srI:
srImathE satakOpAya nama:
srImathE rAmAnujAya nama:
srImadh varavaramunayE nama:<\/p>\n
Full Series<\/a><\/p>\n Previous article<\/a><\/p>\n In the second one of 10 wake-up pAsurams, they are waking up a gOpikA (who represents those) who knows bhagavath vishayam, but has forgotten about it now. She does not know that there is something better than bhagavath vishayam (i.e., knowing about and doing kainkaryam to emperumAn<\/a>), which is bhAgavatha vishayam (i.e., knowing about and doing kainkaryam to the devotees of emperumAn<\/a>).<\/p>\n [ Once, AtkONdavilli jIyar, who was a sishyA of emperumAnAr<\/a>, had gone to see nanjIyar<\/a>; nanjIyar prostrated and was standing, when this conversation happened: “I have not truly developed taste in bhagavath vishayam”;\u00a0 “As an AchArya purusha, why are you thinking like this?”;\u00a0 “True sign of interest in bhagavath vishayam is when we become very happy when we see bhAgavathAs (devotees)”. ]<\/p>\n ==> This pAsuram refers to pEyAzhwAr<\/a>. (At the end of this text, there is a detail about how this pAsuram refers also to kulasEkara AzhwAr<\/a><\/em> (reverse order from periyAzhvAr)<\/p>\n \u0b95\u0bc0\u0b9a\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bc0\u0b9a\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0b8e\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b86\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb2\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 kIchu kIchenRu engum AnaichchAththan kalandhu<\/em> pEi peNNE! – you, the one without proper mind (even though you know the taste of bhagavath vishayam) The gOpikAs said “The day is dawning, so you wake up”; this gOpikA inside also asked “How do you say it is dawn. I don’t see any signs”. Now they reply,<\/p>\n kIchu kIchu enRu engum Anai-ch-chAtthan <\/strong><\/p>\n “The Anai sAtthan bird (sparrow) is making the ‘kIchu kIchu’ sound” (which sounds like a baby’s sweet talk (\u0bae\u0bb4\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc7\u0b9a\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bc1 (\u0b85\u0ba8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0bb7\u0bb0-\u0bb0\u0bb8\u0bae\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc8))<\/p>\n “Just one bird making noise doesn’t make it a dawn. It may be your house’s bird.”<\/p>\n “They are everywhere” (engum)<\/p>\n “You would have triggered them from their sleep”<\/p>\n “No, not because of us, they got up by themselves and they are making sound by themselves”<\/p>\n “How do you say that”,<\/p>\n kalandhu pEsina pEchchu aravam kEttilaiyO<\/strong><\/p>\n “They are talking together, that is how we know. There are many birds and they are talking to each other”<\/p>\n “They were together the whole night, why are they talking to each other now”<\/p>\n “They would be separated during the day, they are talking to each other so that they could use that to sustain the day. Their sound makes it clear that they are not feeling too good about the separation; like how someone going away for 6 months into the sea would want to spend more time with his wife, these birds are also talking and being with each other. Have you not heard them? Dwelling in the thoughts of krishNan, you have not heard the birds”<\/p>\n Inner meaning: If a devotee were to go somewhere from the group of devotees, then these people would talk to each other to reduce their angst about that separation, and will think about it until that devotee returns; have you not heard them talking to each other?<\/p>\n pEip peNNE<\/strong><\/p>\n She does not get up, saying “<\/strong>You would always talk like this”.<\/p>\n They say “Knowing about bhagavath vishayam and bhAgavatha vishayam, you are still not getting up? You don’t have the gyAnam?”<\/p>\n “Instead of talking about what I lack, talk about the signs of dawning”<\/p>\n ==> AzhvAr: In this pAsurm, pEi pEnnE<\/em> refers to ‘pEi AzhwAr<\/a>‘. \u00a0With his ‘thiruk kaNdEn<\/em> [mUnRAm thiruvanthAdhi]’ he talked about seeing the nAyagan<\/em> (perumAn<\/a>); his other pAsurams talk about krishNan’s sEshtithangaL <\/em>(activites), and about krishNan marrying nappinnai pirAtti after fighting with the bulls.<\/p>\n kAsum piRappum <\/strong>(chain\/garland made of coins, chain\/garland made of those shaped like flower buds)<\/p>\n The coins, etc., from the chains worn in the women’s necks;<\/p>\n Inner meaning: thirumanthram, dhvayam and charamaslOkam (which we get from our AchAryan during samAshrayaNam) are heard together, and people are realizing their nature of being properties of emperumAn<\/a>.<\/p>\n kalakalappa<\/strong><\/p>\n (gOpikAs) are making noise together when they are churning curd using the churning rods.