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avathArikai (Introduction)
Subsequently, piLLai lOkAchAryar elaborately explains the aspects which are to be performed by the person who is focussed on this upAyam (AchArya abhimAnam). In that, at first, he mercifully explains that one should not leave AchAryan who is easy to approach and desire bhagavAn who is difficult to approach, through an example.
sUthram 448
kaippatta poRuLaik kaivittup pudhaiththa poruLaik kaNiSikkak kadavan allan.
Simple Explanation
One should not abandon the wealth in his hand and search for the wealth which is buried.
vyAkyAnam (Commentary)
kaippatta …
That is – giving up AchAryan who is very easily accessible like wealth in one’s hand, due to lack of attachment towards him, one should not desire for bhagavAn who is very difficult to access as said in thiruvAimozhi 9.3.3 “arum poruL” (entity which is difficult to attain) like wealth which was buried by someone else, as the protector. It is said in “sulabham svagurum thyakthvA dhurlabham ya upAsathE | labdham thyakthvA dhanam mUdO gupthamanvEshathi kshidhau ||” (The one who gives up his easily accessible guru and pursues bhagavAn who is difficult to attain, is similar to the idiot who drops the wealth in hand and searches for buried wealth) and in gyAna sAram 34 “paRRu guruvai paran anRu enRu igazhndhu maRROr paranai vazhippadudhal eRRe than kaiporuL vittu ArEnum kAsiniyil thAm pudaitha apporuL thEdi thirivAn aRRu” (Same meaning as explained previously).
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