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vtca • September 5, 2002 


Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Kanninun Siruththambu Fourth Pasura Vyakhyana Saram
Excerpted from Sri Nanjeeyar and Nampillai's Vyakhyanam

A Tamil version of this vyakhyana saram can be found at
http://www.acharya.org/vyakyanam/kst/kst04.pdf

nanmaiyAl mikka nAnmaRaiyALarkaL
punmaiyAgak karuthuvar Athalin
annaiyAy aththanAy ennai ANdidum
thanmaiyAn sadagOpan en nambiyE

Meaning:
The vaidhikas who are well versed in the four Vedas and are 
full of high qualities, will consider me as one who is low 
qualities personified. For that very reason, Nammazhvar has 
the nature of becoming my mother, father and everything else 
to me and save me and as such he is my lord.

Vyakhyana Saram:
Madhurakavi Azhvar explains how he got such a great gain 
through the help he got from Nammazhvar. Why would Nammazhvar 
give him such a help? He says that he was low, so low that 
all good things abandoned him, and therefore he became 
attached to Nammazhvar and Nammazhvar helped him.

nanmaiyAl mikka nAnmaRaiyALarkaL:
Those great and pure people who live by the four Vedas, who 
are home to divine qualities, who recite, follow and have no 
other wealth other than the Vedas.

punmaiyAgak karuthuvar:
Such Vedic people will not just consider him as one who has 
low qualities, but actually think of him as low qualities 
personified. He says that his stature is so low that all
great people except Nammazhvar would tend to abandon him.

nAnmaRaiyALarkaL punmaiyAkak karuthuvar:
The brahmins who recite nothing but the Vedas and who are
submerged in the smell of the Vedas will not consider that 
he has low qualities but that all low qualities have gained 
a physical form as him.

annaiyAy aththanAy ennaiyANdidum:
To such a person as him, Nammazhvar became all relations 
such that he has no relatives except Nammazhvar. Other 
than Nammazhvar, he has no other refuge. That which a 
mother, a father and a lord would do was all done for him 
by Nammazhvar. That was the relationship between Sriman
Narayana and Nammazhvar and now he has attained that same
relationship with Nammazhvar.

thanmaiyAn:
Nammazhvar has this lofty characteristic naturally.

nambiyE:
Nammazhvar is a pUrna (nambi) because not only did he drive
away his own problems but he also removed Madhurakavi 
Ahzvar's problems. Nammazhvar just did not do something 
that another person might have done; he has done that which 
everyone else does together; therefore, he is complete. 
Madhurakavi Azhvar says that Nammazhvar's completeness is 
such that it lifts even those who are nothing but a 
personification of low qualities.

Madhurakavi Azhvar, Nanjeeyar, Nampillai Thiruvadigale Saranam
Azhvar Emperumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan
T.C.A. Venkatesan

Kanninun Siruththambu Vyakhyana Saram Series:
http://www.acharya.org/vyakyanam/kst/index.html



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