<\/p>\n kai pErththu<\/strong><\/p>\n and they are getting tired after churning. Tired because they are so rich with a lot of curd; due to their gentleness, it feels like churning a mountain; tired in their mind may be because krishNan is not around; actually may be because krishNan says that He would help them churn, and He sits opposite a gOpikA, and while the gOpikA tries to churn He holds her hands and does not allow her to churn freely because He does not want her to make curd into buttermilk (he likes curd; mOrAr kudam urutti<\/em> [siriya thirumadal]), so her hands get tired.<\/p>\n vAsa naRum kuzhal Aichchiyar<\/strong><\/p>\n because of exhaustion, their hair locks get undone and that sends sweet fragrance to fill everywhere.<\/p>\n maththinAl Osai paduththa thayir aravam kEttilaiyO<\/strong><\/p>\n like how the ocean was churned making huge noise, these gOpikAs are churning curd and you are not hearing that great sound? The gOpikAs are losing themselves in the beautiful eyes of krishNan and are singing in praise of that, and they are churning this curd with all their efforts; their chains are making the clinging\u00a0 noise, and all these sounds are becoming greater and greater and hitting the other worlds, and you are saying you don’t hear any sound!<\/p>\n Inner meaning<\/em> for the above two phrases: srIvaishNavAs who are ananyArha sEshabUthars (they know that they belong to nArAyaNan emperumAn<\/a>, and to emperumAn <\/a>only), who understand the wonderful fragrance of bhagavath vishayam (about perumAL), wish well for the samsAris who are the chEthanars (beings with gyAnam that they belong to perumAn<\/a>) to recite the 4000 divya prabhandham<\/a> \u2013 are you not hearing them reciting the prabandhams<\/a>?<\/p>\n The gOpikA still does not get up, and says, “In this thiruvAyppAdi the people’s nature is to churn butter all the time, especially with krishNan doing avathAram here, there is no dearth of cows or milk, so I don’t think this is dawn”.<\/p>\n nAyagap peN piLLAi<\/strong><\/p>\n First they called her as ‘pEip peNNE’, now they are calling her as ‘nAyagap pEn PiLLAi’ – both of which imply the same, that she is loved by all these gOpikAs;<\/p>\n a rich girl of high status who is talking against all their responses, and not getting up from the bed, even though she is the center-piece of all these gOpikAs.<\/p>\n She still does not say anything, so they say:<\/p>\n nArAyaNan mUrthy kEsavanaip pAdavum nI kEttE kidaththiyO<\/strong><\/p>\n even after our singing praises (pAdavum<\/em>) about nArayanan (perumAn<\/a> who without showing himself is helping us and saving us),<\/p>\n who is born here due to his simplicity (mUrthy<\/em>),<\/p>\n who being visible to us here in AyppAdi, who is getting rid of enemies (anything in us that prevents us from doing kainkaryam to him) [kEsavanai<\/em>],<\/p>\n and listening to (kEttE<\/em>) all the greatness of perumAn<\/a>, \u00a0you are enjoying our songs (like patting in the lap when enjoying some songs),\u00a0 by lying down in bed (kidaththiyO<\/em>)?<\/p>\n kEttE kidaththiyO – You are lying down as if our words are what would sustain your life;<\/p>\n They are using the word ‘kEsavan<\/em>‘ to get her to quickly get up in alarm, as ‘kEsavan<\/em>‘ would remind her of the danger that came to krishNan in the form of the asuran kEsi<\/em>. But she still does not get up, thinking that krishNan has killed that kEsi, so there is no danger for Him.<\/p>\n “We thought that if we sang about kEsavan, you would get up immediately, and how janakan thirumagaL (jAnaki) went quickly and hugged chakravarthy thirumagan (srI rAman)* we thought you would also quickly go with us to hug krishNan. But you are feeling better because of realizing that there is no fear of kEsi, and sleeping with your hands on your chest (that is, without any worry).<\/p>\n (* When living in the forest, when srI rAman killed kara-dhUshaNAs and 14,000 rakshasas and came back to their place in the forest, sIthA pirAtti upon seeing SrI rAman back with blood\/wounds all over His body, she quickly went and hugged Him with love and affection).<\/p>\n (People who are following karma, gyAna, or bhakthi yOgas to reach srI vaikuntam have to be very careful (so, they are worried) to make sure that they are following all the procedures for the yOgas properly. If they are not followed properly, then they would have to take more births to complete it properly and then only could they attain mOksham. But in the case of SaraNagathAs (those who have done samAsrayaNam<\/a> \/ surrender), they have left all the efforts to perumAn<\/a> Himself (through their AchAryan) to take care of getting them mOksham, so they don’t have any worries whatsoever because they are assured of mOksham \u2013 so they sleep with their hands on their chest (no worries)). [\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc7 \u0b95\u0bc8 \u0bb5\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0bb1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bcd\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0baa\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf]<\/p>\n thEsam udaiyAy thiRa<\/strong><\/p>\n O pretty and beautiful girl, O the girl who looks so bright due to thinking about krishNan, please open the door for us to see that beauty and get the same gyAnam about krishNan, and quickly join us. Open the door and let the flood of your happiness (of thnking about krishNan) hit us.