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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha


? Mattrondrum Venda 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,

Now that the jeevatmas are not capable of
understanding the sastras and acting accordingly
emperuman had no other go than to come down himself to
impart us the knowledge as given in the sastras. So
he came to earth taking various Avataras. He saved
his bhaktha, Prahaladan in the Narasimha avatara from
the clutches of Hiranyakasipu .Thus he did
?Dushtanigraham and sishta paripaalam? in his
avataras. He tried to change the minds of the people
and make them understand his magimai. In Rama avatara
he lived and showed how a man should be. As Sri
Nammazhvar says ?Karpar Eramapiranai Allal mattrum
karparo? but have people learnt anything from Rama but
instead they question the authenticity of Sri
Ramayanam. Why did Rama do this and that? The people
have more crooked knowledge than good thinking. So
Emperuman was not satisfied. He thought probably
since Ramavataram was fully a manushyavataram people
didn?t recognize him so now he took the Krishna
avatara where he showed his supernatural powers. Now 
people like Duriyodhanan and others started saying
that kannan is doing magic which is known to them too.
Again people didn?t believe emperuman and there was
no one to read his geetha and get benefited by it. 
Our Acharyas say that Sri Krishna searched for a
person, who was a gyani(?Vasudeva Sarvamithi Sa
Mahatma?) and unable to find such a mahatma he
returned to his aboard without any satisfaction. 

In Bhagavat Geetha bhagavan says ?Avajananthimam
moodha: Manusheem thanumaasritam?.(These moodhas think
me to be a normal man and even criticize me). Here
PVP analysis to whom Krishna is referring as moodhas?
Is it Shisupalan and others who insulted Krishna ? 
No. These people where created with that svabhavam to
criticize and talk ill of Krishna. So Krishna knows
that, that is what can be expected from them. Then
whose behaviour worries the paramatma? Those people
who were created to do mangalaasaasanam to him also
criticize him and ask can Rama do this can Krishna do
this etc. Only the behaviour of such persons pains
the lord. Sri Mamunigal names these personalities as
Astika Nastikargal. They say they believe god and go
to the temple to do prartanai but in public they
question the authenticity of the avataras of the
Bhagavan. Only the activities of such people troubles
bhagavan and even in Rama Avatara he says ?Mam
Avamanye? they are insulting me. There emperuman goes
to the extent of saying not only the jeevans here but
also the devas(trijaseeshvaraha) fail to respect the
bhagavan and they start talking ill of him. Here we
have to remember the Govardhana leela of Sri Bhagavan
where Indra talks ill of Sri Krishna and tries to
wash out whole of gokulam. So now Emperuman realized
that though he had come in person people fail to
realize him and fall under his feet. 

Even after so much insults the dhayai of bhagavan made
him to think out another way to liberate all the
jeevatmas from the endless miseries of the samsara. 
So now he decided to send the Alwars who were
considered to be the Abhinava Dasavatharas. Like
catching a deer by sending another deer or catching a
elephant with the help of another trained elephant
Bhagavan sent alwars who were Jeevatmas but with full
of gyanam and bhakthi to correct us and lead us to the
divine feet of emperuman. As Nammazhvar says ?Kaliyum
kedum kandukonmin?. These alwars came to earth to
reduce the kali gooram. So they concentrated on the
kaliyuga dharmam that is the bhaagavata dharmam. The
bhaagavata puranam indicates the avatara of the alwars
as follows:
?Kalau kalau bhavishyanti Naarayana paraayanaaha
kvashit kvashin Maharaja dravidesucha Bhoorishaha
Tambarabarni nadhi yatra kritamaala payasvini
kavericha mahapunyam pratichita
Mahanadhi???.bhagavatee vasudeve amalaachayaha?
This sloka shows that in kali Saadhoos will be born
mainly in south India mainly in the banks of the
rivers like tambarabarani, kaveri, Vaikai, paalaru
etc. This clearly shows that this sloka refers to
the avatara of the alwars who where born similarly in
the banks of the various rivers. What will these
alwars do? ?Yatra Sangeerthanenaiva? says Bhagavatam
they will sing the praise of the lord. And what the
alwars sung are now called as the Nalayira Divya
Prabhandam commonly called as Arulicheyal.

The alwars were Mayarvarum madi nalam
arulappetravargal. That is the lord bestowed them
with bhakthi and gyana by himself so there is no doubt
in their absolute knowledge. So we Srivaishnavas
consider the arulicheyal more important than even the
Vedas and use it for the thiruvaaraadanam of the
bhagavan everyday. Even the lord shows the importance
of the arulicheyal by following the ghosthi in all his
purappadu and also listening to them during the
adyayana utsavams. According to us all the sastrams
are present inside the Arulicheyals itself. In
present day we are all incapable of learning all the
sastras so to make us learn all the arthas the crux of
all the sastras has been provided by the alwars in
their paasurams. 

Let us see how all the sastra arthas are present in
the arulicheyals in the next posting.

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan


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