Guest guest Posted March 7, 2000 Report Share Posted March 7, 2000 Dear Members, Those of you who receive the bhakti-list as a digest, please read on. Those of you who don't, please ignore this message. It appears that one digest was not sent out between last Sunday and Monday, due to some bug in the new software. I am working on making sure this doesn't happen again, but in the meantime, attached are the three articles that I think you missed. ----------------------- Subject 1: DhanyAs, by A. Bharat Subject 2: Onwards to ThirunArAyaNapuram from Kanchipuram, by V. Sadagopan Subject 3: Nine forms of Lord Narasimha Swamy in Ahobilam, by Anand Vangipuram ----------------------- "A.Bharat" <kbharat bhakti-list DhanyAs Sun, 05 Mar 2000 18:41:55 +0530 Dear BhAgavatOttamas, It quite often occurs that when one is reading something and suddenly comes across something interesting,on the same day one sees a similar reference at another place! ADiyEn was going through the "SIlamillA cchiriyanElum" stanza (4.7.1) of SwAmi NammAzhwAr and its absolutely delectable Eedu when the following explanation caught aDiyEn's eye: Quoting Sita's Sundara kAnDa wail ,"Tam padma dala patrAksham.......dhanyAh paSyanti me nAtham" Swami NambiLLai in his inimitable language says- <NADAga kkoLLaikoLLA ninradu kiDeer en Sarakkai enrALirE> "she says- the whole country is looting my belongings!"(i.e.,all of them are able to gaze at his lotus eyes and leaf-colured body-they are indeed fortunate-unlike me!). Here the Arumbada Jeeyar asks the question: in the VAlmIki text it is said that only Dhanyas gaze at him ;so how could SwAmi Nambillai translate it as "the whole country"? And answers: the intention of Sita(and VAlmIki)is to say <ME nAtham yE paSyanti tE dhanyAh>" any one who gazes at my Lord is Dhanya";so the adjective applies to the whole KOsala country. And within hours of reading this beautiful explanation aDiyen received in the latest Digest Sri Sadagopan's most entrancing series on his travels and THERE while detailing SwAmi DESikan's anubhavam of the Lord of Hastigiri he says: ------------------------ Swamy Desikan salutes the Bhaagavatha GhOshti assembled to have His sevai and declares that these BhagavathAs are dhanyAs ( the blessed Ones ) : " Varadha Tava vilOkayanthi DhanyA : " ------------------------ Obviously here also SwAmi NambiLLai's perception holds good.Any one who is fortunate enough to gaze on the HastiSaila Lord is a Dhanya! And so are we all who get this daily opportunity to participate vicariously in Sri Sadagopan's travels and share his anubhavam. Sri EmberumAnAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam! Sadagopan <sgopan bhakti-list Onwards to ThirunArAyaNapuram from Kanchipuram: Sixth day of the Journey towards AchArya RaamAnujA , Feb 10 , 2000 Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:36:15 -0500 (EST) SrimathE RaamAnujAya Nama: Dear BhakthAs : Prior to leaving PerumAL Koil at Kaanchipuram , there were two more stops .One was at Sri Sudarsanar Sannadhi at the banks of Anantha Saras , where the archai of Moolavr Varahdan is resting under water in a special temple .That sacred archai is prsented to all BhakthAs every fourty (?) years . SudarsanAzhwAn's archA silai is awe inspiring to behold . The slOka Vaakyams from Swamy Desikan's profound SudarsanAshtakam went through my mind : "praharaNagrAma maNDitha , Parijana thrANa paNDitha Jaya Jaya Sri Sudarsana , Jaya Jaya Sri Sudarsana " Lord Sudarsanan shining resplendently as Hethi Raajan and nEmi Naathan on the right hand of Lord VaradarAjan is indeed PraharaNa grAma MaNDithan ( One who is beautified by the assembly of weapons adorning His sixteen hands ); He is indeed Parijana ThrANa PaNDithan ( The expert in protecting His adiyavars like AmbharIshan ). The dhAyana slOkam was then reflected upon: sankham chakram chApam parasu- masimishum soola paasaankusAsthram BhibhrANam vajrakhEDou hala musala- gadhA kuntham athyugra dhamshtram I jwAlA kEsam thri-nEthram jwaladh- anala-nibham haara-kEyUra bhUsham dhyAyEth shaDkONa samastham sakala ripu jana prANa samhAra Chakram II The Sixteen weapons adorning the hands of Lord Sudarsanan is saluted here and He is visualized for meditation purposes as being inside the yanthram of six corners made up of two intersecting triangles in the dynamic Prathi-mukhAAleetam posture , where one foot is forward and the other behind to rush to our rescue. With the tall flames as His hair , he is ready to destroy the enemies of BhagavathAs . Sudarsana Prabhu is PraNathArthihara prabhu and is able to destroy the enemies of the Lord with His hoomkAram alone . The darsanam of Him in consecrated temples like at Kaanchi ,KumbakONam and Srirangam burns away all paapams : "hoomkAra Bhairavam bheemam PraNathArhtiharam prabhum Sarva paapa prasamanam PRAPADHYEHAM SUDARSANAM " -- Sri SudarsanAshtakam : Verse 5 In the Sudarsana) Kavaacham , Ahirbhudhnyan ( Lord Sivan) is the Rishi ; the chandhas is anushtup ; the empowering Lord is Sri Sudarsana- MahA Nrusimhan ; The sakthi is Sudarsanam ; the viniyOgam is " mama sarva rakshArhtE Sri Sudarsana-Purusha-Sri Nrusimha PreethyarthE japE viniyOga: " Thus , there is no Sudarsanan without Lord Narasimhan . We had the darsanam of Lord Narasimhan next in that Sudarsana-Narasimha Vigraham at this sannidhi . Here , Lord Narasimhan has four chakrams in His four hands . That (Four Chakrams)is also the emblem of Lord Kesavan in Panniru ThirunAmam . When we adorn the ThirumaNN on our forehead first , we say "KesavAya Nama: , Chathuschakram NamasyAmi Kesavam Kanaka Prabham " for our protection of the Sri VaishNava Sri. That is why , we also say "KesavA " and invoke His name sanctified by the four chakrams in four dirctions , when we step out of our residences on important occasions. On the ArchA Vigraham , One can have the darsanam of the dwAdasa Moorthis fitting Sriman NaarAyaNA's twelve ThirunAmams( Kesavan, NaarayaNan , Madhavan , Govindhan , VishNu , Madhusoodhanan, Thrivikraman, Vaamanan , Sridharan ,HrishIkEsan , PadhmanAbhan and DhAmOdharan ). The Uthsavar has 8 weapons in His 8 hands compared to th 16 weapons adorning the sixteen hands of Moolavar, Sudarsana-Nrusimhan . The related prayer to Sudarsana-Narasimhan in Sri Sudarsana Kavacham is: " Sudarsana NrusimhO mE Sareeram paathu sarvadhA ". (May the Sudarsana-Nrusimhan protect this body of mine always to make it fit for His AarAdhanam). There were many beautiful and big Sudarsana- Nrusimha SaaLagrAmams at this Sannidhi .We left after this eye-filling sevai of Sudarsanar to AchArya RaamAnujA Sannidhi in the North West(?) section of the Temple of Sri VaradharAjan . AchArya RaamAnujA's anugraham ******************************* The puNyam from completing the AchArya RaamAnujA and His satAri Kaimkaryam with the help of all BhakthAs propelled us perhaps to His Sannidhi. There , the life-like Moolavar sitting in the company of all AzhwArs blessed us. Earlier adiyEn mentioned that the archakar at Sri PerumbhUthUr RaamAnujA's Sannidhi presented the KhAshAyam from the ThirumEni of Udayavar to clothe the SatAri during its journey to Melkote. Another miracle happened here at Kaaanchi. The Archakar at Udayavar Sannidhi presented another khAshAya vasthram adorning the upper torso of the Moolavar and gave it to us to house the navarathna SatAri. It was such a spontaneous act on the archakar's part , which can only be understood as originating from the grace of our AchArya Saarvabhouman , who gave us Sri Bhaashyam. Mudali AaNDAn (Sri RaamAnuja SatAri) -on his way to