Sri:
SrimathE Gopaladesika Mahadesikaya Namah:
Dearest all
Today (Aug- 4th) is Thiru Adipooram. ANdAL's Thirunakshathram. Our jagan
mAthA's birthday.
Let us meditate on the most compassionate and most merciful Divine Godha
PiraaTTi and surrender to Her Lotus feet.
Swami Desikan starts off the GodhAsthuthi, which is reported to have been sung
by Swami, when he was greatly captured by GodhA's Divine Beauty in the
streets of Sri Villiputthur during a procession (Uthsavam) on the day of which
Swami was obsevring Mouna vratham (perhaps, PradhOsham time).
GoDhA looked gracefully at Swami and allured him as if she says "Hm.... Sing..
.. Come out..VedantaAchAryarE!"
Swami blessed us with 29 excellent verses of GOdhAsthuthi. (one less than 30
pAsurams of ThiruppAvai)
Let me reproduce Sri Sadagopan mama's translation for the first slOkam:
Slokam 1 : SaraNAgathi at the Holy feet of GodhA PirAtti
SrivishNuchittha kulanandana kalpavaleem
Srirangaraaja harichandana yoga drusyaam I
SakshAth KshamAm karuNayA KamalAmivAnyAm
GodhAm ananya saraNa: SaraNam prapathyE II
(Meaning ) : O GodhE ! I perform Prapatthi at Your sacred feet as one , who has
no other recourse ! I have no one else
to save me . You are the Kalpaka creeper adorning the Lord standing as the
auspicious HarichandanA tree in the flower
garden of the Kulam of VishNuchitthA , your father. The darsanam of You united
with Your Lord tightly as the divine kalpakA creeper and the
celestial HarichandanA tree is a blessed sight to see .
In Your infinite patience with the aparAdhis , You appear verily like Bhumi
dEvi and in your limitless compassion , You resemble
Maha Lakshmi Herself . I offer my Prapatthi at your sacred , lotus feet as the
one , who has no other means !
Also, Sri Manavala Maamuni says:
inRO ThiruvAdippUram , yemakkaaha-
vanRO ingu ANDAL avatharitthAL , kunratha
vAzhvAna Vaikuntha vaann bhOgam tannai ihazhnthu
AzhwAr ThirumakaLaaraai ........(22 verse of Upadesa Ratthina maalai)
Dr. Sri V. Satakopan Swami writes:
(Meaning ): Is it n't today the most auspicious
AaDippUram ? Isn't it this day , when ANDAL
left behind the nithya SrI and the dhivya bhOgams
of Sri Vaikuntam to incarnate in this samsAric world
as the daughter of PeriyAzhwAr for asmadAdhi's
(for samsAris like us) ujeevanam ( salvation )?
Comments:In URM, Sri MM has devoted 3 paasurams
for ANDAl. This is the first one. In the first two ,
he celebrated the avathAra Dinam and in the third one ,
Sri MM saluted Her glory.
Lord KrishNA gave GithOpadEsam to all of us
while using ArjunA as a vyAjam (excuse ).
The UpadEsam was in Sanskrit and it was
much above the head of many.Hence , the full
benefit of that well-meant upadEsam for all was not
achieved. To overcome this problem , Bhumi Devi
incarnated as Godhai and blessed us with ThiruppAvai
in Her own unique Tamizh ( Vedam anaitthukkum
VitthAhum Godhai Tamizh )and in a way in which it
was easily understood by every one .This She did
for the upliftment of all of us suffering with
SamsAric afflictions .
Nothing can come close to ANDAL's or Her Thirumiozhi's glories
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PeriyAzhwAr peNNpiLayAi ANDAL piRantha
ThiruvAdip Pooratthin seermai , oru nALaikku
UndO manamE uNarnthu paar, ANDALukku
unDAhil oppu itharkkum uNDu ......(23)
(Meaning ):Is there a day , which compares in
srEyas and magnificience to the avathAra dinam
of Sri ANDAL , who incarnated on this earth as
the dear daughter of PeriyAzhwAr ? Oh my mind !
Please reflect on this question . If there is
a principle or entity that matches the glory
of ANDAL , then there will be another day , which
will equal the greatness of ThiruvAdippUram day .
