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Jivaatma

Servants of Maha Vishnu
Its about Bhagavad Vishayam, the essence of Thiruvaimozhi/Saama veda by Nammalwar

Brief Introduction

Nammalwar was born in a clan "Vellalar tribe" on the 43rd day of kali yuga on Friday, under the star “Vishakha”, during the sukla pakshi, chathur dashi, in kataka lagna, in the month of vrushabha (May-June), in vasantha ruthu, in the year of Pramadhi, in Thiru kurugoor (near Thirunelveli) in the Pandaya dynasty of Tamil Nadu, to kariyar and Udayanangayar.

The child was extraordinary. For several days, it lived with eyes closed in perfect health, without food . For days together, it never spoke. Distressed at this, the parents place the child at the shrine of Aadinathar, the deity of Kurugoor, surrendering into Him the entire burden of upbringing the child.

As the child was totally different from the general human nature, he was named Maran. He was also called “Sadagopan” as, unlike other children, he did not allow earthly ignorance to envelope him.

For sixteen long years, Maran sat motionless under the tamarind tree in Adinathar temple without food or drink, eyes closed, in padmasana ( one of the meditative posture), in utter silence. He was verily a SUN in human form with an aura encompassing the universe. He is believed to be the Avatara of Vishwak-Sena, chief of the hosts of Sriman Narayana in Vaikuntam.

Madhurakavi Alwar:

During that period, an elderly Brahmin scholar named Madhurakavi was on his pilgrimage to north Indian shrines. At Ayodhya, the pilgrim saw an extraordinary sweet glowing light as a star on the southern sky. Keen on knowing the source whence it emanated he traveled southward. Even when he reached Srirangam, (near Trichy in Tamil Nadu) the light was visible in far south. He continued his quest till he reached kurugoor, where the light merged with the person in Nammalwar, seated blissfully under the tamarind tree.

Getting Nammalwar to speak:

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With great difficulty, Madhura kavi succeeded in drawing out Nammalwar from his deep samadhi. He learnt from Nammalwar the secrets of all the shastras by becoming his disciple. Thenceforward, he remained at his lotus feet, recording the divine poem swelling out of the heart of Nammalwar in great ecstasy of Krishna Bhakti, sometimes rapidly and other times slowly, depending on the intensity of intuition and inspiration. At the very thought of the birth and beauty of Sri Krishna, the Alwar used to go into deep trance for months together.

Nammalwar is the seer of Dravidian Vedas. He sang four immortal poems as the Tamil version of the of the four Vedas – Rig, Sama, Yajur and Atharvanda.

Nammalwar stayed on earth for a brief thirty-five years. His return back to Vaikuntam through the Archaradhi gathi has also been sung by him in the penultimate portion of ThiruvaimozhI

http://www.divyadesam.com/alwars/namm-alwar.shtml

Nammalwar's Works:

Nammalwar gave the Tamil version of the Vedas in the following works:—


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    • THIRU-VIRUTTAM
      This constitutes the essence of Rig Veda. Thiru means “Sri”. It is a poem of 100 stanzas each a quadrate. Viruttam is a style of poetry. Viruttam literally means an event. The event of 'falling in love with the Supreme being' is narrated poetically. 'Bridal Mysticism' is symbolized in a mellifluent way.
    • THIRU-ASIRIYAM
      This constitutes the essence of yajurveda. It is a poem in seven sections or seven poems of unequal length. The breathless flow of the continuity of expression of the sun-lit beauty of the lord takes the reader to ethereal heights. In all, it has 71 lines.
    • PERIYA THIRUVANDADI
      This constitutes the essence of Atharvana Veda. It is a poem of 87 lyrical stanzas. The style is at once simple and direct, moving and inspiring and transports one to see god face to face.
    • THIRUVAIMOZHI (literally means Divine words)
      This is the magnum opus of Nammalwar—the treasure of Vaishnavism. it consists of 1102 four lined verses or passurams. These appear in groups of eleven. One group, which is an exception has thirteen paasurams. Each group is known as a Thiruvaimozhi. Ten such groups is called a pathu (meaning ten in Tamil). Thiruvaimozhi therefore has 10 pathus that is 100 thiruvaimozhis and 1102 paasurams. The melody produces by chorus singing of these paasurams by devotees is a feast to the ears.
 
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Jivaatma

Servants of Maha Vishnu
http://antaryami.net/darpanam/2013/10/05/tiruvayimozhi-eedu/

In Sri Vaishnava Sampradayam, the Commentaries mainly on the work of Nammalwar’s Tiruvayimozhi is known as ‘Bhagavad Vishayam‘. For Bagavad vishayam Kalakshepam since there are five commentaries done by five aacharyas. One of the commentary is the Eedu which is basically complete set of notes collected by Sri Vadakku Thiruveedhi Pillai from Sri Nampillai’s kalakshepam. This Eedu has however flown through more aacharyas in privacy until Sri Manavalamamunigal who lectured it to Periya perumal and public at thiruvarangam periya koil. By that time Ranganatha perumal cancelled all his utsavams for one year to hear Tiruvayimozhi Kalakshepam from Manavalamamunigal.

The first commentary was composed under Ramanuja’s direct guidance by Sri Tirukkurukai Piran Pillan, his close disciple. It was called ‘Arayirappadi’. The Vaishnavas had a method of measuring the length of a prose work by units of 32 vowels and consonants used and each unit was called a ‘Padi’. Sri Pillan’s work consisted of 6000 such units called ‘Arayirappadi’.

For more refer-->http://antaryami.net/darpanam/2013/10/05/tiruvayimozhi-eedu/

I got hands on the Bhagavad Vishayam books and its pure nectar and astounding concepts of Vaishnavism are there in there. I would update this thread whenever I can wth things that were mentioned.
 

M Raghavan

adiyen Ramanuja dasan
adiyen is blessed to be learning Bhagavad Vishayam under the tutelage of HH Sri Chinna Tridandi Jeeyar. adiyen would enjoy exchanging ideas. Please continue...
 
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