SrimathE RaAmAnujAya Namaha AzhwAr EmperumAnAr
JeEyar TiruvadigalE Saranam
Dear Smt.Sumitra Varadharajan,
It had been a real pleasure reading your outpouring
on Thondaradipodi azhwar's TirumAlai pasurams. Kindly continue your
propogation on Hari Nama Sankeertanam. I have a few doubts in this
mail.
1. pAdiyum urangi pogum : Doeshere
azhwar says that "mankind sleep for 12 hours" or since during those days there
were no electric lights, he refers to the "night portion of 12 hours which
is dark" as urangi pogum.
2. If we can align the words as "padiyum
urangi pogum", "nindradil" "padinayandu pedhai balaghadanagum", "piNi pasi moopu
thunbam", it makes more clear. "padiyum urangi pogum" means 50 % (years)
portion goes in dark, "nindradil" means out of the balance, "padinayandu
pedhai balaghadanagum" means 15 years goes in innocent and ignorant childhood,
"piNi pasi mooppu thunbam" means rest of life goes in sickness, hungry (time to
eat), old age inability, samsAric worries.
I am just supplementing your thoughts and kindly
pardon and correct me for any incorrect understanding.
NamO nArAyanA
G. Sundarrajan PT. Aneka Kimia Raya Tbk Wisma AKR, Jalan Panjang
No.5, Kebon Jeruk Jakarta 11530 Tel : 62-21-5311110 Extn :
898 Fax : 62-21-5311388 Mobile : 0811193742
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Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:39
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Subject: [ramanuja] Thirumaalai-13
Sri Parthasarathi
thunai,
Srimathe Ramanujaya
Namaha
“ Mattrondrum vEinda Maname
Madhilarangar
Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra
Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi
Emperumaanai
Eppozhudum peesu”
“ Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo
yaamuna soonave
yetkadAkshai kalakshyAnAm sulabha: Sridara:
sadaa”
Pranams,
Paasuram-3
“vEdanool prAyam Nooru manisarthAm
puguvarElum
pAdiyum orangipOgum nindradil padinaiyandu
pEdhai bAlagan aDagum pini pasi moopu
tunbam
AdalAl piravi vEndEn arangamAnagarulane”
Let us now proceed to see thedivine
meanings in the third paasuram.
Alwar in the earlier paasurams explained the importance of nAma
sankeertanam and said that he will not even accept moksha granted to him since
he preferred to stay in Srirangam and do nAma keertanam. Now in this paasuram alwar remembers
are the difficulties in this world and says I don’t want birth again. Sri PVP’s vyakhyanam to this paasuram
is excellent.
vEdanool prAyam Nooru manisarthAm puguvarElum:
According to the vedas a normal
human age is determined to be hundred.
“sadAyurvai purusha:” says the vedas. Actually hundred years has beensaid
for a jidendriyan who had full control of his senses but then for a commoner
the life is even more less.
Hundred or less a man’s lifetime is only Alpa ayusu when compared to
the life of the mountains or the ocean which lives for decades together. Our life span is not decided byus
instead our fate and the bhagavan’s sankalpam determines it. Here alwar says how our lifetime is
spent. Even though we havethe
full span as mentioned in the vedas half of it is wasted. How?
pAdiyum orangipOgum nindradil
padinaiyandu: Out of the 24 hours available in the day we sleep
almost 12 hours. Though only 8
hours is recommended for any human body we enjoy sleeping more. So half of our lifetime goes in
sleeping and hence only fifty years we are awake. Andal in thiruppAvai says
“kumbakarananum thotrum vunakke peruntuyil thAn thanthAnO”. Kumbakaranan Ravana’s brother used to
sleep for 6 months together and when he woke up he spent the rest of the 6
months eating. Here andal mocks
at one of the gopi, who was still
sleeping when all others were awake and waiting in her doorsteps. Andal here says to that gopi “probably
u and kumbakaranan had a context to determine who sleeps more and probably you
won and that is why kumbakaranan gave his sleep also to you and that is why
you are sleeping still”. Then
nAchiyAr continues to say “kEsavanai pAdavum nE kEtE kidaththinO” Inspite of
we singing the praise of the lord kEsavan how can you still sleep? That is our bhakhyam we are all
blessed with only sleep always and hence we refrain even from bhagavat
vishayam. So we loose halfour
life sleeping. Then what do we do
with the rest of our lifetime?
pEdhai bAlagan aDagum pini pasi moopu
tunbam: In the rest of our life the first
fifteen is spent in innocence.
Initially we do not even know to feed ourselves or clean ourselves
everything has to been done only by our parents. Then we slowly come to know about the
worldly affairs. When we are kids
our main concentration is in playing(bAlastaave kreedhasaktha:). Then at the age of 20 or 25 we are
more concerned with earning a living and hence not bothered about bhagavat
vishayam. Now that we are
somewhat settled in a job, we get married and then have kids. All are over and now when we grow old
and want to go to bhagavat vishayam our body doesn’t give room for it. When our eyes were able to see we were
not prepared to go and have darshan of bhagavan but now our eyes have lost
their power. Similarly ourears,
legs and the whole body has become weak due to the age. We fall sick quite often. Summarising, we spend fifty years of
our lifespan sleeping, then in the rest fifty years partly we spent as kids
then in search of money and matter and then enjoying the togetherness in a
family and finally now we have grown old. So the life now is filled with
pini(disease), pasi(hunger) moopu(old age) and tunbam(suffering). So what do we really
achieve?
AdalAl piravi vEndEn arangamAnagarulane:
So alwar now says I hence do notwant
such a life which is worth for nothing.
It is always filled only with miseries. Alwar in each of his paasuram refers
to the lord who stays in SriRangam as arangamAnagarulane and tells his views
to him.
So a doubt now arises. In the previous paasuram alwar said
that he didn’t want to go to moksha and now he says he doesn’t want to live in
this world, filled with miseries then what does alwar want? For this question Sri PVP givesan
excellent vyakhyanam, let us see it in the next
posting.
Adiyen Ramanuja
Dasyai
Sumithra
Varadarajan
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