Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha
Paasuram-12
"madhiththAipOi nAngin madhiyAr pOi veezha
madhiththAi madhikOL viduththAi!-madhiththAi
madukkidandha mAmudalai kOLviduppAn Azhi
vidarkiraNdum pOyirandin veedu"
In the previous paasuram, azhvar advised others to turn all their sense organs
towards emperuman and his kalyana gunas. It is our usual practice not to accept
anything without questioning even if it comes from such a great person like
azhvar. So the question arised, why should we do so? So now in this paasuram
azhvar continues to say the merits and demerits in honouring emperuman. Instead
of pointing to us azhvar here talks with emperuman himself how the persons who
disrespect emperuman are put to difficulty and how gajendrAzhvan, who left all
his efforts and shouted for help from bhagavan ("sa tu nAgavara: sreemAn
manasAchintayath harim"- sreemAn gAjendrAzhvan thought of hari mentally)
benefited with the grace of emperuman indirectly advising us to follow the
footsteps of gajendrAzhvan.
(nAngil pOi madhiyAr pOi veezha madhiththAi) You make those who do not
understand your greatness, even after going through all the four Vedas, to fall.
(nAngil madhiyAr)
"chaturvEda dharO viprO vAsudEvam na vindhathi I
vEdapAraparAkrAnthas sa vai brahmaNakarthapa: II"
[That brahmin who even after learning the four Vedas do not understand
vAsudEvan is equal to a donkey carrying a bag of saffron on its back]
(madhiyAr nAngil pOi veezha madhiththAi) You send those who don't understand
you to fall to various births, (deva, manushya, triyak, stAvar janmangal)
"thAnaham dvishadha: kroorAn samsArEshu narAdhamAn I
kshipAmyajasramashubhAN AsureeshyEva yOnishu II" [gita 16-19]
[I put those who consider me as enemy, who are harmful and cheap men filled
with sins into low births (Asura yOni)]
(madhikOL viduththAi) You removed the suffering of madhi-chandran who fell to
your feet. So it is clear that you remove the sufferings of those who respect
you and put others who disrespect you to inferior births. Is there any other
instance where this has happened? Azhvar continues,
(madukkidandha mAmudalai kOL viduppAn Azhividarkku madhiththAi) To remove the
strong hold of the harmful crocodile in the lake you decided to leave your
chakrAyudam. To save gajendrAzhvan just a single sankalpam of emperuman will
do. Then why did emperuman come running and what was the necessity of using his
powerful sudarsana chakra for killing this small animal. Here azhvar says,
mAmudalai that was a big, powerful crocodile when compared to gajEndrAzhvan but
to kill it just one sankalpam (thought) was sufficient but then emperuman
wanted to do shistaparipAlam (saving his devotee) along with dushtanigraham
(killing the enemy). For dushtanigraham one thought was enough but for
shistaparipAlanam it was not enough, since gajendran wanted to have the divine
darshan of emperuman and submit the flower into the divine feet of emperuman.
So emperuman came running to the call and sent his chakrAyudam to kill the
crocodile. The purpose of his svaroopam, thirumEni and divyAyudams are for the
enjoyment of the bhakthas declares the jitanthE stotra, "na thE roopam na
chAkArO nAyudhAni na chAspatham" The same has been declared by nammazhvar also
in thiruvaimozhi 3-1-9 "mazhungAdha vainudhiya..."
(erandum pOi erandin veedu madhiththAi) Both the crocodile and elephant shed
their body. The crocodile was earlier a gandarvan (hoo hoo) who reached the
crocodile body due to a curse (of dEvalar, a deva rishi) so now he reached his
earlier form. The elephant that was a pandiya king (endradumnan) earlier
reached this elephant form again due to a curse (of agastiya muni) and hence
now due to the divine grace of emperuman he was blessed with moksha. In other
words, the crocodile was realized from the curse (shApamoksha) and the elephant
was realized from the whole samsAra (samsAra moksha)
(To be continued)
Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam
Adiyen ramanuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan
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