<< Previous<\/a><\/p>\n In the earlier pAsuram, AzhwAr<\/a> mentioned that with a huge form, he carried out a small task (of begging King mahAbali). In this pAsuram, he talks about carrying out a huge task (swallowing the entire world) with a small form [he lay down as a child on the leaf of a banyan tree after swallowing all the worlds].<\/p>\n Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings first.<\/p>\n maNNum malaiyum maRi kadalum mArudhamum<\/em> maNNum \u2013 the earth maNNum<\/strong> \u2013 the earth, which supports all the entities in the world<\/p>\n malaiyum<\/strong> \u2013 the mountains which serve the earth<\/p>\n maRi kadalum<\/strong> \u2013 the oceans which surround the earth and throw up the waves<\/p>\n mArudhamum<\/strong> \u2013 air which is required for living beings to breathe and for supporting them<\/p>\n viNNum<\/strong> \u2013 the skies which provide space for the aforementioned entities<\/p>\n vizhungiyadhu meyyenbar<\/strong> \u2013 vEdham and rishis, \u00a0who speak only truth, say that you had swallowed all the above mentioned entities like butter, to contain them in a small portion of your stomach.<\/p>\n Normally when one recounts the five elements, in thamizh, the usage is maNNum punalum (earth, water etc). Why did AzhwAr<\/a> say earth, mountains etc? When he swallowed all the entities, he did not swallow them in any order! That he swallowed these was true is claimed by vEdhas and those who are highly knowledgeable in vEdhas (rishis or sages).<\/p>\n eNNil<\/strong> \u2013 if we have to get a measure of such you [you refers to emperumAn<\/a>]<\/p>\n alagu aLavu kaNda sIr AzhiyAykku<\/strong> \u2013 alagu refers to the instrument used for measuring. It has several units of measurement such as lakhs, crores, Sankam, mahASankam, padhmam, kumudham etc. The count of auspicious qualities that you have is so huge that these units cannot measure them. He has auspicious qualities and weapons such as the divine disc. It is said \u201cmathikshayAnnivarthathE na gOvindha guNakshayAth<\/em>\u201d (I am unable to about the qualities of gOvindha, not because of any shortcoming of his qualities but due to shortcoming of my knowledge).<\/p>\n anRu ivvulagaLavum uNdO un vAy<\/strong> \u2013 on that day when you swallowed all the worlds to keep them safely in your divine stomach, was your divine mouth bigger than these worlds to enable you to swallow them?\u00a0AzhwAr<\/a> hints here that with a small mouth, he was able to swallow such large dimensional worlds, thus exhibiting his wondrous activity.<\/p>\n We shall move on to the 11th<\/sup> pAsuram.<\/p>\n adiyEn krishNa ramanuja dhAsan<\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai In the earlier pAsuram, AzhwAr mentioned that with a huge form, he carried out a small task (of begging King mahAbali). In this pAsuram, he talks about carrying out a huge task (swallowing the entire world) with a small form … 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219","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=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/krishna-on-leaf-e1454584811199.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\navathArikai<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n viNNum vizhungiyadhu meyyenbar eNNil<\/em>
\n alagu aLavu kaNda sIr AzhiyAykku anRu iv<\/em>
\n vulagu aLavu uNdO un vAy<\/em><\/p>\nWord by Word Meanings<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nmalaiyum \u2013 the mountains
\nmaRi kadalum \u2013 the oceans which throw up waves constantly
\nmArudhamum \u2013 the air
\nviNNum \u2013 the sky [all these]
\nvizhungiyadhu \u2013 ate up
\nmey enbar \u2013 (rishis, sages) will say that it is true
\neNNil \u2013 if one were to delve into this
\nalagu aLavu kaNda sIr AzhiyAykku \u2013 one who has seen the boundary (limitlessness) of auspicious qualities and who has the divine chakra (disc)
\nanRu –\u00a0 during that time
\nun vAy \u2013 your divine mouth
\nivvulagu aLavum uNdO \u2013 was it bigger than the worlds<\/p>\nvyAkhyAnam<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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