MoondrAm thiruvandhAdhi - Paasuram -51

Sri Parthasarathi thunai  
Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha
Srimad Vara Vara munayE Namaha
Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

Paasuram -51 

“avanE aruvaraiyal Aniraigal kaththAn
  avanE aNimarudham sAiththAn – avanE
  kalangAp perunagaram kAttuvAn kaNdeer

  elangA purameriththAn eidhu” 

aru varaiyAl – With the massive Govardhana hill, incapable of even shaking by anyone;
AniraigaL – cow herds
kAththAn – one who graced and protected;
avanE kaNdeer- That very Lord;
ANimarudham – the two marudha trees that stood very close to each other;
sAiththAn – one who uprooted them also;
avanE kaNdeer – That very Lord;
eidhu – used the arrows;
alangApuram -the Land of Lanka;
eriththAn – burnt into ashes;
avanE – that very emperuman;
kalangAp perunagaram – paramapadam, devoid of any confusions or commotions;
kAttuvAn kaNdeer  - will show it to us! 

Introduction 

Similar to how he removed the danger of Sri Gajendrazhvan He Himself will remove the hurdles to all the devotees and bless them with the ultimate goal (purushartha), the divine abode, Srivaikuntam.

 Commentary 

(aruvaraiyAlAniraigaL kAththAn avanE kaNdeer) With that hill (govardhana), which no one can even try to shake, He lifted, used it as an umbrella and safely protected the cattle and Gokula vasees who were suffering due to the heavy stone like rain showered by Indra.

 (avanE) He alone, The Ekaram shows that he is sarvasakthiyukthan (all powerful), one who doesn’t expect anyone’s support/help.

 (kaNdeer) the day the endangered cattle become capable of protecting themselves, then probably you can also think of taking care of yourself, says azhvar to all those who can think.

(aNimarudham sAiththAn avanE kaNdeer) The two marudha trees that stood very close to each other was uprooted and made to fall down only by Him without anyone else’s help;

 (eidhu elangApuram eriththAn avanE) For the sake of rescuing Sita piratti, one who showered arrows and burnt the city of Lanka to ashes, that which was unconquerable even by the Brahma rudras was won single handedly by Sri Rama.

 (kalangAp perunagaram kAttuvAn kaNdeer) After Rama’s victory, State of Lanka was such that seven asuras had to fight to wear one available dress.  But He will show us that divine abode where there is no hardship or Asuric people.  For those of us who don’t have anything in our hands to get uplifted He alone is the means as He expects nothing from us.

Be it cattle without the sixth sense or a highly intellectual like piratti both were rescued only by perumal.  The very purpose of the knowledge the intellectuals possess is to understand “thattasya sadrusham bhavet” (Ra. SK 39.30) “protecting me is perumal’s duty”

The ignorance of people similar to cattle stops them from stopping perumal from protecting them.

 (avanE kAttuvAN) To see the divine abode, none of our self-efforts will be fruitful.  He alone has to show it to us.

 Again, and again ‘avanE’ (He Himself) is used to stress the point that be it anishtanivritti (removing obstacles) or Ishtaprapti (blessing the good) the 2 sides of the coin protection He alone can do it and we can never accomplish it with our self-efforts.

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam