dhoothanto enquire 
who they were. So even to notice perumal, bhagavat sankalpam is absolutely 
necessary. So alwar here says, that only because of your nirheduka krupai I 
even fall under your feet oh! My lord.

 

AviyE! amudhE! enthanAruyir anaiya endhAi!: Emperuman is our soul and as long 
as he is inside us we all have no end. Devas wanted to get the amudhu from the 
pArkadal to become chiranjeevees. But our alwars and acharyas feel for perumal, 
who had to undergo all the hardship of taking koormAvataram to hold the 
mountain on his back and also churn the ocean himself for the sake of the 
dEvas. But then this was not a selfless act of emperuman but hedid all these to 
get the ?penamudhu? which came out of the ocean (periya piratti). But here 
alwar says, in our case we are not interested eitherin the amudhu which the 
dEvas wanted or the penamudhu emperuman wanted instead we are all enjoying the 
amudhu which is lying as koormam and also churning the ocean with all vigour 
for the sake of his devotees. Thondaradi podi alwar says emperuman is my life; 
he is my father, who stays always inside me.

 

pAviyEn vunnai allAl pAviyEn pAviyEnE: After we realize that we belong to 
emperuman we should be proud to be his property and never consider us to be low 
because it will degrade the magimai of emperuman. But alwar repeatedly calls 
him as pAviyEn and EzhaiyEn just to show his naichyAnusanthAnam which is one of 
the angAs of saranAgathi(kArpanyam). When we say emperuman pardoned me and 
accepted me it doesn?t give much effect but when we tell all our mistakes and 
say inspite of all these, perumal overlooked my mistakes and accepted me as his 
bhaktha then it surely gives a great effect on the krupai of emperuman. That is 
why alwar insistently says that bhagavan has such kArunyam that he will forgive 
anything and everything and will protect even a lowly person like me. This will 
make others approach emperuman inspite of their innumerable mistakes. 

 

Here alwar?s words can be interpreted in two ways. One way is Oh! Lord in the 
absence of you, adiyen who is a papi would have always remained as agreat 
sinner. But due to your krupai all my sins have been washed away. So Oh! My 
lord it is only your nirheduka krupai, which has removed all my sins. Sri PVP 
interprets this in one another way. The vyakhyAnam goes as follows:

 

?vunnai vozhiya purambhu oruvaraiyum nenjAl ninaiyEn?

 

In tamil we do not have any different lettering for pA and bhA. So we can also 
read this line as ?pAviyEn vunnai allAl pAviyEn bhAviyEnE? meaningI am a great 
sinner but I will never think about anyone else in my minds other than you. 
This shows that alwar was a paramaikanthi who considered emperuman, 
Sriranganatha alone as his sole refuge.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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