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ArAmam sUzhndha arangam kaNamangai 71
Word by Word Meanings
ArAmam sUzhndha arangam kaNamangai – thiruvarangam, which is surrounded by beautiful gardens, thirukkaNNamangai
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ArAmam sUzhndha arangam – arangam (SrIrangam) which is surrounded by gardens. Here, the term ArAmam (gardens) refers to other divine abodes [of emperumAn]. It is SrIrangam which is surrounded by other divine abodes. In the divine minds of AzhwArs, SrIrangam is the permanent dwelling place of emperumAn from where he bestows [his divine mercy] on his devotees and the other divine abodes are like gardens where he takes rest during daytime when he goes for hunting. Don’t kings, when they go out for hunting to various places, rest for a while at those places during the noon-time and return to their palaces for resting at night? This is much similar to that. That emperumAn protects both nithyavibhUthi (SrIvaikuNtam) and leelAvibhUthi (samsAram) while residing at SrIrangam is brought out by kulasEkara AzhwAr in his perumAL thirumozhi pAsuram 1-10 “vanperu vAnagam uyya amararuyya maNNuyya maNNulagil manisaruyya thunbamigu thuyaragala ayarvu onRu illAch chugam vaLara agamagizhum thoNdar vAzha anbodu then thisai nOkkip paLLi koLLum aNiyarangan thirumuRRaththu . . . .” (in the courtyard of SrIrangam where thiruvarangan [emperumAn] has taken residence, by lying down facing southern direction, for uplifting upper worlds and those who live there, for uplifting earth and those who are living on earth, uplifting his devotees so that they enjoy bliss without any trace of sorrow . . ). I will go to that place wherefrom he is ruling with his sceptre, show my form and ask “Is this the way he would protect his devotee?”
kaNamangai – thirumangai AzhwAr himself has sung of this divine abode in his periya thirumozhi 7-10-9 “kaNgaLAraLavum ninRu kaNNamangaiyuL kaNdukoNdEnE” (I saw that emperumAn till my eyes became satiated, at thirukkaNNamangai). I expressed my desire to see him till my eyes became satiated. You could judge for yourself whether I saw him till my eyes became satiated, by looking at my form, says parakAla nAyagi.
In the next article, we will discuss the next part of this prabandham.
adiyEn krishNa rAmAnuja dhAsan
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