Guest guest Posted September 21, 1998 Report Share Posted September 21, 1998 Sri: Dearest Sisters and Brothers, After seeing AhzwAr's suffering so much Emperumaan agrees to fulfil AzhwAr's desires of seeing the Lord. AzhwAr gets greatly excited and sings on ThirukkaNNapuram Perumaan. NammAzhwAr performs MangaLAsAsanam for Sowri Rajan towards the end of this ten. He offers upadesam to us and advises us to perform saranAgathi at the lotus feet of Sowri Rajan (ThirukkaNNapuraperumaan) to obtain the boon of Moksham. He reveals that the Lord of this Divya Desam will grant the boon of Vaikunta Vaasam to saranAgathas at the end of their earthly lives. 1. Bhagawaan is gracfeully presenting Himself at ThorukkaNNapuram where the ramparts are hit by the huge waves of Oceans. He is the One who had the entire universe in His stomach and was lying on the leaf of a great banyan tree as (an exquisite) Child, incomparable, during Cosmic cycle ending. You should pay obeisance to such Swami both in the morning and in the evening by reaching His Lotus Feet at this sthalam and offering Lotus flowers at His Feet. By paying such obeisances, all your sins will disappear. 2. Oh BhakthAs! You offer honey dripping flowers and perform "araadhanam" to this Bhagawaan of ThirukkaNNapuram Divya Desam. The tall ramparts seem to touch even the Planet Venus beyond the sky (sukkra graham?). Think and meditate on this Divya Desam and its Emperumaan and get saved! 3. Oh Servants (of Bhagawaan Sriman Narayana!) to get rid of your paapams (sins), with Ekaagra chinthanai (concentrated mind) pay obeisance to ThirukkaNNapura Emperumaan. This Emperumaan is Parama padha naathan. He is the Chief of this world also. When you pay obeisance to Him, you offer unfaded fresh flowers to Him. 4. Bhagawaan, who is the beloved husband of feminine beauty Nappinnai PiraaTTi, (who conquers even the deer with her beautiful eyes), is the sweetest Lord like the Honey. Offer fresh new unfaded flowers and pay obeisance to Him. Emperumaan of ThirukkaNNapuram where tall ramparts surround this sthalam, is the only refuge for all of us. (means: Catch hold of Sowri rAja Perumaan with Nappinnai piraaTTi as the purushaakaaram is the essence of this pAsuram) 5. Bhagawaan saves and protects all those who surrender to His Feet. When one's AthmA leaves his body at the time of death, Bhagawaan offers him parama padham. That Bhagawaan is here at ThirukkaNNapuram and He is the One who rules everyone and everything. He is the love personified and is so compassionate towards His devotees. 6. SowrirAja Perumaan shows His mercy and affection towards everyone who surrenders at His Feet. He is the One who tore the golden coloured body of asuran hiraNyan and killed him during His NarasimhAvataar. He is the One who shows Himself so gracefully at ThirukkaNNapuram. This personification of love - my Swami showers His dayA sincerely on His devotees who shower their devotion to Him sincerely. ("than meyyarkku meyyanE") 7. Emperumaan is the truthful Lord to one who is devoted to Him firmly as the Ultimate One. He does NOT show Himself to those who pray to Him at superficial level expecting returns from Him for their obeisance. For those who keep Him in their minds and pay their obeisance sincerely, this ThirukkaNNapura perumaan is here very nearest to them. 8. Bhagawaan always stays very close to those who surrender and pay obeisance to His feet. Due to His grace no disease dares come nearer to them; He showers His dayA to remove the birth cycle too. Sowri Rajan, Paramapadha nAthan, is gracefully presenting Himself at ThirukkaNNapuram, which is surrounded by ramparts of Gold and Emerald. Pay your obeisance to this Paramapadha nathan and surrender to and reach His Feet. 9. Vedic scholars willingly live here at ThirukkaNNapuram. The primordial Chief SowrirAja Perumaan is present here permanently and those who reach His Feet will NOT get any hurdle or sorrows at all. Those who pay obeisance to this Perumaan daily will get all their diseases removed and cured. The sins will never touch them. After reaching such a Most Merciful dayALu - My Bhagawaan- what is my grievance? Nothing. 10. ThirukkaNNapuram Divya Desam is the place where Emperumaan Sriya: Pathih Sriman NarayaNan is present whose chest houses Lotus seated Periya PiraTTi MahALakshmi. Even those who do not reach this place of ThirukkaNNapuram, (that is all of us, dearest sisters and brothers!), if they simply utter this place name "ThirukkaNNapuram" that is enough; no sorrow will dare touch them. Sowri Perumaan will bless them most. Hence, I will get no dukkam (sorrows). Where is grievance for me? 11. Plead Him to hold (on to His Feet) in order to get rid of births and deaths and karmic diseasesSing these ten pAsuams sung by Thirukkurugoor SadagOpar (out of his 1000 Tamil Pasurams on Emperumaan) and dance to its tune and bow and pay obeisance to Emperumaan's Feet. (means: those who read these ten will be blessed with a bhAgyam of paying obeisance to Emperumaan's Lotus Feet and thereby get rid of karmic cycle. Now, after having an excellent ten on ThirukkaNNapuram Perumaan, I had an urgent dvarai to have a darshan of this sthalam and Sowri rAjan. What to do? Sitting here, it is so far and can not happen immediately. With a depressed mind, Dearest Sisters and Brothers, I just searched the web typing Thirukkannapuram", expecting "no results found". Do you know? You will NOT believe it! What a dayAkaran! What a mercy on this sinner! First result was "Thirukkannapuram or Ashtaakshari kshethram"- an article with lots of Emperumaan's images - great history and sthala puraaNam written by none other than - you have guessed right- our Dear Sri U Ve Oppiliappan Koil V. Sadagopan. Read and be blessed by SowrirAja PerumAL. The web site address is: http://civil.queensu.ca/individ/govin/tirukknprm/tirukknprm.html. (created by Sri Govindarajan.). NammAzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam Ram Ram With Best Regards NarayaNa dAsan madhavakkannan ____ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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