NaDakkinRan: Just as hanumAn's word that rAma was approachingĪyodhyA was sufficient to keep bharata alive, ANDAL is able to These great qualities of empirAn shine like the lamp in a dark room only when He gives Himself to the samsAri-s of the world. His soulabhyam (the ease with which He can be approached), His SouSilyam (the ease with which He mixes with others), and His Arjavam (open-heartedness) cannot be noticed in a setting like paramapadam where only the Realized great nitya mukta-s live. His supreme qualities are expressly visible only in avatAra kAlams, when He has to mix with imperfect and deficient samsAri-s. When kaNNan (the king of mathurA and tiru AyppADi) is walking, it is like nArAyaNan (ubhaya vibhUti nAthan) walking. Nambi nAraNan - nArAyaNa who is brimming with Supreme qualities. (nAdaswaram, drums etc.) that are preceding Him. The village, from the sound coming from the vAdya gOshTi Valam Seidu: gOdai is guessing that He is coming around Him in an equivalent position as He is (periya tirumozhiġ1-3-5 - "tammaiyE nALum vaNa~ngit tozhuvARkku tammaiyE Soulabhyam is such that He will keep His devotees who reach That they can also ride the elephant with Him. So here are the thousand elephants, one for each so Will not bear to see any of them in any way less comfortable than NaDai iTTu varuvAn" - kaNNan has these thousand friends, and Said in his tirumozhi 3-1-1, "tannErAyiram piLLaigaLODu taLar VAraNam Ayiram: why a thousand elephants? As periyAzhvAr Wealth of both His natural father and His father who brought Him up. We will share our pleasures and sorrows alike" "ekham duhkam sukhamcanou -you are my very close friend Since nandagopan and vasudevan were close friends, they sharedĮach other's wealth very freely. VAraNam: tiru AyppADi has only cows and calves where do theĮlephants come from? SrI PVP explains that vasudEvar had theseĮlephants as part of his army to defend against enemies -ĪNDAL herself says in tiuppAvai 18 "undu mada kaLiRRan". His coming to her, and so she sees in her dream all the preparations and decorations in the town to receive Him. He comes to her she wants to have the anubhavam of the scene of Additional thoughts from SrI PVP:ĪNDAL is not just looking for the pleasure of His nearness after The whole village is decorated with tOraNams (streamers) to mark the festive occasion." B. My father, periyAzhvAr, and the citizens of the village are ready to extend a grand welcome to Him with pURNa kumbhams placed on their heads. RanganAthan), surrounded by thousands of elephants, going around "Oh my dear sakhi! I had this wonderful dream I saw nAraNan (SrI In the first pASuram of "vAraNam Ayiram", gOdai startsĭescribing beautifully to her friend, the divine dream that she Translation from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise: TirumaNa ERpADugaL naDai peRak kanAk kaNDEnĪ. PASuram 6.1 (sixth tirumozhi - pAsuram 1 vAraNam Ayiram)