<< Previous<\/a><\/p>\n AzhwAr<\/a> talks about how emperumAn<\/a> carries out the activities for dhEvathAs who desire other benefits [and not emperumAn].<\/p>\n Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings:<\/p>\n iRai emperumAn aruLenRu imaiyOr<\/em> imaiyOr \u2013 dhEvathAs (such as brahmA, rudhra et al) iRai emperumAn aruL enRu<\/strong> \u2013 Oh supreme being for the world and our ordained Lord! Show us mercy.<\/p>\n iRai emperumAn aruL enRu<\/strong> \u2013 Just as it is mentioned in thiruvAimozhi 2-2-10<\/a> \u201ckaLvA! emmaiyum Ezhulagum ninnuLLE thORRiya iRaiva! <\/em>\u201d (Oh the mischievous lord who created us and all the worlds within you! Oh our lord!) the dhEvathAs will worship emperumAn<\/a>.<\/p>\n aruL enRu<\/strong> \u2013 if the people living in the town find that one of their belongings has been stolen, they will assemble at the house of the head of the town who protects them and cry out about the loss of their property\/possession. In the same way, these dhEvathAs will also come to emperumAn<\/a> who is their protector and plead with him if their possessions \/ lands are taken away by demons such as rAvaNa et al. Who are these people who come and pray…..<\/p>\n imaiyOr<\/strong> \u2013 these are the people mentioned by nammAzhwAr<\/a> in his thiruvAimozhi 2-2-10<\/a> as \u201cveLLERan nAnmugan indhiran vAnavar <\/em>\u201d (dhEvathAs such as rudhra, brahmA, indhra et al); they are the people, who have their own worlds, vehicles, flags, weapons etc [granted by emperumAn<\/a>] and who, blowing their own trumpets, will call themselves as ISvarOham<\/em> (I am the Lord). AzhwAr<\/a> says that they leave aside their ego and trumpets and come and pray to emperumAn.<\/p>\n muRai ninRu<\/strong> \u2013 they will know that emperumAn<\/a> is the lord and that they are the servitors, and holding their hands together, will bow down to emperumAn.<\/p>\n moymmalargaL thUva<\/strong> \u2013 just as their followers worship them with beautiful flowers, these dhEvathAs will worship emperumAn with beautiful flowers.<\/p>\n thUva<\/strong> \u2013 in their anxiety that whatever they have prayed for now should be granted , they will sprinkle the flowers, not at the divine feet of emperumAn<\/a> but haphazardly on his head.<\/p>\n What does emperumAn do when they worship him like this?<\/p>\n aRai kazhala sEvadiyAn<\/strong> \u2013 emperumAn<\/a> who stands with his warrior\u2019s anklets sounding reverbrantly on his divine feet. Even as they are praying, he gets ready to do their bidding. kazhal <\/em>is indicative of all other ornaments worn by him on his divine feet.<\/p>\n sengaN nediyAn<\/strong> \u2013 one who has lotus like eyes, indicative of the fact that he is the lord for all these dhEvathAs, as mentioned widely in sacred texts \u2013 SvEthAsvathara upanishath says of emperumAn<\/a> \u201ctham ISvaraNAm paramam mahESvaram\u00a0 tham dhEvathAnAm pramamcha dhaivatham <\/em>\u201d (he is the mahESvaran for all these ISvarars and he is the dhEvathA for all these dhEvathAs).<\/p>\n nediyAn<\/strong> \u2013 he is the greatest among all.<\/p>\n mAl<\/strong> \u2013 even though they come to him for helping them with lowly benefits, he doesn\u2019t frown at them but showers affection on them like water flooding the channels once the sluice gates are opened in a lake. He is affectionate towards them in the hope that at some point of time in the future, they will come to him, asking for himself instead of such lowly benefits.<\/p>\n Did he not lower his status while carrying out their tasks!<\/p>\n kuRaL uruvAy<\/strong> \u2013 the opinion is that in order to carry out the task for such followers, he did\u00a0 not take a great form consistent with his greatness of giving everything to others, but took the form of a dwarf (vAmana) for whom taking alms from others is the ordained duty.<\/p>\n mAvadivil maNkoNdAn<\/strong> \u2013 he took a huge form [after being granted his wish by mahAbali] capable of swallowing all the worlds, in order to measure the worlds [and get back what his followers had lost].<\/p>\n kuRaL uruvAy mAvadivil<\/strong> \u2013 Just as thirumazhisai AzhwAr<\/a> mentioned in his thiruchchandha viruththam 109 \u201csurukkuvAinRiyE surunginAy\u00a0 surungiyum perukkuvArai inRiyE perukkameydhu peRRiyOy <\/em>\u201d, he dwarfed himself and grew to very large extent of his own volition, without anyone asking him to do so.<\/p>\n We shall take up the 100th<\/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 AzhwAr talks about how emperumAn carries out the activities for dhEvathAs who desire other benefits [and not emperumAn]. Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings: iRai emperumAn aruLenRu imaiyOr muRai ninRu moymmalargaL thUva aRaikazhala sEvadiyAn sengaNediyAn kuRaLuruvAy mAvadivil … 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":[72,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irandam-thiruvandhadhi","category-iyarpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566","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=19566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Gods_prayed_Vishnu.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\navathArikai<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n muRai ninRu moymmalargaL thUva aRaikazhala<\/em>
\n sEvadiyAn sengaNediyAn kuRaLuruvAy<\/em>
\n mAvadivil maN koNdAn mAl<\/em><\/p>\nWord by Word Meanimg<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nemperumAn \u2013 Oh our lord!
\niRai \u2013 Oh supreme being!
\naruL enRu \u2013 please show mercy (in our matter), so saying
\nmuRai ninRu \u2013 standing in the form of servitors
\nmoy malargaL \u2013 beautiful flowers
\nthUva \u2013 scattering them in a disorderly way
\naRai kazhala sEvadiyAn \u2013 having divine feet adorned with warrior\u2019s anklets
\nsem kaN \u2013 having reddish eyes
\nnediyAn \u2013 being superior to everyone else
\nmAl \u2013 having affection towards his followers
\nkuRaL uruvAy \u2013 incarnating in the form of vAmana (dwarf)
\nmAvadivil \u2013 with mahAbali
\nmaN koNdAn mAl \u2013 measured the earth<\/p>\nvyAkyAnam<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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