Periya Thirumozhi 2.3- I have seen Him at Triplicane!

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Dearest Sisters and brothers,

 

In previous pAsurams, Thirumangai mannan enjoyed Raman, KaNNan, the Lord

of ThiruvevvuL (the most favourite one of our dear Sri Anand

Karalapaakkam), the SingavEL Piraan, and the Lord of ThiruvEmkatam,

after having had a lovely darshan at Badri, SaaLgraamam and

NaimisaaraNyam. Now AzhwAr lands at Madras! He is here at Triplicane. He

immerses himself in the Divine beauty of ThiruvallikENi Sri

Parthasarathy PerumAL, the personification of all of above Deities...

The Lord who blessed us with the Charama slOkam.. Let us take a stroll

on the track of AzhwAr's yet another excellent ten! (What a blessed

group! One side, lovely ThErazhundhoor pAsurams form Sadagopan, other

side description of Sri Rama's exquisite Beauty- Sri Hayagreeva

Mahaathmayam from third direction- Sampath Rengi's starting of second

series of inimitable style of ThiruppAvai, Sri Mani's Vaarthamalai posts

- Oh aiyO! idhu enna Sri Vaishnava Divya SadhassO? What a Kaimkaryam! As

Sampath Rengi mentioned, English and computers have been really blessed

by these posts!)

 

1. The Lord - who had destroyed completely- the big yaagham performed by

Kamsan (with an intent to kill KaNNan), also the performer of Yaagham

i.e. Kamsan; the group of huge mountain like strong wrestlers appointed

by Kamsan for killing KaNNan; the massive elephant Kuvalayaapetam,

waiting at the entrance of Kamsan's place (to kill KaNNan), and the

mahout who had trained the elephant with such ferocity/anger to kill

KaNNan- (all of them were simply destroyed by KaNNan) ; the Lord who

removed the great sorrow and sin of Sivan whose hand got stuck with a

head of Brahma, the One who drove the chariot for Arjunan and helped

PaaNdavaas, the One who faced and got the fierce arrows on His Chest in

the KurukshEthra battle field, the Lord who performed variety of ways

and means to destroy 100 Kauravas (the enemies of PaNdavas) and saved

Arjunan; the Lord who had left the throne and the crown and walked off,

smilingly and willingly to the forest obeying His "Chiitthi KaikEyi's"

(SiRRannai- SiRRavai- Step mother?) order- (AzhwAr says), I have seen

that Greatest Lord here in ThiruvallikkENi.

 

2. The Lord- who has, as His pampered pet, the Vedas which grant only

good to everyone; the One who grants the fruits to beings as appropriate

based on their Saathvika, Rajasa, thamasa guNAs and based on their

performance of their karmas as per Vedic saasthras; the One who is the

limitless enjoyment and is like the sweetest blemishless fruit to sages

like sanaka et al whose thoughts are always on the Brahmam; the One who

is dearest and sweetest to Sri Nandha Maharaj with His most wonderful

child pranks and mischief; the One who is Jagadh KaaraNan (the Cause of

the Universe), who is worshipped by the people of the world; the One who

captured me and ruled this lowly self- me (who is unlike these people

who always worship Him and pay obeisance to Him)- I have seen that Most

merciful - Greatest Lord here in Triplicane (next to Mylapore where

unparalleled great women folk live in tall big houses).

 

3. (AzwAr enjoys the darling of NandhagOpan here!). The Lord - who

sucked the life along with the poisonous breast milk of Puthanai, (demon

rAkshasi who had come in the guise of a young woman to breastfeed Kutti

KaNNan and kill Him) and killed her and let her fall dead on the ground;

- who is the life of the world;- who is the yama of asurAs; - who is

praised and worshipped with awe at His wonderful form and attributes by

Vidyadharar, SaaraNar, Chitthar and all Devas et al when He took the

lovely most beautiful Mohini avathaaram to distribute the nectarine

"amudham" to Devas. Such Greatest Lord- I have seen in Triplicane.

 

4. (Not only did He suck the life of Puthanai; He did tame Indran's

false pride) When the Pooja and Uthsavam, that was usually performed by

Cowherd men every year for Indran, praying him for rains, was stopped

by our Dear Child KaNNan (due to Indran's proud feeling of being

worshipped by Cowherd group, including KaNNan), the irate angry Indran

ordered torrential rains and heavy downpour on this land where KaNNan

lived. The poor cowherd people prayed to KaNNan "Emperumaan KaNNA!

please save us and the cattle from these heavy downpour!". The "little"

Lord of ours, with His little finger, lifted the HUGE, MASSIVE

Govardhana mountain effortlessly and asked all His cowherd folks and

cattle to come underneath to protect them from rains. Such Most Greatest

Lord- I have seen Him at Triplicane.

