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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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