{"id":42331,"date":"2021-03-18T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/?p=42331"},"modified":"2021-03-18T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:00:25","slug":"thiruviruththam-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/thiruviruththam-79\/","title":{"rendered":"thiruviruththam &#8211; 79 &#8211; vEdhanai veNpuri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/thiruviruththam\/\">Full Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/thiruviruththam-78\/\">Previous<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>avathArikai (Introduction)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AzhwAr is mercifully speaking about those who are able to enjoy firmly all the matters related to bhagavAn, unlike himself who becomes faint on thinking about him.<\/p>\n<p>Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings:<\/p>\n<p><em>vEdhanai veNpurinUlanai viNNOr parava ninRa<br \/>\n<\/em><em>nAdhanai gyAlam vizhungum anAdhanai gyAlandhaththum<br \/>\n<\/em><em>pAdhanaip pARkadal pAmbaNai mEl paLLi koNdaruLum<br \/>\n<\/em><em>sIdhanaiyE thozhuvAr viNNuLArilum sIriyarE<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Word-by-Word Meanings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>vEdhanai<\/em> \u2013 one who is described by vEdhas (sacred texts)<br \/>\n<em>veN<\/em> \u2013 whitish<br \/>\n<em>puri<\/em> \u2013 having strands<br \/>\n<em>nUlanai<\/em> \u2013 having divine sacred thread<br \/>\n<em>viNNOr<\/em> \u2013 nithyasUris (permanent dwellers of SrIvaikuNtam)<br \/>\n<em>parava ninRa<\/em> \u2013 being worshipped by<br \/>\n<em>nAdhanai<\/em> \u2013 being the lord<br \/>\n<em>gyAlam<\/em> \u2013 leelAvibhUthi (materialistic realm) including earth<br \/>\n<em>vizhungum<\/em> \u2013 one \u00a0who swallows<br \/>\n<em>anAdhanai<\/em> \u2013 one who does not have a lord for him<br \/>\n<em>gyAlam<\/em> \u2013 earth<br \/>\n<em>thaththum<\/em> \u2013 one who brought under<br \/>\n<em>pAdhanai<\/em> \u2013 having divine feet<br \/>\n<em>pARkadal<\/em> \u2013 in thiruppARkadal (divine milky ocean)<br \/>\n<em>pAmbu aNai mEl<\/em> \u2013 on top of the divine bed of divine AdhiSEshan<br \/>\n<em>paLLi koNdu aruLum<\/em> \u2013 one who is reclining mercifully<br \/>\n<em>sIdhanaiyE<\/em> \u2013 sarvESvaran who has coolness as his natural quality<br \/>\n<em>thozhuvAr<\/em> \u2013 those who worship<br \/>\n<em>viNNuLArilum<\/em> \u2013 more than nithyasUris<br \/>\n<em>sIriyarE<\/em> \u2013 are eminent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>sarvESvaran is described by the vEdhas, he wears the divine sacred thread with white strands and is worshipped by nithyasUris. He swallows all the worlds, doesn\u2019t have a lord for himself and measures all the worlds and keeps them under his divine feet. He reclines on the divine mattress of AdhiSEshan in the divine thiruppARkadal and has coolness as his true nature. Those who worship him are more eminent than the nithyasUris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>vyAkyAnam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>vEdhanai<\/strong> \u2013 AzhwAr thinks of vEdhas which keep thinking, just like himself, only about sarvESvaran and which do not have a beginning or end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>veN puri nUlanai<\/strong> \u2013 just as it has been\u00a0 seen in the previous pAsuram <em>mai varai pOl poliyum uru<\/em>, he\u00a0 has a dark form; vEdhas too describe such divine form. He has a whitish divine thread which contrasts with that dark form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>viNNOr parava ninRa nAdhanai<\/strong> \u2013 even nithyasUris, in a disorderly way, keep calling out to such form<\/p>\n<p><strong>gyAlam vizhungum anAdhanai<\/strong> \u2013 he does not look at his eminence in being praised by those who have no shortcomings in them [nithyasUris]; he thinks constantly of samsAris (dwellers in materialistic realm) and protects them by keeping the world in which they live, in his divine stomach, during deluge. He has no one who can tell him \u201cYou are not supposed to do this\u201d [he has none above him who can order him].<\/p>\n<p><strong>gyAlam . . . <\/strong>\u2013 instead of protecting once and letting go, like a worm making movements such that it forms an alphabet by accident, he has the divine feet which encircled the world fully, protecting them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>gyAlam . . . <\/strong>\u2013 even after carrying out all the activities for samsAris, including measuring their worlds and protecting them, he thinks \u201cWe have not done anything for them\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>pARkadal . . .<\/strong> \u2013 he keeps reclining on thiruppARkadal (the divine milky ocean) thinking about the protection of the worlds; despite doing everything, he thinks \u201cWe have not done anything for them\u201d; he retrieves the worlds which indhra [the lord of celestial entities] had lost out to demons,and reclines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>sIdhanai<\/strong> \u2013 if one were to think about his reclining on thiruppARkadal, all the heat [anguish] gets removed; he has such a cool nature. Just as it has been mentioned in narAyaNa sUktham <em>thApArthO jalaSAyinam<\/em> \u2013 he reclines on water in order to remove the heat of samsAris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>sIdhanaiyE thozhuvAr<\/strong> \u2013 those who worship him without expecting some other benefit [instead of himself]; those who worship him without becoming faint hearted on hearing his divine name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>viNNuLArilum sIriyarE<\/strong> \u2013 unlike those who are permanently enjoying sarvESvaran from <em>that<\/em> place [nithyavibhUthi], those who are in samsAram, which is the exact opposite of nithyavibhUthi, and having the activity of worshipping him as a constant behaviour, are more eminent than nithyasUris.<\/p>\n<p>adiyEn krishNa rAmAnuja dhAsan<\/p>\n<p>archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\">https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/koyil.org\/\">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 Previous avathArikai (Introduction) AzhwAr is mercifully speaking about those who are able to enjoy firmly all the matters related to bhagavAn, unlike himself who becomes faint on thinking about him. Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings: vEdhanai veNpurinUlanai viNNOr parava &#8230; <a title=\"thiruviruththam &#8211; 79 &#8211; vEdhanai veNpuri\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/thiruviruththam-79\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about thiruviruththam &#8211; 79 &#8211; vEdhanai veNpuri\">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":[6,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iyarpa","category-thiruviruththam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42331","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=42331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}