ThiruvAimozhi 7th decad vyAkhyAnam release
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• February 8, 1999
SrimathE NArAyaNAya Namaha Yesterday, 8th February 1999, marked one of the important days in the lives of SrivaishNavites. The occasion is the release of the vyAkhyAnam for the 7th decad of ThiruvAimozhi. It was release on Thai mAsam VisAkha Nakshathiram day. It was a grand function in ThiruvallikkENi Sri PArthasArathy swAmi temple in the evening. Unfortunately, adiyEn could make it only late due to my official committments. The book was released by Sri vELukkuDi KrishNan swAmi in memory of his profound scholar father Sri vELukkuDi VaradhAchAriAr swAmi. The occasion was marked by the presence of eminent scholars like Dr. Sri. M.A.VenkatakrishNan swAmi, Sri. Srivilliputtur KaNNan swAmi, Sri K.B.DEvarAjan swAmi, Sri V.V.RAmAnujam swAmi, Sri StalasayathuraivAr swAmi and 3 other persons whom adiyEn don't know by name and missed their introductions as adiyEn was late for the function. However one amongst them was the author of the "Sri VaishNava Sri" publications. All of the above swAmi's delivered a short note on the importance of buying such books and enriching our spiritual knowledge. A small summary of whatever adiyEn could hear inspite of late attendance is as below. However, adiyEn missed the addressing of Sri vELukkuDi swAmi. Sri VVR swAmi explained the difficulties one had faced in publishing such beautiful works by our AzhwArs and AchAryAs during the earlier days when much lesser infrastructure was available. He also recalled that during the older days, one has to prepare the notes themselves as sung beautifully by Thirumazhisai AzhwAr in NAnmugan ThiruvandhAdhi pAsuram No. 63, " .....therithezhudhi vAsithum kEttum vaNangi vazhipaTTum pUsitthum pOkkinEn pOdhu". But nowadays we don't have to do that hardwork to have such vyAkhyAnams as they are being published by someone and readily available for sale. So we should buy and encourage such publishers for bringing out more and more books on our SrivaishNavism. Sri K.B DEvarAjan swAmi, delivered a very short addressed in which he also said in the same lines as to we should encourage such publishers. He added further saying that even though we may not understand the vyAkhyAnams now, but atleast at a point of time in our life one may develop interest and at that time we should not be stranded for want of the book. As aptly pointed out by BoothathAzhwAr in his IranDAm thiruvandhAdhi, pAsuram No. 15 "...vanathiDarai yEriyAm vaNNam iyaRRum idhuvallAl mAriyAr peygiRppAr maRRu". The actual meaning of this pAsuram is different. It is with reference to the saraNAgati context. As very clearly pointed out by Sri PiLLai LOkAchAryAr in Sri Vachana BhooshaNam, mOksham is granted by Sriman NArAyaNan, only as per his own wish. No other acts of whatever nature is an upAyam for attaining mOksham. Example, is the saraNAgati of Sri BharathAzhwan. Every thing was as per the books when he made saraNAgati, pirATTi was there to do the purushakAram etc., but his saraNAgati went futile. This clearly shows that even though we perform saraNAgati, it is only when He wishes, He will grant us the mOksham. But this raises a question as to why we should perform saraNAgati, if that could also go futile. The answer is the pAsuram referred above. We build lakes for storing rain water. Does it rain just because we have built the lakes. No. If it is not why should we build the lakes. Because without the lakes the rain water will go waste without a storing point. Sriman NArAyaNan's kaDAksham is like the rain. It will pour only when He wishes. So when He is granting us the mOksha, we should be qualified to receive it, which is why we should perform saraNAgati. Likewise, atleast after 20 years or 30 years, when we develop interest in these vyAkhyAnams we should not be stranded for want of the book so we should buy these books now as and when available eventhough we may not have interest now. While Sri VenkatakrishNan swAmi was delivering his address adiyEn had to leave the place to attend my Sandhai, 2nd day (One should not miss the 2nd class for a lesson). However adiyEn will try to gather the happenings of the remaining 20 minutes and try to present it tommorrow. The book was released by Sri vELukkuDi KrishNan swAmi and was received by Sri Raja Bhattar of PArthasArathy swAmi temple. This was released in commemoration of Sri vELukkuDi VaradhAchAriAr swAmi. adiyEn RAmAnuja dAsan Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh Regards T.V.Venkatesh E-mail : TVV@SANMARGROUP.COM Phone: 91-44-4960455 extn. 5218 Fax : 91-44-4960913 Visit : http://www.sanmargroup.com ***** Message Was Scanned For Viruses *****
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