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SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) samsAris (dwellers in materialistic realm) have one of the three qualities of sathvam (noble), rajas (passion) and thamas (ignorance) in excess over the other two. Since they [normally] have rajas and thamas in excess, they attain the corresponding … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) In the previous pAsuram, AzhwAr felt saddened, looking at the ignorance of samsAris in not realising the benefits that they had. Thinking that “If they get a taste in this (involvement with emperumAn) they should not miss these … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) AzhwAr is wondering that while attaining emperumAn is this simple, while worldly life, which is samsAram, has many evident defects such as insignificant, unstable etc, and while knowing that by attaining emperumAn one need not return to this … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) Since AzhwAr had not forgotten the benefits which emperumAn showered on him, he engages with emperumAn further. In this pAsuram he says “emperumAn mercifully stood in thiruvEngadam, sat in paramapadham and lay down in thiruppARkadal only during the … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) AzhwAr says in this pAsuram that emperumAn, with his simplicity, whom he had enjoyed in the previous pAsuram, mercifully resided in divine abodes such as thiru Uragam etc in order to create an interest in the heart of … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) AzhwAr is amazed with emperumAn, with the thought “We can accept to an extent that you had, without considering the tenderness of your divine form, prompted by your affection for SrI prahlAdhan, destroyed hiraNyan; however, for the sake … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArimai (Introduction) Without establishing the reason for emperumAn’s reclining at thirukkudandhai, AzhwAr had asked him whether it was due to fatigue. emperumAn manifested his valorous divine form at thirukkuRungudi after destroying hiraNya kashyap. AzhwAr sustained himself after seeing that divine … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) As mentioned in the previous pAsuram, AzhwAr had started enjoying at the divine feet of ArAvamudhAzhwAr (emperumAn) in thirukkudandhai, which is the abode for enjoyment. He saw that emperumAn was not speaking to him or embracing him. Due … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introruction) emperumAn, instead of thinking “The abodes where I reside in archA (idol) form are for the followers to attain me and the only place where they can enjoy me is paramapadham”, just as it has been said in … Read more

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) From the day he incarnated in dhvApara yugam, kaNNan was destroying enemies of his followers with his great strength. He made his followers, through his beauty and auspicious qualities, to carry out servitude towards him. AzhwAr enjoys in … Read more