TirukkandEn ponmEni kandEn

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Dear All:

Pranams! Due to Acharyan's Grace, aDiyEn had a wonderful day on

oct-2-not because it was Gandhi Jayanti, but because aDiyEn had

the opportunity to spend some time with few Perumals. aDiyEn

wants to share some of the anubavams during this trip.

 

1. The first in the list was to Singaperumal Koil in

Chengalpattu. Perumal is in gigantic posture, and has pierced

through a small hill. This is the first time aDiyEn got the

anubavam of such a big Archa roopam of Narasimhar. The very name

of this perumal itself will speak how powerful and commanding He

is.

 

2 Next, aDiyEn went to visit Erikatha Ramar in Maduranthakam.

Perumal and Thayar looked so beautiful that aDiyEn did not have

the heart to leave the Sannadhi. aDiyEn came to know that

EmperumAnAr had His Samasrayanam and Mantropadesam here. Seeing

this royal beauty of Ramar (unlike Krishna or any other Vibava),

it is quite natural that every one of us will feel sad in

thinking how this royal prince with his brother and wife would

have walked through the forests without Padhukas. aDiyEn was

reminded about Kakasuran (VithaganE rAmA O nin abayam) when

seeing Him along with Sita. This Perumal is believed to have

protected the village from flooding of Eri. An English engineer

had seen Him along with Lakshmanar. They seemed like ordinary

men with bow and arrow doing some little work close to Eri in

very short span of time to stop it from flooding. What a

tremendous experience for that engineer. Imagine how many births

he would have taken to wait and see Perumal.

 

3. Number three in the list was the anubavam of another

combination of Archa and Vibava roopam. Purushottaman, Who was

worshipped as Rama in Maduranthakam was the One who took Vamana

avatara. The archa roopam of this perumal can be found in a

beautiful Divya Desam where first three Alwars met with each

other. At the first stroke, aDiyEn was reminded about

Nammazhwar’s pasuram, Aazhi ezha sangum villum ezha by

seeing this Perumal. This perumal cannot be described with

aDiyEn limited knowledge. What can be explained about this

perumal- His abode here in archa roopam, His gigantic Swaroopam,

His Tirumeni azhagu or His compassion to Baddha Jeevatmas. This

Perumal is under Srikara Vimanam, behind Thenpennai river. He is

the One Whose Tirumeni was enjoyed as “TirukkandEn PonmEni

KandEn”. We have to run out of words to explain His

sakalakalyana gunas. This Perumal had got the fortune of being

sung by Mudhal Azhwargal (first pasuram from each One’s

work) and Tirumangai Alwar(“TirukkOvalUr adhanul kandEn

nAnE”). Thayar Tirunamam is Tirukkoval Thayar. With

engrossing swaroopam, awas confused whether to fully see Perumal

from Tirupadam to Tirumudi, or enjoy each part(for which aDiyEn

does not have enough knowledge).

 

4. Last, but not the least was the trip to TiruArangam. As king

Kulashekara had told in His Mukundamala (“GushyatE yasya

nagarE rangayAtrA dine dine tamaham shirasA vandE rAjAnam

kulshEkaram”), every SriVaishnavan should be longing to go

to Srirangam daily. Yes, this is about the Srirangam, our

Head-Quarters. It has been sung by all the Alwars except

Madurakavi Alwar. Acharyas have done great works here. This

Srirangam as per Thondaradipodi Alwar comes in Thrid VibhUti(not

included in Nitya and also in LeelA vibhUti). Can you all

believe that aDiyEn visited TiruArangam with out going to actual

Srirangam (quite confused??). There is another Srirangam about

10 Kms from TiruVikaraman sannadhi in Tirukkovalur. This

unfortunate big brother of Periya Perumal is in a gigantic

sayana tirukkolam. It is believed that this Perumal took this

posture after matsya avataram, and can be seen as teaching Vedas

to Brahma. Perumal rests his other hand on the shoulder of

Garudan. aDiyEn was quite surprised to know about this temple

yesterday, and still not convinced why Alwars have not sung on

this Perumal. Wondering if any work on this Perumal had got

lost. It is quite true and well accepted fact that Periya

Perumal in Srirangam is always the Emperor in our sampradayam(

taking Emperumanar from Perarulalan, and getting all the

Alwar’s mangalasasanams). He could have asked few Alwars

to sing on His big brother. This is no exaggeration. What aDiyEn

enjoyed was another Ranganathar. Again the place was

“Pennai Soozh Arangam”.

 

As Tiruppanalwar had aptly told “Aranganai kanda kangal

matrondrinaikkAnAvE”), aDiyEn’s trip got

over on a high note after visitng TiruArangan.

 

Please pardon any errors (purely due to aDiyEn negligible

knowledge)

 

Thanks,

 

ADiyEn,

Ramanan rAmAnuja dAsan

 

 

 

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