ThAmarai
A sybol of Defeat and
Victory
".Adich chOdhi nE
ninRa thAmaraiyAi alarndhadhuvOA? Thiru
vAi Mozhi 3-1-1; asks swAmi nam-AzhwAr?
Oh! Lord did the thEjas of your divine
feet blossomed as lotus ?
The Competition: There was a competition
between the feet of the Almighty and the lotus. The subject
was
" who is softer?' The challenge was ' the
loser should bear on him, the other'
The Divine feet of EmperumAn emerged
victorious being very soft and therefore, the ThAmari took the became the seat
of the feet of none other than EmprumAn.
Thus goes the story of lotus being
defeated but how come can we call iot a story of victory
also?
By virtue of being a loser the lotus
eternally carries the 'thiruvadi' of EmperumAn. Can anybody else possess this
enviable wealth. Therefore, it is indeed a victory story
also.
I am not just reeling it off just like
that. Let us refer EDu
'kulirthiyAlum,
parimaLathAlum,sevviyAlum,thAmarai thiruvaDigaLukku thORRuch sumakkiRAp pOlEA
AyiRRu irukkiRAdhu "
In all respects, be it scent, temperature,
freshness, the lotus loses to the divine feet and appears to be carrying the
divine feert.
This is for the
pAsuram
.thAN thAmarai
sumakkum pAdhap perumAnai" 4-5-8 of ThriuvAiMozhi again from Sri
ParAnkusan.
dAsan'
vanamalai
padmanabhan
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