{"id":10475,"date":"2016-08-20T20:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2016-08-20T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:11:20","slug":"thirumalai-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/thirumalai-6\/","title":{"rendered":"thirumAlai &#8211; 6 &#8211; maRam suvar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/thirumalai\/\">Full series<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/thirumalai-5\/\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/namperumal2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-711\" src=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/namperumal2.jpg\" alt=\"namperumal2\" width=\"243\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/namperumal2.jpg 389w, https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/namperumal2-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><u>avathArikai (Introduction<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">samsAris told <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> that even though sensual pleasures have faults such as being lowly and being transient, we will not give them up. Even if we cannot enjoy total satisfaction in any one sensual pleasure, since there are so many of them we can get satisfaction in one or other of these pleasures and what we missed in one, we shall make up in the other. Azhwar responded saying that for enjoying these pleasures, the person who enjoys (samsAri) should be permanent. But even he has limited life and he is as short-lived as these sensual pleasures are. He goes on to paint a picture of the samsAri\u2019s transient state in this pAsuram. First let us enjoy the pAsuram:<\/p>\n<p>\u0bae\u0bb0\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0bae\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0bae\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc7 \u0bb5\u0bc6\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bc8 \u0baa\u0bc2\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1<br \/>\n\u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b93\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc8 \u0bae\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb0\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0baf \u0bae\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd<br \/>\n\u0b85\u0bb1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bbf \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u00a0\u0b85\u0bb0\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0ba9\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0b86\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0baf\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bc7<br \/>\n\u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb5\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bc7<\/p>\n<p><em>maRam suvar madhiL eduththu maRumaikkE veRumai pUNdu<\/em><br \/>\n<em> puRam suvar Ottai mAdam puraLumbOdhu aRiya mAttIr<\/em><br \/>\n<em> aRam suvarAgi ninRa aranganArkku AtseyyAdhE<\/em><br \/>\n<em> puRam suvar kOlam seydhu puL kavvak kidakkinRIRE<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlisten.com\/sarathy.thothathri\/thirumalai-06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/yourlisten.com\/embed\/html5?17579397\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><u>Meanings of words<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>maRam suvar \u2013 wall of cruelty as nature [speaking or acting in a cruel way]<br \/>\nmadhiL eduththu \u2013 raise as protective wall<br \/>\nmaRumaikkE \u2013 for benefits in the other world<br \/>\nveRyumai pUNdu \u2013 take on poverty<br \/>\npuRam suvar \u2013 as outside wall<br \/>\nOttai \u2013 to be destroyed<br \/>\nmAdam \u2013 this [physical] body<br \/>\npuraLumbOdhu \u2013 the time when the body falls on to the ground<br \/>\naRiya mAttIr \u2013 you will not know<br \/>\naRam suvar Agi ninRa \u2013 one who is standing with dharmam (righteousness) as wall<br \/>\naranganArkku \u2013 to SrI ranganAthan<br \/>\nAL seyyAdhE \u2013 instead of being a servitor<br \/>\npuRam suvar \u2013 this body which is like the outer wall<br \/>\nkOlam seydhu \u2013 decorate this body<br \/>\npuL kavva \u2013 being pecked by vultures<br \/>\nkidakkinRIRE \u2013 lying down, wasted<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><u>vyAkhyAnam <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>maRam suvar \u00a0madhiLeduththu<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0samsAris construct a protective wall with their cruel thoughts, cruel words and cruel action. Cruelty is the only \u201causpicious\u201d quality that they have, it appears to <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>maRam<\/strong> \u2013 without mercy; being angry; being proud are the meanings of the word <em>maRam<\/em>. If good people look at a cruel person and think, \u201cOh! Why he is always so angry? He is inviting problems\u201d and want to correct him, they cannot even approach him because of his deep anger which he has spread out as a protective wall around himself. When mArIchan, mAlyavAn, kumbhakarNan and SrI vibhIshaNAzhwAn tried to counsel rAvaNan he was not willing to listen to them. As a result, some of them, like mArIchan and kumbhakarNan died with him while others, such as SrI vibhIshaNAzhwAn were driven out of the country. This is what happens when someone tries to advise the lowly person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>madhiL eduththu<\/strong> \u2013 construct a wall. This means that it is not there as a natural behaviour. Since it has been constructed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/06\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i\/\">jIvAthmA<\/a> around himself, it