ThiruviNNagarappan as Veda NaarAyaNan: part 3( Final )

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6.THIRUVINNAGARAPPAN IS VISVATHOMUKAN

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ThiruviNNagarappan recognized by Thirumangai

as His one and Only Lord ( MaRROr dhaivam piRithaRiyEn )

is SarvathOmukan ( Omnippresent ). That Parabrahmam with

garlands on His crown made up of just blossomed flowers

( pOthalar nedumudip puNNiyan ) , who is the sweet naadham

in the Veda manthrams ( irukkil innisai aanavan) is

saluted by the ancient Rg Veda manthram as follows :

 

tvamhi visvathOmuka visvatha : paribhUrasi , apa:

na sOsuchadhagam

 

(Meaning ) : O veda NaarAyaNA ! O ChandhOgA

( celebrated by the Saama Veda Upanishad, ChAndhOgyam ) !

O PouzhiyA ( Saluted by Rg Vedam )!, O TaittiriyA

( adored by Yajur Veda manthrams) !, O Lord of ThiruviNNagar!

Thou art the all pervading , Omnipresent , Omniscient One!

Please remove our sins in its entirety .

 

O TannoppArillappA ! Thou art the One , who consumed

the seven oceans, seven kula parvathams and the seven

Universes and kept them safely in Your stomach during

the destructive time of PraLayam ( kaarkezhu kadalkaLum

malaikaLumAyErkezhu ulahamumAhinavan) ; during those

times of MahA praLayam , You devoured the Sun , the Moon and

the stars and kept them in Your stomach ( as amithAsanan) ,

You became then , " nilavodu veyil nilavirusudarum ulahamumuyir-

kalum unDavan ") . After this miraculous feat , You shone

as the YekAksharan ( PraNava mUrthy/ aarkezhu vayiRRiniladakki

ninRangOrezutthOru uruvAnAi ).In the spirit of Yajur Vedam's

salutation ,

 

Brahma yaj~AnAm prathamam purasthAdhvi

seematha: suruchO vEna aava:

sa budhnyA upamA asya vishtA :

sathascha yOnimasathascha vi va:

 

(Meaning ) : O Veda NaarAyaNA ! Thou created ,

protected and consumed all of these sentients

and the insentients . Thus Thou shineth as

SarvOtthaman , Parama Poojyan and shine as

the indweller (antharyAmi Brahmam )and direct

them . You are recognized therefore as Sarvaj~nan

and Param JyOthi .

 

7. FOREVER RESPLENDENT MANIVANNAN SHINING EVERYWHERE

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O ThiruviNNagarappA ! Yajur Vedam recognizes You as

the power behind the Agni through Your Svayam JyOthi ,

incandescent Suryan's power to warm , the pervasive

wind (as Vaayu) the energy principle behind the cooling

rays of the Moon , the aadhAram for the purity of Sukran

the gigantic principle understood as Brahman and the

protecting doctrine supporting PrajApathi . Thus Thou art

forever resplendent based on the Yajur Veda Manthram:

 

tadhEvAgnis tadhAdhithyas tadhvAyus tadhu chandramA :

tadhEva sukram tadh Brahma thaa aapa: sa PrajApathi :

 

Thou art sarvakaala svarUpi. All divisions of Time

spring from Thee, the resplendent paripUrNan . No one

hath comprehended Thee from above or across or in the middle.

 

Yet another Yajur Veda Manthram says:

 

sa nO bhandhurjanithA sa vidhAthA

dhAmAni Veda bhuvanAni VisvA

 

(Meaning ): He is our only relative ; He is our

protective Father; He is the great One , who generated

us; He is the One , who understands every one and

every thing ( Sarva~Jnan).

 

Another Yajur Manthram points out that He is the One,

who blessed us with the differnet Vedams and revealed

their esoteric meanings and became Veda NaarAyaNan :

 

ruchO naamAmsi yajugumshi naamAsmi

saamAni naamAmsi

 

8. ALL PERVASIVE GOLDEN LORD (PONNAPPAN )

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The Lord of ThiruviNNagar , who is present every where

as " palavahaiyum Parantha PerumAn " is witness to

all happenings ( Sarva Saakshi ). Atharva Vedam salutes

His Sarva Saakshithvam as follows :

 

aa pasyathi prathi pasyathi parA pasyathi pasyathi

divamantharikshamAdh bhUmim sarvam tadh dEvi pasyathi

 

(Meaning) : He sees every thing in front ; He sees

everything behind Him ; He sees everything far and wide;

He sees all that is in AkAsam , BhUmi and anathariksham .

