{"id":9684,"date":"2016-07-21T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2016-07-21T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:23:00","slug":"arththi-prabandham-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/arththi-prabandham-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Arththi Prabandham &#8211; 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>SrI:&nbsp; SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:&nbsp; SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:&nbsp; SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/05\/arththi-prabandham\/\">Full Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/arththi-prabandham-15\/\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/emperumAnAr_thiruvadi_to_a_dumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3748\" src=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/emperumAnAr_thiruvadi_to_a_dumb.jpg\" alt=\"emperumAnAr_thiruvadi_to_a_dumb\" width=\"425\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/emperumAnAr_thiruvadi_to_a_dumb.jpg 864w, https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/emperumAnAr_thiruvadi_to_a_dumb-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/emperumAnAr_thiruvadi_to_a_dumb-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a> blessing a mute devotee by showing him his lotus feet<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Introduction <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/06\/arththi-prabandham-15\/\">previous pAsuram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a>&nbsp; concluded that he does not have any iota of love \/ devotion in his heart towards <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a>. In this pAsuram, he assumes that <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a>&nbsp;asks him a question. The imaginary question that <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a> asks <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a>&nbsp;is \u201cOh <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a>!!! You said that you do not have any love or devotion towards me. That is fine. Do you at least have the hatred towards other worldly stuff? Have you stayed out from those mundane activities that hinder your spiritual journey?\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a>&nbsp;replies, \u201cNo. adiyEn has not refrained from worldly stuff. Nor does adiyEn have any iota of pure love and devotion towards you. Oh <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a>! Your lotus feet takes one\u2019s blemishes and treats them as luxuries. adiyEn&nbsp; is not sure when will adiyEn reach the great&nbsp;lotus feet of yours. Only you know that and only you can let me know the day when adiyen will reach you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>pAsuram 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>AgAdhadhu IdhenRu aRindhum piRarkku uraiththum<\/em><br \/>\n<em> AgAdhadhE seyvan AdhalAl mOkAnthan enRU<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ninaiththu ennai igazhEl ethirAsA<\/em><br \/>\n<em> enRu unnadi sErvan yAn<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlisten.com\/sarathy.thothathri\/arththi-prabandham-16\">Listen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><iframe \u00a0=\"\" src=\"\/\/yourlisten.com\/embed\/html5?17808802\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Word-by-Word Meanings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>aRindhum \u2013 I (<a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a>) clearly knew<br \/>\nIdhenRu \u2013 that the list of things that<br \/>\nAgAdhadhu \u2013 the AchAryas (gurus) described as \u201cthose to be discarded\u201d<br \/>\npiRarkku uraiththum \u2013 not stopping with that, I advised others about it<br \/>\nAgAdhadhE seyvan \u2013 (On the contrary, though I proscribed others to indulge things that are not advocated by our gurus) I continued to do those religiously.<br \/>\nAdhalAl \u2013 Hence<br \/>\nigazhEl \u2013 Please do not condemn \/ discard<br \/>\nennai \u2013 me<br \/>\nenRU \u2013 by<br \/>\nninaiththu \u2013 thinking and dismissing me as a<br \/>\nmOkAnthan \u2013 one who is succumbed to lust<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">ethirAsA <\/a>\u2013 Oh <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">emperumAnArE<\/a>!!!<br \/>\nenRu \u2013 When will<br \/>\nyAn \u2013 I<br \/>\nsErvan \u2013 reach<br \/>\nun \u2013 your<br \/>\nadi \u2013 lotus feet<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple Translation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the earlier pAsuram, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a>&nbsp;felt bad that he did not have any love towards <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a>. In this pAsuram, he feels bad because he does not have hate towards other worldly stuff. He is neither here nor there, that confounds him and makes him plead <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a> to take his innumerable shortcomings (blemishes) and regard them as blessings. He concludes by saying that only <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a>\u2019s lotus feet can protect such a person like him and that only <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a> can tell a date when he would reach him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a>&nbsp;says \u201cOh <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a>! I clearly know all that our ancestors have prescribed us to do. I knew them so well that I even advised others to not do things that are not told in our scriptures. I told others that they should completely renounce all those activities that are condemnable by our <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">AchAryas<\/a>. However, when it came to my case, what I did was strange. I continued to to all those activities daily. All those activities that our <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">AchAryas <\/a>have told us to discard, all those very same activities that I asked others to not do it, I was indulged in them religiously. Hence, what I preach and what I practice are not same. Oh <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">emperumAnArE<\/a>! Please do not dismiss me as a person who has fallen on this mystic tangle of lust. I do not know when will I reach you, as per <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/nammazhwar\/\">nammAzhvAr<\/a>\u2019s words \u201c<em>en nAL yAn unnai ini vandhu kUduvan<\/em>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/thiruvaimozhi-3-2-munnir\/\">(thiruvAimozhi 3.2.1<\/a>). Will I lose the opportunity to reach you forever? I, who is being succumbed to the alluring yet evil lust, is full of ignorance. I do not know when will reach you. Only you, the all-knowing, have the power to know that day. Can you let me know of the day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>adiyEn santhAna rAmAnuja dAsan<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:&nbsp; SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:&nbsp; SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:&nbsp; SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series &lt;&lt; Previous SrI rAmAnuja blessing a mute devotee by showing him his lotus feet Introduction In the previous pAsuram, maNavALa mAmunigaL&nbsp; concluded that he does not have any iota of love \/ devotion in his heart towards SrI rAmAnuja. In this pAsuram, he &#8230; <a title=\"Arththi Prabandham &#8211; 16\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/arththi-prabandham-16\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arththi Prabandham &#8211; 16\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,14],"tags":[142,229,342,508],"class_list":["post-9684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arththi-prabandham","category-other","tag-arththi-prabandham","tag-ethirasa","tag-mamunigal","tag-ramanuja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}