also means that one day, when <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/12\/thathva-thrayam-iswara-who-is-god\/\">bhagavAn<\/a> decides to take the samsAri under his wings, the wall will come down in pieces. The next word describes the result of his building the wall&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>maRumaikkE veRumai pUNdu<\/strong> \u2013 The samsAri\u2019s action [borne out of cruel thoughts, speech and actions] in this birth leads to an abject state as far as SrIvaikuNtam is concerned. Along with providing whatever the body wanted, had he thought about providing food for AthmA also, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> would have given him all the protection, thinking of the samsAri\u2019s commitment to improve himself. Just as varAha perumAn said, \u201c&#8230;<em>dhAthu sAmyE sthithE smarthA<\/em>&#8230;\u201d (when the <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/06\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i\/\">jIvAthmA<\/a> is having his senses in balance and thinks of me for protecting him) emperumAn would have provided him with all benefits including <em>mOksham<\/em> (liberation from samsAram) as varAha perumAn said further in the same SlOka, \u201c&#8230;<em>aham smarAmi<\/em>&#8230;\u201d (I shall think of him when he is in his final stage like a stone or a log of wood and take him to SrIvaikuNtam). On the other hand, if he remains as a cruel person, when he dies, there will not be a single person who would look at him with comforting eyes. If a person lives physically in poverty in this world, the poverty will end on the day the body ends. But if his AthmA lives in poverty, there is no end to that poverty and it will become permanent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>puRam suvar Ottai mAdam puraLumbOdhu aRiyamAttIr<\/strong> \u2013 <em>puRam suvar<\/em> refers to the physical body. It should have been used for good deeds, as desired by emperumAn, in going towards him. Instead the samsAri uses it for indulging in worldly pleasures. Hence it is referred to us <em>puRam<\/em> (outside) <em>suvar<\/em> (wall).\u00a0 But the same body would very much become likeable if it were used for doing something good for <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/06\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i\/\">AthmA<\/a> (doing <em>kainkaryam<\/em> for <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> and becoming his servitor).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ottai mAdam<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cIt fell on this day\u201d \u201cIt fell on that day\u201d is what people say about this body. It is that transient, so fleeting it is in its existence. Another meaning for Ottai mAdam \u2013 having a roof and lock; hence called as house. \u201cmAdam\u201d \u00a0is a big house. It is thought to be big, in samsAri\u2019s opinion. samsAris told <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> that he is telling them only now about the problems with this body and what they should do. We shall follow your advice in due course of time, they said. His response was&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>puraLumbOdhu aRiyamAttIr<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> says \u201cyou do not know as to how long you will live\u201d. He says \u201cthe messenger of death is close at hand. Can you afford to delay doing good for the AthmA under these circumstances?\u00a0 All along, you were engaged in worldly pleasures and forgot to do any good for the AthmA. Now on the throes of death, you do not have the strength to search for the good deeds. By saying that you would do good things in due course of time, you are only going to destroy everything for yourself\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>aRam suvarAgi ninRa<\/strong> \u2013 the one who is standing with righteousness as wall (<a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>). vyAkhyAthA quotes from several parmANams (authentic proofs) to state that emperumAn is dharmam (righteousness). He says that it is natural for emperumAn to be dharmam. First he quotes from SrI rAmAyaNam \u201c<em>lOkAnAm thvam parO dharma:<\/em>\u201d (you are the superior dharmam for all the people in the world). Then he quotes again from Sri rAmAyaNam \u201c<em>rAmo vigrahavAn dharma:<\/em>\u201d (rAma is dharmam personified). He quotes from bhAratham AraNya kANdam \u201c<em>krishNam dharmam sanAthanam<\/em>\u201d (krishNa is dharmam from time immemorial) and finally from SrIrangarAja sthavam \u201c<em>upAyOpEyathvE thadhiha thaththvam na thu guNou<\/em>\u201d (providing both the means of attaining you and enjoying your kainkaryam are natural to you)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Agi ninRa<\/strong> \u2013 unlike other upAyams (paths or means for attaining <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>) where the samsAri has to take efforts [referred to as sAdhyOpAyam in our sampradhAyam], emperumAn is ready to be attained through himself [this is called as sidhdhOpAyam in our sampradhAyam]. Unlike the other upAyams which will look up to him for providing benefits, this sidhdhOpAyam does not look at anything or anybody else for providing benefit [granting SrIvaikuNtam]. Is there anything that the samsAri has to do for this, asks the vyAkyAthA and says that taking shelter under this wall and not rejecting him is the only expectation from him. \u00a0As it says in mahAbhAratham \u201c<em>prakArassarva vrushInAm<\/em>&#8230;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/12\/thathva-thrayam-iswara-who-is-god\/\">bhagavAn<\/a> provides shelter to all those who accept him as their protector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ninRa<\/strong> \u2013 sumanthran said in SrI rAmAyaNam \u201c<em>ASayA yadhi vA rAma:&#8230;.