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Varadarajan Sourirajan • July 9, 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-11(contd)

 

seruvilE arakkarkOnai settra nam sEvakanAr:  seruvu means war and Ravana was the arakkarkOn(king of asuras).  Though Ravana was an asura king still rAmaÂ’s one single arrow will kill him.  Even that is not necessary.  PerumalÂ’s sankalpam alone is enough to kill ravana.  But it was leela of emperuman to have fought a war with ravana and then killing him.  Emperuman had sympathy even towards ravana.  When vibheeshana came and surrendered to perumal there were so many people in rama sena who objected in accepting his saranagathi.  But emperuman sent sugreeva to fetch vibheeshana and added even if ravana turned up after second thought do get him to my feet.  This stayed in emperumanÂ’s mind till the last.  So he didnÂ’t want to kill ravana in a second but instead he gave him many chances.  On the first day of the war, ravana was abandoned without any weapons.  Perumal didnÂ’t kill him instead he asked him to go today and come the next day thinking that atleast tomorrow ravana will feel for his mistake and beg pardon
tector and also does service to his devotees willingly.

 

maruviya periya kOil madhil thiruvarangamennA:  We may think,  but ramanyanam took place long back in thretha yuga where to find that perumal now?  Alwar immediately answers.  He now stays in srirangam.  In the big temple surrounded by huge walls.  The rishis and Vedas always hided emperuman but the beauty of alwars and their prabhandams is that they clearly showed emperuman and where he can be seen now at this time with our eyes.  Here alwar says madhil thiruvarangam(srirangam with big walls around).  According to historians the big walls of the srirangam temple was built only in the chola, pandiya regimes but looking into the alwar paasurams we find that the walls were there from ancient times.  Probably the kings only renovated the already existing walls.  Even before the alwars, the agamas existed and were pramanas and in the pancharartra agama it is said that the temple has seven prakarAs and rituals prescribed accordingly.  The last day of the brahmotsavam is hence celebrated as sapthAvaranam(seven Ava

 

karuvilE thiruvilAtheer! KAlaththai kazhikkindreerE:  KaruvillE thiruvullavargal are those who are blessed with bhagavat bhakthi and jnanam from the womb of their mother.  Prahladan was such a child who was blessed by  saint naradha when he was in his motherÂ’s womb.  Even today we see kids who from their childhood have attraction towards the lord.  They play with small idols decorating it with flowers and trying to imitate the pooja procedures done in temples and by their elders at home to their small perumal.  They conduct various utsavams to their perumal and that is their mode of play.  We see some children in our families who has satsangam asking their motherÂ’s, if the sweet she was making was for perumal.  The child at the back of the mind is very fond of having the sweet but it very well knows that the mother will give him the sweet only after offering to perumal and hence it waits for the mother to give the sweet rather than grabbing it.  These habits of offering anything to bhagavan before having it 
r(those who do not have the knowledge and bhakthi from childhood).  Alwar pities these people who are just wasting their time without any use.

 

Some people even feel ashamed to say the bhagavan nAma in a crowd.  Alwar says the way out for these people in the next paasuram which we will see in the next posting.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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