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Thaniyan 4, Volume XV - Iramanusa Notrandhadhi-Velukkudi Krishna Swamy's Upanyasan Translation in English

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Narayanan Veeraraghavan • October 17, 2002 


Thaniyan 4:-

Volume XV :-

Volume Title :- Drishtaadhrishta Phalamaagiya
Iraamaanusa Thirunaamam

Last issue we compared the Iraamaanusa Thirunaamam
with the Pranavam. In this issue to continue, we see
if this thirunaamam has all those qualities in the
Gaayathri Manthram. To explain this, let us consider
this phrase in the Gaayathri manthram :-

"Tat savithu: varENyam.."

which says that emeprumaan resides inside that Soorya
Mandalam (Savithu: VarEnyam). The Soorya Mandalam is
shinning with all its splendour in Red color where
emperumaan resides. Due to the Red color of the Sun
emperumaan also appears as red in colour. Similarly
when emperumaan is alone He appears as Neela Megha
Shyaamalan. But when He appears with Piratti who is
glittering with "Hiranya Varnaam", (color of the
deer), He also gets that color due to the association
with Piraatti. Similar "Raamaanujaa" has a thirumeni
which is Red in color as the glowing Sun. 

Therefore Raamaanujaa is also called as "Diwwakaran"
(Sun). 

"Raamaanuja Diwaakara:". Emperumaan sits in Soorya
Mandalam where Sun is red in color. Even here
emperumaanaar's thirumeni is red in color as
emperumaan has come leaving everything in Sri
Vaikuntam and is residing inside emperumaanaar. How ?

Now let us consider the Saatruppaasuram of
Nootrandhaadhi :-

"Iruppidam vaikuntham venkatam, maalirum solai ennum
poruppidam Maayanukkenbar nallor, avai thannodum
vandhu iruppidam Maayan iraamaanusan manathu, inru
avan vandhu iruppidam endhan idhayathulle
thanakinburave."

Meaning :-

Great people or Mahaanubhaavaas say that Vaikuntam,
Thiruvenkatam, Thirumaalirum Solai are all the Divya
Desams where emperumaan resides. But with all these
thirumenis emperumaan resides in the heart of
emperumaanaar who has now filled adiyen's heart for
His
happiness.

Why emperumaanaar's thirumeni is red in color? This is
due to two reasons. Emperumaan resides in Soorya
Mandalam and hence emperumaan also appears as red in
color. Now emperumaan is also in emperumaanaar's heart
along with Soorya Mandalam as He vacated all the divya
desams and came to reside in the heart of
emperumaanaar. Thus emperumaanaar's thirumeni is also
red in color. Another reason is, when emperumaan is
alone He is Neela Megha shyaamalan. But when thaayaar
is along with Him, He takes the color of Thaayar.
Moreover thaayaar is in the vakshasthalam of
emeprumaan and hence when emperuman came to reside in
the heart of emperumaanaar His thirumeni became red in
color.

Thus the qualities given to the Gaayathri Manthram is
also applicable to emperumaanaar here. The only
difference between that Diwaakran and this Raamaanuja
Diwaakaran is that the Sun removes external darkness
but emperumaanaar removes internal darkness which
is the Angyaanam within ourselves to realise
emperumaan.

Moreover Gaayathri Manthram is the essence of the
Vedaas. Essence of Gaayathri is Pranavam. The
Ashtaakshram has Pranavam in it and ends with Nama:
which means "surrender". If we consider the entire
meaning of the Ashtaaksharam it also gives the
"Adiyaarkku Adiyaan" (Thadeeya Seshathvam) as a
meaning. Hence emperumaanar is a daasan to emperumaan.
Hence we should consider ourselves as Daasan to
emperumaanaar who is a Daasan to emperumaan and also
to Bhaagvathaas.

Emeprumaan himself says that He shows enormous
kaarunyam to those who respects His Bhakthaa's
Bhakthaas. Hence if we all chant Raamaanuja
Thirunaamam, emperumaan Himself becomes very happy and
showers His enormous kaarunyam on us.

Swami Nampillai in his eedu says that there are cases
that certain thirunaamams can give us immense pleasure
only if certain people say that. That does not mean
that other should not say those thirunaamams. It
depends onhow it is being said. Some of us may like
emperuman as Krishnan, Raaman or Aaraavamudhan or
Varadhan. If a person who likes varadhan says the
thirunaamam "Aaaraavamudhan" then it will not be so
appropriate. Similarly if some other aazhwaar other
than Thirumazhisai piraan says Aaraavamudhe it will
not so appropriate.

Similarly here, another reason of using the
"Emperumaanaar" name in this thaniyan is, Somaaaji
Aandaan Swamy enjoys this name of emperumaanaar always
and hence it was used in this thaniyan. Moreover
it is felt that if Somaaji Aandaaan recites this
thirunaamam "Emperumanaar" it is more appropriate than
anyone else saying this name. Moreover it was the
thirunaam which gave us the charama slokam
meaning. Hence it is felt that if Sommaji Aandaan says
this thirunaamam it will give us mor eepleasure to
hear than anyone else saying this thirunaamam.

Now to continue..

"Kani thandha senchol kalithurai andhaadhi
paadithandhaan.."

There are two versions of this line. One is the above
and the other is

"Kali thandha senchol kalithurai andhaadhi
paadithandhaan..". Let us see the meanings of  both.

Here Kali means "Midukku" - with pride. Thats why
Thirumangai Aazhwaar is known as Kaliyan because,
since he was a king, he had that pride and the same
was reflected in several of his paasurams. Similarly
"Kali thandha" means "the one which gives us pride".
Such are the paasurams in this Nootrandhaadhi that
gives us pride . There are very few works like this
that give us pride. One is Thirumazhisai aazhwar's
pasurams and the next is Iraamaanusa Nootrandhaadhi.

Another meaning given to this word "Kali" is "with
great joy". When we start reciting all the 4000
paasurams, by the time we reach the end we would have
lost our energy and also our voice that comes from
our throat. But since Iraamanusa Nootrandhaadhi is
recited as the last prabandham when we start it at the
end we get back the energy we lost due to following
reasons :-

1. We feel that we are nearing the end of our
paaraayanam by starting this Irrmaanusa Nootrandhaadhi

2. The way is is composed itself gives Joy

3. Final and most important is that it describes about
our aachaaryan. Till then we would be singing the
praise of emperumaan but still we would have a doubt
that whether we get moksham or not but we can be sure
of getting moksham when we sing the praise of our
aachaaryan and hence we feel enormous happiness when
we recite this prabandham.

Nampillai in his vyaakyaanam says to know emperumaan
we require 4000 paasurams but to know and realise our
aachaaryan we just require 11 paasurams of Kanninun
Sirudhaambu and 108 verses of Iraamaanusa
Nootrandhaadhi. At the end of reciting the 4000 verses
we still have a doubt whether we will get moksham. But
without any doubt we can say that we will get moksham
if we sing the praise of our achaaryan.

Will continue ...


RAAMAANUJASYA CHARANAU SHARNAM PRAPADYE. SRIMATHE
RAAMAANUJAAYA NAMA:


Vedic Iraamaanusa Nootrandhaadhi Team
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