<\/em>\u201d (expecting that SrI rAmA will call me I was waiting along with guhan for several days, said sumanthran). In the same way, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> took position at the banks of kAvEri waiting for samsAris to take refuge under him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>aranganArkku<\/strong> \u2013 There is no shortcoming that the object to be attained is too far away. Asking \u201cwho will utilise my presence and attain me\u201d lies <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> in SrIrangam, saying that he will stay here till he grants mOksham to all samsAris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AL seyyAdhE<\/strong> \u2013 the samsAri need not even carry out surrendering. It is enough if he involves in carrying out kainkaryam (service). His basic nature is being a servitor to <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>; this is the benefit that has been mentioned in SAsthras. This is precisely the wealth that he had lost from time immemorial. When he is a samsAri he\u00a0 is a servitor to his karma (deeds). Once he becomes the recipient of emperumAn\u2019s causeless mercy he becomes a servitor to emperumAn. He is a servitor to karmas due to past deeds in innumerable births. He did not become a servitor to emperumAn due to these sins. Another meaning given for <em>AL seyyAdhE<\/em> \u00a0is that it is like staying without food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>puRam suvar kOlam seydhu<\/strong> \u2013 decorating only the physical body and not the AthmA. Can AthmA be decorated? vyAkyAthA quotes from thaiththiriya upanishath \u201c<em>asannEva sa bhavathi<\/em>&#8230;.\u201d (a person exists only if he knows that there is brahmam (superior power)\u00a0 and does not exist if he does not know of brahman). Hence realising this AthmasvarUpam (knowledge of <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>) and carrying out kainkaryam to emperumAn is the decoration for AthmA. Instead of doing that, the samsAri keeps decorating the body which is incidental and not a permanent feature. In the olden days, palm leaf manuscripts were protected on both sides with wooden planks and tied with a string. The vyAkhyAthA says that decorating the body and leaving the AthmA to rot is like the manuscripts being eaten away by termites and rodents and the wooden planks and string being decorated with flower, sandalwood paste etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>puL kavva<\/strong> \u2013 being bitten by bird. Even birds (like vulture) which eat carcasses take a bite of the samsAri\u2019s body and refrain from eating it further because the birds know that this is the carcass of a person who was treacherous. [the act of treachery here is that the samsAri, who was granted the body and the senses, instead of submitting them to <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> through kainkaryam, indulged in worldly pleasures]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>kidakkinRIRE<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> mocks at samsAris saying that while emperumAn was waiting nearby (at SrIrangam) to provide them sustenance, the samsAris went their own ways so much that even vultures are not interested in their carcasses. He is saddened because of the difficulties that the samsAri encounters in the samsAram by not following the correct path. <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/nammazhwar\/\">nammAzhwAr<\/a>, in the decad \u201ckOvai vAyAL\u201d (thiruvAimozhi 4.3) talks about his body being the sandalwood paste, garland and vasthram (divine dress) for emperumAn. A similar body of the samsAri is being pecked by birds instead of being offered to emperumAn through kainkaryam, feels the AzhwAr. Is he saying these words after the samsAri has encountered death? No, even when the samsAri is alive and spending his life in worldly matters, AzhwAr is able to conclude for sure, the events to come (including pecking by the birds) and feels sorry for such samsAris and tells them what they should instead do. Even when rAvaNan was alive and sitting on his throne in his court, thiruvadi [hanuman] told the courtiers \u201c<em>nEyamasthi purI lankA na yUyam na cha rAvaNa:<\/em> &#8230;.\u201d (since you have invited the enmity of the great warrior and descendent of ikshvAku kulam, SrI rAma, this lankApuri, you and rAvaNa will not be there soon). This was said even when rAvaNa was alive. When dhuryOdhana and his clan were lying dead in the battlefield, vEdha vyAsar says with contempt that they did not pay heed to his advice and have paid the price. In a similar vein, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> feels contemptuous of the wayward lives of samsAris and warns them of what would happen if they do not mend their ways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We shall move on to the 7<sup>th<\/sup> pAsuram in the next article.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">adiyEn krishNa ramanuja dasan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\">https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/koyil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramANam (scriptures) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\">http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\nSrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full series &lt;&lt; Previous avathArikai (Introduction samsAris told AzhwAr that even though sensual pleasures have faults such as being lowly and being transient, we will not give them up. 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