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Dear Mani and Bharat
Thank you very much for the wonderful information of the Elai Ethalan and in
the same context as I mentioned earlier I heard that Alwar has mentioned
about PeriaPerumal's Thirumeni in each Paasuram. If you happened to get any
info in this reg pl pass it on to us.
Pl convey my Pranamam to Swamin Sri E.S. Bhuvarahachariar Swami for his
wonderful service to Srivaishavism and we too at US are fortunate to hear
him once in a month on "Ashtaslogi".

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

Gunaseelan Venkatachary
Ph:408 588 6672
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mani Varadarajan" <mani@xxxx>
To: "Guna Venkat" <Guna_Venkat@xxxx>
Cc: <bhakti-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: A doubt on Peria Thirumozhi


>
> Dear Guna,
>
> I forwarded your question to Sri Bharat of Bangalore,
> a great rasika of Divya Prabandham who has studied
> many of the pUrvAcArya commentaries at the feet of
> Sri E.S. Bhuvarahachariar Swami (ESB). Here is his
> reply:
>
> [ from Sri Bharat <kbharat@xxxx> ]
>
> The "Ezhai Edalan" padigam and its gloss by Sri PVP are like
> an ocean full of gems.Wherever you put in a hand you come
> up with pearls.
>
> However here are some basic thoughts based on comments
> by Sri ESB from time to time.
>
> Sri Tirumangai Azhwar began his outpouring with Tiruvengada-
> mudaiyan and here shifted to Sriranganathan.And it is here that
> he goes into great detail in detailing the Lord's Qualities or rather
> the one basic differentiating Quality which not only explains ALL
> His actions but also indicates why He alone is the Lord and not
> the other Devatas.It is so basic and natural a quality that just as
> Srirangam is simply called Koil and Sri Rama Perumal,it is called
> Quality."Guna" Hence is the question "Who is GunavAn ?"
> That Guna is SauSIlya- defined as <Mahato mandais saha
> nIrandhrENa samSlEshah" - the Great mixing with lesser people
> as one among them.
>
> The Tamil word is even more exact- NIrmai- i.e., "NIrin tanmai"
> the nature of water to become one with whatever it mixes.This
> is the Lord's special copyrighted quality which no other devata
> has.And His other qualities like unlimited SwAtantryam,JgAnam
> Sakti,Poorthy support this Quality.Because He just does not lack
> anything and nobody can stop Him from doing what He wants
> and there is no one to find fault with him for His actions,He just
> mingles like water with EVERY one without distinction.And
> because He wants this quality to be known to everyone He
> exhibits it in every possible way in His RAma-KrishNa AvatAras.
> And in order to make the fact absolutely beyond dispute He
> takes the Archa form- than which no one can go beyond to
> prove this fact.
>
> But does He succeed in achieving His object? No. Not while
> we are around.We just treat Him as one of us and maybe even
> worse.
>
> Hence in this Padigam AzhwAr sits in front of Sri Ranganathan
> and tells the world," Come.Look at this person who is innocently
> inertly lying down here.Don't you realize He is the same person
> who as Rama did that,as Krishna did this and so on."
>
> When Sri EmbermAnAr went for the first time to TirukkOttiyUr in
> search of Nambi he asked the people there to direct him to
> his place.When they gave directions they were astonished to
> see Sri EmberumAnAr prostrate himself in that direction.It was
> then that they realized something of Nambi's greatness.Till
> then they had considered him as just one of their own kind.
> So it is with Sri Ranganatha and AzhwAr.
>
> So it is with our own Archa Vigraha at our house.It is this
> specific differentiating quality of NIrmai that He is constantly
> exhibiting thru living in a corner of our house and accepting
> the bad with the good without complaint.It is His special
> ability of being "ASrayaNIya" and "ASrita Paratantra"
> simultaneously which we tend to forget and which we need
> to remember and which this Padigam details so beautifully.
>
> The points emphasised by both AzhwAr and Sri PVP are
> that this NIrmai is natural to Him,and HE considers Himself
> one of us even if WE don't think so,and if we attribute it
> to His weakness and not strength WE are the losers.
>
> Sri EmberumAnAr TiruvaDigaLE SaeraNam!
>
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