{"id":9752,"date":"2016-07-23T02:49:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T02:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2016-07-23T02:49:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T02:49:10","slug":"arththi-prabandham-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/arththi-prabandham-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Arththi prabandham &#8211; 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<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-16\/\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ramanuja-showing-paramapadham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9037\" src=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ramanuja-showing-paramapadham.jpg\" alt=\"ramanuja showing paramapadham\" width=\"389\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ramanuja-showing-paramapadham.jpg 626w, https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ramanuja-showing-paramapadham-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/arththi-prabandham-16\/\">previous pAsuram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a> requested sri rAmAnuja to give him a date when he would reach the latter. <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a> thinks that this might have triggered a thought in <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a>\u2019s mind and he might have had a thought in his mind. The thought is that \u201chey! <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a>. Whenever your mortal body falls on this earth, you will reach me, as per the phrase \u201cmaraNamAnAl (<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/thiruvaimozhi\/\">thiruvAimozhi<\/a> 9.10.5). You will eventually be liberated and reach the eternal abode of <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">SrIman nArAyaNan<\/a>, namely paramapadham\u201d. <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a> puts a question back to <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a> as to what is the cause of this delay. Why should he wait till his mortal body falls at the time of death. Why can\u2019t this be expedited right away? This is the crux of this pAsuram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>pAsuram 17<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>pollAngu anaiththum podhindhu koNdu nanmaiyil onRu<\/em><br \/>\n<em> illA enakkum ethirAsA \u2013 nallArgaL<\/em><br \/>\n<em> naNNum thirunAttai nAn tharuvEn enRa nI<\/em><br \/>\n<em> thaNNenRu irukkiradhu endhAn?<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlisten.com\/sarathy.thothathri\/arththi-prabandham-17\">Listen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/yourlisten.com\/embed\/html5?17808803\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Word-by-Word Meanings<\/strong><br \/>\nanaiththum \u2013 (I am a person with) all possible<br \/>\npollAngu \u2013 bad deeds in the words<br \/>\npodhindhu koNdu \u2013 that are etched in me strongly.<br \/>\nonRu illA \u2013 (I do not have) an iota of<br \/>\nnanmaiyil \u2013 good deed in me.<br \/>\nethirAsA \u2013 Oh! emperumAnArE!<br \/>\nenakkum \u2013 Even for such a person like me<br \/>\nnAn tharuvEn enRa nI \u2013 You had told me that you will bless me<br \/>\nthirunAttai \u2013 paramapadham which is<br \/>\nnaNNum \u2013 a place that is worthy to be reached by<br \/>\nnallArgaL \u2013 people with good character.<br \/>\nthaNNenRu irukkiradhu endhAn? \u2013 What is the cause of the delay in blessing me? (the inner meaning is that maNavALa mAmunigaL who does not have any place to go and who has nothing with him, yearns to go to paramapadham as quickly as possible with sri rAmAnuja\u2019s blessings)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple Translation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a> says \u201cI am a person full of bad deeds with not even an iota of good character in me. But <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a> had assured me of paramapadham to even such a lowly person like me. Oh <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">SrI rAmAnuja<\/a>!!! You had told me that you will bless me with paramapadham. Having said so, what is the cause of your delay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a> describes himself in the first half of this pAsuram. He says that he is a very low person with nothing good about him as revealed by the phrases \u201c<em>nIsanEn niRai onRumilEn<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/thiruvaimozhi\/\">thiruvAimozhi<\/a> 3.3.4)\u201d and \u201c<em>akruthasUkrutha<\/em>:\u201d He is a person who is full of qualities that are directly contradictory to the uplifting and liberation of a soul. In addition to that, he is a person who had literally no good character or anything that refines his soul for the better. He is a person who is always engaged in all those activities that are condemned by the ancestors and does them repeatedly. \u201c<em>prApyam archipadhAsathbis thath vishNOr paramampadham<\/em>\u201d is a phrase that describes paramapadham as a place that is desired by the elite people who are full of good deeds and character in them. <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/mamunigal\/\">maNavALa mAmunigaL<\/a> says \u201cOh! emperumAnArE! You assured me that you shall grant paramapadham even to such a low person like me. You said those words realizing the relationship between us. However, I am unable to understand why is the delay in granting it? Are you thinking in your mind that I might have gone to someone else thinking they might protect me? Are you thinking that, on my own effort, I can follow other routes laid by <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\/index.php\/sriman-narayanan\/\">SrIman nArAyaNan<\/a> to reach him in his eternal abode of paramapadham? Oh <a href=\"https:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/06\/emperumanar\/\">emperumAnArE<\/a>! neither do I know anyone except you nor do I know any means apart from you. I do not have anything in me and I have no other place to go apart from your lotus feet. Hence, I request you to kindly grant me mOksham as soon as possible\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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:&nbsp; SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:&nbsp; SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:&nbsp; SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series &lt;&lt; Previous Introduction In the previous pAsuram, maNavALa mAmunigaL requested sri rAmAnuja to give him a date when he would reach the latter. maNavALa mAmunigaL thinks that this might have triggered a thought in SrI rAmAnuja\u2019s mind and he might have had a &#8230; <a title=\"Arththi prabandham &#8211; 17\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/arththi-prabandham-17\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arththi prabandham &#8211; 17\">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":[142,342,508],"class_list":["post-9752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arththi-prabandham","category-other","tag-arththi-prabandham","tag-mamunigal","tag-ramanuja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752","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=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}