TiruveLLUr Kaimkarya SapthAham : Seventh & Final posting

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Dear BhakthAs of Sri VeerarAghavan & Kanakavalli ThAyAr :

 

It gives me great plesure to come to the stage of

the seventh& final posting in " this SapthAham " kaimkaryam .

Bhagavadh sankalpam will guide the aasthikAs from here on

as it has in the past to join in this mahA Kaimkaryam .

 

I will cover the glory of Sri VeerarAghava PaadhukhAs and

their MahAthmyam in this posting .

 

The special Status of Sesha Sayanam in Divya Desams

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Among the 108 divya desams , 27 EmperumAns offer us

Sayana Sevai . At 60 divya Desams , our EmperuAn

is in ninRa thriukkOlam ( Standing posture ) and in

the remaining 21 divya desams sung by our AzhwArs ,

He is in veeRRiruntha ThirukkOlam ( Seated Posture )

as Parama Padha Naathan in Sri Vaikuntam .

 

ThruveLLUr and Srirangam : VeerarAghavan in Yoga NidhrA

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The two divya Desams of ThiruveLLUr and Srirangam

have a special status . We will understand the special

connection between these two divya desams in a while .

 

Eight Different Sayanams of the Lord at the 27 Divya Desams

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As an aside , I will summarize the different

kinds of sayanam of the Lord with particular emphasis on

the Bhujanga Sayanam posture as in Srirangam and

ThiruveLLUr .This information might be useful

to you , when you go on divya desa yaathrais

as Sriman Paarthasaarathy Dileepan and

Sriman Anbil Raamaswamy have done thru their

visits to 106 of the 108 Divya desams.

The other two, ParamaPadham and ThirppARk Kadal

are not accessible to us as HUman beings .

 

The eight kinds of Sayanam at 27 Divya Desams

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There are 8 kinds of Sayanam pose that the Lord blesses

us with at these 27 sayana kshEthrams . These 8 kinds are :

UdhyOga Sayanam ( Thirukkudanthai AarAvamudhan ) ,

Darbha Sayanam ( ThiruppullANi ) , Sthala Sayanam

( Thirukkadal Mallai ), Bhoga Sayanam ( Thillai

Thirucchitthira kUtam ) , maaNikka Sayanam ( Thiruneer malai),

Veera Sayanam (ParimaLa RanganAthan at Thiru InthaLUr )

and Bhujanga Sayanams at the 20 remaining divya Desams .

 

The 20 Bhujanga Sayana Divya Desams

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The 20 emperumAns of ArchAvathaaram blessing us

with Bhujanga Sayana Sevai are :

 

1. Srirangam Ranganathan

2. ThiruevvuLL Veeraraghavan

3. Thiruvananthapuram Padmanaabhan

4. Thiru Anbil Vadivazhagiya nampi

5. Thiru AathanUr ANdaLakkumayan

6. ThirukkarampanUr PurushOtthaman

7. Tiruk Kavitthalam Gajendra Varadhar

8. ThirukkOttiyUr Sowmya NaarAyaNan

9. ThirukkOLUr Vaittha Maa Nidhi PerumAL

10.Thirucchirup PuliyUr : AruL Maa Kadal PerumAL

11.Thirut Therriamblam : SenkaNNmaal

12.Thirup PaaRkkadal : KsheerAbdhi Naathan ( VyUham )

13.Thiruppirithi(Joshi Mutt):Parama Purushan

14.Thirup PuLingudi: Kaaicchina vEndhan

15.ThiruppuLLambhUthamkudi:Valli Raaman

16.ThiruppErnahar: Appak kudatthAn

17.ThiruvAttARu : Adhikesavap PerumAL

18.Thiruvillip PutthUr: Vata pathra Saayi

19.ThiruvehhA : YathOktha kaari

20.ThiruveLLIyankudi : Kolavilli Raaman

 

Srirangam and ThruveLLUr

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Sri Raamachandran was born as a son of a human

being for the purposes of destruction of RaavANA

and other RaakshasAs . He is an avthAram of

Sriman NaarAyaNA resting in the middle of the two

Cauveris at Srirangam island . During the Vibhava

avathArAm as Sri Raaman , He worshipped His kula

Dhaivam , Sri RanganaathA at AyOddhi and at the end

of His avathAram entrusted VibhishaNA to perform

AarAdhanam for Sri RanganaathA . During Vibhava avathAram ,

Sri RaaamA worshipped Sri MaalOlan at AhObilam and composed

Sri Nrusimha PanchAmrutha shtOthram to gain the blessings

of Bhagavaan NarasimhA .

 

Sri RaamA stopped at ThiruppullANi and received

a special bow from Adhi JagannAthan ( ArchA mUrthy )

of that divya dEsam . There , He rested on Darbha

grass bed to seek the help of Samudhra Raajan to build

the bridge over the samudhram to cross over to LankhA

to destroy RaavaNA .

 

The reason why I refer to the behavior of Sri RaamA as

" a Human being " offering worship to ArchA mUrthys

is to point out that He wanted the fellow human beings

to consider Him as a mere human being . He has said ,

" AathmAnam Maanusham manye Raaghavam DasarathAthmajam " .