 

5. (The Most wonderful Lord is the Master of Sri, BhUmA and NeeLA

dEvi!). the Lord, who is the sweetest Consort of the One who has the

lotus flower as Her Seat- of the One who is also a great companion,

sweetest and dearest to the Lord- of Periya PiraaTTi MahAlakshmi; who is

the Chief of the One who is the personification of Patience- of BhUmi

PiraaTTi; the Lord who was born among the cowherd group and is the Lord

of Nappinnai PiraaTTI- the Support and Companion of everyone; the One

who listened to PaaNdavaas and went as their messenger to inform of what

He had heard from them; the One who is His own support; - Such Greatest

Lord - I have seen at Triplicane. He is my Swami; the Master of my whole

Kulam (Srivaishnava Kulam; Manidha Kulam- Human kind- chEthana kulam)

 

6. Dhucchaasanan- the younger brother of DhuryOdhanan, the son of the

congenitally blind Dhrudharaashtran (blind physically and spiritually),

went and told Dhraupathi "You need to serve us, for these pANdavas have

lost you in this gambling" and started stripping her; Poor Dhraupathi

raised her hands, with tears rolling down, shouted "KaNNA! Sangha chakra

GadhApaaNE! Dwarakaanilaya acchuthA! GovindhA! PundareekaashA!

Rakshamaam! SaraNAgatham! " and surrendered to the Lord. Then, He

immediately saved her from all sorrows; and the way He punished the

duryOdhanaadhis by making all the wives of 100 Kauravas become widows;

the way He drove Himself as a chariot driver for Arjunan -the Lord is

simply GREAT! and wonderful! - Such Greatest Lord- I have seen at

Triplicane!

 

7. The Lord who stands with and is fully enjoyed by Bharathan, his

parathanthran, Chathruknan, ILayaperumAL LakshmaNan for whom Sri Rama is

everything and all in all, SeethA PiraaTTi of MythilA- the Prince of

Dasaratha Chakravartthi, the Yama of rAvaNan- such Greatest Lord, I have

seen at Triplicane, where lovely gardens cool the whole sthalam, where

the beautiful peaclocks dance spreading their feathers gracefully, where

the rays of sun do not have any space to enter (due to the dense trees

and gardens)

 

8. The father hiraNyan, who listened to Divine name of Narayanan from

the lovely charming "mazhalai" words of Prahalada, when Prahalada came

back after studying at school, did not relish the child's sweet words.

He did not enjoy the Divine name of Narayana. he shouted and became

terribly angry at Prahalada "Where is your Narayanan? is He in this

pillar?" and hit the nearby pillar. Came out the ferocious reddish eyed

Lion faced Human form of Lord Narasinghan with Huge wide red mouth- such

Greatest awesome Beauty- I have seen at Triplicane. (TeLLiya Singha

PerumAL!)

 

9. (AzhwAr enjoys the Lord's mercy on the elephant, in as much as he

helped and saved Pandavas, Dhraupathi, Mythyli, Prahaladan) The elephant

GajEndran, the Strong animal that loiters and wanders all over the

forest happily, entered into the charming, beautiful pond which is full

of red lotus flowers, for plucking few lovely fresh lotus flowers from

the pond with an intent to place them at the Lotus Feet of Sriman

Narayanan. When it did so, it started yelling and shouting by lifting

his trunk above his head and shouted painfully "AdhimoolamE".

(Primordial Chief!) Why? the crocodile that was living in that pond,

caught hold of his leg; the elephant could not get his wish fulfilled,

and hence yelled (not that he suffered and shouted due to his suffering!

he was a strong elephant and was a paramaikaanthin!) Sriman Narayanan-

who alone is the Primordial Chief (Sivan, Brahma, Indran all of them

turned to only Sriman Narayanan, when they heard the cry "AdhimoolamE!".

The word was for Him; and not for anyone else!) Immed....... (before

even I typed this word), He appeared on GarudA and saved the elephant by

sending His ChakrAyudham to the crocodile and killing the same. (Sri

Mukkur Lakshmi Naraishmachariar says beautifully in his upanyasam "the

Lord came in such a hurry, PiraaTTi with whom He was playing with did

not know what was happening and caught hold of His utthiriyam (the top

dress) and was stuck with that cloth! he came in such a hurry, GarudA

came faster to make Him sit in him; he came in such a hurry that the

ChakrAyudham came flying from its respective place and landed on His

right Hand in transit..... He came in such a hurry, that He did not NEED

ANYONE TO HELP HIM; Not even ChakrAyudham! he came in such a hurry that

was like a dear father rushing swiftly to lift his child that has fallen

and is crying! What a lovely narration! What a merciful Lord!). Such

Greatest Most merciful Lord- I have seen at Triplicane!

 

10. Thirumangai AzhwAr has sung these ten poems about Triplicane- (the

neighbourhood of Mylapore) where cool dense gardens are found

everywhere; where tall ramparts and huge pillared halls are built; where

the ruling (was ) by the king of thoNdai naadu (the present Chennai) was

pure and dhaarmic. Those who read these pAsurams on Triplicane (and

their meanings) will enjoy being blessed with the eternal permanent stay

at Paramapadham.

 

ThriumangaiAzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

 

Narayana Narayana

 

Narayana dAsan Madhavakkannan

 

 

 

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