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Paripatal Narasimha Avatara Garuda

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True Devotees and their four Virtues
Friendly, Compassionate, Detached and Dispassionate Indifference
Emotional Description of Narasimha Avatara - Not found in the Divya Prabhandham

The fourth Paripatal also by Kattuvan Ilaveynanaar starts similar to his previous poem with a simple and beautiful description of the true devotees of the Lord. These true devotees, he says, envision God in their minds, by purifying and controlling their senses making them free from delusion of any kind.

They developed the four bhavanas or virtues – Maitri (friendliness), Karuna (compassion), Muditai (detachment) and Upeksha (dispassionate indifference- SEEING GOOD IN EVERYTHING!!!)

ஐந்துஇருள்அரநீக்கிநான்கினுள்துடைத்த
தம்ஒன்றுஆற்றுபடுத்த  நின்ஆர்வலர்தொழுதுஏத்தி

Kattuvan Ilaveynannaar begins his praise questioning his own ability to sing praise of the Lord – a trait typical of great poets of that period. He says he is inadequate to praise the Lord with his limited knowledge and may not be able to do justice to the greatness of the Lord. He also pleads with the Lord not to laugh at him for even attempting to sing his praise.

Alavanthar says thus in his Chatusloki, so does Vedanta Desikar in his Sri Stuti, each raising the question of whether they are even equipped to sing praise of the Lord!!! In the Periyazhvar Thirumozhi, Periyazhvar repeatedly refers to his inadequacy to sing praise of the Lord but says he has nowhere else to go. In one of the verses he even says that he does not care if the Lord laughs at him because he knows nothing else other than singing praise of him.

Tirumaal’s Features
The complexion of the Lord is sapphire and compares it to the Blue Sea and the Rain Cloud. He has a garland of green Basil on his sapphire chest, he has lovely lotus like eyes, his feet are greater than the Lord himself and Goddess Lakshmi adds a beauty to this chest.

Emotional Praise of Narasimha Avatara


The poet provides a very emotional description in about 10 lines of the Narasimha Avatara. Such a description is not found in the Nalayira Divya Prabhandham. He describes in a beautiful verse Thirumaal answering the prayers of his true devotee Prahalada and how he emerges out of the pillar.

He describes the anger of the father on hearing the praise of the Lord by his very own son. It created in him a fury and irritation that was beyond description. He says it created in Hiranya a hate for the Lord that even dried up the Sandal on his chest and then this turned the father into torturing his own son in many different ways and harassed him continuously, unmindful of the fact that Prahalada was his son.
நிற புகழ புகைந்த நெஞ்சின் புலர்ந்த சாந்தின்
பிருங்கலாதன்பலபலபிணிபட
வலந்துழிமலர்ந்தநோய்கூர்கூம்பியநடுகத்து
அலர்ந்தபுகழோன்தாதைஆகலின்

The poet praises the true devotion of the young child. Despite this cruel treatment by his father, the young boy did not flutter and he continued to utter the Lord’s name. Nothing could shake the young child’s heart from thinking of the Lord at all points of time.

And the Lord then decided that it was time to save his true devotee. The poet praises with emotion the opening of the pillar. The Lord leapt upon the hill like chest of the Asura and in a flash shattered his pride of being invincible. And the moment the Lord tore the asura apart with his powerful claws (Lion Avatara), the Poet describes the simultaneous thunder reverberating in the celestial skies.

இகழ்வோன்இகழாநெஞ்சினனாகநீஇகழா
நன்றாநட்டஅவன்தனமார்புமுயங்கி
ஒன்றாநட்டவன்உருவரைமார்பின்
படிமதம்சாம்பஒதுங்கி

And then he describes the mangled flesh that was lying scattered all around the King’s court alongside the broken pieces of the pillar. Having come out of the pillar to tear open the chest of the Asura, one could hear a thunderous roar arising out of pain, almost as if to acknowledge the supreme power of the Lord.

இன்னல்இன்னரொடுஇடிமுரசுஇயம்ப
வெடிபடாஓடிதூண்தடியொடு
தடிதடிபலபடவகிர்வாய்ந்தஉகிரினை

Varaha Avatara
The poet follows this with a praise of the Varaha Avatara. He compares his greatness to the huge and famous Meru Mountain and says that it was the Lord who helped recover the Earth from the Nether World and came back carrying it on his ‘DARK and MIGHTY NECK.’

Big Praise for Garuda
The poet praises his different flags of Tirumaal - Garuda, Palmyrah, elephant and Plough and says that Garuda is the best of the lot and is loftier than the others.

சேவல்ஓங்குஉயர்கொடியோயே
சேவல்ஓங்குஉயர்கொடி

நின்ஒன்றுஉயர்கொடிபனை
நின்ஒன்றுஉயர்கொடிநாஞ்சில்
நின்ஒனர்உயர்கொடியானை
நின்ஒன்றாஉயர்கொடிஒன்றுஇன்று

In another surprise set of lines in this Paripatal, an equivalent of which is not found in the Nalayira Divya Prabhandham, the poet sings great praise about Garuda and his superiority over the Serpent. He describes him as the terror of the Serpent race. His food is the serpent and his ornaments around the middle of his body are also the serpents. His jewel is also a serpent. In this delightful praise of Garuda, the poet says that the snakes shine like gems on his wings.

விடமுடைஅரவின்உடல்உயிர்உருங்குஉவணம்
அவன்மடிமேல்வலந்ததுபாம்பு
பாம்புதொடிபாம்புமுடிமேலன
பாம்புபூண்பாம்புதலைமேலது
பாம்புசிறைதலையன
பாம்புபடிமதம்சாயத்தோய்

பசும்பூணவைகொடிமேல்இருத்தவன்
தாக்குஇரையதுபாம்பு 

There are 10 lines in this fourth Paripatal that start with Your (Nin) praising the Lord’s greatness.
He praises Tirumaal as one about whom only a few qualities are known. Most of the others only the revered sages may know. He resembles the Sun in his heat, Moon in coolness, Rain in bounty, Earth in forbearance, Form of the sea, Fineness of the sky, Advent/Dissolution of Air and Fragrant Grace of the Kaya flowers.

His qualities shows wrath to wrong doers and grace to devotees but on his own he has no friends or foes and is above human limitation.

நினக்குமாற்றோரும்இலர்கேளிகும்இலர்

Abodes
Tirumaal’s abodes are listed as Banyan, Kattampu and Hillocks.

CONCLUSION
In conclusion Lord’s pre eminence and his transcendence beyond good and evil are finely brought out by the poet at the end. To devotees he is easily accessible. He protects and saves all of them. The poet refers to Tirumaal as a servant of his devotee and a Guard and a guide of Good deeds.
He ends saying God is the sole refuge and protector of all.


எவ்  வயிளோயும்நீயே
நின்ஆர்வலர்தொழுதகைஅமைதியின்அமர்ந்தோயும்நீயே
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