 

That the Para Vaasudevan, Sriman NaarAyaNan resting at

Srirangam took the avathAram of Sri Raghuveeran of

ThiruveLLUr is indicated by one of the PaadhukhA sahasra

SlOkams of Swami Sri Desikan :

 

nirvruttha Raakshasa chamU mrugayA vihArO

RangEsvara : sa Kalu Raagava Vamsa GOpthA I

Vamsa kramAth upanatham padham aadhadhAnO

maanyam puna: tvayi padham nidhadhE svakeeyam II

 

-- NiryAthana Paddhathi : Slokam 22

 

(meaning ) : Oh , PaadhukhE ! Lord RanganAthA incarnated

as VeerarAghavan for avathAram purposes and travelled to

LankhA to kill all the RaakshasAs and their king , RaavaNA ,

and then returned to AyOddhyA claim his heriditary crown ;

thereafter , He returned His lotus feet back to You

 

Swami Desikan is referring here to the fact that

VeerarAghavan did not wear the PaadhukhAs

during His vana Vaasam and LankhA vijayam because He

had given them to His brother BharathA for 14 years

to rule over the Land . When He returned triumphantly

to AyOddhi after destroying RaavaNA , He had the union

with His beloved PaadhukhA .

 

Based on this slOkam , we can take the poetic liberty

of recognizing that Sri RanganaathA and Sri VeerarAghavan

are one and their Bhujanga Sayanam pose provides additional

support for this view . The pattAbhishEkam before AchArya

VasishtA can be equated to the MahA SamprOkshaNam at

ThiruveLLUr conducted by AchAryAs and Yathi Saarva BhoumAs .

The special honoring of the 350 AdhyApAkAs of Divya Prabhandham

can be closely connected to the salutation to Naatha Muni

as suggested by the inner meaning of another

Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA sahasra SlOkam :

 

BharathAya param namOsthu tasmai

prathamOdhAharaNAya Bhakthi bhAjam I

Yadhupagyam asEshatha: PruthivyAM

prathithO Raaghava PaadhukhA prabhAva: II

 

--PrasthAva Paddhathi : SlOkam 2

 

( Meaning ) :The world came to know about

the full magnitude of the power of Sri Raama

PaadhukhAs only because of Bharathan who ruled

the land as its deputy during the Lord's stay

in the forest for 14 years . Therefore , I offer

my deep salutations to BharathAzhwAr .

 

( Commentary ) : Swami Desikan states in Sankalpa-

SooryOdhayam that the word Bharatha is the symbolic

name for Naatha Muni , since he was the first one

to combine Bhaavam , Raagam and Taalam ( Bharatham )

for the Divya Prabhandha sEvai and taught that

to his nephews , which later got established as arayar

sEvai at Srirangam and other divya desams .

By the way , there will be an arayar sevai

for ThiruvELLUr paasurams of Thirumangai

during the MahA SamprOkshaNa uthsavam

on Sri Naatha Muni's birthday . Deva Ghana

PerumAL Arayar Sri Raam aBharathi will

take part in the Arayar Sevai tomorrow ( July 4)

in front of the Divya Dampathis at ThiruveLLUr .

 

Just as BharathA illustrated the greatness of

Raama Paadhukhai ( SatAri ) , Naatha Muni ,

the other BharathA made known the greatness of

Satari Suri ( nammAzhwAr).

 

Thus the glories of Raghuveera-Ranganatha Satari

( PaadhukhA/NammAzhwAr) was revealed to the world by

Bharatha during RaamAvathAram and by Naatha Muni

in Kali yugam . The Paaramparya trustee of

ThiruveLLUr temple , His Holiness , SrimathE

Sri Lakshmi Nrusimha Divya PaadhukhA

Sevaka , SrivaNN SatakOPa Sri NaarayaNa Yatheendhra

MahA Desikan will be presiding over the JeerNOtthAraNa

MahA SamprOkshaNa Kaimkaryam . The 473 Kalasa

Thirumanjanam will take place on Sunday , July 5

and the MahA SamprOkshaNam will be performed

during Simha Laganm between 9.15 AM to 10.15 AM

on Monday , Aani 22 (July 6 ) . That will be around

midnight here in USA for us to particpate thru

dhyAnam .

 

The conclusion of this posting is that the Bhujanga Sayana

mUrthy resting as VeerarAghavan is the same as Sri RanganAthA ,

of Srirangam . He is going to be enshrined at His new

temple here at Pomona later this year ,when His temple

construction is completed .

 

Let us offer our collective salutation to that

AbhirAma GuNAkara Daasarathi , who STANDS at

Thriuppathi , ThiruviNNagar and 58 other KshEthrams

as SrinivAsan , RESTS at Srirangam and 26 other

Thiruppathis as Sesha Saayee and is SEATED at

AyOdhi , AhObilam and 19 more KshEtrams as

Parama Padha Naathan .

 

Thank You all who are particpating in

in this MahA samprOkshaNa Kaimkaryam . We are now

at the $2,885 level ( 57.7% of the target ) of

the Kaimkaryam . Hope to hear from You , who

are planning to particpate in this rare

Kaimkaryam blessed by BhagavAn , AchAryAs

and Bhagavatha SirOnmaNis .

 

 

I am thankful to the saraNya Dampathis to

become part of this SapthAham Kiamkaryam to

share with You the glories of Sri Kanakavalli

SamEtha Sri VeerarAghava Parabrahmam .

 

Sriman NaarAYaNaayEthi idham Kaimkaryam SamarpayAmi ,

Subhamasthu ,Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchari SadagOpan