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Varadarajan Sourirajan • September 5, 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-32
 

“Arththu vandalambum sOlai ani thiruvaranganthannul

  kArthiral anaiya mEni kannanE! VunnaikkAnum

  mArkkamondru ariya mAttA manisaril thurisanAya

  moorkanEn vandhu nindrEn moorkanEn moorkanEnE”

 

Arththu vandalambum sOlai ani thiruvaranganthannul:  The gardens in Srirangam are filled with bees.  The bees are filled with happiness and they fly from one place to other making humming noise(reengAram).  As we have already seen the alwars always have the habit of singing about each and every thing in a divya desam considering it to be divine.  If Thirumangai alwar goes to arimEya vinnagaram then sees the birds and listening to their voice he says they are telling ‘Hari! Sharan!”.  Andal goes to thiruvarangam and says “Kootil erundhu kili govinda! Govinda! Endrazhaikkum”.  The mental state of alwars are such that they consider each and every thing in a divya desam to be a bhAgavatan.  Actually even to be born in a divyadesam kOdi jenma punyam is required so there is nothing wrong to sing about the birds and bees which have the same.  Alwar says ‘ani thiruvaranganthannul’ here thiruvarangam itself is a ani for our bharatha varsham and for each and every srivaishnava or for thiruvarangam ranganatha is an ani

 

“kOyililE vandhu sannihithan allAdha pOdhu thAli kattAdha srigal pOl ayittru leelA vibhuthi”

 

Any lady has her value only when she bears the thirumangalyam in her neck.  Without that a women is barren according to our culture.  Similarly when emperuman is not present in Srirangam the whole leela vibhuthi is considered to be a women without the mangalya sootram.  A women can be without anyother jewel but never without her mangalyam.  Only when she is eligible to wear the mangalyam all other jewels adds to her beauty.  Similarly only when emperuman lies in Srirangam, does the leela vibhuthi becomes beautiful and is also eligible to wear any other jewel.

 

  kArthiral anaiya mEni kannanE!:  The color of emperuman’s body is like the dark rain flooded clouds.  Like the cloud which showers us with good rain and makes our lands fertile emperuman also showers his apara karunyam and make our lives flourish.  But then when he equated the clouds to perumal, alwar suddenly remembers that emperuman’s magimai is greater than the clouds.  So Sri PVP writes, ”mEgaththai kAttilum vyAvriththi”.  The clouds do give us rain, but from a distance and then it vanishes.  But emperuman does more than that.  He showers his karunai not like a third person but he runs and comes to our rescue.  When we want he appears in front of us due to his sowlabhyam.  Kannan means not only does he have an eye which is cool and showers krupai on his devotees but also he makes the eyes of those who are looking at him to become cool.  But then how to have his darshan?

 

VunnaikkAnum  mArkkamondru ariya mAttA manisaril thurisanAya:  As soon as alwar thought of having darshan of emperuman he is unable to find a way to do so.  So now he feels for the same saying I am one low person who doesnÂ’t know the way in which I will be able to have your darshan.  If I have a low birth as an animal or plant I may not be able to see you but then though I am a man still I am incapable to find a way to see you.  You are waiting to give darshan to your bhakthas.  But I do not have full faith or devotion in you, says alwar.

 

 Then why donÂ’t you just go away instead of standing in my sannadhi? asked Perumal.

 

  moorkanEn vandhu nindrEn moorkanEn moorkanEnE:  Just because I am standing in front of PerumalÂ’s sannadhi doesnÂ’t mean that I am a great bhakthan.  I have come here due to my stubbornness.  I very well know that I am not eligible to see perumal but then still I want to see him.  Alwar calls himself to be a moorkan-one who wants to get a thing which he very well knows is beyond his capacity.  Since I am a moorkan I come and stand in front of you.  Even after coming here still I remain a moorkan declares alwar (moorkanEn moorkanEnE).

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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