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Varadarajan Sourirajan • Sun Jul 07 2002 - 11:53:30 PDT 


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-11
 

“oru villAl Ongu munneeradaiththu vulagangal uyya

  seruvilE arakkarkOnai settra nam sEvakanAr

  maruviya periya kOil madhil thiruvarangamennA

  karuvilE thiruvilAtheer! KAlaththai kazhikkindreerE.”

 

oru villAl Ongu munneeradaiththu vulagangal uyya:  In this paasuram alwar talks about the rAmAvataram of Emperuman.  The word ‘oru’ in tamil can be used in two ways.  It can denote both the meaning of one and only or a thing which has nothing equal to it.  Here alwar says that there is no bow equal to Sri rAma’s bow.  It is equal to only itself.  In Ramayana, Sri rAma kept his kodandam(his special bow) down only once.  That was when he did saranagathi to the samudhra rajan in darpa sayanam.  Now a doubt will arise in all our minds.  We are able to accept srivaishnavas doing saraganathi to emperuman because he is our sole refuge and we are incapable to saving ourselves and all other devatas are incapable of giving us the final purushartha, the moksha.  But why should the emperuman do saranagathi?  In Rama Avatara emperuman stayed like a man.  He didn’t show his divine powers.  That is why the alwars say “manisarukkai padAdhanapattu”.  He suffered so as to lift us up.  When the issue of how to the build the br
who has no experience in doing saranAgathi since he is used to only others doing saranAgathi in his feet lost his patience and called for lakshmana to bring his bow  to dry the ocean(“sApmAnAya sowmithrE!”).  This is not a saranAgatha lakshana since a saranAgathan should never get impatient with the master’s silence.  But emperuman didn’t have the experience to wait for others to accept his saranagathi and hence couldn’t tolerate samudra rajan’s silence.  But then lakshmana knew very well that Sri rAmar was capable of drying the ocean and that it should not occur since it is harmful to the whole world.  Sri PVP clearly says in his Thanisloki vyakhyanam how lakshmana reacted to this situation.  First he got a ordinary bow alone and perumal then ordered him to get his kOdandam and then lakshmana got only the  bow after which emperuman ordered him to get the bow and the arrow.  Seeing perumal’s anger samudra raja came running and surrendered unto the feet of the emperuman.  So alwar here says emperuman for the 

 

In his vyakhyanam Sri PVP explains this in the simple way.  “upAdhyAyan kaiyilE kasai kandu siru prajaigal kAlilE vizhumA pole Thiruvadigal alavum vandhu vellam kOththAr pOl Ayittru”  When a teacher calls a boy with a stick in his hand the boy gets afraid and falls in his feet even before the teacher could beat him.  Similarly when perumal got angry with samudra rajan and got ready to hit him with his bow and arrow samudra rajan came running and surrendered to the feet of emperuman.

 

We will continue the next half of the paasuram in the next posting.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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