 

The AzhwArs recognize ThiruviNNagarappan as the essence

of the four VedAs ( Veda NaarAyaNan )and plead with Him for

the boon of nithya kaimkaryam in His Parama Padham and

to banish the two kinds of vinais ( paapams and puNyams ).

The Atharva Veda Manthram containing these thoughts is :

 

yaj~nam bhrUmO yajamAnamrucha: sAmAni bhEshajA

yajUgumshi hothrA bhrUmastE nO munchanthvamhasa:

 

(Meaning ) : We recite with svaram , the Rg veda manthrams

for eulogizing , Saama veda manthrams for singing about

Your glories , Atharva veda manthrams for removing

all kinds of afflictions , physical and mental ,

and Yajur veda manthrams for the performance of

YaagAs and pray to You to banish all of our

accumulated karmAs of both kinds .

 

Yet another Atharva veda manthram prays to the omnipotent

(sarva sakthan ) Lord of AkAsanagaram to bless the supplicants

with undiminishing wealth of nithya kaimkarya soubhAgyam

as the Creator, Protector and Dissolver of this Universe

and its chEthanams and achEthanams :

 

Vrushabham vAjinam vayam pourNamAsam yajAmahE

sa nO dadhAthvakshithAm rayimanupadhasvatheem

 

9. SALUTATIONS TO MUTTHAPPAN

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At the end of the Atharva vedam , there is a manthram

that begs the Lord to make the supplicant's dhyAnam ,

upAsanai and Kaimkaryam fruitful by standing on

their side as a friend and guide them :

 

yogE yogE tavastaram vAjE vAjE havAmahE

sakhAya IndrammUtayE

 

AzhwArs as supplicants placed all of their Bhakthi-laden

paasurams at the sacred feet of their Lord . In the rahsyArtham ,

mutthukkaL (pearls) refer to AzhwAr's paasurams . Bhagavan of

hiruviNNagar accepts these pearls strung together as

pearl garlands and earned the name of Mutthappan . These

garlands are known as MukthAvaLis .They shine at His

chest , neck and at His ankles as nUpura AbharaNam .

There , they stay shining and with their sacred lustre

remove the Kali dhOshams of all chEthanams , who bow unto

these lotus feet of the Lord .Swami Desikan refers

to the power of the mukthAvaLis in banishing all

the accumulated karmAs this way in one of the slokams

of the MukthA paddhathi of Sri Ranganatha divya PaadhukA

sahasram :

 

prachurakiraNapUrA: PaadhukhE ! samsrithAnAm

kali kalushamasEsham kshALayanthiva mukthA :

 

The Lord at ThiruviNNagar blesses us with His sevai

as Mutthappan wearing the mukthAvaLis of AzhwArs

on His subha Tanu and grants MokshAnugraham

to those , who seek His sacred feet as their

sole refuge.

 

10. THIRUVINNAGARAPPAN IS JAGADHAADHARAN

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The most sacred part of the four Vedams is

Purusha Sooktham . The key passage in Purusha

Sooktham is " Purusha yEvadhagum SARVAM " .

He is the One , who pervades every chEthanam and

AchEthanam both inside and outside . ThiruviNNagarAn

has the combination of Bruhathva-BrumhaNathva attributes.

He is the grandest and the largest in svarUpam (bruhathvam).

Through His anantha kalyANa guNams , He has

BrumhaNathvam .He is filled with endless glories .

