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AchArya Hrdhyam -sUthram 222 Contd.
It was seen that the Lord Almighty is present everywhere. Is it a great thing? 
Even the sky encompasses everything. The great thing is the Lord is not just 
omni-present. He is not merely inside and outside the souls and things. He is 
the Governing factor of one and all in the whole scheme of things. The 
omni-presence sparkles because of this factor. 

Moreover, AzhwAr desired service to the Almighty at all sates, all places and 
all times. The Lord displayed His great deeds in the past as if it is present 
period to AzhwAr. AzhwAr's present period and pAst of the Lord became equated. 
This enabled AzhwAr to exprience the great deeds, pranks and other activites 
and events of the Lord .
AzhwAr felt very much that he was not able to serve the Lord with flowers and 
worship during the Lord's great deeds like vanquish of lankA or the conquer of 
the seven bulls and so on. The Lord removed this grievance by accepting 
AzhwAr's nenjam as an adornment- pUsum sAndhu, AzhwAr's soul as a garland- 
puNayum kanni enadhu vuyir, AzhwAr's song as silk robe- vAsagam sei mAlaiyEa 
vAn pattAdai and so on. AzhwAr became so fulfilled on His activieties soul and 
body being accepted as desired ones by the Lord Almighty. This reflected the 
Lord's immeasurable affection and Love towards AzhwAr. This led ot ecstasy and 
pangs of separation. 
The pang transposed into search for Him which culminated into seeing all the 
things around as Him.-yEaRia pithu.AzhwAr desired the Lord as He would be in 
the nithya-vibhUthi. The Lord granted this to AzhwAr in this world. AzhwAr got 
the vision of the "Lord with peirya pirAtti". The vision enjoyed by the souls 
there is granted to AzhwAr here. The time restriciton, place restriciton are 
all removed. The unparallel joy , eternal mirth is expressed by AzhwAr as 
"vEvil inbam", thus. The matchless divine feet granted to AzhwAr by the Lord is 
appreciated time and again by swAmi nam-AzhwAr. 
This automatically culminated into a. Indifference towards other deities. b. 
Indifference towards ones' body and soul and c. Indifference towards worldly 
pleasures including materialistic ends.
These convictions are expressed in a. thErpArai yAm ini thiru voi mozhi 4-6- 
indifference towards other deities--dhEvathAnthra vairAgyam. b. yERALum 
iRaiyOnum thiru voi mozhi 4-8- indifference towards ones' body and souls and
c. indifference towards joyless world -worldly pleasures-materialstic ends but 
painful earth in 'nannAdhAr muRuvalippa" thiru voi mozhi 4-9.

Further,

The Fourth Ten 
"oru nAyakam enRu, rAjya swargAthmAnubhava alpAsthirathva 
sAvadhigathvAdhigaLaiyum..."

Summary: It was seen that AzhwAr shunned materialistic and other pleasures. 
AzhwAr explains the temporary nature of these in the thiru voi mozhi "oru 
nAyakam". The worldly pleasures are temporary. The status -royal and other 
status -is temporary.The materialsitic wealth is temporary. The enjoyment in 
the heaven is temporary. The enjoyment of ones soul is also not eternal 
happiness is explained in this thiru voi mozhi from the first to final pAsuram.

pAsuram-s: The demerits of the worldly pleasures , the disadvantages of this 
materialistic wealth and stauts, the temporary nature of the heavenly enjoyment 
are all listed out in the thiru voi mozhi "oru nAyakamAi" 4-1;

"peru nAdu kANa immaiyilEa pichai thAm kOLvar"-------------------------->} The 
Worldly pleasures,status, royal 
"vAzhndhArgaL vAzhndhadhu vAzhndhE niRpar enbandhu illai"----->}status are all 
temporary and vanish within
"vemmin oLi veyil kANagam pOi 
kumaithinbargaL"----------------------------------->} no time. Hence, apporach 
the feet of 
"podi sEAr thugaLAi pOvargaL 
"-------------------------------------------------------------->} the Lord 
Almighty.

"kudi mannu suvargam eidhiyum mELvargaL"---> 4-1-9---> Even after reaching the 
Heaven, the souls are bound to come back to earth after the puNNIyam in their 
acct. is exhausted.Hence,suvargam is not permanent.

"iRugal iRappu ennum"------>4-1-10----> The enjoyment of ones soul is also not 
entirely satisfactory. This is also not eternally yielding happiness and is not 
with unlimited joy.

(to be continued)
vanamamalai padmanabhan


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