<\/p>\n (That gOpikA finally gets up and joins other gOpikAs to go to the next house to wake up another gOpikA.)<\/p>\n How this pAsuram is also<\/strong> addressing kulasEkara AzhwAr<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n This AzhvAr <\/a>was a king, with great devotion to srI rAman – when he listens to the story of SrI kalandhu pEsina pEchchu-aravam kEttilaiyO pEipeNNE (Hey kulasEkarA<\/a>, the ministers are talking among each other scheming to get these srIvaishNavas, do you hear that?) aravam kettilaiyO – aravam – snake<\/p>\n nAyagap peN piLLAi – the leader or the central person – kulasEkara AzhwAr<\/a> is in the middle of the list of AzhwArs.<\/p>\n kEsavanaip pAdavum (kulasEkarAzhwAr<\/a>‘s first pAsuram was about kEsi as well)<\/p>\n pAdavum nI kEttE kidaththiyO (kulasEkarAzhwAr<\/a> wanted to go join the fight to help rAman). You would not sit idle after hearing about rAman.)<\/p>\n pEippeNNE – Azhwar has sung ‘pEyanE enakku yAvarum yAnumOr pEyarE evarkkum.<\/em> ‘ in nAyikA bhAvam<\/p>\n thEsamudaiyAi \u2013 you who wants a thEsu (thEjas\/ form) \u2013 kulasEkara AzhwAr<\/a> wanted to be in any form which would be related to perumAn<\/a> – UnERu selvaththu udan piRavi yAn vENdEn … emperumAn<\/a> pon malaiyil EdhEnum AvEnE.<\/p>\n ————<\/p>\n In this pAsuram, ANdAL<\/a> and other gOpikAs wake up a girl who knows a bit of bhagavath vishayam, but has forgotten about it and lying in bed; gOpikAs come there to wake her up and remind her about bhA<\/strong>gavatha vishayam; some gOpikas did not get early as they were lying in bed and enjoying on their thoughts on krishNan.<\/p>\n English translation raghurAm srInivAsa dhAsan<\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" srI:srImathE satakOpAya nama:srImathE rAmAnujAya nama:srImadh varavaramunayE nama: Full Series Previous article In the second one of 10 wake-up pAsurams, they are waking up a gOpikA (who represents those) who knows bhagavath vishayam, but has forgotten about it now. 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pEsina pEchcharavam kEttilaiyO pEippEnnE!<\/em>
kAsum piRappum kalakalappa kai pErththu<\/em>
vAsa naRum kuzhal Aichchiyar <\/em>
maththinAl Osai padhuththa thayir aravam kEttilaiyO<\/em>
nAyagap pEN piLLAi nArAyaNan mUrthi<\/em>
kEsavanaip pAdavum nI kEttE kidaththiyO<\/em>
thEsam udaiyAy thiRavElor empAvAi<\/em><\/p>\nWord by Word Meaning<\/h3>\n
Anai-ch-chAththan – bharathvAja birds named valiyan (king crows)
kIchu kIchu enRu – (birds) making kIch<\/em> sounds
engum – in all the directions
kalandhu pEsina – and are talking among themselves
kEttilaiyO – did you not hear that
pEchchu aravam – sound of their talking?
Aychchiar – (also) gOpikAs
vAsam narum kuzhal – (with) hair in their head with very good fragrance, (and with their)
kAsum – garland made with the shapes of kAsu<\/em> (round coins-like) (\u0b85\u0b9a\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bbf)
piRappum – and long garland made with the shapes of flower buds (\u0bae\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bbf)
kalakalappa – these are making sound touching each other
kai pErthu – (as the gOpikAs) move their hands,
Osai padutha – and also noise is made
maththinAl – when using the churn stick,
thayir aravam – and the sound of curd
kEttilaiyO – did you not hear (them)?
nAyaga peN piLLAi – You who is the head of us gOpikAs!
pAdavum – as we sing
nArAyaNan mUrthy kEsavanai – about kaNNan who is the avathAram of nArAyAnan
nI kEttE kidaththiyO – are you still lying down?
thEsam udaiyAy – Oh the one with great thEjas<\/em>,
thiRa – open your door.<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
\u00a0rAman getting ready for the war against rAvaNan, he would get up and enter into the sea thinking that he should go and help rAman in the war. In his palace there were a lot of srIvaishNavas taken care of by kulasEkaran<\/a>. The ministers were jealous and they stole some gold coins and put the blame on those srIvaishNavas; kulasEkaran<\/a> asked to bring a pot with a snake in it and put his hand inside the pot without any fear to prove that the srIvaishNavas would have never done such a thing.<\/p>\n
kAsum piRappum kalakalappa kai pErthu (kudap pAmbil kai ittu) [you had put your hands inside the pot that had the coins making noise and with the snake in it.<\/p>\n
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