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Varadarajan Sourirajan • July 10, 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-12
 

“namanum murkalanum pEsa naragil nindrArgal kEtka

  naragamE suvargamAgum nAmangal udaya nambi

  avanadoor arangamennAdhu ayarththu vEzhthaliya mAndhar

  kavalayul padukindrAr endru adanukkE kavalgindrEnE.”

 

Till now alwar tried to explain the essence of nAma sankeertanam and make people utter the nAmas of bhagavan.  But then he found that the people, who are not ashamed to even talk about their mistakes, are ashamed to utter bhagavan nAma even in a group.  So now alwar says there is a way out for such people also.  Since bhagavan nAma just on listening gives the result.  Sri PVP says, “shravana mAttraththAlE thirunAmam uththAragam endru muthkalO ubhakhyAna mugaththAlE solli”  Alwar in this paasuram explains how just listening the ThirunAmam of bhagavan takes us to his feet with the help of a legend stated in Vishnu dharmam.

 

ThirunAma keertanam is not at all difficult like ashtAngayoga or tapas in the middle of panchAgni.  But still people do not do it since they feel shy.  Can anyone feel shy to say the name of his/her father?  But somehow these ignorant people say they feel shy and never do bhagavat/bhAgavata kainkaryams.  Bhagavan says, “Visrujya lajja yO jeetE man nAmAni nirantharam kula kOdi samAyuktha: labathE mAmakam padham”(Who ever leaves his shyness and utters my nAmA always he and his predecessors attain my feet very soon).  That is why sadhoos who feel sorry for the baddha jeevatma, who never utter bhagavan nAma, go to each street and do ThirunAma sankeertanam so that atleast the bhagavan nAma will be heard by one and all.  Even andal says “hari endra pEr aravam”.  ThirunAma keertanam should always be done loudly so that all can hear and get benefited.  Srivaishnavas never act selfishly.  They work for the welfare of all.

 
MutkalO upakhyanam
 

There was a brahmana called Mutkalan.  He once gave some alms to someone and unknowingly said krishnArpanam.  Due to his innumerous papas after his death the yama dhoodhas took him to narakam.  But on seeing mutkalan, dharma raja(yaman) stood up and welcomed him with great respect and honour.  The yama dhoodhas were totally astonished to see their king do such a thing that too to a maha papi.  Mutkalan was surprised himself.  When they asked yaman why he did such a thing, he replied that mutkalan has done one great punyam inspite of all his papams.  What did he do?, asked the yama dhoodhas.  YamA replied loudlu that he had uttered Krishna nAma once.  At that instant the whole narakA was converted to svargam.  Alwar recollects this story in this paasuram.

 

namanum murkalanum pEsa naragil nindrArgal kEtka:  Naman is yaman or dharma raja.  He and mutkalan was talking and the others in the naraka was listening says the alwar.  The dialogue between the two has been explained in the above paragraph.

 

naragamE suvargamAgum nAmangal udaya nambi:  In this line alwar explains the magimai of bhagavan nAma.  He says emperuman has a nAma which is capable of even converting naraka to svarga lokam.  How is that possible?  Once yama loudly uttered Krishna nAma and said since mutkalan has uttered this nAma once, he has done a great punyam all the others who were hearing this also lost their papams and immediately the naraka was converted to svarkam.  Here alwar doesnÂ’t say that all of them were sent from narakam to svarkam since the nAma has such magimai that it doesnÂ’t even allow anyone to wait to go to svarkam instead it converts the place where he is itself to svaka loka.  Even in this world if we keep uttering the nAma of bhagavan always we enjoy the bliss as in svarka.  A house where all are bhagavatas is a svarga by itself since perumal likes to stay in such houses where always bhagavat bhAgavata kainkaryams are done.  Before the rAma-rAvana uddham lanka was a Asura puri but immediately after the war it was c

 

avanadoor arangamennAdhu ayarththu vEzhthaliya mAndhar:  Alwar feels very bad for those who do not realize that the bhagavan whose nAma magimai is explained above, saying that it can even change naraka to svarka, stays in Srirangam.  People think emperuman is some where in Srivaikundam but do not realize that he has by his great krupai come down for the benefit of all of us and even now is lying in srirangam for even a nastikan to see.  Without knowing this people are falling into never ending miseries.  Alwar wants to pull all these people from the samsaric miseries and show them the path to emperumanÂ’s feet.  Only for this iam singing these paasurams says alwar.

 

kavalayul padukindrAr endru adanukkE kavalgindrEnE:  The people get involved themselves in the lowkikam and are always under some tension.  If they understand that the emperuman who can give them all the happiness is waiting to help them out in srirangam, then they will be saved from these miseries and tensions.  So in this paasuram alwar is trying to impart this knowledge to one and all.

 

PVP’s vyakhyanam:  A person was in his death bed.  Let us make him tell the bhagavan nAma(namo nArAyanA) once so that he will attain good gathi, thought alwar.  So he went to that man and slowly explained that he had come to do good for him.  Alwar told him, you need not say the whole of sahasranAmam or hear me say the Upanishads(Anandavalli) but just say once “namO nArAyana” which is just  8 letters.  The man replied “Am Agil solliparkirEn”(if so I will try telling it) again this is also 8 letters only.  With this the man breathed his last.  Such was his fate he could have uttered namo narayana instead of what he uttered, both where only 8 aksharas but he was not destined to do so.  So whatever hard alwar tries to make us all utter bhagavan nAma we lowkikas find various other ways to not utter the same.

 

We will continue in the next posting.  Till then let us all utter the bhagavan nAma at all times and enjoy the sweetness of the nAma in our mouth and mind and the same spreading throughout the whole body.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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