You are here: SriPedia - Oppiliappan - Archives - Sep 2005

Oppiliappan List Archive: Message 00219 Sep 2005

 
Sep 2005 Indexes ( Date | Thread | Author )
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]


SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all,

[At the outset, let me add this clarification: 
there were queries as to who Sri PVP and Sri PBA are:
Sri PVP- Sri Periya vacchaan Pillai- the Vyaakhyaana
Chakravartthi- a contemporary of Sri Pillailokachariar
and Swami Desikan..  Sri Periyavacchaan Pillai?s
wonderful anubhavams on all Divya prabandham verses
are the sweetest ever and are to be read, re read,
learnt and enjoyed at the feet of Acharya and
vidwans.. great divine treats.. He was born in Rohini
star in the month of Avani just like Kutti KaNNan and
is reported to be Krishna Hilself born again to enjoy
AzhwAr verses and comment on those sweet verses. 

Hence, Sri PVP Swami= SrI periyavAccAn piLLai Swami
Sri PBA Swami= SrI prativAdi bhayankaram
aNNangarAcAriyAr Swami [who lived with us in the 90?s
in Kanchi... ] 
Sri UV Swami = SrI uttamUr vIrarAghavAcAriyAr Swami
[who lived in the 90?s in Chennai and who is revered
as abhinava Desika- whose commentaries are also
extremely rich, divine and enjoyable.] 

Sri Sadagopan Swamin of New york who has been
indefatigably sending articles and articles every day
in our groups had written his enjoyment of Nachiar
Thirumozhi, taking cue from these Acharya?s
commentaries and compiled them in Tamil. This treatise
was translated into English very beautifully by Smt
Kalyani Krishnamachari. Thanks to her for granting
permission to enjoy the same in this series. my
sincere apologies for not explaining this before.]  

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.]  

nAcciyAr tirumozhi VIII ? starts with viNNIla mElAppu
? these ten verses are on ThiruvEnkatam. Let us enjoy
the ninth verse today.. 

mada yAnai pOl ezhunda mAmugilgAL! vE~nkaTattaip
padiyAga vAzhvIrgAL! pAmbu aNaiyAn vArttai ennE!
gati enRum tAn AvAn karudAdu Or peN koDiyai
vadai SeydAn ennum Sol vaiyagattAr madiyArE 8.9

Translation from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

"Oh clouds which rush like mad elephants and are
stationed in tiruvEnkaTam! What is the word from
SeshaSAyi? If He doesn't care enough to remember that
He is the protector of His bhaktas, the world is going
to say that He was the cause of the death of a girl
and is not going to respect Him anymore"
rich anubhavams of SrI Periya Vacchaan Pillai [Sri
PVP]:

mada yAnai pOl ezhunda mA mugilgAL - "These great
clouds that rise like a mad elephant". SrI PVP gives
reference to the Sruti - esha hveyAnandayAti
(taittirIya. Ananda. 7) - The paramAtmA gives
happiness to the jIvAtmA. Here the clouds have become
infatuated with the pleasure of living in
tiruvE~nkaTam and so are like the infatuated
elephants. Also they have enjoyed bhagavAn
uninterruptedly, and again reflect this happiness (as
in the Sruti - aham annam aham annam aham annam - tai.
bhr*gu10.6).

vE~nkaTattaip padiyAga vAzhvIrgAL: "You are not like
people visiting divyadeSams for tirunAL and leaving
after the functions are over; you are so blessed that
you live permanently in tiruvE~nkaTam. Thus, you are
more special than the mumUkshus, those desirous of
moksha. You are even more blessed than the muktas who
had to wallow for some time in the quagmire of
samsAram before getting to enjoy paramapadanAthan; you
are blessed like the nityasUri-s who have
uninterrupted and constant bhagavad anubhavam". 

Here ANDAL seems to consider life in tieuvE~nkaTam as
blissful as life in SrI vaikunTham. Later on, she
refers to living in tiruvara~ngam as the life that is
worth living - "nallArgaL vAzhum naLir arangam"
(nAcciyAr tirumozhi 11-5). A life devoted to emperumAn
is what should be called "life".
pAmbaNaiyAn vArttai enne: "You are very intimate with
tiruvEnkaTam uDaiyAn, just like the AdiSeshan on whom
He is lying down; so, you should know what His words
are". gathi enRum tAn AvAn: 

As Slokam 2 of the jitantE stotra states, 
devAnAm dAnavAnamca sAmAnyam adidaivatam |
sarvadA caraNadvandvam vrajAmi SaraNam tava ||

BhagavAn's Divine Feet are the protection for the
deva-s who are devoted to Him as well as to the
asura-s who are not devoted to Him. 
enRum: unlike jIvAtmas who are unpredictable, and
sometimes say they will surrender to Him and sometimes
say they will not be His aDimai, He is always
predictable and will always protect them. 
As we see in nAnmugan tiruvantAdi 60 - "AL pArttu Uzhi
taruvAi" - bhagavAn is eagerly looking out to find a
cEtana whom He can protect on some pretext or the
other. 

karudAdu - BhagavAn's svarUpam is to protect as we
just saw; so if He does not protect ANDAL, it is a
blemish to His svarUpam. But He does not seem to
either be concerned about this or realize this. Or peN
koDiyai vadai SeydAn ennum Sol: making a vine grow on
the ground instead of on a support is equivalent to
killing the plant. Similarly, godai is like a koDi
(vine) who needs to cling to a support like emperumAn,
but His not coming to her is destroying her. In
rAmAyaNam AraNya kANDam 53-31, lakshmaNa declares that
living without bhagavAn is as good as not living: "Oh,
rAghava! sIta cannot exist separated from you; if I
lose you, I will not exist also. Even if we live, we
will live only for a muhUrtam like a fish out of
water".

na ca sitA tvayA hInA na cAhamapi rAghava |
muhUrttamapi jIvAvO jalAt matsyAvivoddhr*tau ||
vaiyagattAr madiyArE: It is well-known in tamizh
literature that a nAyaki is alive only because a
nAyakan is alive, even though the nAyaki is
temporarily separated from her nAyakan. This is termed
"inRi amaiyAmai". 

If godai is going to be destroyed because of His not
coming to her in time, He is going to have apavAdam
(disrepute); nobody will accept that He is the
rakshakan, and this is bothering godai. Why should it
bother her, even as she is destroyed? She is
"periyAzhwSr peRRu eDutta peN piLLai"; so, even though
she might be destroyed, she does not want any blemish
to be associated with emperumAn because of this.

anubhavam from SrI PBA Swami: 

pAmbaNaiyAn - "I was hoping that He would give me the
privilege of kaimkaryam to Him just as He gives the
privilege to tiru anantAzhvAn (note: SenRAl kuDaiyAm
irundAl Si~ngAdanamAm). I totally believed the words
of kaNNan, who left His Sesha Sayanam and came to tiru
maturai and uttered the carama slokam on the chariot.
But, alas! Just like the AdiSeshan, He also had two
tongues; He says something and does something else and
thus has become a liar".

AndAL ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 




------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 
Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page
http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/XUWolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 

 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index ] [Thread Index ] [Author Index ]
Home Page
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia
oppiliappan-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
To subscribe to the list