Search:
Bhakti List Archives

Thirumaalai-32

From the Bhakti List Archives

Varadarajan Sourirajan • July 25, 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-17
“virumbi nindrEththa mAttEn vidhiyilen madhi ondrillai

  irumbhupOl valiya nenjam eraierai vurugum vannam

  surumbhamar sOlai soozhindha arangamAkoyil konda

  karumbhinaikkandu kondu yenkanninai kalikkumArE!”

 

virumbi nindrEththa mAttEn vidhiyilen madhi ondrillai:  Initially, alwar says, I was not at all interested in bhagavat vishayam.  Whenever we want to go for bhagavat vishayam there is always some hindrance.  As we consider many more things more important in our life we have bhagavat vishayam as a last option.  We all think that we can reserve bhagavat vishayam for the later days but cannot forgo the lowkika matters at this time.  Whenever we sit to do thiruvArAdhanam or pooja or some pArAyanam, there is one devil inside us which keeps on telling,Â’isnÂ’t this enough for today? havenÂ’t we done enough? etc etcÂ’.  But such thoughts never appear when we are involved in the lowkika pleasures.  We want more and more without any end.  This is bhagavan mAyai which puts us into this vicious circle of life and death.  We go to the temple to meditate on the god atleast for sometime.  But the pitiable part is that after going there our mind starts wondering here and there and we assume as if the whole world will stop if w

Sri PVP in his vyakhyanam says, “bhagavat vishayaththai pEsavendrAl vAk indriyaththikku sakthi ellai. Vyathiriktha vishayangalai pesavendrAl Adaravum vundai sakthiyum vundAyirukkum”

When it comes to bhagavat vishayam our mouth pains and we feel tired and disinterested.  But when it comes to lowkikam we gain all the strength and interest to do a big lecture.  We don’t mind straining ourselves for lowkika pleasures but in case of bhagavat vishayam even a small hindrance is enough to demoralize us.  As the saying goes, “where there is a will there is a way”.  If we have deep love and bhakthi towards bhagavan we will always find time and energy to do bhagavat kainkaryam and gunAnubhavam.  If not we can find umteem number of reasons not to do the same.  If we are not capable to talk about emperuman or do kainkaryam to him atleast we can listen to those who do the same but we refrain and get away from such people thinking that they are mad and unproductive.  Sri PVP says, “Nee oruvan vundu endru ariyum arivum kooda ellai”  We are all so blindfolded due to the kAmika enjoyment that we do not even have the intellect to realize that there is one supreme bhagavan.

“vunnai ozhiya sakala padharthangaludaiya svaroopa svabhAvangalai ariya kshamanAi errukkum”  Other than the lord we want to understand the qualities of all other objects, living or non living, which exists in this world.  Svaroopam is the inherent quality and svabhAvam is the habit.  We try to analyse so many things in this world and consider ourselves to be very knowledgeable but we hardly think that there is one thing which is beyond our thinking and analyzing capacity.  We do not even know that such a thing exists and we refuse to accept it too.  There are so many people who are so updated that they can say within a second the price of onion to price of diamonds and can give as many data or news up to date.  But when we ask them about bhagavan they say there is no such thing in their dictionary.  What a pity!

 

  irumbhupOl valiya nenjam eraierai vurugum vannam:  Alwar says I used to be one among the above said hard core people.  But then even my hard heart, which is like a piece of hard iron now melts.  What made alwarÂ’s heart melt?

 

surumbhamar sOlai soozhindha arangamAkoyil konda:  My heart melts on seeing the bhagavan who resides in the temple at Srirangam, which is surrounded by number of beautiful gardens filled with number of bees.  The temple atmosphere is so peaceful and pleasant to our minds and the beauty of namperumal residing over there even makes a nastika, hard at heart lose himself.

 

 karumbhinaikkandu kondu yenkanninai kalikkumArE!:  Emperuman is sweet like a sugarcane.  So alwar calls him to be a ‘karumbu’(sugarcane).  But there is a difference between a sugarcane and the emberuman.  We can enjoy the sweetness of a sugarcane only after drinking the juice.  But the sugarcane, by the name namperumal makes us enjoy the sweetness just as we look at it.  That’s why alwar says karumbhinai kandu kondu instead of, after eating he says on seeing, yenkanninai-my eyes kalillumArE-enjoys, experiences the height of ecstacy.  Why does alwar say yen kanninai?  Alwar feels proud that only his eyes are fortunate to have the darshan of emperuman and enjoy and those who have missed this opportunity are unfortunate.  Not only the eyes, the ears which listen to bhagavat gunam are lucky, the mouth which sings his praise are fortunate and each and every part of our body which is involved in bhagavat vishayam are fortunate and they are supposed to get the palan(result) of their creation.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



---------------------------------
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



--------------------------------------------------------------
           - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH -
To Post a message, send it to:   bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com
Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list
Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/
 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/