ThiruvallikkENi-ThiruAtthiyur-ThiruviNNagar-Ahobilam

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Srimathe Narayanaya Namaha :

 

 

On 8/13/98 9:40 PM

 

Sri Ramesh SaarangapaNi wrote,

 

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Kaliyan while singing the glory of Azhagiya singar (at

Tiruvalikani) narrates succintly the avathara rahasyam

of Lakshmi Narasimhan and says "Angu Appoyude avan viya

thondriya en singapiran perumai"...meaning "that day

when his parama bhakta, Prahaladan, was in distress,

our Lord came to his rescue in an instant".

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Well first of all this paasuram is from NammazhwAr's Thiruvaimozhi 2nd

patthu, 8th padhigam, 9th paasuram. However, let us ignore that. As

pointed out by Sri Ramesh, Narasimhar did not come down to save His

bhaktha immediately. Like Varadhar made Gajendran wait, KrishNa made

Draupathi wait and Rama made VibheeshaNa wait even PrahlAdan had to do

the Sriman Narayana japam and had to undergo a lot turmoil before one

fine day Hiranyan asks him sarcastically, "Is your Narayana in this

Pillar".

 

Prahlada says "Yes. He is there, He is in you, He is in me, He is in

this thooN (pillar) and He is also in a thurumbu (rust)". Then Hiranya

breaks the pillar to see the most gorgeous form of Sri Narasimhar.

 

Now here is the Narasimha avatara mahimai :-

 

Our poorvAcharyAs say that PerumAL was in a state of agony on

listening to the conversation between Prahaladan and Hiranyan. He was

not sure where he has to show his form to Hiranyan. When Hiranyan went

to the chairs and asked whether Hari is here PermAL entered the chairs

thinking that he should show Himself out from there, but immediately

Hiranyan went on to all the other articles and PerumAL kept on jumping

from one place to another and he was fed up and decided to enter each

and everything present in the mandapam. Thus during the Narasimha

avataram, He was in everbody and everything and existing in every

possible thing that was present there as unlike other avatarams.

 

However as stated earlier even Narasimhar made Prahalaadhan wait. He

did not come instantly to save Prahalaadhan, when he was poisoned or

when he was sent rolling down the hill or when he was thrown in to the

sea on when he was about to be stamped by elephant.

 

Well, what is the reason that all these PerumALs made their Bhakthas

wait. It is for them to completely surrender. Prapatti or SaraNaagati.

 

In the case of Gajendran, first he was fighting the crocodile on his

own thinking that he can get rid of him with his gigantic figure. But

when figured out that it is not possible then only he made the

SaraNagathi and PerumAL came and save him.

 

In case of Draupathi, when she was dragged to the court, she was

always trying to free herself from Dushchaasnan, and calling Paandavas

for help. But when the most worst thing was happening to her, it is

only then she called KrishNa and even let her hold on the saree go,

thus totally surrendering herself. Instantly after the SaraNAgathi

KrishNa came down to her help.

 

Most and real unfortunate one was VibheeshaNA as he had to wait

inspite of his SaraNAgathi to Rama, just because Rama was engaged in a

debate with others as to accept him or not. Probably learned scholars

in the list can throw light on this.

 

So it is total SaraNAgathi which our PerumAL expects from us to

instantly save us.

 

"Sarva dharmAn parithyajya mAm Ekam saraNam vraja

aham tvA sarva pApEpyO mOkshayishyAmi mAsuchaha:"

 

Who said this? Sri Parthasarathy. So is ThiruvallikkENi not taking the

advantage over Ahobilam. Also the same Azhagiya Singan is in

ThiruvallikkENi.

 

Who has the above gita slokams on their abhaya hastams? The emberumAns

of ThiruviNNAgar (mAm Ekam saraNam vraja - this you can see in his

abhaya hastam) and Atthigiri (mAsuchaha - this you can see in his

abhaya hastam). So these two Divya DEsams also take the advantage over

Ahobilam.

 

vAsaka dhOsham kshandavyaha

 

adiyEn RAmAnuja dAsan

 

Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh