SrI:
SrimathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:
Dearest all,
Today aippasi sathayam is Peyazhwar Thirunakshathram
third of mudhal azhwars. Also consdiered as acharyan of thirumazhisai azhwar.
Let us enjoy one of his verses and pay our obesiance to azhwar's lotus feet.
nenjAl ninaippu aRiyan yElum nilai peRREn
nenjamE pEsAi ninaikkumkAl --nenjatthup
pErAdhu niRkum perumAnai yen kolO
OrAthu niRpathuNarvu
Oh my dear mind! Even if the Lord is not so easy to be realized in His
fullest entirety by meditation , please be firm and involve yourself in the
utterance of His divine names and become blessed. you praise Him
steadfastly. Why is it that you are distracted to other sensual pleasure and
material subjects , when the object of your meditation, the Lord Sriya:
Pathi sriman Narayanan is so accessible to you without separation even when you
think of Him just once ? (ninaikkum kaal nenjatthu pErAthu niRkum
perumAnai uNarvu OrAthu nirpathu yen kol)
Sri Satakopan Swami adds: [about Mudhal azhwars in one of his wonderful
postings]
Swami Desikan acknowledges in Srimadh Rahasya Traya Saaram (
AchAryakruthyAdhikAram ) the purposeful deed of the Lord in pressing tightly
the three AzhwArs huddled together in the rEzhi of Mruugandu maharishi's
aasramam this way :
pAttukkuriya pazhayavar moovarai(p) pandorukkAl
mAttukkaruL taru mAyan malinthu varutthuthalAl
nAttikkiruL seha nAnmaRai anthi nadai viLanga
veetukkidaikkazhikkE veLikkAttum ammeyviLakkE
( Meaning ) : The Lord of wonderous deeds , who blesses
His wealth (viz) the chEthanAs, pressed Himself tightly once
upon a time at ThirukkOvalUr the three of His great bhakthAs ,
who were extraordinarily qualified to sing about Him .
When squeezed tightly by Him in a limited space , there
arose the true lamp of light ( the three ThiruvandhAthis ) ,
which served to banish the darkness of false knowledge
and helped to illumine the world with the effulgence of
the essence of the four vEdAs and revealed the two upAyAs ,
Bhakthi and Prapatthi for our salvation .
In the next verse , Swami Desikan still has the blessings
of these AchAryAs in mind and acknowledges their munificient
help this way :
teruLuRRa senthozhiR selvam peruhi iRanthavar paal
aruLuRRa sinthainAl AZHIYAA VILAKKU YERRINARE
(MEANING ) : with a mind full of DayA , they ( the AzhwArs as
AchAryAs ) lit the undimming lamp of sampradAyam with
their vivEkam-filled words to enhance the kaimkarya sampath
of the distinguished disciples of theirs .
Swami Desikan salutes the Lord of ThirukkOvalUr , who elected
the three capable Tamil poets as " mAttukkaruL taru mAyan " .
Here , Swami recognizes the Lord as Aayan or the herder of
cows (chEthanAs). He wonders why GopAlan decided to focus
on these three AzhwAr instead of the illustrious sage MrganDu
in whose house this drama was played out .
Swami answers by suggesting that these three AzhwArs
had not only vEda vEdAnga Vij~na sampath ( eiswaryam )
but they also were skilled in distilling the essence of
the vEdAs (paramArtham ) in chaste and sweet Tamil
for the easy comprehension of the mumukshus .
The Lord's compression led to their enjoyment of the blessed
anubhavam of His sowseelyam and sarva Jana RakshaNa
deekshai and resulted in the advent of the three thiruvandhAthis
dealing with the tattva-hitha -purushArthams celebrated
by the three vEdAs
Swami Desikan suggests that the three andhAthis
are the elaboration of the three rahasyams . Just as
the lamp lit in the rEzhi illumines the inside and outside of
the house , the lamp of true knowledge lit by the three AzhwArs
revealed through its jyOthi the meanings hidden in the vEdAs ,
viz., artha prapancham and sabdha prabhancham .
Elsewhere , Swami Desikan points out that
the sugar cane that incarnated on the banks of
peNNai river (artha Brahmam ) got squeezed
intensely by the three AzhwArs and yielded the sweet sugar
juice of the three prabhandhams ( sabdha Brahmam ) and
became the honey to enhance the sweetness of His lotus feet .
[Thanks to Swami for his permission to share]
AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
Regards
namo narayana
dAsan
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