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Varadarajan Sourirajan • September 17, 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-37 (contd)

 

eliyathOr arulum andrE en thiraththu empirAnAr:  Alwar called emperuman to be everything but shouldnÂ’t emperumAn accept the same?  Yes he does.  Since emperuman is waiting for such an opportunity to accept the jeevatmas.  Like a parent who accepts their child irrespective of the deficiencies in the child, emperuman also accepts the jeevatmas as his own irrespective of our papams.  Even before we realize like alwar and call him our only bandhu emperuman showers all his krupai on all of us.

 

Bhagavan in geetha says, “abhichet tu durAchAraha:”(I accept even those who are filled with bad characters).  He proved the same in Ramayana when he accepted guhan and Hanuman without thinking them to be “Azhai Adhalan keezhmagan”(poor, lowly born person etc) or “vAdhamAmagan margadam”(an animal, that too a monkey).  When bhagavan who was such an AchAra seela in rAmAvatAram accepts everyone without looking into any of the above criteria and keep them close to him will he not accept us too?  

 

Though I am a simple, lowly person still I wish that emperuman should shower his divine grace on me, says alwar.

 

aliyan nam paiyal ennAr ammavO! kodiyavArE!:  Alwar says, “what I really want is, perumal to call me “nam paiyal” (he is my boy).  But what to say about my fate?” laments alwar.  When someone goes to perumal and asks, whom this alwar was? Shouldn’t perumal reply that he is my boy? Thinks alwar.  If perumal says so that is the ultimate.  Then we all will gain extra energy.  We feel proud of many things in this world, but the actual pride lies in belonging to emperuman only.  The unfortunate part is we jeevatmas do not realize this, instead we make perumal, the supreme being to beg in front of us.  In Ramayana, perumal says, ”tavAsmeethicha yAchathE”(Cant you all say once, that I belong to you?).  

 

What a sad part this is?  We are all incapable and are into innumerable miseries and hence destined to beg him for help but the whole thing is totally reversed and perumal begs us to come and help us out in some way.  We jeevatmas are very strong in not letting him to help us, out of this samsAra sAgaram.  Here we have to get to our memory the dialogue between the jeevatma and namperumal beautifully portrayed by Sri parAsara bhattar, which is delivered as kattiyam even today before the thirumanjanam to namperumal.

 

But here alwar is not like the other jeevatmas instead he wants to become a belonging of emperuman and hence begs for the same.  Alwar considers him to be a beggar and emperuman, a king.  Will it be very difficult for a king to give some money for a beggar?  Similarly, alwar just wants the kataksham of emperuman.  Alwar wants the abimAnam alone.  This is the actual saranagatha svaroopam.  Here one important thing has to be noted.  Who should have the abhimAnam?  Is our thinking of perumal to be ours (emperuman) important or is it the perumal’s abhimAnam on us more important?  In this paasuram alwar clearly states that it is perumal’s abhimAnam on us, which is the most important (aliyan nam paiyal ennAr).  If we have a pet in our house, at one time we may get angry and kick the dog out but the dog never leaves our feet.  It always stays with us.  A saranAgathan should be like that dog.  Why does the dog do so?  That is because the person who kicked the dog now earlier proudly said that the dog is ‘my dog’ equ

 

In our guru paramparai, there is one interesting story.  One person came to thirukkanamangai aandan and questioned if perumal will give moksha if just a person does saranAgathi and sits without doing anything?  Aandan wanted to explain to the person in an appropriate manner and hence kept quiet for that time.  Another person came with his dog to aandanÂ’s house.  All 3 were sitting outside aandanÂ’s house and were chatting.  Suddenly a street dog came and started barking at the pet dog.  The owner of the dog immediately threw his stick on the street dog and protected his pet.  Now aandan turned to the first person and said if this man who is in possession of this dog just for the past few days and has not much use of the dog has so much abhimanam towards the dog and runs to its rescue will not perumal who is sarva loka rakshakan and our bandhu in all janmas, not save the saranagathan who believe that emperuman is everything and is always waiting only for his krupai?  

 

The same thing has been expressed by alwar in the above paasuram.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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