The elaboration of the unmatched glory of ANDAL
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anjuk kudikku oru santhathiyAi , AzhwArkal
tanjeyalai vinji niRkum tanmayaLAi , pinjAi
pazhutthALaip patthiyudam naaLum
VazhutthAi manamE mahizhnthu......(24)
(meaning ): Oh My mind! Please eulogize always with
devotion ANDAL , who excelled all the ten AzhwArs
in Her deeds and who had such ripened bhagavath-premai
and Kaimkarya anubhavam for Her Lord even at a very
young age.She is the One , who was born as the only
daughter of the five families of the God-fearing
AzhwArs .
(Commentary): The three key groups of words in this
exquisite paasuram of Sri MM are:
(1) anju kudikku oru santhathiyAi
(2) AzhwaarkaL tamsyalai vinji niRkum tanmayaLAi
(3) PinjAi PazutthALai
(1)The Santhathi of Anju Kudi: There are double meanings
here .Anju Kudi is the vamsam (kudi) of BhaagavathAs (AzhwArs here),
who are always afraid (anjum ) of any haani (danger) coming
the way of our Lord .PeriyAzhwAr performing ThiruppallANDu
mangaLAsAsanam out of fear that there may be some kaNN
Yecchil ( dhrishti dhOsham ) falling on the Lord , when He
presented Himself in public to bless him (PeriyAzhwAr)
at Mathurai . ANDAL is the progeny of that anjum kudi
is one meaning.
PeriyAzhwAr had four sons already .With ANDAL,
the size of the family of PeriyAzhwAr became
Four+one =five. That is another meaning for anju kudi.
(2) AzhwArkaL tamseyalai vinji nirkum tanmayaLAi:
All AzhwArs had deep Bhakthi and Jn~Anam about
the svarUpa -SvAbhAva visWshams of their Lord,
Sriman NaarAyaNA . Two AzhwArs (NammAzhwAr
and Thirumangai ) assumed Naayaka-Naayaki
BhaVam to express their joy over samslEsham (union) with
Him and vislesham ( sorrow ) over separation from Him.
Thirumangai AzhwAr went one step ahead and performed madal
Oorthal ceremony to shame the Lord to accept her .
Swami Desikan refers to their crying out in joy and
sorrow through the assumption of feminine roles
by NammAzhwAr and Thirumangai in GodhA Sthuthi as :
bhOkthum tava priyatamam bhavathIva GodhE
bhakthim nijAm praNya BhAvanayA gruNantha:
ucchA vachai: viraha sangamajaiudhanthai:
srungArayanthi hrudhayam Gurava: thvadhIya:
Yet , these two AzhwArs and the other eight were MEN
and their act of Kaamam for the Lord was not as
authentic as that of ANDAL . She is the Lord's
consort and Her enjoyment of the Lord as His Devi
can not ever be equal to the others , who assumed
feminine roles .Her svabhAvam is that of a woman .
Her realtionship has to be more natural than that
of the ParakAla and ParAnkusa Naayakis in anubhava
poorthi .
(3) pinjAi pzhutthALAi : In her fifth year already ,
she blessed us with ThiruppAvai , where as the AzhwArs
took a long ,long time for their Bhakthi to progress
to the stages of para Bhakthi, Para Jn~Anam and Parama
Bhakthi .She jumped to parama Bhakthi right away instead
of the steady ripening of Her Bhakthi thru the other two stages.
Charama Jn~Anam also came to Her much earlier than the other AzhwArs.
For NammAzhwAr , that charama Jn~Anam came at the 10th decade
of the 8th centum (NedumARkkadimai decade); for Thirumangai ,
this charama Jn~Anam dawned at the 7th centum , 4th decade
( ThirucchErai Paasuram: KaNN sOra venkuruthi--). The Bhagavatha
Seshathvam Jn~Anam came thus much later to these AzhwArs .
For ANDAL however ,this Jn~Anam is captured in the first paasuram of
ThiruppAvai : " neerAda pOthuveer pothuminO, ---AaypAdic chelva
siRumIrkAL ". No wonder that Bhattar offered his PraNAmam to
Her in his Taniyan with a depth of reverence : " GodhA tasyai
nama itham itham bhUyEvAsthu bhUya: " to this pinjilE
pazhuttha ANDAL .
Thanks to Sri Satakopan Swami for his permission to share this wondreful write
up of his with you all on this divine day.
Let us pay our obeisance to GodhA PiraaTTi.
Srimanyai VishNu chitthaaryamanOnandhanahEthavE!
nandhanandha sudharyai gOdhaayai Nithya MangaLam!!
-Sri Manavaala Maamunigal
AndaL ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
Regards
namo narayana
dAsan
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