Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha Srimad Vara Vara MunayE namaha Sri Vanachala mahA munayE
namaha Kannapiran felt ashamed to have kept his dear
devotees waiting for such a long time and andal’s words in the 21st
and 22nd paasurams further drained the heart of Krishna. So he started to answer from
inside. But andal and her mates who
have approached krishna not for any other purpose but for the very purpose of
enjoying krishnAnubhavam (ananyaprayOjanargal) immediately said, “mAri malai muzhangil manni kidandurangum seeriya singam
arivuRRu tee vizhiththu vEri mayir ponga eppAdum pErindhu vudhari moori
nimirindhu muzhangi purappattu pOdharumApOlE” Oh! Krishna come
out like a lion that has just awakened and is coming out of its den. We have enjoyed your beauty while lying
down. Now we will like to enjoy
your walking beauty. Valmiki
bhagavan enjoys the walking style of ramapiran as “gaja simha gathi veerow sArdhoola
vrushabhoopamow” There is one thirunamam in sahasranamam “chaturgathi:” gathi can refer to either
the purusharthas viz., dharma, artha, kama, moksha or the 4 types of walks
exhibited by emperuman (walking majestically like a lion, or leaping like a ox,
or slowly like an elephant or ferrociously like a tiger). Andal here wants to visualize the beauty
of emperuman’s walk and hence she says, “vun kOil nindru enganE
pOndaruli” Is that enough? Oh No we will not stop with
that. Come here and seat yourself
on the divine throne (the adisesha peedam that will make even krishna adorned
as “ElA poigal vuraippAnai” to speak the truth) so
that we enjoy your sitting beauty.
Why does andal want to enjoy the same krishna in different postures? The
answer is one another question. Why
do we all enjoy the different thirukolams of the archa emperumans day in and day
out? (“appOdaikku appOdhu ArAvamudhu!”) True
Srivaishnavas enjoy emperuman in any form, whether it is his divine darshan or
meditating on his kalyana gunas or discussing the same with others (matchittA:
matgatha prAnA: bhOdhayantha parasparam).
Why didn’t andal express what she actually wanted in
this very paasuram? Because she
knew that only when told in the right time she will obtain the appropriate
result and hence she opens her heart only in “chittram siru kAlE” paasuram. BharatAzhvan told his wish in an
inappropriate time and hence had to wait for 14 years before he attained his
wish. Andal didn’t make that
mistake but was cautious. So she
says “yAm vandha kAriyam ArAindhu
arul” (To be continued) Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE
sharaNam Adiyen ramanuja dAsee Sumithra Varadarajan
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