engu suRRinum ranganaiyE vanthu sEr - part 2]

[Guest guest]

Rengarajan: Murali Swami, have you heard

the saying

 

"veLLattharavil thuyil amarntha vitthinai

uLLatthu koNda munivargaLum yOgikaLum

meLLa ezhunthu ariyenRa pEr aravam kEttilaiyO ?"

 

Simialr to that have you not heard the

whispering all around walls of Aranagm

untill adaya valanchAn that "engu

suRRinum RanganaiyE vanthu sEr !" (Where

ever and what ever and all of the other

107 Divya desams, you roam around, come

back and surrender to Rangan alone)

 

Murali: So are you all going to state

your case for Sri Arangan?

 

Rengarajan: First Murali swami may know

that adiyEn was named after this Lord. I

was born here in the southeren banks as

well. So my natural instincts are here

without saying. We roamed around many

places and we are now back to worship

our kula dhAnam, "theerAtha vinaiyellAm

teerkum koil". (the temple that cleanses

all vinais).

 

Now we want to tell you about our Lord

Arangan's supremacy in few words. You

see, you say that Sri vEngadan has so

many AzhwArs praised him and more than

200 and odd pasurams are delivered for

him. Saint AnnamAchAryA delivered more

than 30,000 songs on Sri Vengadan. It is

the largest visited temple in the world

and in terms of revenue also it is

second largest only next to vatican.

 

Vengadam represents charama slokam of

the three rashyAs. NammAzhwAr made his

sarangathi to Vengadan.

 

But listen to this. All the AzhwArs not

only delivered pasurams to our Lord

but the maximum number of pasurams ie

247 are only for our perumaL. These are

tamil vEdam and may not be compared to

other slOkams though they are very

sacred as well. So many saints praised

Lord Arangan through so many songs and

pasurams. While Vengadam may be the

largest visited temple in the whole

world, you must also know that all the

105 Lords including thiru vEngadan comes

here before arttha jAmam and stays here

under our roof untill brahma muhoortham

and get back to their respective divya

dEsams every day.

 

Murali, interrupting, Swami you are not

comparing "a to a".

 

Rengarajan: That is precisely the point.

A (for Arangan) is greater than other

letters as it is the first letter for

pranavam too. I will deal it later and

now to answer one by one, We are

comparing here millions of jivAtmAs

against all the 107 lord from divya

dEsams. And of course everyday all the

nitya suris visit

here too.

 

So our comparison for number of visitor

"turnouts" may not be a valid reason to

establish your claim. As far as revenue,

our perumAL is himself the greatest

treasure. He was as well the seethanam

"thuNaiyAna veedanukku thunaiyAm kOil"

to vibeeshanan. So no amount of revenue

can match this treasure. isn't it ?

First we have the pranava vimAnam with

para vAsudEvan in it. Those who see him

and worship him by mind will not be born

again. Our viManam itself is the shape

or form of the pranavam letter. "Sezhu

maRaiyin muthal ezhutthu sErntha kOil".

This being the case Lord Arangan is the

cause of all causes as everything

unfolded from pranvam alone. Further in

Srimadh Rahasya trya sAram we all

conceive that Srirangam denotes the

ashtAksharam. There is no mantram that

is superior than this. So even among the

three rahasyAs we do denote the

ashtAksharam as the most revered and

powerful.

 

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri RanganAtha

perumAL thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

 

Sampath Rengarajan