An Apt pasuram today on Vaikunta ekadasi Pasuram17 ambarame thaNNeerE sorE aram seyyum emperumAn nandagopAlA ezundhirAi kombanArkkellAm l kozyundhE kulaviLakkE emperumAtti yasOdhAi arivurAi ambaram oodarutthu Ongi ulagalandha umbarkOmAnE urangAdhezundhirAi semporkazqladichelvA baladhEva umbiyum neeyum urangElorempAvai. Nandagopala ,you are blessed in many respects. You have excelled even the kalpatharu in giving away clothes, food and water to all besides whatever they wanted out of sheer joy on having Krishna as your son. He is also the one from whom the sky, (ambaram) water and earth(sORu) came from. He Himself is ambaram , as He is all pervading, thaNNneer , as He is like the cool shower to the souls scorched in the heat of samsara, sORu, the food or the staple sustaining force of all, (annam brahma ithi vijaaneeyaath) Oh Yasodha, you are also a benefactor. Have not you given us Krishna who is yaSas, which term is used to denote Brahman in the Vedas.(yaSo dhaa),and hence you are the light of women. Oh Lord, you have pierced the sky in measuring the universe with your foot and all the three worlds were covered by the foot. How can you sleep and where can you sleep? The term Nandagopala suits you too as you are the Gopala, protector of all(go means, cow, indriyas, vaak earth etc,) and who is bliss(nanda). You have also given ambaram , cloth to Draupadi, water to the horses of your chariot in the battlefield sOru, to Durvasa after the akshyapatra of Droupadi became dry. Baladeva, you are the Sesha who follows the footsteps of the Lord closely, becoming an umbrella when vasudeva took Krishna to Gokulam, you provide the seat for Him in vaikunta and serve bed in ThiruppaRkadal. You have to wake up along with your younger brother, because when the person sleeping in bed gets up where is the need for the bed anymore? Translation Lord Nandhagopala, who gives clothes, water and food to all, wake up. Yasodha, the best among the beautiful , slender women, the light of the clan, wake up.Oh Lord, who is the God of gods, and who pierced the sky and measured the whole world, do not sleep, wake up. Balarama, with golden anklet do not be sleeping with your brotherbut wake up. Nandhagopa is known for giving ambaram, clothes, thaNNeer, water and annam food to all. Likewise he is asked to give them Krishna also because as Nammazvar has said, uNNumsoru, parugumneer, thinnum vettrilai ellaAm Kannan for these girls. aRamseyyum-aRam is charity done with righteous attitude, dharmabuddhi. That is why it is called aRam, which means dharma in Tamil. To expect something in return is only a business. To do it as ones duty is dharmam. Of all the dhAnas annadhAna is supposed to be the best because one who gets it goes away satisfied. YasOdha means giver of yasas which normally means fame and in the vedas it means Brahman. Since she gave us the Brahman in form of Krishna she is called Yasodha. yasaH dhadhaathi ithi yaSodhaa. The word ambaram has many meanings such as clothes, sky etc. The first ambaram means the clothes while the second denotes the sky. But the scholars take it that to translate ambaram in ambaramE thaNNeerE, sOre as akasa, the word may be taken to refer to the Lord Himself. The basis for this is the upanishadic statement that Brahman, who was one and only without a second willed to become many and created the elements. Akasa being the first and later followed fire, air, water and earth. As the earth is denoted by the word annam the same order given here refers to the Lord from whom everything origiinated. Also ambaram meaning clothes is mentioned first as it is essential for human beings only, among all the creatures and only after wearing clothes after bath one eats food or drinks water. Lord Krishna was also the donor of ambara , garment to Droupadi and water to the horses in the battle by piercing the rock by his staff, used to tend cattle and by eating the annam from the akshaya paathra of Droupadhi gave food to Durvasa and his disciples and made them feel ful in the stomach. ambaramoodarutthu refers to the piercing of the cosmic shell to bring water from the outer region as mentioned in the upanishad as thripAdhasyAmrtham dhivi, that is the whole cosmos pervaded by the Lord is only a quarter of His form and the remaining three quarters are outside. It is said that Brahma wanted to wash the feet of the Lord when it reached his loka by the water of his kamandalu but found that it was not enough when Thrivikrama pierced the cosmic shell by His foot and brought the water which became the akasaganga, celestial Ganges which was later brought to earth by Bhagiratha. selva baladeva- his sempoR kazal is a veerakkazal.as he killed asuras and dragged the whole Hasthinapura into the Ganges by his plough when Duryodhana insulted him and diverted Yamuna to where he was, for his jalakreeda. Being the incarnation of adhisesha he cleaned the womb of Devaki to make it divine for Krishna, his Lord. As Devaki lost her six children Sesha entered her womb to clear the sarpa dosha, causing death of sons of Devaki and he stepped into the world to guard Krishna from evil forces. Sesha follows the Lord wherever He goes.as azvar says, senral kudaiyam, he serves the Lord in all His states. Sesha and the seshi, bhagavan are not two but one. That is why Valmiki refers to Lakshmana who was the incarnation of Sesha as bhahirgatha praaNa of Rama, the life force of Rama manifest outside.. umbiyum neeyum urangelorempavai- Sesha being the couch they entreat him to wake up as when he moves the Lord will be awakened. They call Krishna his younger brother implying that Krishna will listen to him if he takes mercy on them and recommend their case. In the pasurams 16,17 and 18 Nandhagopa is mentioned as being the master (nayakanAi) charitable, (aRam seyyum) valourous (undhumadhakalittran OdAdhathOlvaliyan).Desika in his Yadhavabhyudhaya says that Nandhagopa excelled the wish-giving jewel, chinthamani and the celestial wish- fulfilling tree, kalpatharu and the rain-bearing clouds in his generosity at the birth of Krishna. The ashtakshara manthra is referred to by this pasuram. Ambaram=pranavam, sOru =narayana sabdha and thaNNeer=namah Ambaram meaning AkAsa denotes the pranava in which all sabdhas are included as everything exists in AkAsa. Upanishad says annam brhmEthi vijAnAth therefore soru=Narayanasabdha, the Brahman of visishtadvaitha thaN neer - cool water is namah sabdha since it is the means of life eternal. Through prapatthi, surrender, the devotion attains its culmination and like by the cool water the jiva is refreshed from the heat caused by samsara. aRam seyyum- The acharya gives BhagavAn, the seshi to the sesha , the jiva and vice versa which is the aRam . kombanaarkkellAm kozundhu is the ashtakshara which is the best of manthras as it shows the Lord. It is like Yasodha who has Krishna and the manthra is the source of jnana (aRivuRAi) ambaram oodarutthu indicates the all- pervasiveness of the Lord. umbiyumneeyum urangelorempAvAi-Bhagavtseshatnvam and bhAgavathaseshathvam. It is equally important to worship the bhagavathas as it is to worship BhagavAn, who will be pleased more by the propitiation of His devotees as a father will be more pleased by fondling of his son rather than honouring himself. Ambaram- is divine grace. thaNNeer denotes egotism and giving it means removal of it. SoRu is the kainkanryam. Allthese three are obtained from the acharya Hence the word emperumaan nandha gopaala means the acharya especially as Ramanuaj was called emperumaanaar. Kombanaarkkellaam kozhundhe kulaviLakke denotes the ashtaksharamanthra referred to as Yasodha. Semporkazaladi selvaa may also refer to Krishna himself and it is commented as Andal first saw the red feet and took it as lotus feet of Krishna and late realised that it was abalarama and said Baladeva.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 01:18:49 +0000
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