{"id":12459,"date":"2016-11-20T01:37:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T01:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2016-11-20T01:37:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T01:37:23","slug":"thirumalai-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/thirumalai-34\/","title":{"rendered":"thirumAlai &#8211; 34 &#8211; uLLaththE uRaiyum mAlai"},"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\/11\/thirumalai-33\/\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/antharyami.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2262\" src=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/antharyami.jpg\" alt=\"antharyami\" width=\"168\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>avathArikai (Introduction)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> lives in the minds of <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/06\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i\/\">chEthanas (sentient entities)<\/a>. Since the mind is the gateway through which our knowledge emerges, emperumAn knows all our faults. <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> feels ashamed that he, being a liar, had caused blemish to the omniscient emperumAn by approaching him. What a terrible deed have I done, exclaims AzhwAr. \u201cInstead of bringing blemish to emperumAn, I could have stayed with samsAris (dwellers of materialistic realm), who are ignorant of my faults\u201d says the AzhwAr, \u201cand it would be better even if I were to die, instead of causing harm to emperumAn\u201d. Saying so, AzhwAr leaves the divine feet of emperumAn in which he had such a strong desire.<\/p>\n<p>Let us look at the pAsuram and its meanings.<\/p>\n<p>\u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc7 \u0b89\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bc8\u00a0 \u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd\u00a0 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc1 \u0b92\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b87\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd<br \/>\n\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bca\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u00a0\u0ba4\u0bca\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc7 \u0b95\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc2\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1<br \/>\n\u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b89\u0b9f\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1<br \/>\n\u0bb5\u0bc6\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0baf\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bc7 \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd\u00a0\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bb5\u0bb1\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bc7.<\/p>\n<p><em>uLLaththE uRaiyum mAlai uLLuvAn uNarvu onRu illAk<\/em><br \/>\n<em>kaLLaththEn nAnum thoNdAyth thoNdukkE kOlam pUNdu<\/em><br \/>\n<em>uLLuvAr uLLiRRU ellAm udan irundhu aRithiyenRu<\/em><br \/>\n<em>veLgippOy ennuLLE nAn vilavaRach chiriththittEnE<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlisten.com\/sarathy.thothathri\/thirumalai-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/yourlisten.com\/embed\/html5?17619317\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Word by word meanings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>uLLaththE \u2013 inside the heart [mind]<br \/>\nuRaiyum \u2013 dwelling (constantly)<br \/>\nmAlai \u2013 emperumAn, who is omniscient<br \/>\nuLLuvAn uNarvu \u2013 the knowledge to meditate upon<br \/>\nonRu illA \u2013 without even a little bit<br \/>\nkaLLaththEn nAnum \u2013 I, the thief<br \/>\nthoNdu Ay \u2013 being subservient to you<br \/>\nthoNdukkE kOlam pUNdu \u2013 putting on an act of being subservient<br \/>\nuLLuvAr uLLiRRu ellAm \u2013 the thoughts of those who are thinking<br \/>\nudan irundhu \u2013 being together with<br \/>\naRidhi enRu \u2013 (knowing) that you know<br \/>\nennuLLE \u2013 within myself<br \/>\nnAn \u2013 I<br \/>\nveLgi \u2013 being ashamed<br \/>\npOy \u2013 leaving (you)<br \/>\nvilavu aRa \u2013 such that the rib will break<br \/>\nsiriththittEn \u2013 I laughed.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>vyAkhyAnam (Commentary)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>uLLaththE <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> dwells in the heart which is the spring-board for thoughts. If he were to dwell outside, he would not know anything other than whatever the eye sees. The opinion here is that since he dwells inside, it is not possible to deceive him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>uRaiyum <\/strong>\u2013 dwelling in the heart constantly. If he were to go out for a little while, one can behave in whichever way one wanted. But since he dwells constantly in the heart, \u00a0even that is not possible, is the opinion here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>mAlai <\/strong>\u2013 one who is greater than everyone else. Even though <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/06\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i\/\">jIvAthmA<\/a> dwells inside, he will not know everything which is inside. Even though cosmos pervades everything, it does not control everything that it pervades. The opinion here is that since emperumAn knows everything and controls everything, it is well nigh impossible to deceive him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>uLLuvAn uNarvu illA <\/strong>\u2013 without the knowledge to meditate that he resides inside me as antharyAmi (indwelling soul). \u00a0<em>uNarvu onRu illA <\/em>\u2013 it is not that there is no knowledge about <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/12\/thathva-thrayam-iswara-who-is-god\/\">paramAthmA<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>); there is\u00a0 no knowledge about <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/06\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i\/\">jIvAthmA<\/a> too [jIvAthmA is the soul that takes up a body and controls it]. Knowledge about self [jIvAthmA] is a prerequisite for knowledge about paramAthmA who dwells inside the jIvAthmA. <em>onRillA <\/em>\u2013 there is no knowledge about jIvAthmA. Subsequently there is no knowledge about paramAthmA. There is no knowledge about the nature of the body &#8211; \u201cthis body is very lowly; it is transient; it is different from jIvAthmA; jIvAthmA is there only to carry out <em>kainkaryam<\/em> (servitude) to paramAthmA\u201d etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>kaLLaththEn <\/strong>\u2013 I am such a thief that I put on an act to make other people not think that I do not have any knowledge. In an assembly of fools I will cheat them by saying \u201cthere is no fault in me known to myself\u201d and in an assembly of learned people I will cheat them by saying \u201cthere is nothing good in me as known to my <em>antharAthmA<\/em> (the indwelling soul)\u201d by putting on an act of being lowly. Thus, the learned people will think \u201che thinks so lowly of himself. Surely he will have very good knowledge about AthmA\u00a0 as well as of <a href=\"https:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\/2013\/03\/12\/thathva-thrayam-iswara-who-is-god\/\">paramAthmA<\/a>\u201d. Despite being the repository of all vices, I made everyone believe, in this way, that I did not have any vice. I indulged in all these acts of chicanery even while knowing that you [<a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>] are there as a witness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>nAnum\u00a0 thoNdAy <\/strong>\u2013 I, without having any of the good qualities, did not carry out the act of servitude that people, with knowledge of themselves, should do. Who should carry out the servitude of whom? SrI rAmAyaNam ayOdhyA kANdam 17.14 says \u201c<em>yaScha rAmam na paSyEththu yancha rAmO na paSyathi<\/em> I <em>nindhitha: sa vasEllOkE svAthmApyEnam vigarhathE<\/em> II\u201d (one who has not seen rAma, one who has not been seen by rAma, he lives, despised by the worldly people. His AthmA will also despise such a person). If a chaNdALa (one born in a very low caste) were to learn vEdhas, wouldn\u2019t\u00a0 the people of the world despise him? In the same way, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> despises himself, saying that he was trying to carry out kainkaryam which should be carried out by good people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>thoNdukkE kOlam pUNdu<\/strong> \u2013 not only did I carry out acts of deceit on you, I also made those who had very good qualities to bow down to me by indulging in falsified acts and earning good name. I wear the 12 <em>Urdhva puNdrams<\/em>\u00a0[the marks worn by SrIvaishNavas on their bodies to indicate their subservience to emperumAn]; I don the five divine weapons on my body; I recite your divine names such as \u201c<em>achyudhA amararERE Ayar tham kozhundhE<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/thirumalai-2-part-1\/\">pAsuram 2<\/a>) from the lips instead of with full, deep belief; I sing about your sweetness by saying \u201c<em>ichchuvai thavaira achchuvai peRinum vENdEn<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/thirumalai-2-part-1\/\">pAsuram 2<\/a>); I claim that I placed my feet on the head of yamadharmarAja and his clan by singing \u201c<em>nAvalittu uzhi tharuginROm naman thamar thalaigaL mIdhE<\/em>\u201d and bewilder people; I counsel others thinking of myself as a learned man. How much have I done like this? How much have I babbled like this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>uLLuvAr uLLiRRellAm udan irundhu aRidhi enRu <\/strong>\u2013 I understood that he [<a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>] knows every thought that one thinks of, as he dwells constantly inside the heart which is the source for thoughts to emerge. It is pertinent here to think of the words spoken by SakunthalA to dhushyantha. SakunthalA vAkhyam (bhAratham 38.29) says \u201c<em>EkO\u2019hamasmIthi cha manyasE thvam na hruchchayam vEthsi munim purANam <\/em>I <em>yO vEdhithA karmaNa: pApakasya thyAnthikE thvam vrujinam karOshi<\/em> II\u201d ([Oh dhushyantha maharAja !] you think \u201conly I am there\u201d. You do not realise that bhagavAn, the Adhipurusha [the first entity] is dwelling constantly in the heart . You are carrying out sinful deeds at the proximity of one who knows of such sinful deeds). <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> suggests here that he was indulging in improper deeds even when emperumAn, who is omniscient and who controls everything, dwells in his heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>veLgip pOy<\/strong> \u2013 AzhwAr feels ahamed after realising his deceitful nature, emperumAn\u2019s omniscience and his dwelling constantly in his heart. <em>pOy <\/em>\u2013 Once he felt ashamed, he could not stand in the presence of emperumAn, with bowed head, and leaves his presence. If one were ashamed of something, he would leave from that place and go to a place where it is not present. Without the thought that there is not a place where emperumAn is not present, AzhwAr searches for such a place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ennuLLE nAn <\/strong>\u2013 samsAris cannot join hands with him for laughing off his act of foolishness, as they are totally ignorant. <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a> also will not join him in his laughter as <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a> wanted to leave the presence of emperumAn. Hence AzhwAr has to laugh all by himself. Since there was none to join him in this act of laughing and since he realised his foolishness, he himself became his supporter for laughing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>vilavaRach chiriththittEnE<\/strong> \u2013 He laughed so much that his ribs broke, says AzhwAr. Since the deed that he carried out [of finding a place which did not have emperumAn\u2019s presence] was in the forefront of all foolish acts, there was no limit to his laughter too. His act of trying to leave emperumAn\u2019s presence is like a person who, wishing to commit suicide by jumping into fire, eats betel leaves and decorates himself with flowers before he jumps and he laughs at that. When arjuna heard the other paths to attain bhagavAn, before krishNa spoke to him about <a href=\"http:\/\/ponnadi.blogspot.in\/2015\/12\/rahasya-thrayam.html\">charama SlOkam<\/a>, arjuna felt disheartened because the other paths were so very difficult to practice. He waited with the hope that krishNa would offer a solution to this. <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/thondaradippodi-azhwar\/\">AzhwAr<\/a>, since he thought that he should not approach emperumAn any more, decides to leave him without any desire. He tries to leave the presence of <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">emperumAn<\/a>, laughing to himself, just as a person, deciding to jump into fire, takes betel leaves and decorates himself with flowers.<\/p>\n<p>We shall move on to the 35<sup>th<\/sup> pAsuram.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">adiyEn krishNa ramanuja dhAsan<\/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) emperumAn lives in the minds of chEthanas (sentient entities). Since the mind is the gateway through which our knowledge emerges, emperumAn knows all our faults. AzhwAr feels ashamed that he, being a liar, had caused blemish to the omniscient &#8230; <a title=\"thirumAlai &#8211; 34 &#8211; uLLaththE uRaiyum mAlai\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/thirumalai-34\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about thirumAlai &#8211; 34 &#8211; uLLaththE uRaiyum mAlai\">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-12459","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\/12459","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=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}