srI: srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha Tiruppavai - Pasuram 1 : nAmA 2 maargazhith thingaL madhi niRaindha nannaaLaal* neeraadap pOdhuveer pOdhuminO nErizhaiyeer* seer malgum aayppaadic celvac ciRumeergaaL* koorvER kodunthozhilan nandhagOpan kumaran* Eraarndha kaNNi yasOdhai iLam singam* kaar mEnic sengaN kadhir madhiyam pOl mugaththaan* naaraayaNanE namakkE paRai tharuvaan* paarOr pugazhap padindhElOr embaavaay. In the first pasuram, AndAL glorifies the following nAmAs : 1. nandhagOpan kumaran, 2. yasOdhai iLam singam, 3. kAr mEnian, 4. sengkannan, 5. kadhir madiy am pol mugathan, 6. nArAyanan The second nAmA is "yasOdhai iLam singam". In this nAmA, AndAL describes Lord's soundharyam. In our sampradAyam, there are 3 simhams. Narasimham, Raghava simham and Yadhava simham. Narasimham incarnated due to the prayers of Prahladan. Narasimhan was so ferocious that even thAyar became so nervous after Hiranyakasipu's vadham. Swami Parasara Bhattar in his Guna Ratna Kosam (Sahasranama Bashyam) describes the nAmA "Sriman" as beautiful and divine which comes after the nAmA "NArasimhavabuhu". Raghava simham is always surrounded by great saints and hence difficult to approach. But, Yadukula simham as AndAl describes in future pasuram "Mari malai muzhainjil .... " Kannan as "poovai poo vanna". Though, he is a Yadhava simham, he can be handled as easily as "flower" and he is as soft as flower. Where she finds his beauty is "Eraarndha KaNNi". Yashodai's eye brows are so straight and sharp, that every moment she sees his beauty, her eye brows gets so sharp and straight. When she sees "vaiyyam Ezhum kandaL pillai vayulE" and cow heards say "aayar puttiran allan, arum deivam" "tiruvOnattan ulagalum enbargalE", she exclaims through her eye brows, which itself attest Lord's beauty. Most of us, would have attracted first to the Lord, due to his beauty. Nevertheless, azhwars have done so. Thondaradi podi azhwar claims "than pal adharam peruga vaitha azhaganur" Kulasekara perumal cliams "karumaNiyai, kOmalathai kandu kondu en kaN iNaigal endrugalO kaLikkum naLO" Periazhwar has sung his Triumozhi only to praise the beauty of Lord Tirrupanazhwar claims "en amudinai kaNda kaNgaL martondrinai kaNAvE" In this pasuram the next nAmA is : kArmeniyan (HIS karuNyam) to bless us (to be continued) namO nArAyanA G. Sundarrajan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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