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Varadarajan Sourirajan • September 10, 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-34
 

“vullaththE vuraiyum mAlai vulluvAr vunar ondru ella

  kallaththEn nAnum thondAi thondukkE kOlam poondu

  vulluvAr vullittrellAm vudan erundhu arudhi endru

  velgipOi ennullE nAn vilavara sirithittEnE”

 

vullaththE vuraiyum mAlai vulluvAr vunar ondru ella:  Emperuman is present inside each one of us as antaryami.  Sahasranamam starts with Vishvam Vishnu:.  These two namas of bhagavan show his bhahirvyApthi (presence in every place outside us) and antarvyApthi (presence inside us).   In this paasuram alwar calls emperuman to be ‘vullaththE vuraiyum mAl’.  So we have to be careful before saying anything. 

 

 We may cheat anyone outside but surely our mind knows that what we are saying and doing is wrong.  Emperuman who is inside us will surely know our mistakes.  Whoever understands the presence of emperuman inside them take extra caution not to do mistakes.  Even thiruvalluvar says ‘than nenju arivadhu poiyarkka’ that is our mind is capable of showing us which is right and which is wrong.

 

kallaththEn nAnum thondAi thondukkE kOlam poondu:  But, alwar says, unfortunately without realizing the presence of the bhagavan inside me I tried to cheat everyone including him.  I acted to be a great bhakthan. 

 

 Initially I felt ashamed to even wear the thirunAmam on my forehead.  Slowly I started wearing the sricharanam alone that too only inside my house.   I used to wash my face when I go out.  Then slowly I developed courage and started wearing thiruman and sricharanam even outside.  So people started thinking that I have become a bhakthan.  So when someone came near me I started shouting the names of bhagavan loudly.  It made them believe more that I am a great bhakthan.  Then I underwent pancha samskaram under an acharya, thereby made people call be a parama vaishnavan.  Not only the ignorant people but even emperuman regarded me similarly.  But actually all these I did just for show off and nothing whole heartely.  Just for name and fame I acted to be a thondan wearing all the necessities for the same.  This is the explanation given by Sri PVP in his vyakhyanam which goes as follows:

 

“parappumAra thirunAmaththai eduvadhu, Sri pancha Ayudangalai darippadhu, ahrudaiyamAgha thirunAmaththai solluvadhu, yamAdhigal thalaiyil en kAl enbhadhAi nAnum oruvanAi parOpadhEsam seivadhAi eththanai seidhEn”

 

Alwar has adviced and talked so much about nAma bhalam and how it gives a vaishnavan a strength even to fight against yaman and his dhoodhas.  Now he says even all those where words which just came out of my mouth but where not from my heart.  I tried to cheat everyone by acting to be a great Srivaishnava.  My mind was working somewhere else but I talked to people about bhagavan and bhagavat gunam.

 

vulluvAr vullittrellAm vudan erundhu arudhi endru:  But emperuman is inside each one of us and he knows what all everyone of us think.  But the funny part is even he has included me in the bhaktha list.  Bhagavan says,”sAdureva sa mandhavya: samyat vyavasithOhi saha”(when a person thinks about me put him in the sAdhu ghosti and never think of his good or bad deeds).  “na mE bhaktha: pranashyathi”(my bhaktha will never fall), “en adiyar adhu seiyAr”(my bhakthan will not do like that) and he considers even a cheat like me to be his bhaktha, and never leaves me.  He always stays along with me.

 

  velgipOi ennullE nAn vilavara sirithittEnE:  Thinking of all these I feel ashamed and so I tried to go away from bhagavan.  But how can I do that?  Emperuman is not only present inside me or inside a temple he is there in each and every place.  “neeka mara engum nirain thulan”  “thoonilum erruppAn thurumbhilum erruppAn”  “ anthar bhahischa tat sarvam vyapya nArAyanastitaha”.  So I realized my stupidity and laughed without control, says alwar.  Actually laughter is contagious.  If one laughs others follow him even without knowing the reason.  But is it not correct for all of us to follow azhwar and laugh at ourselves, since each one of us have the same stupid thought that we can cheat even emperuman, by our intelligent acts?

 

In the previous ten paasuram alwar thus explained how he possessed no qualification to get bhagavat krupai and how he possessed all the disqualifications.  In the proceeding paasurams alwar says how by the nirheduka krupai of lord ranganatha, even a person like him can get nalla(good) gathi.  Let us see them in the next postings.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 



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