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Varadarajan Sourirajan • August 27, 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-28(contd)

 

namparamAyadundE?:  Though emperuman considers all jeevatmas to be equal still when there is a problem between his bhaktha and some one else he comes to save his bhaktha.  Sri PVP says, “Ashritha vishayaththil pakshapAthiyAghi rakshikkum avan”.  One doubt may arise here. If he supports one, then how can we consider him to be equal to all?  He is equal.  In Mahabharata he did give the same option of choosing his army on one side or he alone on the other to both arjuna and duriyOdhana.  Is it not equality?  But then his bhaktha (arjuna) always wants emperuman alone and nothing else so emperuman was on his side and saved him from all trouble but duriyOdhana thought that emperuman was less capable than his army and hence wanted only the army.  Such is the case with others. They think there are other modes to save themselves but bhakthas always depend on emperuman and surrender to him and hence he comes running to save them.

 

nAykalOm sirimaiyOrA empirArku AtseiyAdhE enseivAn thOndrinEnE?

 

Sri Rama piran considered both his kula guru vashistar and a tribal king guhan to be equal.  Valmiki says, “purOhitasya Atmasamasya” while talking about vasistar and while telling about guhan says “Ramasya Atmasamasaka”.  We see that perumal doesn’t differentiate by birth, wealth or education.  He sees only the pure devotion in all our minds.  He has done so much for all of us.  Even a dog is grateful to a person who puts a piece of bread to eat and it waves its tail to him.  If the same person puts a piece of bread two or three days then the dog comes and stays in front of his house and does service to him, safeguarding him and his property.  Alwar says how sad we do not have even that gratefulness towards the lord who has bestowed us with so many things.  We have become even lower than a dog in thought.  For all the things given to us by emperuman we all should be in his kainkaryam always.  We should be his servants and enjoy doing kainkaryam to him without any tiresome.  But for this, why have I taken bir

 

Thondaradipodi alwar first talked about the importance of nama sankeertanam and then he condemned all the other madhams and supported the srivaishnava madham.  He then involved himself in talking about the magimai of lord Ranganatha and his divya desam, Srirangam surrounded by kaveri.  Starting from the 25th paasuram he feels for not possessing any sukrutham(good deeds) to enable emperuman to shower his krupai on him.  Alwar says that he doesnÂ’t possess karma, jnana or bhakthi.  Then he says not only that I do not even do any sAmanya kainkaryam like archanam or keertanam.  When perumal asked if he has atleast done any yadrichika kainkaryam then alwar says that he has never done any kainkaryam even like the squirrel.  Then emperuman asked if he had atleast called for him in some danger for which alwar replies that he has never called him like gajendran.  Finally emperuman asks if he atleast as some plus like divya desa vAsam or some bhAgavata relation for which alwar answers in the next paasuram which we will

 

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



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