hOW TO SEE THE lORD 8- THIRUMANGAI MANNAN

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Thirumangai mannan's anubhavam.

It is a known fact that thirumangai mannan had numerous meetings and

experiences with several dhivya-dhesa emperumAn-s..

 

Let us see just one of them

 

I. IN the eighth hundered, second ten , third pAsuram

 

"aruvi sOr vEnkatam nEr malai enRu vAi

veruvinAL, meyyam vinavi irukkinRAL,

perugu sEr kaNNapuram enRu pEasinAL

vuruginAL vuL melindhAL idhu en kolO" 8-2-3 periya thiru mozhi.

 

Suffering from pangs of separation from the Lord- parAkAla nAyaki - pines for thiruvEnkatam .

ThiruvEnkatam is a dhivya dhEsam abundant with catastrophes. This will

to an extent help AzhwAr to cool down.

Hence, she called for vEnkatam.

 

Next, the rescue call was towards nEr malai- thirunEr malai- thirunEr

malai is a dhivya-dhEsam surrounded by water in those days.It used to

be full of water for 6 months and for the rest 6 months the water

used to come down to normal level.

This also helped the AzhwAr to get pacified to some extent.

 

The next dhivya-dhEsam to be remembered was "meyyam' -thiru-meyyam-

thiru meyyam emperumAn being sathya mUrthy is a person who has taken

true oath as per His name to do anything for the sake of His

devotees. Hence, the thought of this dhivya-dhEsam.

 

Now she started talking about thirukkaNNapuram -full of wealth and

auspicious qualities- and melted instantaneously.

She talked and melted. Though talking about thirukaNNapuram and

melting are sequentially placed, in actual it seemed that these two

events are one and the same. The commentary is apt in this regard:

" pEsuvadhOr avasthaiyum, vuruguvadhOr avashtaiyum anRikkEa, pEsina vAyodE nErpaNdamAi ninRaL."

That is instead of being two happenings, talking about

thirukkaNNapuram and melting down AzhwAr melted on talking about

thirukkaNNapuram.

 

We were seeing what happened to AzhWar 's on seeing the Lord. Here,

thirumangai AzhwAr's prAvaNyam on talking about thirukaNNapuram is

highlighted.

(to be continued)

vanamamalai padmanabhan