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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? [Extracted
from the most wonderful translation of Smt Kalyani
Krishnamachari based on Sri Sadagopan Swamin?s
treatise and acharyas? commentaries.]  Today's verse
is Naachiaar Thirumozhi 8.4

minnAgattu ezhuginRa mEga~ngAL! vEnkaTattut
tannAgat tiruman~gai ta~ngiya SIr mArvarkku
ennAgattu iLam ko~ngai virumbittAm nAL tORum
ponnAgam pulgudaRkku en purivuDaimai SeppuminE 8.4

Translation (meaning) from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh
treatise:

Godai decides that it might not be enough if she does
gOvindanAma sa~nkirtam and pleads with the clouds: "Oh
clouds, who have lightning as part of your bodies! My
emperumAn has periya pirATTi seated on His chest and
hence named SrInivAsan. Please tell Him this: godai is
waiting with her heart and soul to be embraced by you
and is waiting for your arrival withthe greatest
love".

Additional thoughts from SrimAn SaDagopan:

Agattu min ezhuginRa mEga~ngAL: periya pirATTi, who
looks radiant like a lightning, is seated on the chest
of emperumAn, who is dark-hued. This can be compared
to the lightning that the dard-hued clouds bear. So,
He has a lot of liking for them. 

Additional thoughts from SrI PVP:
Agattu min ezhuginRa mEgangAL: Literally, Agattu -
from your body or chest, min - lightning. Because
periya pirATTi is seated on bhagavAn's chest and
shines like a lightning, ANDAL is reminded of Him when
she sees the lightning in the dark clouds. The clouds
resemble His tirumEni just as ubhaya vEdams point out:

"nIlatOyada madhyastA vidyullekheva bhAsvarA"
(taittrEya upanishad nA. 11 - paramAtmA's tirumEni is
radiant like the lightning adopted by the blue
clouds). 

"nIlam uNDa minnanna mEnip perumAn" (tiruviruttam 29).
When ANDAL is separated from Him, the clouds are
making sure that she doesn't forget Him. Now she is
appealing to the clouds to unite them together.

Another way of interpreting minnAgattu ezuginRa
mega~ngAL is: min -lightening, nAgam - sky; and so the
reference is to the clouds which rise in the sky with
lightening, or the clouds which reveal their existence
because of the lightning in the sky. Similarly,
bhagavAn's tirumEni gets its importance because of the
presence of periya pirATTi in His vaksha sthalam. It
is as if bhagavAn's dark hued tirumEni is revealed by
the lantern in the form of mahAlakshmi, just as the
dark clouds are revealed bythe lightning.

vEnkaTattutu: Unlike HanumAn who had to cross the
Ocean to give Lord rAma's message to sItA, or fight
with enemies in the process, these clouds don't have
to go through any of these ordeals in delivering
ANDAL's message to tiruvE~nkaTamuDaiyAn. She is not
asking the clouds to go to SrIvaikuNTham
("kalan~gApperunagaram" mUnRam TiruvandAdi 51) to
deliver her message. All she is asking them to do is
to go to the easily-reachable, mangul tOi SennivaDa
vE~nkaTam.

tannAgat tiruman~gai ta~ngiya SIr mArvarkku: 
BhagavAn's vaksha sthalam has the greatness in several
ways: - This is the place chosen by maA lakshmi to
reside, without which she can't bear to live.
- Periya pirATTi resides there, and even then She
emphatically declares, lest She has to leave this
place for some reason at some time - agalagillen
iRaiyum - There is no way I will leave this place to
go back to the lotus flower (SrI V. N. vedAnta deSikan
in his vyAkhyAnam for nammAzhvAr's tiruvAimozhi).

- Periya PirATTi permanently resides on His vaksha
sthalam just so She is within reach whenever She is
needed for the purushakAratvam for His devotees.
ANDAL is rhetorically asking the clouds - If peria
pirATTi who always resides on His vaksha sthalam can't
live away from it, how can anyone expect ANDAL who is
new to this experience to survive and cling to life
being away from this tirumEni? en Agattu iLam ko~ngai
virumbi - ANDAL wants to be united with Him just as
periyAa pirATTI is, permanently united with Him
inseparably, so that she does not have anything of
herselfexcept for Him.

SItAppirATTi tells hanumAn :

"yathA tam purushavyAghram gAtrai: SokAbhikarSitai: |
samspr*Seyam sakAmA'ham tathA kuru dayAm
mayi"(rAmAyanam sundara kANDam 40-3 )
"Do whatever is needed so that I will be able to
embrace my Lord with my body which has become weak
because of separation from Him".

godai does not want to have another birth to get this
union with emperumAn; She wants to get this desire
fulfilled in thisbirth itself.

nAL tORum - This bhagavad-anubhavam that ANDAL so
intensely desires is not something that is a one-time
incident; she wants this anubhavam to be
permanent,irreversible, and forever.

pon Agam - The Golden tirumEni of emperumAn. 

purivuDaimai: puri means desire. purvuDaimai here
refers to ANDAL's having the desire to be united with
Him. When godai and kaNNan were together, it was
natural for Him to tell her how much He loved her, and
as a woman she naturally listened to all this and
enjoyed it. But as is consistent with feminine nature,
she did not express outwardly that she was equally
desirous of union with Him. But now He has forced her
into this state where she has to send a messenger to
Him. It is normal for the owner to desire to have
something he owns; but it is not normal for the
"something" to desire to belong the owner. Godai is in
such an awkward situation here; she is sending a
messenger to let Him know of her pangs of separation. 

So, she says: "tell Him that both our svarUpams have
become destroyed". This is contrary to
rakshya-rakshaka bhAvam. This why ANDAL is asking the
clouds to "go and tell Him" - SeppuminE, since He does
not seem to understand thisobvious situation.

>From SrI Kr*shNasvAmi aiyengAr:
The purport of this pASuram is that godai is sending
her plea to tiruvEnkaTam uDaiyAn with due respect to
pirATTi, who isour purushAkAram. SeppuminE: According
to tAtparya ratnAvaLi 3, ("dESikAstatra dUtA:"),
clouds etc. that are sent as messengers denote
AcArya-s in svApadESam. So, godai tells the
pururshAkAra bhUta-s, " please rectify my separation
from Him by telling Him what my state of affairs is".

Additional Thoughts:
Note the beautiful poetic use of the word Agam here in
all four lines of the pASuram: min Agam - the sky with
lightning; tan Agam - bhagavAn's tirumEni; en Agam -
my SarIram; pon Agam - either BhagavAn's golden
tirumEni, or ANDAL's beautiful tirumEni.

what a wonderful anubhavam of ANdAL! How beautifully
Smt KalyaNi Krishnamachari has written the above..
Thanks to her for sharing her article
AndAL ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan

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