Sri MadhavakaNNa's Kaliyan express : Part 1

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Dear BhakthAs of Dhivya prabhandaham :

 

Sri MadhavakkaNNan's Divya prabhandham

express with the package of Kaliyan's Periya

Thirumozhi is speeding its way and just has passed

the stations of Srirangam, ThiruppEr Nagar and

Nandhipura ViNNagaram.adiyEn is waiting with

ThuLasi Garlands in my hand for the express

to arrive at ThiruviNNagar Dhivya Desam soon .

 

Meanwhile , Srimathi Jayashree Narasimhan had

asked for the bill of particulars on the last

of the pentad of decads saluting Sri RanganAthan

( yEzhai yEthalan keezhmahan yennAthu irangi--).

These are indeed a marvellous set of ten referring

to the VisEshAnugrahams in Sri Raaama , KrishNa avathArams

to special BhakthAs . Kaliyan cites them as reminders

to the Lord and begs for a similar anugraham for him .

Kaliyan celebrates the Soulabhya , SouseelyA GuNAs

and comforts himself that he will be blessed by

that Lord of Srirangam .

 

This decad is the concluding decad of Five

decads performing MangaLAsAsanam to

Arangatthu AravaNaiyAn .The first is

the one starting with " Unthi mEl". Here ,

Kaliyan recognized Srirangam as the Dhivya

Desam , which is the home of the One , who

created Chathurmukha BrahmA , who measured

the universe as Thrivikraman, who destroyed

the Kingdom of RaavaNan ,who sucked out the prANan

of Poothanai, who kicked away the life of ChakatAsuran ,

Who incarnated as Adhi VarAhan , who is known as

a MaayAvi with extraordinary agatitha Gatanaa sakthi

and who is the Sriya: Pathi .Thus the focus is on

the holy Srirangam , where He reclines on Adhi Seshan .

 

The second of the five decads on Srirangam is

cast by Kaliyan as ParakAla Naayaki's pralApam.

This is the one starting with " veruvAthALL Vaai veruvi ".

The Viprlampa mood of ParakAla Naayaki is described

by her mother in a heart wrenching way. The naaayaki's

sleeplessnes over inaccessibility to her Lord ,

her tear-laden eyes , her abandoning of decorative

items (sandal paste, anjanam et al ), flower garlands ,

play things are movingly described .

 

The third of the Five Srirangam decads starts

with"KaimmAna mazha KaLiRRaik kadal kidantha karumaNiyai".

Here , Kaliyan saluted the KrishNavathaara Moolavar at Srirangam

as GeethAchAryan and Govardhana Giridharan and moves on

to celebrate Him as VarAha , Narasimha avathAran and

as the Moola Moorthy for other ArchAvatharams. Then

Kaliyan salutes Vaidhika Mathams elaborating Karama ,

Jn~Ana , Bhakthi, Praaptthi Yogams and concludes

this decad with the enjoyment of the beauty of

the ThirumEni of the Lord of Srirangam .

 

The Fourth decad (PaNdai NaanmaRayum vELviyum --)

reminds us that the Lord of Srirangam is the embodiment

of Vaak, Artham , Samashti and Vyashti and is our Sarva vidha

Banthu . Kaliyan cites in this context the many blessings

that He conferred as the HamsAvatharan (on BrahmA ) ,

as the KoormAvatharan ( on DevAs to churn the nectar

from the milky ocean ), as Nrusimhan ( on PrahlAdhan ),

as ParasurAman, Sri Ramachandran (the Uthsavar of

Srirangam , Jaya KodhaNda Raaman ) and Sri KrishNan .

Kaliyan points out that this AdhimadhyAntha rahithan

is the One reclining comfortably at the Srirangam island

as Sesha sayanan .

 

 

Now Kaliyan arrives at the fifth decad in a state

of Parama Bhakthi and offers his SaraNAgathi at

the Lotus feet of the Lord of Srirangam (Ninnadi iNai

adainthEn aNi pozhil ThiruvarangatthammAnE ).This decad

starts with a heart wrenching appeal to His Sarva Swami

in a state of ananya gathithvam , aakinchanyam and

KaarpaNyam . Kaliyan reminds himself of the many

ways in which his Naathan had come to the rescue of

others and demonstrated His soulabhyam , souseelyam

and OudhAryam and in a state of MahA VisvAsam kindled

by these comforting thoughts performs his SaraNAgathi

to Sri RanganAthan .The instances cover the 10 verses.

 

Periya Thirumozhi(PTM): 5.8.1: Blessings to Guhan

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To Be continued )