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Varadarajan Sourirajan • September 30, 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-44 (contd)

When the dEvas were waiting with their eyes wide open to see the emperuman, gajendra varadan came on his garudan with his chakra on his hand to rescue the elephant from the clutches of the crocodile.

KannarA:  No one can take their eyes away, after seeing perumal’s beautiful thirumEni.  If we wait to get something and are unable to get it we get bored after sometime.  In some cases, we may have waited for something not worthwhile so as soon as we get it we get bored.  But in bhagavan’s case it is worth waiting for years together just to get a glimpse for a second.  We can experience the same even today in thirumala-thirupathi.  We all go and wait for long hours in the queue.  But are we allowed to stay in the sannadhi for at least 5 minutes?  We have to have a quick darshan of the emperuman and we are pushed out.  Still the crowd of bhakthas in thirupathi never reduces rather it increases day by day.  Such is the greatness of bhagavan.  We all stay in the sannadhi just for 1 or 2 minutes but when we come out we say oh! It was a great darshan.  Ramayanam says, “rAmam mE anukathA drushti:” (No one can take their eyes out of the beauty of rAmachandra moorthi) and thiruppAnAzhvar says,”enamudhinai kanda kang

One other interpretation of ‘kannarA’ is if perumal places his krupai on us he never takes it away.  Many look at us but for no use but if bhagavat and Acharya kataksham fall on us it never goes in vain.  It has the power to lift us from the bottom most level and even grant us moksham, the top most level.

vunnai ennO? KalaikanA karudhumArE :  Oh! My lord you are the only saranyan, to whose feet we all have to do saranAgathi, since you alone can remove all our worldly bindings and worries and grant us moksha.

In this paasuram, alwar shows how all other upayams which the siva, brahma and other devas considered to be the ways to attain perumal has become futile (“thavan seithAr velgi nirpa) and how only saranAgathi done by gajendran has given the result ultimately.  Leaving all his efforts gajendran called emperuman for help and hence perumal came running, but the devas still believed in their own efforts and hence perumal never turned up.  And due to his saranAgathi (vunnai ennO kalaikanA karudhumArE) gajendran has attained the ultimate goal, bhagavat krupai and kainkaryam (Anaikku andru arulai eentha).  

Emperuman’s feet is like a boat to transport us from the ocean of samsAram to the other bank, moksham.  But this boat is a little different from the usual boats seen by us, in this world.  In this boat (Krishna pAdAravindham) we need not board inside but it is enough if we just think of it, it will take us to moksham.  Sri Andal says,“vaikundan ennum thOni perAmal vuzhalginrEn”. This boat, Krishna thiruvadi never moves from one place to another but keeps constantly transporting jeevatmas who think of it from this leela vibhuthi to the nithya vibhuthi.

Just the thought that bhagavan is there to take care of us gives us all the extra strength to do kainkaryam.  All other wealth comes today and leaves tomorrow and only puts us to more tension in the process of protecting it.  But this wealth, bhagavat kataksham never leaves us and relieves us of all tensions.

We will enjoy the final paasuram in the next posting and conclude.

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan


 



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