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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-37 (contd)

 

eliyathOr arulum andrE en thiraththu empirAnAr: Alwar called emperuman to be 
everything but shouldn?t emperumAn accept the same? Yes he does. Since 
emperuman is waiting for such an opportunity to accept the jeevatmas. Like a 
parent who accepts their child irrespective of the deficiencies in the child, 
emperuman also accepts the jeevatmas as his own irrespective of our papams. 
Even before we realize like alwar and call him our only bandhu emperuman 
showers all his krupai on all of us.

 

Bhagavan in geetha says, ?abhichet tu durAchAraha:?(I accept even thosewho are 
filled with bad characters). He proved the same in Ramayana when he accepted 
guhan and Hanuman without thinking them to be ?Azhai Adhalan keezhmagan?(poor, 
lowly born person etc) or ?vAdhamAmagan margadam?(an animal, that too a 
monkey). When bhagavan who was such an AchAra seela in rAmAvatAram accepts 
everyone without looking into any of the above criteria and keep them close to 
him will he not accept us too?  

 

Though I am a simple, lowly person still I wish that emperuman should shower 
his divine grace on me, says alwar.

 

aliyan nam paiyal ennAr ammavO! kodiyavArE!: Alwar says, ?what I really want 
is, perumal to call me ?nam paiyal? (he is my boy). But what to say about my 
fate?? laments alwar. When someone goes to perumal and asks,whom this alwar 
was? Shouldn?t perumal reply that he is my boy? Thinks alwar. If perumal says 
so that is the ultimate. Then we all will gain extra energy. We feel proud of 
many things in this world, but the actual pridelies in belonging to emperuman 
only. The unfortunate part is we jeevatmasdo not realize this, instead we make 
perumal, the supreme being to beg in front of us. In Ramayana, perumal says, 
?tavAsmeethicha yAchathE?(Cantyou all say once, that I belong to you?).  

 

What a sad part this is? We are all incapable and are into innumerable miseries 
and hence destined to beg him for help but the whole thing is totallyreversed 
and perumal begs us to come and help us out in some way. We jeevatmas are very 
strong in not letting him to help us, out of this samsAra sAgaram. Here we have 
to get to our memory the dialogue between the jeevatmaand namperumal 
beautifully portrayed by Sri parAsara bhattar, which is delivered as kattiyam 
even today before the thirumanjanam to namperumal.

 

But here alwar is not like the other jeevatmas instead he wants to become 
abelonging of emperuman and hence begs for the same. Alwar considers him to be 
a beggar and emperuman, a king. Will it be very difficult for a king to give 
some money for a beggar? Similarly, alwar just wants the katakshamof emperuman. 
Alwar wants the abimAnam alone. This is the actual saranagatha svaroopam. Here 
one important thing has to be noted. Who should havethe abhimAnam? Is our 
thinking of perumal to be ours (emperuman) important or is it the perumal?s 
abhimAnam on us more important? In this paasuram alwar clearly states that it 
is perumal?s abhimAnam on us, which is themost important (aliyan nam paiyal 
ennAr). If we have a pet in our house, at one time we may get angry and kick 
the dog out but the dog never leaves our feet. It always stays with us. A 
saranAgathan should be like that dog. Why does the dog do so? That is because 
the person who kicked the dog now earlier proudly said that the dog is ?my dog? 
equal to saying ?my child?. So the dog respects the man?s abhimAnam towards it 
and hence always stays in his feet irrespective of his anger. Inturn the person 
likesthe dog?s abhimanam on him to be its master.

 

In our guru paramparai, there is one interesting story. One person came 
tothirukkanamangai aandan and questioned if perumal will give moksha if justa 
person does saranAgathi and sits without doing anything? Aandan wanted to 
explain to the person in an appropriate manner and hence kept quiet for that 
time. Another person came with his dog to aandan?s house. All 3 were sitting 
outside aandan?s house and were chatting. Suddenly a street dog came and 
started barking at the pet dog. The owner of the dog immediately threw his 
stick on the street dog and protected his pet. Now aandan turned to the first 
person and said if this man who is in possession of this dog just for the past 
few days and has not much use of the dog has so much abhimanam towards the dog 
and runs to its rescue will not perumal who is sarva loka rakshakan and our 
bandhu in all janmas, not save the saranagathan who believe that emperuman is 
everything and is always waiting only for his krupai?  

 

The same thing has been expressed by alwar in the above paasuram.

 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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