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SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr wonders whether it isn’t at thirumalai that one can see and experience emperumAn who is attainable by everyone like this! This pAsuram says that everything about thirumalai – the hilly people there, the bamboos, thiruvEngadamudaiyAn who has taken residence … Read more

SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr says that instead of analysing the lower limit and upper limit of worldly matters, attain the divine feet of emperumAn who is like this. All your sorrows will disappear. Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings: adhu … Read more

SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr once again gets down to experiencing the beauty of emperumAn through a simile. The natural beauty of emperumAn will be shown by a gemstone and the beauty which came about through decking up will be shown by the cloud … Read more

SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr says that it is not possible to estimate emperumAn’s characteristics, his divine form, his qualities etc. With the help of similes, we can compare to an extent. Even though his divine beauty cannot be experienced, it would be such … Read more

SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImadh varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai If emperumAn cannot be known by anyone, just as mentioned by nammAzhwAr in his thiruvAimozhi 3-1-7 “vAzhththuvAr palarAga”, if all the people in the world join together, is it possible to know him? AzhwAr responds, saying, even if all the … Read more

SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr says that emperumAn, who can be known only through vEdhas (sacred texts), cannot be seen by anyone. Even those who have said that they have seen him, have only composed poems on him and have not seen him. Let … Read more

SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr says that even though emperumAn is one who cannot be seen or thought of by anyone, now he has entered my heart first and is dwelling there. Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings: iniyavan mAyan ena … Read more

SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr asks if there is any advantage by getting angry with the heart. He asks if there is any way by which we can approach and know about emperumAn who cannot be known by anyone and who has unlimited sweetness. … Read more

SrI:  SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:  SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:  SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr mercifully mentions as to how his heart got involved with emperumAn ahead of him. He says that his heart, without waiting for instructions, meditating on the quality of emperumAn by which he annihilates enemies, won over his [AzhwAr’s] five … Read more