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Varadarajan Sourirajan • August 7, 2002 


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-22
 

“pesittrE pEsalalAl perumai ondru vunaralAgAdhu

  AsattrAr tangatkallAl ariyalAvAnumallan

  MAsatttrAr manaththulAnai vanaginAm errupadhallAl

  pEsathAn Avadhundo? PEdhai nenjE! Nee sollAi”

 

pesittrE pEsalalAl perumai ondru vunaralAgAdhu:  The kalyana gunas and magimai of bhagavan are beyond our understanding capacity and they cannot be explained by words.  This is known to alwar since even the Vedas refrain from telling the bhagavat gunam in depth and even the lord Sri parthasarathi in his bhagavat gita says, he himself cannot tell all his vibhoothis.  Then what is alwar trying to do now?  The rishis talked about the bhagavan and said  we are unable to finish, so the alwars followed them and said the same and after them the acharyas followed and repeated the same.  Till today our scholars and acharyas repeatedly talk the same thing time and again.  The cycle thus continues everyone repeats what their elders have said because all of them belong to the same school of thought.  Nammazhvar says, “ponnappan, maniappan, muththappan, than-oppu-ella-appan”.  Nammazhvar first tried to praise the bhagavan with various nAmAs but then he finally concludes saying that there is nothing in this world which ca
erences and misinterpretations.  Since emperuman was the common guru for all the alwars and the acharyas they all talk the same thing without any differences.  That is, “pesittrE pEsalalAl”.  Ok, we now accept that all the alwars and acharyas talk the same thing.  What is their final conclusion?  The conclusion is “perumai ondru vunaralAgAdhu”, the brahma tattvam is beyond our seeing or understanding capacity.  Only anubhavam is possible, understanding is impossible.  This is what all of them say in union.

 

AsattrAr tangatkallAl ariyalAvAnumallan:  In our sampradayam, a person is supposed to be learned only when he realizes that he cannot understand brahma tattvam.  But even this knowledge arises only to those who get themselves involved in bhagavat guna and kainkarya anubhavams.  For others the bhagavan is not understandable.  Understanding is the knowledge that brahman cannot be understood.

 

MAsatttrAr manaththulAnai vanaginAm errupadhallAl:  Emperuman stays in pure minds.  He enjoys his stay in the minds of innocent bhakthas.  We all have great impurity in our minds so the best way for us is to remain under the feet of that bhagavan, who alone has the power to purify our sins and make us clean souls.  Leave everything to him and prostrate before him with vishvAsam.

 

pEsathAn Avadhundo? PEdhai nenjE! Nee sollAi:  Other than falling under his divine feet, what are we going to achieve by just discussing a matter beyond our knowledge? enquires alwar to his own innocent mind.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 



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