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Varadarajan Sourirajan • August 21, 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,

 

In our sampradayam, kainkaryam is very important.  What a Srivaishnava begs from the lord is his kainkaryam.  For that they are ready to sacrifice the divine anubhavams too.  When Sri Parthasarathi comes out for veedhi purappadu there are many who enjoy the divine beauty of the bhagavan but can the SripAda thangees who carry perumal enjoy the same?  But they are the actual bhakyashalees since they give the happiness to the whole crowd of bhakthas without selfishness doing thondu to bhagavan.  Everyone cannot get this bhakyam.  This is possible only if perumal chooses us for that kainkaryam.  Alwar in the following paasuram talks about the kainkaryam bestowed by Sri Rama piran on a small squirrel(Anil Kainkaryam).

 
Paasuram-27
 

“kurangugal malayainooka kuliththu tham purandittOdi

  taranganeer adaikkaluttra salamilA anilam pOllEn

  marangal pOl valiya nenja vanjanEn, nenju thannAl

  aranganArkku AtseiyAdhe aliyeththEn ayarginrEnE.”  

 

kurangugal malayainooka:  Alwar talks about the sEthu bhandhana Vaibhavam here.  Hanuman, angadhan and other big monkeys are bringing big big mountains to build the bridge across the ocean.  Neelan(Amsa of vishvakarma) is the great monkey engineer who is planning the construction of the bridge.  They are in a great hurry to complete the bridge as soon as possible.  Sugreeva who wanted to urge the monkeys to do the job faster told them that the afternoon mandagapadi(thiruvArAdhanam and lunch) for perumal will happen only in the other shore, says Sri PVP in his vyakhyanam.  The sugreeva parivar had so much love for perumal that they can never even imagine to leave perumal hungry.  So they speeded the process as far as possible so that they could reach the other shore in time for the thiruvArAdhanam.  They are carrying big big mountains.  What will they get as salary for this job?  Will perumal pay them in some way?  Oh! They do not expect any sort of payment from perumal.  Just his kataksham is enough for them

 

kuliththu tham purandittOdi taranganeer adaikkaluttra salamilA anilam pOllEn:  There was one small squirrel which was looking at all the enthusiastic monkeys doing rAma kainkaryam.  The squirrel was highly inspired and wanted to get involved in the divine kainkaryam.  But this project is a very big one.  Since the bridge had to be constructed across the sea and the material used were not stones but big mountains.  In every big kainkaryam, there is always a hidden small part to be done which most of us overlook and feel that the kainkaryam is too big for us to get involved.  But this small squirrel wanted to do kainkaryam in some way or the other.  For instance, all our divyadesams have to be taken care regularly.  Instead of collecting people or blaming the temple authorities and others for not maintaining the temples, why canÂ’t we just broom the temple, remove the unwanted bushes grown around and keep the temple clean ourself.  WonÂ’t it be nice if we could put a beautiful kOlam in front of the temple and sa
ud with its small hands.  So it dipped into the water and rolled over the mud and it ran inbetween the mountains and dropped all the mud all over its body.  Probably the squirrel also knew that before doing kainkaryam to bhagavan it has to take a bath and be pure.  The squirrel was both pure at heart and body.  The squirrel knew that large amount of mud was needed to bind two mountains still it didn’t get disheartened.  It wanted to do as much as possible, the maximum it can do.  That is why alwar praises the squirrel to be ‘salamilA anilam’(the squirrel which works without any tiresome).  

Actually the squirrel was doing a highly risky job.  The strong waves of the ocean are unsafe for the small squirrel to dip in and the squirrel may even get stamped by the big monkeys carrying big mountains in a hurry.  There is a high possibility that the monkeys may overlook this small creature and step over it.  The squirrel never gave thought to any of these.  It had pleasure in doing kainkaryam to perumal and hence continued to do  the same without any halt.  

 

Is there any result or palan which the squirrel will obtain by doing this kainkaryam?  Why is it doing it so enthusiastically?  What did Rama piran do about it? Let us see the answers to these questions in the next posting.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



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