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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all, 

After PeriyAzhwAr anubhavams, let us now continue on
his darling daughter GodhA PiraaTTi?s Naacchiyaar
Thirumozhi verses... on ThiruvEnkatam? [reproduced
below is the most wonderful translation of Srimathi
Kalyani Krishnamachari] 

thaiyoru thingaLum tharaiviLakkith
 thaNmaN dalamittu maasimunnaaL,
aiyan^uN maNaRkoNdu theruvaNinthu
 azhaginuk kalankarith thanankathEvaa,
uyyavu maankolO venRusolli
 uNnnaiyu mumbiyai yumthozhuthEn,
veyyathOr thazhalumizh chakkarakkai
 vEnkata vaRkennai vithikkiRRiyE        1

Thus having decided to pray to kAmadevan for the
privilege of being able to do antara~nga kaimkaryam to
tiruvEnkatamuDaiyAn, godhA proceeds to outline her
plans for her vrata anushTAna-s towards this objective
in the next pASuram. 

There is reference to godA involving herself in
cleaning the floor and decorating the place etc. SrI
tirukkaNNa mangai ANDAn, the author of the first
taniyan of nAcciyAr tirumozhi that we started with,
was also one who did this kaimkaryam to BhagavAn. SrI
periavAccAn piLLai points out this similarity. 
One could legitimately ask the question - how come
godhA worships kAman? Is this not improper? She is
only worshiping kAman with the objective of getting
BhagavAn. She has no other goal in life. It is her
desperation to reach Him that is causing her to do
whatever it takes to get to Him. It is as if this is
her sthala- Suddhi in order to perform kaimkaryam to
Him ultimately. 

Srivaishnava Acharyas have also commented that here
when it refers to manmathan- it implies the manmatha
manmathan- Sriya: Pathi Siman Narayanan and not the
manmathan? saakshaath manmatha manmath: is Sriman
Narayanan. He is the indweller of Manmathan and when
manmatha is referred to, AndAL addresses the
indweller.. 

Her praying to kAman and sAman together reminds us
also of the phrase "namOstu rAmAya salakshmaNAya". 
The reference to manDalam is the period of 45 days for
which some vrata-s performed for attaining benefits. 

AndAL ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan
[Apologies for not being able to post last whole week
as I was on an overseas trip]. 




        
                
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