"SenniyOngu " : Part 2

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Paasuram 1 : SenniyOngu ---

 

O Thiruvenkatamudaya residing on the top of

the cool hill reaching towards the sky ! O Lord

with anantha kalyANa guNAs , who has elected to

reside there to confer Your blessings on all

the chEthanAs ! O Master who has the gift and

power to ignore the profound trespasses by

Your adiyArs ! I am seeking Your grace only as

the redeeming fruit for my athmA and its house ,

the body . What would You wish to do now ?

 

Paasuram 2 : PaRavai yERu ParampurudA ---

 

O Parama PurushA who sits on Garudan

and uses that veda svarUpi as Your

vaahanam ! After Your acceptance of me with

no other recourse as Your servant in Your role

as Sarvarakshakan , the ocean of fearsome

SamsAram has dried up and I have no more fear of it .

Thanks to Your grace and DayA , the forest of sins ,

which was about to put an end to my efforts to

seek You as saviour is being burned away totally.

The nectar -like river of Jn~Anam keeps on

flowing .

 

Paasuram 3 : YemmanA ! Yenn kuladhaivamE ! ---

 

O my Emperor ! O the supreme divinty of my kulam !

O my nAyakA ! Who else can aspire for the great

blessings arising from Your boon of offering me(adiyEn )

residence under the coll shade of Your Thiruvadi ?

The sins of the people of the world , which tormented us

and laid us low like the works of formless apparitions and

evil spirits are themselves under Your holy feet and

are unable to breathe or move. They seem to have run

away once Your grace fell on us and have hidden

themselves in to distant bushes . What a miracle

to witness and experience ?

 

Paasuram 4 : Kadal kadainthu amudham kondu ---

 

O Lord with mighty shoulders and powerful arms

adorning Sudarsanam and Panchajanyam !

O mighty warrior using the great bow named

Saarangam as Your weapon in battles ! Just as

You churned the milky ocean and filled the kalasam

( golden pot ) with nectar , I have opened my mouth

and drank deep and stored You as the insatiable

nectar (AarAvamudhu ) and this experience is melting

my body with joy . Now , Even the Lord of punishment ,

Yaman can not approach places , where my sceptre

and rod holds sway .

 

Paasuram 5 : Ponnaik kondu ---

 

O my matchless Father ! O Lord who has the power to

command all my five senses to be totally engaged in

service to You ! O Master who can protect my AthmA

from becoming a slave to others ! Like a gold smith

uses the testing stone ( uraikkal ) to rub the gold to test its

quality , I have positioned You on my tongue and changed

it to transmute it from its base nature into that of shining gold.

Thanks to that sweet experience of chanting Your divya

nAmAs , my tongue has been sanctified . I have now

housed You , who is not easily attained even by Yogis ,

in my heat cavity. I have also made my lowly self as Your

servant .

 

Paasuram 6: unnudaya Vikkiramam ---

 

O Lord who incarnated as ParasurAmA with the weapon

of axe (parasu ) to destroy the arrogance of the kings !

O ParasurAmAvatharA with fullness of kalyANa guNAs !

I have painted in the walls of my heart all of Your valiant

and brave deeds completely like an artist drawing paintings

a canvas . O Supreme Being ! Where can You go now

after rsiding inside me ? You can not go anywhere

and leave me .

 

Paasuram 7 : Paruppathatthu kayal ---

 

O Lord who imprinted Your lotus red feet on my

head as insignia of Your status as my Lord just as

the paandyan king imprinted the sign of the fish

as a mark of his soverignity over the mountain

of MahA Meru ! O Lord who broke the tusks of

the mighty elephant ( KuvalayApeetam ) of KamsA !

O parakramasAli , who destroyed the powerful

wrestlers ( ChANUran and Mushtikan ) in KamsA's

court ! I keep reciting names such as these

that remind me of Your unsurpassed heroism

with my tongue that carries the marks of that

exercise . You have blessed me by making me

one of Your own as a result of my repeated recitation

of Your heroic names .

 

Paasuram 8 : Ananthan paalum ----

 

O tall Lord with Sudarsana chakram in Your hand !

You have entered my heart and rejuvenated me

and made my life a blessed one ! This You seem to

have accomplished by reducing Your affection for

the seats of AdisEshA and GarudA as places of Your

residennce . Thinking about this magnificient blessings

of Yours , I am going to rest now with a heart filled

with gratefulness and eyes filled with tears .I will

keep remembering the mahOpakAram You did

all the days of my life and feel relieved from worries

of any kind .

 

Paasuram 9 : Panik kadalilum ----

 

How can I describe Your sowseelyam ?

You have forgotten Your habit of resting comfortably

on the cool , milky ocean and ran away from there to

reside in the ocean of my heart ! O Lord who is capable

of performing such miraclous deeds ! O the Lord of

MahA Lakshmi ! O Lord full of auspicious guNAs !

You have discarded the matchless places of

Your erstwhile residence such as Milky ocean and

the orbit of the Sun and have chosen my lowly heart

as yYour preferred seat of residence . Your sowseelya

guNam is beyond describtion .

 

Paasuram 10 : TadavarayAi miLirndhu ---

 

O Lusturous Lord who shines like a resplendent

flag on the top of a lofty mountain ! How great is

Your affection ( vaatsalyam ) for me ! You have cast

aside Your preferred residences at the milky ocean ,

Srivaikuntam and the city of mighty ramparts , dwarakA

and have chosen to reside inside me .

 

Paasuram 11 : pala Sruthi -- vEyar tangaL ---

 

Those who recite these ten verses of

VishNuchitthan of the vEyar kulam in whose heart

resides Gopaalan with the hue of dark blue rainy cloud

will never ever be separated from the Lord and will be

blessed with the Nithya kaimkaryam for Him ,

who is the bull among the cowherds of AyarpAdi and

is the nectar for the pious sages like SanakA .