Pushpa,ThyAga,BhOga ....

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Dear All,

Out of 108 Divya Desams, 3 are considered to be very important in our

sampradAyam. They are Koil, Thirumalai and PerumAl Koil. One

interesting and common trend in all these three Divya Desams is the

kaimkaryams done by great BhaktAs and the great souls who followed

each one of them. This has been told by NayanAr in his AchArya

Hridayam as:

'Pushpa, ThyAGA, BhOga Mandapangalil Panippoovum, Alavattamum,

Veenaiyam KaiyumAna Antharangarai Mudi Mannavarum, VaidigOttamarum,

MahAmuniyum anuvartita kramam'

Thirumalai is known as Pushpa mandapam. KAnchi is known as ThyAga

mandapam and Srirangam is known as BhOga mandapam. Following is the

order of the Divya Desams, the BhaktAs who performed kaimkaryam and

the great souls who followed each of them.

Mandapam Kaimkaryam by Kaimkaryam

Follower

Pushpa Kurumbarutha Nambi Pushpa Kaimkaryam

ThondamAn King

Thyaga Thirukkachi Nambigal ThiruAlavattam

Swami RAmAnujar

BhOga ThiruppAnAzhwar Singing

LokaSAranga muni

There is one common feature among the people who did kaimkaryam and the people who followed them.

The people who followed the BhaktAs were born in either Kshtria kulam

or Brahmin kulam, where as the people who performed kaimkaryams were

born in so called lower class of the society. People who followed the

BhaktAs exactly followed NammAzhwar's pasuram in the NedumArku adimai

seydhu pathikam of ThiruvAymozhi.

There is an interesting aspect about why these Divya Desams are called

like this and what is the reason for the king and two Brahmins to

follow those great BhaktAs.

aDiyEn plans to write about these aspects based on what aDiyEn has

heard from upanyAsams from present day scholars in our sampradAyam.

Any mistake committed here is purely aDiyEn's and not anyone else's.

You all are most welcome to correct and suggest changes.

aDiyEn,

ramanan

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