Thiruvaaymozhi 9.3- Narayanan- avanE avanum avanum avaum

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>"Madhavakkannan V" <srivaishnavan

>Thiruvaaymozhi 9.3- Narayanan- avanE avanum avanum avaum

>Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:53:24 PDT

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>Sri:

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>Dearest Sisters and Brothers,

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>Emperumaan, (in order to let the AzhwAr enjoy Him and to grant AzhwAr

>whatever he wishes), shows His NarayaNathvam to AzhwAr. AzhwAr, in this

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>ten is greatly elated in his narration about Sriman Narayanan and His

>greatest guNAs.

 

Dear BhakthAs :

 

NammAzhwAr must be listening to this wonderful

Saazhals among BhakthAs on the Ananatha KalyANa GuNams of

Sriman NaarAyaNA going on and is entering the mind of

our Sri MadhavakkaNNan and points out to us through

his three successive paasurams of this decad (9.3.7-9)

to reflect upon the three divya desa EmperumAns at

Ahoblam , Thiruppathi and Srirangam in that order !

 

In the seventh Paasuram of this Patthu , the image that

comes first before the mind's eye of NammAzhwAr is

none other than Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan .The next one

is of the Lord of Thirumalai , who performed SamAradhanam

for TadhiyALs during the time of His marriage

to Sri Padmaavathi .After that comes the reference

to Sri RanganathA lying on AdhisEshA .

 

Seventh Paasuram and Sri Narasimhan

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NammAzhwAr in his Thiruvaimozhi 2.6.6 Paasuram has

already hinted about the ancient nature of Narasimhan

by saluting him as " munnaik kOLariyE mudiyAthatennenakkE ".

Oh The most ancient One standing before me ! Oh PurAdhanA !

What would be impossible for me from now on ? The Key words

here are " Munnaik kOLariyE ". kOLari is Narasimhan .

Munnai means munnorukkAl , in the most ancient time ,

when You came down from Sri Vaikuntam and appeared as

PrahlAda Varadan at AhObila KshEthram .My heart is desirous

of seeing Your Adbhutha , PurAdhana Adhi mUlam at

Sri Vaikuntam , Your original , permanent abode says

AzhwAr longingly .

 

>7. Bhagawaan, took the form of Nara simha rUpam, and tore the chest of

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>hiraNyan with His sharp nails and killed him. My mind has been desirous

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>of seeing Him at ParamAkAsam, Sri Vaikuntam. (The upper Great Space). My

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>heart has been longing to see His permanent place Paramapadham.

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Thirumangai mannan , who was the last of the AzhwArs ,

had the greatest Bhaagyam of Receiving ManthrOpadEsam

from the Lord Himself . What does he do immediately ? He starts

his divya desa yaathrA in the North . In Periya Thirumozhi(PTM)

1.2 , he salutes the EmperumAn of Thiruppirithi , Parama Purushan

and journeyss sequentially to perform MangaLAsAsanams for

Sri Badari NaarayaNan at BadarikAsramam ,

Sri MUrthy of SaaLagrAmam , Sri DevarAjan

at NaimisAraNyam and finally reaches AhObilam to perform

MangaLAsAsanam for Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan saluted by

NammAzhwAr earlier as Parama Padha Naathan . He states

very clearly that without the sahAyam of that powerful

Lord of AhObilam , there is no way of visiting His

Divya Desam : "DhaivamallAl sellavoNNA SingavEL kunRamE ",

just as it is not possible to enter Sri Vaikuntam without

His blessings . In that " sillusillenRellaRAtha SingavEL

kunRam " , Thirumangai describes the nija svarUpam of

the Lord by saluting Him in his 9th Ahobila paasuram as :

 

" nallai nenjE naam thozhuthum NAMMUDAI NAMPERUMAAN

alli mAthar pulha ninRa Aayiram thoLanidam --"

 

First , the salutation is to Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan

( alli mAthar pulha ninRa NAMMUDAI NAMPERUMAAN ).

It has been suggested by AzhwAr according to

the fine intrepretation of UtthamUr Swamy

that He does not present Himself easily to those ,

who do not have the full appreciation of His

dear consort , who pleads for the Jeevan that

has committed so many apachArams .Without that

merciful intercession ( PurushakAram ) , our Prapatthi

is not accepted by the Lord. He turns His face away

when our Most Merciful Mother does not intercede .

 

He is also referred to here as the one with

Sahasra shoulders ( aayiram thOl udayaan ) .

The allusion is to Purusha Sooktham and

the Aadhi form .NaarayaNa sooktham follows

establishing HIM as the Sriya: Pathi and

para devathai ( Supreme One) .

 

The most important reference here is to the Lord of

AhObilam as " NamperumAn " with a prefix " nammudai ".

