{"id":11739,"date":"2016-10-13T05:19:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2016-10-13T05:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:19:34","slug":"thirumalai-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/thirumalai-24\/","title":{"rendered":"thirumAlali &#8211; 24 &#8211; veLLa nIr parandhu pAyum"},"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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/thirumalai\/\">Full series<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/thirumalai-23\/\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/periyaperumal-art-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-873\" src=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/periyaperumal-art-2.jpg\" alt=\"periyaperumal-art-2\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/periyaperumal-art-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/periyaperumal-art-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>avathArikai (Introduction)<\/h3>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/thirumalai-21\/\">21<sup>st<\/sup> pAsuram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> said \u201c<em>manaththinAl ninaikkalAmE<\/em>\u201d (is it possible to measure <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>\u2019s beauty through the mind?). In the <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/thirumalai-22\/\">22<sup>nd<\/sup><\/a>, he said \u201c<em>pEsaththAn AvadhuNdO<\/em>\u201d (is it possible to talk about emperumAn?). In the <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/thirumalai-23\/\">23<sup>rd<\/sup><\/a>, he said \u201c<em>enganam maRandhu vAzhgEn?<\/em>\u201d (how will I live forgetting him?). Once <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">periya perumAL<\/a> started showing his overflowing love for him after seeing that he was trying to find ways of forgetting him, AzhwAr thinks that his love towards emperumAn was nothing compared to that which emperumAn showed towards him. He feels that his love is not congruent with the greatness of emperumAn and that the love born out of this insentient body is like the clarity that a mad person gets on occasions [in other words his love is not permanent, but only occasional] and cannot be believed. Taking pity on himself he disparagingly tells his heart \u201cOh heart! are you trying to play truant with your love in this matter too, like you do with worldly matters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings, first.<\/p>\n<p>\u0bb5\u0bc6\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3 \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb0\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u00a0\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0baa\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb0\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd\u00a0\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd<br \/>\n\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0ba9\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bae\u0bb2 \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bae\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b95\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1<br \/>\n\u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bae\u0bc7 \u0bb5\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bb0 \u0bae\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bcd<br \/>\n\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bae\u0bc7 \u0b95\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc7 \u0b95\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bc7.<\/p>\n<p><em>veLLa nIr parandhu pAyum viripozhil arangam thannuL<\/em><br \/>\n<em>kaLvanAr kidandhavARum kamala nanmugamum kaNdum<\/em><br \/>\n<em>uLLamE valiyai pOlum oruvan enRu uNara mAttAy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>kaLLamE kAdhal seydhu un kaLLaththE kazhikkinRAyE<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlisten.com\/sarathy.thothathri\/thirumalai-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/yourlisten.com\/embed\/html5?17594363\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Word-by-Word Meaning<\/h3>\n<p>veLLam nIr \u2013 kAvEri with huge floods<br \/>\nparandhu pAyum \u2013 flowing on all sides<br \/>\nviri pozhil \u2013 having expansive gardens<br \/>\narangam thannuL \u2013 inside the temple<br \/>\nkaLvanAr \u2013 azhagiya maNavALan [SrI ranganAthan] who steals (the hearts of his followers)<br \/>\nkidandha ARum \u2013 the way that he is sleeping<br \/>\nkamalam nal mugamum \u2013 divine, beautiful face like a lotus<br \/>\nkaNdum \u2013 even after worshipping<br \/>\nuLLamE \u2013 Oh, heart!<br \/>\nvaliyai pOlum \u2013 you are too hardened, it appears<br \/>\noruvan enRu \u2013 that he is incomparable<br \/>\nuNara mAttAy \u2013 you do not realise<br \/>\nkaLLamE kAdhal seydhu \u2013 faking your love (in emperumAn related matter)<br \/>\nun kaLLaththE \u2013 in your falsified actions<br \/>\nkAlaththaik kazhikkinRAyE \u2013 you are wasting your time!<\/p>\n<h3>vyAkhyAnam (Explanatory Notes)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>veLLanIr parandhu pAyum<\/strong> \u2013 From the source point of sahyAdhri hill where kAvEri begins her journey, her intention is only to come to SrIrangam. Displaying her intention and her desire, she comes with such a forceful flood flowing in all directions that no one can stop her by building a dam across her. Since there is no end to her desire [to come to SrIrangam and worship the Lord there] there can be no end to her flow also. Hence no one can say that she flowed [using the past tense]. Thus <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> uses the word <em>pAyum<\/em> which is in the present tense. In other words, she keeps flowing continuously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>viri pozhil arangam<\/strong> \u2013 wherever the water [kAvEri] flows, the gardens also spread out expansively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>arangam thannuL kaLvanAr<\/strong> \u2013 when he enjoys with the innocent nithyasUris, he does so honestly. But when he wants to attract the crafty samsAris, he decides that he needs to be crafty himself and hence lies down as if he is sleeping inside the temple. An alternative explanation is: while it may appear superficially that he is lying down after seeing the richness of the flowing water and the gardens, in reality he is lying there only to entice the samsAris. Hence AzhwAr is using the term <em>kaLvanAr<\/em>. When confidants such as <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thiruppanazhwar\/\">thiruppANAzhwAr<\/a> go near him and worship him they will say \u201c<em>seyya vAy aiyyO! ennaich chindhai kavarndhadhuvE<\/em>\u201d- implying that there is a crafty look on his face. In other words it would appear that if someone approaches him, he would steal their <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/06\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i\/\">AthmA<\/a> and pocket it smoothly. In other words, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> would make that person as his confidant. The person had all along been thinking that the AthmA, which actually belongs to emperumAn, is his own since time immemorial. emperumAn decides that he will make it his own without that person being aware of it. He displays his physical beauty and as said in jithanthE SlOkam \u201c<em>jithanthE puNdarIkAksha! \u00a0namasthE viSva bhAvana! <\/em>I <em>namasthEsthu hrushIkESa! mahApurusha! pUrvaja!