Pancha Mukha HanumAn Archai

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Namo NarayaNAya !

 

Dear BhakthAs : This is a Follow up on HH Chinna Jeeyar's

posting inviting others to provide information on Pancha Mukha

HanumAn .Here is daasan's input:

 

A beautiful archai of Pancha Mukha Hanuman is worshipped

devoutly at East tank Street , Mylapore /Chennai .Please

have the darana soubhAgyam of this anugraha Moorthy

during your next visit to Chennai.

 

The five faces of the Sri Raama Bhaktha HanumAn at

this shrine are:

 

(1) Eastward looking face : HanumAn (NaivEdhyam: Kadalai )

(2) Southward looking face: Narasimhan ( NaivEdhyam: Paanakam)

(3) Westward looking face: Veda Moorthy Garudan (Offering : Honey)

(4) Northward looking face: VarAha Bhagavan ( Sugar Rice & vadai)

(5) Face over the HanumAn's face: Lord HayagrIvan , VidhyA moorthy

 

Five separate slOkams are used for AavAhanam and NaivEdhyam

(BhOjyAsanam) during His AarAdhanam by Sri RamAswamy Iyengar,

the AarAdhakar . Pancha Mukha HanumAn enshrined in the home of

the AarAdhakar has declined to move to a separate temple

suggested for His permanent residence by BhakthAs.

 

Lord Raamachandra is residing in the heart of Panchamukha HanumAn.

It is one of the most beautiful ArchA Moorthys .

 

There are lot of Tatthvams behind this Moorthy , who is

a Vara prasAdhi .One of them is that the boundary of

Bhagavath Kaimkaryam is BhAgavatha ( Bhagavath-Daasa )

Kaimkaryam as revealed to us by our PoorvAchAryAs.

(viz)., PurushArtha KaashtAdhikAram of Swamy Desikan's

Srimath Rahasya Thrayam:

 

"TathO na: Kaimkarya tadhabhimatha Paryantham abhavath"

 

The Lord resides/presides in the body of that BhAgavathA .

BhagavathAs are like SuddhAntha SiddhAnthis and their

eminence is embodied in Panchamukha HanumAn .

 

VarAha Charama SlOkam (Laghu UpAyam for our salvation ),

Bhaktha RakshaNam by Lord Narasimhan , Thrayimayi

Svaroopam of Garudan , Jn~Ananda maya Svaroopam of

Lord HayagrIvan are all invoked by the darsanam of

Pancha Mukha HanumAn .

 

The summation of the Bhaagavatha's Primacy over even

Bhagavaan is asserted by Him (Jn~Ani ThvAthmaiva mE matham):

 

AarAdhanam SarvEshAm VishNOrAradhanam PARAM

TasmAth PARATARAM prOktham TADHIYAARAADHANAM PARAM

--PaadhmOtthAram 29.81

 

Raama Daasa Sri HanumathE nama:

 

Jai Sriman NaarAyaNA !

DaasOham , V.SaThakOpan