He is the One , who empowered BrahmA with the powers of

creation .He is the supreme jyOthi (ParamjyOthi),

the light of lights . He is worshipped as ParadEvathai

by all the DevAs as their supreme Lord. He is the most sacred

of sacred doctrines ( pavithrANAm pavithram ) and

the most auspicious among auspicious entities ( mangaLAnAM

cha MangaLam ). He is the One with the unmmatchable

glories of His sacred feet pointed to us by the Mantra

rathnam , the Dhvaya Manthram . As revealed to us

by the Mutthakam of AchArya RaamAnujA ( anathikramaNeeyam

hi charaNa grahaNam ) , when we hold firmly His sacred

feet , He will not shake us and run away from us because

of His infinite DayA for us .The limitless compassion

that He has for us is summed up by the last Saaman of

Saama vedam :

 

svasthi na IndrO vruddhasravA : svasthi na

PooshA Visva vEdA , Svasthi nasthArkshyO ArishtanEmi:

svasthi nO Bruhaspathir dadhAdhAthu , svasthi nO

Bruhaspathir dadhAdhAthu

 

(Meaning ) : May the Master of vast knowledge,

May mighty God bless us with prosperity ! May

the nourisher of All , the author of All vedAs

bless us with prosperity ! May he , the giver of All

comforts like the horse and cattles bless us with

prosperity ! May Veda NaarAyaNan , the Lord of All

elements of nature vouchsafe us prosperity ! May

the same Veda NaarAyaNan standing as ThiruviNNagarAn ,

the Lord of All the elements of nature vouchsafe us

prosperity !

 

11. BHUMI NAATHAN IS THE BHUMAN OF UPANISHADS

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The ChAndhOgya Upanishad passage saluting the blissful

svarUpa visEsham of the Parabrahmam recognizes Him

as the Infinite Bliss principle underlying His creations .

This revelatory passage of ChAndhOgya Upanishad is :

 

yO vai BhUmA tath sukham naalpE sukamasthi

Bhumaiva sukam BhumA tvEva vijigyAsithavya

ithi BhUmAnam BhagavO vijigyAsa ithi

 

The above passage from the Upanishad of

The Upanishads states that " the Brahman

(Infinite ) is bliss . There can not be any

bliss in something other than this Infinite

Brahman . This Infinite Brahman

should be the sole goal of our serious learning .

Rest of them are all bhinna vasthus and can not

lead to bliss " .

 

Rg Vedam salutes this Infinite Brahman standing

as ArchA at ThiruviNNagar at His leelA vibhUthi

and as Parama Padha Naathan at His divine abode

this way :

 

sam bAhubhyAM dhamathi sam pathatrairdhyAvA

BhumI janayan DEVA YEKA:-- VISVASYA BHUVANASYA

RAAJAA ---

 

This sole and supreme Lord of Lords is our

SaraNyan , Our father , Mother , Bhandhu

at ThiruviNNagar and everything . He is anaadhi

as explained by the Upanishad : " sa yEva saumya

idam agrE aasith ".By knowing Him , " yena asrutham

srutham bhavathi" . This is purushArtha vivEkam

that leads us to " sUri tulya svAtanthryam ".

 

12. SUMMARY OF THE FRUITS OF THIRUVINNAGARAAN'S SEVAI

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The last slOkam of Swami Desikan's Parama Padha sOpAnam

summarizes beautifully the fruits of the enjoyment of

ArchAi and the anubhavam of the Sri Sookthis of AzhwArs

and AchAryAs on ThiruviNNagarAn . This slOkam is :

 

balAdh aakarshidhbhi: bahubhi: aparAdhai: vihitayA

parAvrutthyA nithya bhava jaladhi pankE nipatathAm I

prathimnA sampannA Bhagavadhanukampaika vapushA

pratheechee dhrushDEyam Paramapadha sOpAna padhavee II

 

(Meaning ) : For us , who are pulled powerfully

by the many of our aparAdhams and turn us away from BhagavAn

that land us deep in the mud of samsAram , the glory of

His KrupA pulls us out of these miseries and aligns

us to climb the steps of the ladder of His Parama

Padham . This has been asserted by the Veda PramANams

as the Truth .

 

May we offer our soulful prayers to Sri Bhumi Devi

SamEtha ThiruviNNagarappan with all humility on

the occasion of this AbharaNa samarpaNa Kaimkaryam

and seek the blessings of the SaraNya Dampathis

to lead us to Their Parama Padham !

Sri Bhumi Devi sametha ThiruviNNagarappan

ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

 

Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan