<< Previous<\/a><\/p>\n When AzhwAr was asked as to how he knew emperumAn when even brahmA could not know him, he responds saying \u201cafter I held on to him by reciting his divine names, he showed himself to me; thus I knew him. I knew that life in this world is susceptible to danger and that only if I hold on to him could I extricate myself from it\u201d<\/p>\n Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings:<\/p>\n ayal ninRa valvinaiyai anjinEn anji<\/em> ayal ninRa \u2013 standing close (to me) ayal ninRa valvinaiyai<\/strong> anjinEn <\/strong>\u2013 I was scared of my sins which kept troubling me, without leaving me, entering wherever I entered and constricting me (this is considering the meaning for the term ayal ninRa<\/em> to be \u2018nearby\u2019). Alternative explanation \u2013 I was scared as to what would I do if the sins, which had left me on my gaining knowledge about emperumAn, would come back (this is considering the meaning for the term ayal ninRa<\/em> to be \u2018at a distance\u2019).<\/p>\n anji uya nin thiruadiyE sErvAn<\/strong> \u2013 being scared and in order to get emancipated from those sins, I recited your divine names in order to attain your divine feet, which\u00a0 will not give any place for fear. It is not that I was capable of reciting your divine names. Due to fear\u00a0 and incapacity, in order to sustain myself I recited something.<\/p>\n nayam ninRa<\/strong> \u2013 being very simple to recite. Alternatively, being an explanation for thirumanthram <\/em>(the eight syllable phrase based on the name nArAyaNa).<\/p>\n namO nArANA ennum sol mAlai kaRREn<\/strong> \u2013 I learnt about thirumanthram<\/em> which reveals about him from this prabandham<\/em> (mudhal thiruvandhAdhi<\/em>, a collection of divine verses) which is an explanation for thirumanthram<\/em> (at the beginning of this prabandham<\/em>, AzhwAr had mercifully used the term\u00a0 \u201csol mAlai sUttinEn<\/em>\u201d (I adorned him with a garland of verses) in the very first pAsuram. Hence in the verse \u201csol mAlai kaRREn<\/em>\u201d he says that he spoke about this prabandham<\/em>).<\/p>\n son mAlai kaRREn thozhudhu<\/strong> \u2013 I learnt about the garland of verses, and appropriate to that, I also worshipped him in line with the meaning of the verse.<\/p>\n We shall take up the 58th<\/sup> pAsuram next.<\/p>\n adiyEn krishNa ramanuja dhAsan<\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai When AzhwAr was asked as to how he knew emperumAn when even brahmA could not know him, he responds saying \u201cafter I held on to him by reciting his divine names, he showed himself to me; thus I knew him. … 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":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iyarpa","category-mudhal-thiruvandhadhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029","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=17029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bhagavan.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\navathArikai<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n uya nin thiruvadiyE sErvAn naya ninRa<\/em>
\n nanmAlai koNdu namO nAranA ennum<\/em>
\n sonmAlai kaRREn thozhudhu<\/em><\/p>\nWord by Word Meanings<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nval vinaiyai \u2013 looking at the extremely powerful sins
\nanjinEn \u2013 I was scared
\nanji \u2013 being afraid (like this)
\nuya \u2013 to get emancipated (after ridding of the sins)
\nnin \u2013 your
\nthiruvadiyE sErvAn \u2013 in order to attain divine feet
\nnayam ninRa \u2013 being in the form of SAsthras (sacred texts)
\nnal mAlai koNdu \u2013 with beautiful garland
\nthozhudhu \u2013 worshipped
\nnamO nAranA ennum \u2013\u00a0 thirumanthram with eight syllables
\nsolmAlai \u2013 garland of words
\nkaRRen \u2013 I practised.<\/p>\nvyAkyAnam<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\npramANam (scriptures) \u2013 http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org<\/a>
\npramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org<\/a>
\nSrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"