mOhini alankAram

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Dearest sri vaishNavALs,

I felt like Chi. AnjanEyA (when praised by jAmbhavAn), when Sri Murli

Rangaswamy wrote about my postings. Thanks. I feel as if It is PirAtti and

RanganAthA who read my posts. We are all blessed to have Sri mani putting

us in this satsang discussing about sriman narAyaNan usinh the High tech

infrastructure. Looks like He will enable srivaishNavAs to get connected to

even Indra, Brahma and sri vaikunTam. may be , one fine morning, mani may

receive a subscription request from nArada, IndrA, etc. (Thanks, mani. God

bless you)

 

Now- When I was collecting contribution for mAnickkakondai kainkaryam for

BhumA piAtti, it reminded me of mOhini alankAram and thereby the discourse

of sri krishna premi on this.

 

When the mOhini alankAram utsavam procession took place, Lord RanganAthA

was exquisitely beautiful and gorgeous. He looked simply splendid! All

devotees thronged and pushed each other to obtain the full glimpse of the

Lord and get blessed. the Lord himself looked seemingly satisfied with the

alankAram and was wearing a proud smile of admiration. By nature He is

Beauty personified; now; He is in mOhini alankaram; Needless to say, He

lloks magnificent. (This alankAram procession takes place the day before

vaikuta ekAdashi-)

 

It seems during one such mOhini alankAram day, after the Lord finished His

journey and came back to His place, He had a deep satisfied sigh and asked

our parAsara bhattar (who was reported to have had conversation with

pirAtti and namperumAl). Our namperumal asked bhattar "So, Were you there?

How was the alankAram? Did you like? was it good?" He knew, it was an

excellent alankAram and He looked great more because almost all devotees

who were blessed to have His darshan exclaimed " pAren, pAren, perumAl

innikku koLLai azhagA irukkAr ille! (See, See How great He looks!)" .

 

Bhattar had an impish smile; He said, " Lord, KshamikkaNum(Please forgive

me). You looked great, no doubt. It was an excellent alankAram. Marvellous

beautiful anna nadai when you walked the course. We really enjoyed our Lord

in that splendid alankaram; You looked, in all respects, as beautiful, as

pirAtti.

BUT..."- He stopped.

 

naMperumAl was slightly taken aback. "Why BUT, then... come out "

 

Bhattar continued, again with a smile, "All said and done, you can not , I

repeat, can NOT, bring the expression of karuNai katAkshaM of my thAyAR in

your eyes. You can wear thousands of AbharaNangal and dress to make you

look like thAyAr and you may even look the same; BUT you are a navaneetha

chOran (a butter thief!); a NAUGHTY kaNNan! Your mischievous eyes have

failed you my LORD," Bhattar said this, while simultaneously admiring the

same naughty, mischievous, smiling, glittering, large, dark eyes of

naMperumAL (kariyavAgi pudai paranthu, miLirntha, sevvariyodiya, neenda,

periya vAya kaNgaL). The Lord Himself knows that Bhattar was enjoying the

beauty of His eyes and was smiling and sharing the fact that He can not

match the merciful looks of His consort and was even happy that bhattar

found that out.

 

May Sri RanganAyaki samEtha RanganAtha bless us all!

 

Ram Ram

 

adiyEn madhavan