Dear All,
Please find the text of message, once writeen ny Velukkudi Krishnan Swamy
on Tirumangai Alwar's anubavam of Srirangam Perumal linking to His
Vibhavataram of Rama.
Alwar explains the karunai of Rama, in showering his grace on Hanuman,
inspite of his birth as a monkey. Step by step alwar reduces the class of
birth - "vadamamagan - markatam - vilangu -
mattror sadi". Swamy
Periavachan pillai reverses this order of words.
Normally we have to decide
the order of words based on the order of the
meaning. For example
:
1. Gita "cElAjina kusOttaram" - Lord explains how to perform yoga.
The seat
has to be made for yoga as follows : first spread cEla which is
silk cloth
at the bottom, next ajina - deers skin, lastly kusa - darbham.
Think for a
moment about this order. If darbham is at the top, it would
only be pricking
you causing agony. One cannot concentrate on yoga.
So this order has to be
changed. Based on the meaning, the order has to be
kusa - ajina- cElOttaram.
2. Sruti vakyam - "AtmAvArE drashtavya:
srOtavya: mantavya:
nidhidhyAsitavya:" This is the order in which we will
have to realise
Brahmam. First see Him, next hear about Him, thirdly think
about Him, lastly
think only about Him without any hindrance. Is this order
correct. We hear
and think about Him, finally to see Him. If you see Him in
the first
instance then why should we hear about Him. So the order has to
be "AtmAvarE
srOtavya: mantavya: nidhidhyAsitavya: drashtavya:" First hear
about Him from
your guru, think about what you heard, then lastly have
darsan. So we have
to change the order based on the
meaning.
Likewise, PV pillai, changes the order as "mattror sadi,
vilangu, markatam,
vadamamagan." Why is this so ? Rama showed daya on
Hanuman. What was the
eligibility Hanuman had for this ? nothing. 1. He was
not even born in the
same sadi as rama , he belonged to a different sadi.
2. Let it be so. Even
though he was a different sadi, he could be born as
yaksha, gandharva, deva
etc which are differerent from manushya sadi
(rama's). But Hanuman took
birth as vilangu sadi - animal, which is
inferior to human beings . 3 L et it
be so. Atleast in animals, he could
have born as lion or tiger which are
respected. He took birth as markatam -
a monkey, which is not respected
amongst the animals. 4. Let it be so. Even
as a money, he could have been
born as a normal monkey. But he took birth
as Vadamamagan ( son of wind
god). This is inferior amongst
monkeys.
Here we will have a doubt. We understand, animals are inferior
to human
beings, and monkeys are inferior to other animals. But how can
vayu kumaran
be inferior to other monkeys ? This is because, being vayu
kumara, one is
bound to have an ego that "I am son of Vayu and so I have
lot of rituous
qualities" This egoism would go against the grace of Lord.
If one were a
normal monkey, it would have felt humble that I do not
possess any good
qualities (Akinchanyam). This humility ensures Rama's
daya. So is it not
better to be a normal monkey than to be a monkey which
is son of Vayu deva.
Hence the order " "mattror sadi, vilangu,
markatam, vadamamagan." Rama did
not consider all these shorcomings of
Hanuman, but embraced him.
TM alwar has sung 50 pasurams on Srirangam.
But 100 each for Tirunarayur and
Tirukkannapuram. Both these Perumans were
his acharyas. Tirunarayur nambi
performed pancha samskaram for him and gave
tirumantropadesa. Souriperumal
preached the meanings of tirumandiram.
Always it is our practise that
acharya sambhavanai has to be twice that of
others. So 50 x 2 = 100 for
these two divya desams. If you hail these two
divya desams like this, will
Srirangam people keep quiet. Their argument is
"yes. we accept that the
number of songs is less for Srirangam. But note a
point. There are many
divyadesams for which alwar has sung 10 pasurams.
Likewise many divyadeasams
with 20 songs, 30 songs and 40 songs. Even in
the case of 100s, there are
two divyadesams competing. But ... take
50, alwar has not sung 50 pasurams
to any divyadesam other than Srirangam.
This number 50 is uniqu e. Obviously
it has to be, as Srirangam and Sri
Ranganatha are unique.
Tirumangai alwar tiruvadigale saranam.
aDiyEn,
ramanan