Thirukaccinambi thirunakshatiram

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Dearest Sisters and borthers,

 

What an anubhavam from Sri Vasan on the temple at Poovirundha valli! In

fact, when I read last night further about Thirukkacchi nambhi's life,

(after posting the earlier post), I read one more interesting event.

This matches with what Sri Vasan has written.

 

Actually Nambhi's parents were against his going after Varadaraja

PerumAL and not pursuing the family business interests.

 

When the parents came to know of Nambhi's great bhakti, and in

conversing terms with Varadan, they apologised to Nambhi and invited him

to come back to Poovirundha valli. Nambhi went and asked the same to

Varadaraja PerumAL. It is told Varadan, and PerundhEvi(in the name of

Pushpavalli thaayaar) appeared before the parents and Nambhi at

Poovirundha valli, and thus, the temple, about which Sri Vasan is

beuatifully writing about.

 

Thirukkacchi Nambhi ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

 

 

 

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Please accept adiyen's pranamams

 

Adiyen was happy to see Sri Madhavakkanan's posting on Sri ThriruKacci Nambi's

thirunakshatiram.

Sri Madhavakannan wrote:

"Today Maasi Miruha seersham (or is it rOhiNi?) is Thirunakshathram of

Tirukkachi NambigaL, who had the greatest special blessed privilege of

conversing with Sri Varadaraja PerumAL Himself. He was blessed with this

extraordinary privilege for performing the Thiruvaalavatta (fanning)

kaimkaryam to PerumAL with utmost bhakti and involvement. In fact,

NambhigaL (KaanchipoorNar) was born to Sri vaishnava Vaisiya (Chettiar)

kula Sri Veeraraghava Chettiar and Kamalai at Poovirundhavalli. Though

his parents were quite wealthy and were successful businessmen,

NambhigaL had his mind only on Bhagawath, BhAgawatha kaimkaryam."

 

Poovirundhavalli (or in Madras, referred to as Poonamalee) is in the outskirts

of Madras city. In my previous note(s), i had referred to a temple in this

place. There are two koils, one for Srinivasan and the other for Varadarajan.

For the last 20+ years we (self and family) have visited this temple. Unlike the

SriRangams, Kanchipurams, Tirumalai's, this temple is kind of void of devotees.

>From a selfish standpoint, it is nice, since one can enjoy the beautiful

Varadaraja Perumal for as long a time as possible, but its sad that more often

than not, HE is all alone, in the absence of HIS bhakthas.

 

In the main prakaram, The moola perumal is Varadarajar. Adjoining his sannidhi,

is that of Sri.ThiruKacciNambigal. I am not sure if there are other koils that

have an exclusive sannithi for Sri.ThiruKacciNambigal. Also present are

sannithis for Ranganathan and Venugopalan. The other Sannithis in this temple

are those of Poovirunthavalli Thayar, Andal and Srinivasan. There is also a

sannithi for Sri.Alavandar. Since, this is one of my favorite temples, i

strongly recommend fellow bhagavathas to visit and pay respect to this Perumal.

It was per HIS order, when Sri ThiruKacciNambigal wanted to surrender unto HIM,

and do sevai for HIM in SriVaikuntam, that Perumal directed him to Periya Nambi,

and ordered him to accept Periya Nambi as his acharya. Sri Madhavakanan covered

other aspects of this Maha Purushan.

 

Reading Sri. Madhavakanans note on ThirukacciNambigals Thirunakshatiram, brought

joy and tears. Since, i have been attached to this temple for about 20years now,

and having had darshan of all the Moola Perumals and Thayars and Acharyas who

have an abode in this temple, it was a pleasant spiritual trip (albeit, it

lasted only for a few seconds).

 

ThiruKacciNambigal ThiruVadigale Saranam

adiyen, Ramanuja Dasan