Thiruvanjikalam Kulasekara Azhwar temple samprokshanam

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Dear All,

 

Pranams!

 

aDiyEn would like to write on some interesting and well known aspect

about our Kulasekara Azhwar, who lived his life full of vairagyam.

 

'GushyatE yasya nagarE rangayAtrA dhinE dhinE

tamahan shirasA vandE rAjAnam kulasEkaram'

 

Azhwar was always keen to visit Srirangam every day. In the process of

singing on Ranganathan, Azhwar calls all the other people as ghost.

Here is the lovely pasuram from his Perumal Thirumozhi,

 

pEya rEyenak kiyaavarum yaanumOrpEya NnEyevark kum_ithu pEsiyenaaya

NnEaraNG kaaenRa zhaikkinREnpEya Nnaayozhin^ thEnempi raanukkE

 

He says others are ghost as they are always madly looking for some

wordly thing, and hence running here and there. Azhwar could not stop

with that. He calls himself a Ghost. How could it be possible? It was

true for him too, because he was so deeply immersed in bhakti for

Ranaganathan that he wanted to get the anubhavam of not just His

darshan but the sambandham of His Bhagavata Goshti. He highlighted

the second desire in the first 10 pasurams of his Perumal Thirumozhi.

 

Now, aDiyEn would go into the link for Ranganthan with

ThiruVenkadamudayAn. aDiyEn takes the liberty of shifting the focus

to our Parakalan. In one of the five sets of 10 pasurams for

Ranaganathan, Kaliyan says the following in Periya Thirumozhi 5.5.1,

 

veruvaathaaL vaayveruvi 'vEnkadamE !vEngadamE !' enkin RaaLaal,

Parakala nayaki is madly in love with ThiruVekadamudayAn, who actually

decided to relax in Thiruvarangam (vaanavargal sandhi seyya nindram

arangatharavinanaiyAn by Thiruppanazhwar).

 

All the above are the anubhavam of Azhwar Goshti. If we look at even

the vaanara koottam, they are mad on getting the opportunity for

kaimkaryam to ThiruVenkadamudayAn,

 

This can be taken from the Bhoothathazhwar's second Thruvandhadhi,

 

pOthaRinthu vaanarangaL pooncunaipukku, aangalarnthapOtharinthu

koNdEtthum pOthu,uLLam - pOthumaNivENG kadavan malaradikkE

sella,aNivENG kadavanpE raaynthu

 

The vaanara koottam is madly jumping between the trees to do pushpa

kaimkaryam to ThiruVenkatamudayAn. If we look in to us, the people in

samsara, we also are a vaanara koottam. Every time we visit

ThiruVenkadamudayAn, we jump from one request to the other, all for

our world living. ThiruppAnazhwar refers to vaanara koottam in

ThiruVenkadam,

 

'mandhi pai vada vEnkatada mAmalai...'

 

He was also in vaanara koottam because he was madly jumping between

the avayavams (parts) of Ranganathan's ThirumEni in his anubhavam.

 

>From all the above references, we could see that the vaanarakkottam in

us (the souls in samsara) are the lowest in the order of greatness

when compared to even the vaanarams in ThiruVenkadam in the aspect of

madness to earn the opportunity to do Nitya Kaimkaryam to Perumal.

 

The unique desire that our Chera king highlighted was not even the

kaimkaryam, atleast some kind of form on ThiruVenkadam to just enjoy

ThiruVenkadamudayAn's darshan all the time. He was ready to leave

behind every thing for this darshan. Shouldn't we all think about

getting this madness in us?

 

'umpa rulakaaN torukudaikkeezh uruppasithanampoR kalaiyalkul peRRaalu

maathariyEnsempavaLa vaayaan thiruvENG katamennumemperumaan

ponmalaimE lEthEnu maavEnE'

 

aDiyEn apologises for lenghty email, could not stop the flow.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

ramanan

 

 

 

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