This is the FIRST celebration of Sriman NaaraayaNA

as " NamperumAL ". AzhwAr was hinting perhaps about

this MaalOlan going few hundred years later

on SanchAram with Soumya Simhams and come to our

(Nammudai ) homes and bless us thru His Aaradhakar's

Rahasya ManthrOpadEsams . In all the VadanAttu Thiruppathis

that he viisted until arriving at AhObilam , AzhwAr

in the view of UttamUr SwamigaL felt that there was

no traditional Sri VaishNava AarAdhanams . At AhObilam

however , it was more sampradhAic and belonged

to Namm tradition . Hence . UtthamUr SawmigaL says

that Azhwar chose the word "Nammudai" . It is also

a proud identification , just as a proud father

saying , namma Paiyyan got the first rank" .That

kind of "nammudai " is indicated .

>8. Emperumaan destroys all our good and bad deeds, with no trace of

>remnant even. Again, He is the One who does NOT let our AthmA enter into

>another body and start all over again and let us get out of this vicious

>cycle. He shows Himself at ThiruvEnkadam so gracefully in standing

>posture and blesses us. When there is ThiruvEnkadam on this earth for

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>us, only to reach Him, can we leave the chance? Even Devas come here to

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>pay obeisance to Him. Hence, there is NO DIFFERENCE between Parama

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>Padham and ThiruvEnkadam (Advantage Murali and Sudharshan!)

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Here at SeshAdhri , The Lord of the seven hills

is worshipped by the DevAs and Humans for the removal

of their two Vinais as VenkatanAthan and cuts the

SamsAric bond forever for those , who offer their

salutations . This SrinivAsan stands as DayA sindhu

to bless us on these holy hills . In this Thiruvaimozhi

patthu (9.3.8) , Sri SrinivAsan gets the attention of AzhwAr

after Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan. We also know that both

Sri RamachandrA and SrinivAsan worshipped Sri MaalOlan

for Ishta KaamyA siddhi(?). Sri RamachandrA wanted

the blessings of MaalOlan for the success in His battle

with RaavaNan and union with His dEvi. Thiru VenakatamudayAn

performed the Vaidhika TadhiyAradhanam for MaalOlan's

blessings to enter into matrimonial state as a grahasthan

and also for a happy conjugal life on His hills .

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>9. BhagawaanE! I shall bring most beautiful fragrant flowers, pure water

>to perform Thiruvaaraadhanam to You. But as per You, even this is NOT

>required and is more than enough. (That shows Your mercy! And greatness,

>Lord!). EmperumaanE! The One who has AdhisEshan as Your bed! I simply do

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>not KNOW how to hug Your Lotus Feet and ways to perform my kaimkaryam to

>You. I am so lowly.

 

Here , the tribute is to Sri RanganaathA ( Pazhuthil thol

pukazhp paampaNaip paLLiyAi ) . Naicchiyam of AzhwAr is

abundantly implied here , when he declares his aakinchanyam

and ananyagathithvam . This plea is to bhU lOka Vaikunta

nAthan , who was worshipped by Sri RamachandrA in AyOddhi .

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10.> Your Greatness- Your capacity- Your powers- forever- one can

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>keep praising them for ages at a stretch. How will "I" be able to do

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>justice to that?

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NammAzhwAr proceeded in a particular order and then

concluded this decad with the appropriate statement ,

" Oh Sriman NaarAyaNA ! How Will I be able to do Justice

to praise Your anantha Kalyana GuNams adequately ? "

and went on in the next decad's paasuram 7 to

declare that Narasimha rUpa NaarayaNan has been

kept by him permanently in his heart and that the Lord

enjoys this "incarceration" . He explains to the Lord that

He (Lord Narasimhan) is remaining in his

heart solely for his (AzhwAr's) enjoyment .The Lord has

nothing otherwise to gain by such residence.

 

Sri Rangarajan has now finished his scholarly and

deeply devotional postings on Sri Oppiliappan

in a uniquely personal manner . I am so glad

that Sri Rengaraajan made the case for me

regarding " the vakkaalatthu " for

YengaL PerumAL .My load is now lighter .

 

I will post tomorrow one article on

the greatness of ThiruviNNagrappan

naturally and attempt to provide a unified perspective

and make a case for the Lord decorating the Silver

Mantapam worshipped by Soumya Simhams and how that

MaalOlan makes that mobile Silver Mantapam

an unparalleled roving "Divya Desam " in its

own right.

 

Tomorrow is AavaNI VisAkam ; this constellation

is made sacred by NammAzhwAr , who was born on

a VaikAsi VikAsam day.He arrived at Thiru ViNNagar

and performed his one and only SaraNAgathi

at the Lotus feet of DakshiNa VenkatAchalapathy

standing in His TulasI vanam Yennappan --

Tanthanan tanathAL NizhalE " .On the banks of

AhOrAthra PushkaraNI our Lord Stands as

Sarva Loka SaraNyan and as SaraNAgatha Vatsalan

as well as a PaarijAthA tree blessing

us all forever and ever .

 

AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Oppiliappn Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan