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Srinidhim nidhim-apAram-arTinAm arTithArTa paridhAna dhIkshitham

Sarva-bhUtha-suhrutham DayAnidhim DevarAjam AdhirAjam AasrayE

is a slokam from Swami KurathAzhwan’s Varadaraja Sthvam.

Known as Devarajan, Devadhirajan, Perarulalan, Varadarajan of Kanchi

is also known as Srinidhi. He is the wealth of PerumdEvi ThAyAr (

Thiruvukkum ThiruvAhiya Selvan--Kaliyan).He is like the deep mine of

treasures for those, who seek boons from Him. He has vowed to bless

one with the desired goals of life (purushArthams), when they pray

for them .He always thinks about conferring auspiciousness on

animals, birds, trees, DevAs and Human beings (Sarva BhUtha Suhruth).

He is a treasure house of DayA .He is the Supreme Master (Sarva Seshi

and AdhirAjan) of all and the Emperor of DevAs (Devaraja Perumal).

We all know that we need to leave kAma, krOdham to reach Perumal. Can

He sacrifice something for us? Yes, He did so. That was when He

answered the vElvi (yAga) of Brahma. To fulfil the wish of Brahma to

worship PerumAl as Devadhirajan, He left paramapadam and came from

the agni kundam of the vElvi thee under punyakOti vimAnam. He is the

one who has taken vow to protect everyone and grant whatever we ask.

Perarulalan is not new to doing this. He has already done that in His

avataram as Raman. When Vibishanan surrendered to Raman, Hanuman and

Sugrivan were having divided opinion in accepting Vibishanan. But,

Raman did not listen to both. He had already decided to protect

Vibishana even if the latter was from Rakshasa kulam (the very reason

being Vibishanan surrendered to Raman). Here is the Rama charama

slokam,

sakrudEva prapannaya davAsmethecha yAchathE

abhayam sarva bhoodhepyO dadAm yetat vratham mama

PerarulAlan is used to taking vratam to protect the people who surrender to Him.

We, as SriVaishnavaites would not have known the greatness of

Perarulalan without our Acharyas. Vibishanan approached Raman Goshti,

and hence there was lot of confusion before Raman could clear that

off. But in our case, we are in Ramanuja Goshti, and hence we don’t

have much of that chaos. Our EmPerumanar followed a great mahAn in

this Divya Desam. That mahAn was the one who performed ThirvAlavatta

kaimkaryam (visiri) to Perarulalan. He was none but Kanchipoornar,

called as Thirukkachi Nambigal in our sampradayam. He was born in

Poovirunthavalli (called as Poonthamalli, close to Chennai).

How Thirukkachi Nambigal end up doing this kaimkaryam to Perarulalan?

What is his sambandham with Swami Ramanujar?

We will enjoy the answers to these questions in following postings.

aDiyEn,

ramanan

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