Aranganai KANa Nam PANanidam KarpOm - Post 3

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In the Last Post we saw the significance of Thiruvarangam and how

aazhwaars enjoyed the Bhooloka Vaikuntam through their paasurams and

their service to emperumaan and bhaagavthaas. Let us continue our

trip to Sri Rangam in this issue.

 

 

In Thiruvranagam emperumaan blesses all of us as Thiruvarangan

as Moolavar and Nammperumaal or Azhagiya Manvaalan as the Uthsavar.

This name Nammperumaal was given to uthsavar out of their immense

love and bhakthi. One such aachaaryaa was Swamy Pillai Lokaachaaryaa

who gave this sweet name to our emperuman as the uthsavar use to

converse with all his bhakthaas then, like we converse with each

other and hence the name Nammperumaal. One another aachaaryaa who

use call emperumaan with this name was "Aazhi aazhwaan Pillai".

There might be many aazhwars but only one aazhwaar got the

thirunaamam "Nammaazhwaar". There might be many Jeers but only

Nanjeer got the name "Nanjeer", similarly there might me many

perumaals in many divys desams but only our thiruvarangan got the

name "Nammperumaal" because the apaara kaarunyam and love that he

showers on his bhakthaas. Even emperumaanaar enjoys emperumaan as

"Sri Ranga Natha..!! mama Naatha.." in swamy's Gadhya Thrayam. Even

Kaliyan in his Thirumozhi says, "Arangavaali ennaali..". The only

emperumaan who got the experience of being sung by all the

aazhwaars. Hence this emperumaan was called as "Padhinmar paaadiya

perumaal..".

 

We all have born as Jeevaathmaa in this bhoolokam. What is the

reason for which we have been given this birth. We have been given

two eyes, hands, legs and ears. Why ?. To see the Divya Sevai of

emperumaan at thiruvarangan, to do Pushpa Kainkaryam to emperumaan

or to raise both our hands together to say "Rakshamaam

Sharanaagatham" and do sharanaagatham at his lotus feet, and use our

two legs to walk to his temple wherever we are to enjoy his divya

seavi and dance singing his praise and finally our two ears to always

hear bhagavadh gunaanubhavams or to hear his parise from our

aachaaryaas. Even in Mukunda Maala Swamy Kulasekhara Aazhwaar says :-

 

"Krishnam lokaya lochanadhvaya , jihve keerthaya keshavam.."

 

Oh..!! my eyes always see emperuman kannan, Oh..!! my tongue always

sing the praise of emperumaan Keshavan. Like this all our aachaaryaas

and aazhwaars have sung the praise of thiruvarangan at thiruvarangam.

 

 

Swamy thirumangai aazhwaar in his Periya Thirumozhi says

 

"Neenaagam sutri, neduvarai nattu, aazh kadalai penaan

kadaindhamudham kondu vanda pemmaanai, poonaara maarbhanai,

pulloorum pon malaiyai kaanakkannennum kannalla kanndaame.."

 

Those eyes are not conidered to be eyes when they dont see the divya

sevai of emperumaan who helped devaas in bringing the Amrutham from

Ksheeraabdhi by making the Koormaavathaara. The same has been told

in Srimad Bhaagavtham by Swamy Vedavyaasar. Swamy says that those eyes

which doesn't see emperumaan at all are considered as the eyes which

we see at the midst of feather of the peacock. Which means our eyes

doesn't have any significance if it doesn't see emperumaan kannan's

divya sevai.

 

Even Dasaratha says to Kousalya, Hey Kousalyaa..!!, I don't know

where you are now. Please touch me so that I can know where you

are as my two eyes which were with me so far has gone away from me,

the momemt my Rama went away to Dhankaarayam. My eyes are his

Daasan. Hence the quality of a Daasan is to be along with his

master. Its my mistake that I have been thinking them as my eyes.

No it is not because it was Rama's daasan and hence it went along

with him.

 

Hence the use of the eyes that we all have to see the emperumaan

at thiruvarangam. Our aazhwaars and aachaaryaas have seen

nammperumaal as Raaman and Kannan. Nammperumaal himself says to

emperumaanaar that he is not Kannan and he is Sri Raman itself.

Kannan is the one who sleeps inside the sannidhi who none other

than Periya Perumaal. Soodi kodutha sudar kodi enjoys

Nammperumaal as Kannan and Swamy Periyaazhwaar enjoys Nammperumaal

as Kannan.

 

Meendum Karipippaar Nam PaaNan..!! Will Continue..

 

Mama Sarvaaparaadham Kshamaswa

Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Aazhwaar Thiruvadigale Sharanam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

 

Narayanan

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Pranams Sriman Narayanan

 

Could you please explain more on how acharya Nanjeeyar

got this name.

 

raji sridhar