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The nature of
Goal
We were in the midst of discussing
the five aspects wonderfully highlighted by Sri Azhagia MaNavALap perumAL
nAyanAr in SUthram 211 of AchArya Hrdhayam.
At the stage of service to
Lord (kainkaryam ), the AtmAn derives benefits resulting in joy, on performing
kainkaryam. The happiness, however, should be for EmperumAn's happiness as a
recepient of kainkaryam and not for ones own.
The namap padham highlights this
aspect. Our pUrvAchAryAs underscore the words
'sirippEa upEyam'
'àààààààà
ààààààâ
Sri KUlasEkarap
perumAL in perumAL tirumozhi spells this out as
'padiyAik kidanthu
vun pavaLa vAi kANbEanEa"
'àààààààààà ààààààà
ààà àààààààà ààààààààâ
EmperumAâs smile is the ultimate
goal'
Sri ANDAL in the 29th pASuram of
TiruppAvai points to this fact
'maTRAi nam kAmangaL
mATRu'
'ààààà ààà àààààààà
ààààààâ
requesting the Lord to decimate any
desire for oneself at that stage.
Sri PiLLai LOkAchAryar most
appropriately refers to the pAsuram in MumUkshuppadi 184 (dhvyap
prakaraNam)
'ààààààà àààààà ààà
ààààààààààààà ààààà àààààààààâ -ààààààààààààà ààà
âmarunthEa nangaL
bOgha magizchikku enRu ninRadhiREA'
svAmi mAmunikaL giving out
commentary for this quotes thus
'àààààààà ààààààààààà
ààààà ààààààààààààà ààà àààààààààà àààààààà àààààààà, ààààààààààà ààààààààà
àààààààààààààà àààààààààààâ
'The happiness derived out of your
joy should be in consonant with the nature of Atman and Oh! Lord You are the
medicine for any such deviations'
This the crux of the 'ààà
ààààààààààààà.
The kainkaryam is too good to
resist such happiness and even 'nithyasUris'requests for this resistance from
the Lord Himself.
Such type of request not to have
joy on kainkaryam but to derive it on EmperumAn's delight is the short
point.
Who, but He Himself will remove
such distortion and therefore He is the medicine to relieve us from such self
centred joy is the theme of Sri Nam AzvAr describing Him as 'The medicine to
relieve us off from such mirth'.
'ààààààà ààààààà àààà
àààààààààààâ
ààààààà,
àààààààà,ààààà ààààààààààà ààààà.
AzvAr requests to the Lord to
remove any happiness which may arise on kainkaryam to oneself. The happiness
should be on His happiness on receiving such service.
But for these
commentaries ( we will be still wondering what and why
Azvar is seeking medicine for happiness), how can these treasures be
unravelled, and this goes to reiterate that our pUrvAchAryas excavate
rahasyArtham-s from AzvAr-s blessed works (aruLich
cheyal)
dAsan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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