Thiru viN Nagaram - oppu illA appan kOil - part 3 - sErAtha poruL ellAm sErththa perumAL

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Dear bAgawthALs,

 

I am reposting this thala purANam with some additions. I thank Sri

KrishnamAchAri for his feedback. This thread is expected to go up to

atleast 10 parts. I can understand the eagerness in many (I received

feedbacks so far on the first 3 parts from 3 persons) as Lord

Oppiliappan is their kula daivam. I appreciate all the sentiment and

encourage all of them to come out and write about their understanding

of our kula deyvam. In the meantime let me assure you that my previous

post on this thalam contained many such information and that I will try

to cover the details to the best of my knowledge. I am ready to include

any new information that anyone wishes to add to this effort. Sriman

Sreyesh sArangan is working on the complete web site of this thala

purAnam and the site is expected to be ready by end of this month, as

per Sri VS.

 

 

Regards

SR

 

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part 3 - sErAtha poruL ellAm sErththa perumAL

 

At the time when NammAzhvAr arrived here, it is said that he

was kind of wondering about 80 of his own pathams used in his

pAsurams that he had delivered already and felt that certain aspects of

these paasurams were not quite clear to himself. It is believed that

the Lord appeared to NammAzhvAr here and cleared NammAzhvAr's doubts on

such paaurams that had "munnukkum pinnukkum muranaana poruL". (i.e.

certain pAsurams had certain meanings that may be derived as

contradicting one another; It is conceived that the very purpose of

NammAzhvAr avathAram was to deliver "theLiyAtha maRaiyellam thELiya

Othi". i.e., vedhams were interpreted by each samayam in their own way

to validate their own path. NammAzhwAr delivered thamizh vdham to

clarify all these and validate that Sriman NArAyana is the only param

as per vedham. Keeping this in mind, the blessings Lord Oppiliappan

made to NammAzhwAr is the most important step in NammAzhwAr's mission

of "theLiyAtha maRAiyellAm theLiya Othi"). The Lord also made him

realize that HE is present in those paasurams as antharyaamim. Hence

NammAzhwAr sung in praise of the Lord as "sEraatha poruLkaLellaam

sErththa perumaL".

 

It seems the Lord was overjoyed and embraced Azhwaar here and

pOkaatha oorkaLin (i.e. Divya Desams) sevaiyellam saathithaar.

Besides, Lord also offered NammAzhvAr the darshan of various other

kshEthrams here itself in viNNagaram in the forms of the LORDS of

various other kshEthrams that NammAzhwAr hadn't gone. NammAzhvAr delivered

pasurams only on 36 kshethrams of the 108 DD's.

 

The Lord also offered the five darshans of HIMselves here to NammAzhwAr

(incidentally the four such avathaarams due to their placement with

respect to thirviNNagaraan in the center can also be equated to his "4

vyookams" or the expanse of the universe in either direction. Vishnu is

one who is ever and "all" pervasive in these forms in the universe). As

per "pancha ratra" and as accepted by all the three major schools

(advaitha, vishitaadavithaa and dvaitha) Lord Vishnu was the only

present at the time of creation and everyone else were created from

HIM. This statement is validated by the paasurams of thirumangai on

this Lord which explains the order of creations unfolding from HIM and

also the ending of such creations in HIM. In essence these pAsurams of

thirumangai envelopes the entire "cosmic universe" and all the

"science" that has been discovered so far and to be discovered.

 

In his pAsurams, NammAzhwAr also defines various attributes

(SathGunAs) of the Lord in both "nErmaRai" and "ethirmaRai". It is

beleived that these 10 exclusive and brilliant nammAzhwAr pAsurams form

the basis in validating Sri VishishtAdvaidham over Sri Advaitham on the

interpretation of "gunA" aspect (popularly known as attributes) of

param in the vedham. Some of the arguments presented by Swami Desikan

in "satha dhOshAni" can be derived from these 10 pAsurams itself. (it

is not satha dhooshani as known to many. Many non srivaishnavas who are

not familiar with this, are of the opinion that there 100 dhooshanais

or insults inflicted on other mArgams, by hearing a name like this and

interpreting it this way. But in satha dhOshAni, ie., Swami dEsikan

came out with 100 dhOshams or attributes or gunAs for brahmam as

derived from vEdham and hence it is named as satha dhOshAni) There is a

Desikan sannithi prior to crossing the dwaara baalakas (who look real

to me) and I often meditate to the Lord in front of Swami Desikan.

 

Sri Boomi Devi Naachchiyaar samEtha Sri sErAtha poruL ellAm sErththa perumAL

Oppiliappan thiruvadikaLe saraNam.

Sampath Rengarajan

 

 

note : Two years back Sri PD had a "desire" to do kainkaryam for Swami

Desikan's pasurams. I also had such "desire" (simultaneously) to do kainkaryam

for Swami Desikan's pasurams, when I was at this place in front of Swami

Desikan. I conveyed this to Sri PD when I returned from India and he said he

had this in mind for sometime and we both worked together, typed and presented

Swami Desikan's entire prabandam in electronic form in our web. I am thankful

to Sri PD for his leadership and Sri Mani for offering the site and

encouragement for this project.