Nandanar Discourse - Page 3

Siva peruman says,"kindly move a bit", why siva peruman is a swami and Nandi, only a dasan and a swami could have ordered the dasan, but siva peruman did not order, sivaperumAn is speaking with affection. In our place, "Thirunalaipovar Nandanar has come, he has come to see me". As soon as this was said, there is a thundering earth shattering noise. All of them who were upto now filled with sadness, on suddenly hearing this great noise lift their head up and watch awestruck Nadikeshawarar is moving before their very eyes. All of the eleven were completely changed now as they have seen a great wonder and surprise right before their eyes. As Nandi moves we hear bells sounding, deepa aradhana is happening, this kind of amazing darshan made Nandanar cry with tears of joy.

NANDI DOORA VILAGHI NINDRAR
THAN SWAMI MANADHAI KANDAR
IVAN NALLA BHAKTHAN ENDRAR.....

"Just in the manner of speaking out of bhavam, I requested that Nandikeshwarar could move but Eesa you have such a great kripa towards me and am i really gifted to be treated like this?" The eleven people who accompanied Nandanar were completely transformed as they saw the wonder in front of their eyes. Now all of them having had this darshan make their way back to Adhanur village from Tiruppungur. Now having seen siva perumal and having had the darshan, bhakthi over. is that all? Is this possible for a bhaktan? Bhaktan as he does bhakthi, bhagavam gives him the anugraham. In turn bhagavans anugraham makes the bhakthar to perform more bhakthi. Now this is becoming a competition as the bhaktha feels that such an anugraham has been obtained. In the midst of this competition, says Smt Vishaka Hariji is when "we all get the stories for discourses themselves, to sing them and describe the leelais in various forms". Now Nandanar's devotion being filled with more and more bhakthi wanted to have darshan of siva peruman and he started to have a single objective in his life, what? - to go to Chidambaram and have the darshan of siva peruman there. Nandanar now doesn’t have food, no sleep, nothing, all the time Nandanar is thinking of Chidambaranathar. Once again he starts to doubt whether he will ever get the darshan of siva peruman, he is such a papi and doesn’t have so much bhakthi and whether he has the yogyathai to go there itself. So he decides and says to himself, "well, let me go tomorrow". Next day comes, again doubts whether he will get leave, Will eesa accepts him, and then says to himself. "okay let me go tomorrow". Like this, saying I will go tomorrow, I will go tomorrow he became to be called as THIRU NALAI POVAR. People all around him started to talk that Nandanar will go tomorrow, thus they began to call him Thiru nalai povar.

NALAI POGAMAL IRUPENO
INTHA NATRA NARAMBU.......

Again Nandanar calls everyone and starts talking to them and advises, "you shouldn’t all be like this, lazy and doing nothing. I will tell you of the sampradayams of the elder people, I will tell you of Sat sampradayam, how the sants, sadhus will be and how we should conduct ourselves, he starts discoursing as before."

"Sivane deivam Chidambarame Kailasam Thavame Perumai Madha Sampradayam"

Immediately they reply,

"Seriye Swargam Eriye Kailasam Mariye Deivam Matha Sampradayam"

Then Nandanar says,

"Padipathe Gnanam, Parpathu Moolam Kudipathu Madhipal Kula Sampradayam.

Dont drink other milk, we need to drink the milk of knowledge."

But they say what they think is right and "we cannot follow you Nanda, you can’t dictate to us. Why are you always simply talking About Gnanam and kill us like this? You be happy and we will also be happy, leave us alone". Some people when you tell them to come and attend Kathai will say, "Simply don’t torture me", What's the torture in that, listening to Kathai is rasam isn’t it. Similarly for singing as well, how to listen to this song. "Dont keep pestering us, leave us to be happy, Nanda. We will live without any shame (Koosamal Valvom)." Although this is being told as a joke, all over the world we are like this only,

 "KONDATHE KOLAM KANDATHE KATCHI".

We don’t have any procedure, vritham or performing dharmam, being like this, not speaking the truth, all over the world people are not like this. We are just like

RINAM KRITVA GHRATAM PIVET
This is the slogan for the lokam it seems, what slogan is this?

BY TAKING A LOAN ATLEAST, WE SHOULD EAT WITH GHEE INCLUDED. LOAN, DONT WE NEED TO SETTLE IT. NO! ARE WE TAKING A LOAN TO SETTLE IT, NO WAY. WHAT, IF WE DONT SETTLE LOAN, WE GAIN PAPAM ISNT IT AND WILL GO TO HELL.
WHAT, EATING WITHOUT GHEE... IS THERE A HELL BEYOND THAT?

--- as Jabali says in RAMAYANAM ---

So when these people start to think that Nandanar is trying to curb their desires and not allowing them to live like they want as he says sat sampradayam etc, they get angry. A big group forms with an objective to change Nandanar. If we spoil Nandanar bhakthi then we all can be happy and free. So they hit upon a plan, in that village there is a very old person, they feel that Nandanar will listen to this old man. Nandanar always has respect for the sayings of old people, he has great respect for their age. So they ask the old person to somehow brainwash Nandanar and spoil his bhakthi. If you do that, then we will be happy at last. Immediately the old person comes and Gopalakrishna bharathiar describes the arrival in a very funny manner. There is a link in this way its being told in a funny manner as there is a moral behind this in the story later. "What I am hearing about you, Nandanar, whatever you are doing is that Nyayam?", the old man asks Nandanar.

NYAYAN THANO NE SOLLUM,
OUI NANDANARE!!!
.... CHIDAMBARANENGIRA PECHU....NANGAL SEITHIDUM KARYAM POCHU

So Nandanar, "simply don’t keep saying swami swami, we are all slaves here, there is no swami or bhutham for us". Nandanar says, "Am I the only Slave?"

IN THIS WORLD EVERYONE IS A SLAVE. IF YOU ASK EACH ONE ABOUT HIMSELF, WE CAN KNOW. SOME ARE SLAVE FOR KAMA, SOME FOR KRODHA, SOME ARE SLAVES FOR DRESSING UP, SOME ARE SLAVES FOR EATING...WANT TO EAT DIFFERENT THINGS..AND IF THEY CANT EAT DIFFERENTLY EACH DAY THEY WILL GET ANGRY AND THEREFORE BECOME SLAVE FOR ANGER, LIKE THIS THE WHOLE WORLD IS OF SLAVES. TO REMOVE OURSELVES FROM THIS SLAVERY, WE NEED TO HOLD ONTO TO BHAGAVAN ONLY, ASKS NANDANAR.

Immediately the old man says, "all this is correct Nandanar, you do bhakthi, I don’t say no, why are you dragging all this small people out there and changing them, what will they understand, swami, bhakthi or bhutam". So Nandanar gets angry and asks, "are they small kids, what does not come at 5 Years, will it come at 5O. Is bhakthi a laddu, for it to come at 60 Years, if you say bhakthiye come at 60 Years, will it come and sit in your hand or can you put it in your mouth".

Sri Sri Anna will say in this context, "In 60 years, if you say you want to bhakthi whats the guarantee that you will be there for 60 years in the first place? If you are dead at 50, some are dead even at 25, 35, how will bhakthi come then. Ok lets say you got it at 60 years, how you will be you will be jabbering and will have all limbs tired, shudder to think of it, at that time, if you want to say Namam, will it come to you then?".

ONDRUME PAYAN ILLAYENDRU UNNANDHA PINBAVAN UNDENBAAN.....

ORU ORU MANIDHANUM ORU INNILLAI ERURIDHIYA.......

ADHALINAL MANAME...

INDRE SIVA NAMAM SOLLI PALAGHU...PALAGHU...PALAGHU......

NAMBI KETTARAVAR EVARAIYA?

This is Papanasamsivam keerthanai....Having said like this by Nandanar, when its told like a Guru upadesam and if its from a satguru, it will sink into the mind. This old man says, "Nanda! only today I do understand, I am a elder but I am not suited to be one, only today I became one. You have opened my eyes", that’s the link Gopalakrishna Bharathiar made earlier to say that even at this old age, only with a Guru upadesam there is even the slightest chance to get Jnanam as such there is no relation between age and Jnanam. Now the old man goes to the group who sent him and starts saying that the most respected man in this village is Nandanar and all should listen to him and do what he tells. They now say, "what is this, we sent you to remove Nandanars madness of Chidambaram but now you are mad about Nandanar".

These people got very angry and at first do not know what to do. Suddenly they hit upon an idea. They think, "When Nandan is throwing the sand on our desires such as drinking, saying lies and stealing, we have to destroy his desire. (Is that what throwing sand is? Dur asai (Bad Desires), but isn’t this good, destroying the dur asai). They start to think that when Nandan is not allowing us to be happy then we must not keep him happy either. What's Nandan's desire, only one...to go to Chidambaram...Now this whole bunch want to spoil this. The whole cheri is now assembled in front of the adhanur brahmnan's house. The brahmnan exclaims, "What, the whole village is here, whats happening?", to which they reply, " We have come to give a message", "yes tell me what that message is?", the brahmin asks?

aIye Oru Sethi kElum...
Ungal Adimai Kara Paiyal
Nadathaiyallam Vara Vara KeTTu Pochu...
aIye..Vara Vara KeTTu Pochu...

The message had to be delivered as it is, isn't it. If that were the case there would have been no trouble to Nandanar, But instead they change the message completely. They say, "Nandan is not doing any work, he is always saying he is going to Chidambaram, when we asked Nandan...wont the yajaman get angry as you are saying you want to go to Chidamabaram and there is so much work left? To this Nandan is replying, I dont care yajaman or work, let them be". Like this they lie and create a bad impression of Nandanar so that the yajaman will get angry. The yajaman got very angry, he could have asked around to confirm, instead the yajaman says, "Early morning Nandan will come asking to go to Chidambaram, I will refuse him and will take him for a ride and see". For all these people they were quite happy as the work they undertook got finished, this was the work anyway they wanted to do....Gone...

Next morning, Nandan decides to make his request. Nandan could have asked yesterday, he could have atleast got the permission... all these days of saying I will go the next day would have borne fruit. Today he makes up his mind to ask, very humbly with tears in his eyes he is asking

Thillai ambal thalam ondrikkuthaam
Athai kanda perku Janana Marana piniyai Karakkutham
Uyaram Sikaram Theriudham
Artha Partha Varku Ulankulira Karunai Puliyudhaam
Poi Varuga Uthaaram Thaarume

who?

Nan Poi Varuga Uthaaram Thaarume

Where to go?

Thillai Poi Varuga Uthaaram Thaarume
.....Thillai ambal thalam ondrikkuthaam

With extreme humility and very afraid, Nandanar asks with the hope that somehow he will get permission. As soon as he asked, the yajaman got such anger and said, "Chidambaram...and laughed scornfully. if you go to Chidambaram, will you get the darshanam...will it be given,he asks scornfully. Chidambaranathar will give darshanam only for people like me who am read and great, while you are just a fool, will it be given to you...."

Chidambara darishanamaa
Nee! Athai Sinthikalama pulaiyayar
.....
...Cheriki poda Nalaikku Vadaa