Thiru naRaiyoor - thirumangaiyin thriumEniyaam ith thirumaal - Part 3C

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Thiru mangai also delivered few classic paasurams for this Lord of

NaRaiyoor the vyuuka vaasudEvan of which most important is his

identification of this Lord as the body or chEthann of a prapannan. I

urge the readers to recap this post with the previous article written

by me as "chEthanan, soul and prakrithi" of aazwaar. There are

references to the three layers of our perception of Lord from various

paasurams of 4000 that our aazhwaars conceive their three layers as

Arangan as prakrithi and Amuthan as soul and this Lord as the body.

One such paasuram that supports that claim on this Lord is

 

paNNIn mozhi yaazh narambil peRRa

paalai yaaki inkE pugunthu en

kaNNUm nenchum vaayum idan koNdaan

koNdapin maRai yOr manam thannuL

vinnu Laar perumaanai yemmaanai

veenku neer makaram thilakkum kadal

vaNNan maamaNI vaNNan emm aNNal

vaNNa mEyanRi vaayuraiyaathE

 

ie he is the paN or jeeva naadi.

He is the narambil peRRa paalai or

the kuNdalaini that supports the act of nerves.

He is my eyes and chest and mouth.

 

After realising this, the Lord who is in the hearts if the of all dEvaas who

chant the vedaas, as their Lord, and the one HE who bears the color of the

ocean where the makaram or capricorn lives, and my great beloved Lord I will

not speak anything other than your divine charecters. (Please note that aahwaar

himself was having his color as his name ie "Neelan"). May be it is true that I

who adored the beauty of Arangan and Amuthan and Oppiliappan, analytically also

concede that it is 100 % true that being charecterised as "THE thirumEni" of

which the soul is Amuthan and the antharyaamim and Param is Arangan, such body

in ninRa kOlam may be the best looking body of all the 108 DD's. ie naRaiyoor

ninRa nambi's pErazhagu.

 

He also praise him in a rare reference to his "parasuraamar avathaaram"

as

 

muniyaay vanthu moovezhu kaal

mudi sEr mannar udal thuNiya

thanivaay mazhuvin padaiyaaNda

thaaraar thOLaan vaar puravil

pavi sEr mullai pallarumbap

paanal orupaal kaNkaatta

nanisEr kamalam mukankaattum

naRaiyoor ninRa nambiyE

 

In another paasuram He also refers to the chOlan who built 70 temples

for Lord shivaa and then later adapted srivaishnavam and served this

Lord with great devotion as

 

murukkilangu kaniththuvar vaayp pinnai kELvan

manna nellaam munnaviyach chenRu, venRich

serukkaLaththu thiraLariyach cheRRa vEnthan

siranthu Niththaan thiruvadi num senni vaippeer

irukkilangu "thirumozhivaayeNdOLeesarkku"

"ezhil maadam ezhubathum" seythu ulaka maaNda

thiruk kulaththu vaLach chOzhan sErntha" kOyil

thiru naRaiyoor maNimaadam sErminkaLE

 

The beauty is that cholan kOchchenGaN won his kingdom back from the

invadors using the thiru vaaL that he got into his hands when he was

bathing in maNi muththaa river as advised by the rishis (the rishis of

maNimuththaa river ashram told him that if prayed to this Lord of

NaRaiyoor HE will pave the way for his regaining the kingdom and as

told by them the Lord gave him HIS holy sword. This was stated by my

earlier post with the reference from paasuram of aazwaar. The unique

comaparison of the paraakramam the weapons of Lord is such that this

sword one time it helped the kochchenGan to ragain his kingdom and on

the other, his bow known as saaranagam re incarnated as neelan thiru

mangai aazwaar and regained the faith in Srivishnavam using sharply

worded paasurams and service.

 

saarngaazhwaar thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri vanjuka vaLLIth thaayaar samEthara neelamEni maNivaNNan naRaiyoor

ninRa nambi thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan