VYUHA LAKSHMI

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SrImatE rAmAnujAya namah.

 

Dear BhAgavatas,

 

namaskArams.

 

Thanks to Smt Praveena Anand for her references to mahA dEvI (Periya

pirAtti) in her series of postings on the vaibhavam of SrI dESikar.

PirAtti on Lord's chest is also known as "vyUha lakshmI".

 

vArAha purANa refers to the two-handed vyUha lakhmI seated on BhagavAn's

chest in "baddha padmAsana" posture, in the following SlOka:

 

dvibhujA vyUha lakhmIh syAt baddha padmAsana sthitA

SrInivAsAnga madhyasthA sutarAm kESava priyA

 

SrI rAmAnuja consecrated the image of vyUha lakshmI on Lord VEnkatESwara's

chest on the day of Sukla dwAdaSI, Friday, uttara phalguNI nakshatram.

Astrologically it was known as "ratna manajarikA yOgam", a very

auspicious timing. This was done for the exponential growth of the

mahaiSwaryam of BhagavAn.

 

Te priests of the temple had been daily performing abhishEkam to Lord

VEnkatESwara. BhagavadrAmAnuja thought that this would hamper otherother

kainkaryams to be introduced.

 

VaikhAnasa Agama, Ananda samhitA says:

 

kincha lakshmyabhishEkastu vAsarE bhArgavE harEh

sAnnidhya kArI satatam sarva sampatpradAyakah

 

R T: Doing abhishEkam of lakhsmI draws the

ArAdhaka closer to BhagavAn and

brings in all kinds of riches.

 

BhagavadrAmAnuja made it a rule that abhishEkam be performed to BhagavAn

every Friday only. After BhagavAn's abhishEkam, alarmEl managai descends

from His divya vakshassthalam for Her Tirumanajanam. But She can't

tolerate His viSlEsham even for a while (ahalahillEn iRaiyumenRu ...). So

bhagavadrAmAnuja thought it appropriate to recite nAcchiyAr Thirumozhi

which eals with the same topic. Since then this prabandham of gOdA dEvI is

recited during the Thirumanajanam of ThyAyAr.

 

(From Thirumalai ozhugu)

 

SrI bhU nIlA sahita SrI VEnkatESAya namah.

 

dAsan

Vishnu