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Varadarajan Sourirajan • August 13, 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-24
 

“vellaneer parandhu pAyum viripozhilarangam thannul

  kalvanAr kidandha vArum kamala nan mugamum kandum

  vullamE! ValiyaipOlum oruvan endru vunaramAttAi

  kallamE kAdal sEidhu vunkallaththE kazhikkindrAyE.”

 

vellaneer parandhu pAyum viripozhilarangam thannul:  Alwar is so deeply immersed in the natural beauty of Srirangam, which gives so much peace to mind that he repeats it often in many of his paasurams.  Here he says, the water of kaveri is very pure and it is flowing with great force and due to this abundance of water the land in that area is very fertile and hence there are number of beautiful flora all around.  Such is the beauty of Srirangam.  Among this beautiful scenario lies the kalvan.

 

kalvanAr kidandha vArum kamala nan mugamum kandum:  Alwar calls periya perumal to be kalvan since he steals all our minds.  Generally thiefs steal in the night when no one sees them.  But beauty of this thief is that hesteals in clear day light and he steals everyone who sees him.  Once if a person sees him then he totally loses his mind and thoughts to emperuman.  Sri PVP says this thief periya perumal steals all who look at him and puts them into his pockets.

“kittinArudaiya Athma vasthuvai apahariththu chatti puraikullE ettu kolvArai pole thOttri errukum”

Our elders sarcastically say, never go near pandaripuram or Srirangam.  Since there is a big thief over there.  What does he steal? He steals our Athma.  Actually the Athma belongs to him only.  But we have taken possession of it and think it to be ours and so when he takes his property we name him to be the thief.  We are the actual thiefs but we refrain from accepting it.  The jitanthe Strotram says jithanthe! To bhagavan, which is the most apt for him alone.  Sri PVP in his vyakhyanam to this strotra gives a good analogy.  There was a race between a mother and a child.  The mother is trying to catch the child but the child keeps on escaping.  But at one point the child gets caught due to the supremacy of the mother.  Similarly the jeevatma and paramAtma are having a race for many janmas.  Till now the jeevatma kept on escaping from the clutches of the paramatma.  But now the final day has come that the jeevatma has lost all his powers and has no other go than to surrender to the lord.  It is not difficult

 

vullamE! ValiyaipOlum oruvan endru vunaramAttAi:  Alwar explained all these to his mind.  Still his mind didnÂ’t accept the supremacy of the bhagavan.  So now he got vexed and says, inspite of me telling you all these and showing you the bhagavan lying down inbetween the two rivers with his smiling face how can you still not believe that he alone is the supreme?  Is my heart so hard that even a little bit of bhakthi will not seep inside?  Again, alwar does possess a huge amount of bhakthi but he feels it not enough and hence says these words.  It is more apt to consider this as a advice to we people who go visit perumal and come back to our own routines without much change or actual bhakthi.

 

kallamE kAdal sEidhu vunkallaththE kazhikkindrAyE:  Alwar is not satisfied with his bhakthi.  He says he is cheating bhagavan and others, saying that he is great bhakthan but actually he is a cheat.  He is acting to have deep love towards the bhagavan.  All these do not suite alwar but aptly suites we samsaris who consider us to be great bhakthas and even if a small problem sprouts out we start cursing bhagavan for it.  In this way we do not have real devotion but act to be great bhakthas.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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