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Thirumaalai(46)

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-28 

“umbarAl ariya lAgA oliyulAr AnaikkAgi

  sempulAlundu vAzhum mudalaimEl seerivandhAr

  namparamAyadundE? nAykalOm sirimaiyOrA

  empirArku AtseiyAdhE enseivAn thOndrinEnE?” 

In this paasuram alwar tells about the Gajendra Moksha vriththAntham. 
Emperuman has sama drishthi so he doesn’t differentiate between man and
animal.  When droupathi surrendered to him and said “Govinda
pundareekaksha rakshamam sharanAgatham” he only bestowed her with innumerable
saree but in the case of the elephant gajendra he came running for his
call to save him.  Gajendra was also a great bhaktha of emperuman and to
save him from the clutches of the crocodile emperuman came running. 

umbarAl ariya lAgA oliyulAr AnaikkAgi:  It is difficult for ordinary
people like us to see the devas and other gods.  The devas have the same
difficulty in seeing the supreme emperuman.  Even when they run to
thirupArkal to say their difficulty to emperuman they are not able to see
him instead they hear only a asareeree voice.  So even the devas are not
aware who the parabrahman is.  Gajendran who was a king in the previous
birth now has became a elephant due to a curse.  Similarly the
crocodile which caught the legs of gajendran was also a gandarvan.  The
crocodile caught the legs of gajendran for getting rid of his curse and hence
it didn’t eat the elephant but both were fighting for number of years. 
Ultimately gajendran understood that, since inspite of fighting for so
many years he still hasn’t died there is some force which is saving
him.  So he shouted “AdhimoolamE”(The supreme which is responsible for the
creation).  Even the devas didn’t know who this adhimoolam was and
hence were eager to see who turned up to save the elephant.  They were
worried, what if the adhimoolam gave darshan only to gajendran so all the
devas also started shouting the same.  Since even the devas are
incapable of understanding the bhagavan alwar here says ‘umbarAl ariya lAgA’. 

  sempulAlundu vAzhum mudalaimEl seerivandhAr:  In NarasimAvataram or
Krishna avataram emperuman didn’t appear immediately after the devas
complaint to him about hiranyakasipu or kamsan.  He took narasimha
avataram only when hiranyan troubled prahaladan.  To prove the words of
prahladan emperuman came out of the pillar.  So emperuman considered sishta
paripalam (to save the good people) more important than dushta
nigraham(killing the asuras).  Emperuman forgives any mistake we do to him but
can never forgive the apacharam done to a bhagavatan.  Here the
crocodile did catch the feet of a bhagavatan but then the intention of the
crocodile was bad.  So more than our action our mental status is highly
important.  For the sake of his bhakthan gajendran(oliyulAr AnaikkAgi) he
came running to kill the crocodile, which lives killing all animals
which come to quench their thirst with the water in that place.  Emperuman
became very furious when he saw that the crocodile for troubling his
bhakthan.  He didn’t bother about his dress or didn’t even see if
everything was ready for his purappadu but just sat on garudan and pushed him
to go as fast as he came.  Garudan is supposed to be very fast but at
this time emperuman couldn’t even appreciate garudan’s speed since
emperuman was in a state of great hurry and anger(mudalaimEl seeri vandhAr). 

In the vyakhyanam Sri PVP remembers the ramanyana story.  Emperuman
forgives any sort of apacharam but he can never tolerate even a minute
bhagavata apacharam.  Ravana did great many apacharams to perumal and
piratti.  He separated the divine couples and gave a hell lot of problems
to piratti.  Still perumal was patient towards him and always wanted to
save him.  Even when vibheeshana came and surrendered he ordered
sugreeva to bring to his feet even if ravana came after second thought(‘yethi
vA rAvana svayam’).  Such was the krupai of Sri Rama piran.  Even after
fighting one day he says go today and come tomorrow thinking that
atleast that night ravana may change mind and come and surrender to him. 
All along emperuman was not angry with ravana but he tried to act as if
he was angry.  But then he became really angry only when ravana hit
hanuman, his parama bhakthan.  ‘kObhasya vasamE emam’ says valmiki at this
place.  Ravana was fighting from a chariot but perumal was standing on
the ground.  So to lift perumal to the level of ravana to fight with
him hanuman carried perumal on his shoulders.  Ravana became very angry
with hanuman’s act and hence instead of fighting with perumal he hurt
hanuman, which made perumal furious.  Perumal became very angry and
started fighting vigorously.  Similarly here emperuman couldn’t tolerate the
trouble given by the crocodile to his bhaktha gajendran so emperuman
came on his garuda vahanam and put his chakram on the crocodile and saved
gajendrazhvan from the clutches of the crocodile. 

(To Be Continued) 

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

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