<\/em>\u201d (Oh kaNNa with red coloured lotus eyes! This (Athma) vasthu (entity) has been won over by you. (this) is not mine; only yours; Oh the one who created all the worlds! Oh the one who controls the sensory organs! Oh, the magnanimous and great person! Oh the one who came ahead of everyone else! (this entity AthmA) instead of being mine, should only be yours). This <em>AthmApahAram<\/em> (coveting of AthmA) has been going on for a very long time. But when emperumAn takes this AthmA, which is always his, it appears that he is stealing it. Even submitting this AthmA to him is equivalent to stealing the <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/06\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i\/\">AthmA<\/a>. In <em>thiruvAyppAdi<\/em> (in gOkulam) along with butter, he also steals the jIvAthmAs. Our submitting this AthmA to him is equivalent to king mahAbali returning his lands to him as a gift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>kidandhavARum<\/strong> \u2013 what enticed me is neither his auspicious AthmaguNa (qualities of his AthmA) such as simplicity nor the lAvaNya rUpa guNa (qualities of various parts of his physical form) such as his divine eyes, but the beauty of his lying posture \u2013 <em>kidandhadhOr kidakkai<\/em> as <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> mentioned in the previous pAsuram which is samudhAya SObhA (spendour of his entire physical form).<\/p>\n<p><strong>kamala nanmugamum<\/strong> \u2013 for the qualities of well blossomed nature, freshness, coolness and fragrance, lotus can be taken as a similie for <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>\u2019s divine face to an extent. But since it cannot equal emperumAn\u2019s divine face, AzhwAr qualifies the divine face as <em>nanmugam.<\/em> Can the prAkrutha (belonging to materialistic realm) lotus come anywhere near the <em>sudhdha sathva<\/em> (purely good) and radiantly divine face of emperumAn? Would the lotus which blossoms on seeing sun equal the divine face which blossoms on seeing <em>ASrithars<\/em> (followers)? By qualifying as <em>nanmugam<\/em> AzhwAr says that only <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">periya perumAL<\/a>\u2019s face is a cool [comforting] face in samsAram and all the other faces are hot [repelling] ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>kaNdum uLLamE valiyai pOlum<\/strong> \u2013 even after having dharSan of the beautiful lying posture of emperumAn, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a>\u2019s heart did not show any change in its appearance. AzhwAr wonders \u201cOh heart! are you this hardened that you are not showing any change even after looking at emperumAn?\u201d Compared to the greatness of emperumAn, whatever changes he had shown earlier are nothing, as far as AzhwAr is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>AzhwAr\u2019s heart asked him, \u201cwhat is the hardness that I have now shown?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>oruvan enRu uNaramAttAy<\/strong> \u2013 you are not realising that he is beyond any comparison. If you realise, you should realise his greatness and auspicious qualities such as <em>ASritha vAthsalyam <\/em>(motherly affection towards his followers) as they are. If you realise these qualities as they are, you should have matching involvement towards him.\u00a0 Only because you don\u2019t have this involvement, your heart is hardened, says the <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If such an involvement had not taken place, in the earlier pAsurams. what is the meaning of saying \u201c<em>kaNNinai kaLikkumARE\u201d <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/thirumalai-17\/\">pAsuram 17<\/a>), \u201c<em>paniyarumbu thIrumAlO<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/thirumalai-18\/\">pAsuram 18<\/a>), \u201c<em>udal enakku urugumAlO<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/thirumalai-19\/\">pAsuram 19)<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>kaLLamE kAdhal seydhu<\/strong> \u2013 AzhwAr tells his heart \u201cjust as you had exhibited falsified love towards worldly matters, you had shown similar false love towards <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> also as a matter of habit. You did not have true love towards emperumAn&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>un kaLLaththE kazhikkinRAyE<\/strong> \u2013 This deceitful nature has been with you since time immemorial. Just as you had shown false love for a long time in other matters, you had shown similar false love in emperumAn\u2019s matter also. You thought that this matter is similar to the other worldly matters. Your love does not match the greatness of emperumAn\u2019s matter, says the <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We shall now take up the 25<sup>th<\/sup> pAsuram.<\/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) In the 21st pAsuram, AzhwAr said \u201cmanaththinAl ninaikkalAmE\u201d (is it possible to measure emperumAn\u2019s beauty through the mind?). In the 22nd, he said \u201cpEsaththAn AvadhuNdO\u201d (is it possible to talk about emperumAn?). In the 23rd, he said \u201cenganam maRandhu &#8230; <a title=\"thirumAlali &#8211; 24 &#8211; veLLa nIr parandhu pAyum\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/thirumalai-24\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about thirumAlali &#8211; 24 &#8211; veLLa nIr parandhu pAyum\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mudhalayiram","category-thirumalai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}