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THIRUPPAAVAI, is ANDAL's anugraham (blessings) to all devotees. These paasurams are in Tamil (Dravidam) and they lead us gradually to the Lord's lotus feet. The journey starts from "waking up fellow gopikas" for the VRATHAM (Nonbhu), TILL waking up of Lord Himself, who is the only one to give us the eternal bliss. The paasurams are grouped in to SIX sets of five
(5x5+5=30), conveying different contexts. They focus on
(1) The ways/steps to perform NOnbhu
(2) Maidens, who recently fell in love with Lord are awakened
(3) Those, who are deeply in love with KrishNa born in GOKULAM are awakened
(4) At NandhagOpan's house, DhwAra PaalakAs, NeeLai and KaNNan are
awakened
(5) The Maidens prepare KrishNa to a state in which He can listen to their
appeal
(6) Krishnan is ready and the Gopis reveal the purpose of their visit and pray for
the boons of eternal kaimkaryam. Thiruppavai appears to one, in his own level of maturity at different points of time such as --
Thiruppavai is part of Thiru MANTHRAM" ::: Periyalwar revealed the meaning of OM (pranavam) through his PALLANDU prabandham. ANDAL revealed meaning of NAMO NARAYANA. Both father and daughter together revealed astaakshari, "OM NAMO NARAYANA". --
THIRUPPAAVAI is equivalent to the UPANISHAD s : Every day during our daily pooja, tirunakshatrams and on every auspicious occassion, we perform SARRUMURAI, set of paasurams, the head and essence of which is Pallandu and Thiruppaavai. Veda siras is revered as Upanishad. Gita is known as GITOPANISHAD. Similarly THIRUPPAVAI is GODAPANISHAD. --
ANDAL ANUGRAHAM to RAMANUJA : Bhagavad Ramanuja wrote commentary on Upanishads.
Generally such person was rewarded as BHASHYKARAR. But Ramanuja did not get the honour for no reason. One day, ANDAL appeared in His dream and told, he will be bestowed the honour after he completes his commentary on THIRUPPAAVAI also. Subsequently Ramanuja succeeded and became SRI BHASHYAKAARAR and ANDAL his younger sister. --
ANDAL exceeds Sri Devi : ANDAL is amsam of SRI DEVI. Tulasi is the mother. Periyalwar her father. Emperumanar (Ramanuja) GODAGRAJAR. Lord RANGANATHA is Her swamy. All of us Her children. All there multiple relations glorify Her more than Periya Piratti SRI DEVI
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