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Varadarajan Sourirajan • June 27, 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-9
 

“mattrumOr deivan undE? MadhiyilAmAnidangAl

  uttrapOdandrinEngal oruvarendruvunaramAteer

  attram mEl ondru ariyeer avanallAl deivamillai

  kattrinam mEitha endhai kazhalinai paniminneerE.”

 

 

mattrumOr deivan undE? MadhiyilAmAnidangAl:  Here alwar wants to say that there is no other god than the emperuman himself.  But many people around him say that there are muppaththu mukkodi dEvargal and some say there are only the thrimoorthis.  But alwar poses a question to all of them, wondering if there can be anyother god equivalent to Sriman Narayanan.  In front of the purushOtamam all the others become only strees(ladies).   Sri Parasara bhattar was once telling his shisyas, the sridevi avirbhAva charitram during the amrudha madhanam(churning of milk ocean).  He told the shisyas that when the devAs churned the pArkadal then sri Mahalakshmi appeared from inside and she went and put the garland in her hand to the lord and got a permament place in his chest.  One of his shisyas Nanjeeyer asked bhattar ,”when shyness was a important characteristics of ladies how could the loka mAtha, head of all the women in this world go and sit in the chest of the emperuman in front of so many dEvas?”  Bhattar replied, ”

 

  uttrapOdandrinEngal oruvarendruvunaramAteer:  BhAnAsuran was a great siva bhakthan.  His daughter ushai wanted to marry krishnaÂ’s grandson aniruddhan.  But coming to know of this bhAnAsuran put aniruddan behind the bars.  Then Krishna and his army came to fight.  At that time bhAnAsuran lost all his power and requested sivan to come to his rescue.  Sivan and his army came to fight against the lord but then he knew he cannot win over the lord and hence he fell to his feet and begged to spare the life of bhAnan who was his bhaktha.  So emperuman spared him for the sake of Sivan.  Ravanan was a great siva bhakthan but siva peruman didnÂ’t come to his rescue in the rAma-rAvana war.  In the Mahabharata war also no one could do anything against arjuna because Krishna was shielding him.  Siva peruman told dhuriyOdhana that, even his pAsupadAstram cannot go past Krishna, who was sitting in front of ArjunaÂ’s chariot.  Brahma gave a lot of varans to hiranyakasipu but then he couldnÂ’t do anything against narasimha bha



  attram mEl ondru ariyeer avanallAl deivamillai:  why people do not accept is because there is nothing inside their heads.  They want only worldly pleasures and hence go behind the suddhra devatas which give the simple worldly pleasures.  These people assume that the devatas will torture them if they do not give them the proper offering and hence give bali etc and waste their time.  They never spend their time in reading through our sastras or listening to them.  And hence do not realize the truth.  Ramanyana says “Adianthecha madhyecha hari sarvathra geeyathe”(hari is present in the first, end and the middle). The shruthis and smritis highlight the superiority of bhagavAn.  In Mahabharatha(considered as the 5th vedam) both Vishnu sahasranAmam and BG talk fully of the bhagavath magimai only.  Full of Bhagavatam is only bhagavath-bhAgavatha kathai(stories).  Inspite of all these the people still remain ignorant because they do not have the brains to think and analyse.  They even do not want to accept the Ved

 

  kattrinam mEitha endhai kazhalinai paniminneerE:  Alwar cautiously says the lord is Sri Krishnan.  Because if he says narasimhan people will fear to go near him.  If he says chakravarthi thirumagan then they will say how can we cheap people approach a great king.  So he says the lord is none other than the son of nandagopan who did nothing else than going at the back of the cowherds.  Even today when we see our kids not studying well it is our tendency to say that you are fit for only going at the back of cowherds.  But the emperuman, lord of lords chose to be born in a clan of cowboys.  He came down to attract the people with his beauty.  It is natural for anyone to loose themselves to a beautiful kid.  Even though a flower may be in our enemies garden we do enjoy the fragrance.  Similarly irrespective of whose kid it is we like to talk sweet words to it and play with it.  So emperuman opted to be born as a gopan and enjoy and also steal all our hearts(like he stole butter in each house in gokulam).  So a

 

To be continued

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 



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