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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

?Srimath Krishna samahvAya namO yAmuna soonavE

yathkadAkshai: kalakshyAnAm sulabhaha sreedhara sadhA?

 

Avani rOhini is a divine day not only for the birth of Sri Krishna, the 
pramEyam but it is the day on which the great acharya, Sri periyavAchAn 
pillaiconsidered to be the avathara of thirukannamangai perumal took birth to 
shower his grace on all of us by giving the great vyakhyanams to all the 
4000paasurams of the Azhvars. None other than the bhagavan himself can 
reallyunderstand the divine feelings of the Azhvars and give it in such a clear 
and explicit manner. The legend behind the avatharam (avathara rahasyam) of 
periyavachan pillai (thirukkannamangai perumal) as a shisya of nampillai 
(avathara of thirumangai mannan on the same star karthigaiyil kriththigai) is 
well known and hence needs no repetition. Many acharyas have written 
vyakhyanams to thiruvaimozhi, thiruppavai etc, but no other acharya other than 
periyavachan pillai has written commentaries to all the arulicheyal paasurams. 
That is why he is regarded as ?paramakArunikar? (one who is filled with 
ultimate grace) by
the Srivaishnava society. Not stopping with commentaries to divya prabhandams 
swamy has done vyakhyanams to important slokas in ramayanam, a book 
ontattvatrayam and many more.

 

Sri Manavala mAmunigal in his upadesa ratnamalai, shows his deep regards tothis 
great acharya as follows:

 

?periyavAchAnpillai pinpullavaikkum 

theriya vyAkiyaigal seivAl ? ariya

arulichcheyal porulai AriyarkatkippOdhu

arulicheyalAi tharindhu?

 

In the earlier paasurams, Swamy Manavala mAmunigal highlighted the various 
vyakhyanams done by the various acharyas to the divine dravida vedam, 
thiruvaimozhi. In this paasuram he says ?pinpullavai? referring to the other 23 
prabhandams, starting from thiruppallandu till Periya thirumadal. Periya vAchan 
pillai reserves the credit to have done a commentary to all the prabhandams and 
thereby leaving the srivaishnavic world with the clear knowledge of the inner 
sweet meanings of the azhvar?s arulicheyals. Can we ever repay the debt towards 
this great acharya? Only thing we can do is to do an anjali to his divine feet 
and recite his thaniyan and vAzhi thirunamams today and for ever. It is our 
prime duty to preserve his divine works. Whether we read or not we have to 
possess these precious jems with us and whenever time permits we have to go 
through them and get enlightened by thewritings of such Mahans.

 

The avatharikai (introduction) periyavachan pillai gives before proceeding to 
give the commentary to the prabhandams is extraordinary and really takesthe 
reader to the time of the azhvar himself and makes us deeply involved in the 
feelings of the azhvar and their relationship with the lord. To show a sample 
let us enjoy the avatharikai given by PVP in his thirunedundAndaka (Last 
prabhandam of thirumangai azhvar, one of the six angas to the dravida vedam) 
vyakhyanam. Let me give the moolam first and then proceed to give the meaning,

 

?Azhvar thirumangai Azhvar AgirAr, ?vendriyE vEndi veezhporutkirangi vErkanAr 
kalaviyE karudhi? endru sarvEshvaran vibhoodhi adaiya evar thodaikku keezhE 
kidakkiradhOvendru sangikka vEndum padi adhisayithAhankArarAi, adukkadiyAna 
dhEhAthmAbhimAnaththai vudaiyarAi, aththAlE ?sAnthEndhu menmulaiyAr thadanthOl 
punarinbha veLLaththAzhindhEn? engirapadiyE Athma vishayamAdhal, Ishvara 
vishaya mAdhal jnanam pirakkaikku yOgyadhai ellAdhapadi vishayapravanarAi 
pOndhAr oruththar????

 

Meaning: Azhvar becomes thirumangai azhvar. Earlier azhvar was immersed in the 
pleasures of the world and went at the back of beautiful women considering even 
the lord?s abode to be under his feet. Filled with ego and pride azhvar was 
immersed in the beauty of women and hence was deprived from the qualification 
of understanding the athma and Ishvaran ??

 

Let us continue with the avathArikai in the next posting.

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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