ThiunArAyaNapuram to join His AchAryan at His sannidhi- was thus fully housed in the divine warmth of His AchAryan's ochre robes from SriperumbhUthUr ( His AchAryan's place of birth) and Kaanchipuram ( His AchAryan's dhivya desam , where He entered into SanyAsAsramam ). Thus started the Journey to ThirunArAyanapuram by plane and car from Chennai to Melkote with the satAri having the sambhandham of many EmperumAns , EmperumAnAr and AchArya PurushAs At Melkote ,adiyEn was the guest of Dr.Lakshmi ThaathAchAr Swamy , the Director of the Melkote Sanskrit Academy .He belongs to the Thaatha Desika Vamsam as well as Thirumalai ANDAn PiLLai Vamsam , which has the distinction of performing Pushpa Kaimkaryam to lord SrinivAsan at Thirumalai at the behest of AchArya RaamAnujA .Dr. M.A.Alwar , the Naveena NyAyam expert teaching this topic as a faculty at the Mysore Sanskrit College and adiyEn's partner in the AchArya RaamAnujA CD ROM project is the son of Dr.Lakshmi ThaathAchAr Swamy . Not enough can be said about the saathvic nature of this family, their unfailing hospitality to the visitors to Melkote , and their tradition of Scholarship in ubhaya VedAntham. AdiyEn will write in the next few postings about : (1) The time spent at the Sanskrit Academy in the company of Sri Lakshmi ThAthAchAr Swamy after the first sevai of Lord ThirunArAyaNan and Udayavar ( Feb 10 , the sixth day of the navAham). (2) The Morning of Consecration of the SatAri for AchArya RaamAnujA at the Yaaga SaalA prior to travel of the satAri to His sannidhi and the afternoon visit to Jna~napirAN Sannidhi ( the sixteen feet Moolavar of Sri Lakshmi Varahan from HoysaLA times enshrined in ekAntham at a tiny hamlet outside Melkote) and conversations with a great Sri VaishNavite scholar ,Kotthimangalam Sri VaradAchAr Swamy (February 11 and the seventh day of the NavAham). (3) The visit to Srirangapattinam on the Ratha Sapthami day and additional visits to some of the Pancha NaarAyaNa KshEthrams close to ThoNDanUr , which were constructed by Mudali ANDAn at the request of AchArya RaamAnujA to spread the glorious message of Sri VaishNavam in His adopted land of KarnAtakA ( February 12th and the eighth day of the NavAham ). AchArya RaamAnujA's 900th anniversary of entrance to Melkote was celebrated few months ago at Melkote by the Sanskrit Academy and the Sri Vaishnava AchArya Kulams . Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam , Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan "Anand Vangipuram" <avangipuram bhakti-list Nine forms of Lord Narasimha Swamy in Ahobilam Sun, 05 Mar 2000 07:12:25 PST Dear Bhakti List Members: This is a continuation from yesterday's discussion. 6. Chatravata Narasimha Swamy Near Karanjia Narasimha Swamy shrine, uder the shade of the great Chatravata tree, is located the temple of Chatravata Narasimha Swamy. It has a six-pillared Mukha Mandapa in front of the sanctum. The pillars have square adhistanas and bear bas-reliefs of Sri Narasimha Swamy, Anjaneya, etc. The deity carved out of black basaltic stone is very beautiful. The Lord is seated in Padmasana pose. The two upper right and left hand holds abhaya hasta and kati hata poses, placed on the waist and the left thigh, respectively. Various decorations on the Lord as well Yagnopavitam are clearly seen. This is perhaps the most beautiful and well preserved idol Ahobilam. To be continued... The credit for the information provided herein should be given to "Sapthagiri" which is a Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Publication. The original article was written by Acharya Komanduri Ranga of Stillwater, OK. adiyen rAmAnuja dAsan, Venkata Yatiraj Anand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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