Sri Ranaganayaki sametha Abhaya Pradhana Ranganatha Swamy

[Guest guest]

SrI Swamin namaskaram:

 

as you quoted, at my adiyens native place, there is a temple

for Lord Ranganatha which was built by earlier kings. There

HE gives sEvai as Abhaya PrathAna Ranganatha Swamy. Only in this

temple(as per adiyens knowledge), Ranganathar in reclining

posture shows HIS right hand as Abhaya to MArkandeya maharishi.

 

The legend goes like this:

 

When mArkandeya maharishi was doing tapas, he was disturbed by

activities of dhusta arakkargal. So he went to thiruppArkadal

to seek refuge from our emperumAn. As we all know, our emperumAn

is fond of saving our bhakthAs who fell refuge to HIM, on the

reclining posture itself, i.e, reclining on AdhisEsha HE shows

HIS right hand as ABHAYAM to mArkandeya maharishi to show that

HE is there for saving the bhakthAs.

 

The posture is like: you can think of SrI Ranganathar at

SrI rangam, instead of placing the right hand under HIS head,

HE stretches HIS right hand and shows ABHAYA mudra to

mArkandeya maharishi by reclining on adhisEsha itself.

Under HIS abhayam, one can see mArkandeya maharishi is sitting

with nervous to seek the emperumAns protection. From the navel

Lord Brahma was sitting. Thayar is Sri RanganAyaki thAyar at

separate sannidhi.

 

The one more beauty of this is that, since emperumAn turns

little aside to show HIS abhayam to mArkandeya maharishi,

AdhisEsha feels disturbed as "who is disturbing our great

karumA mughil vannan, neela megham, shyamalan from HIS reclining

posture" and adhisEsha also fully turns towards right to look

at who is disturbing the Lord RanganAthar. This sEva can be

seen on throught out the day. One never feels satisfied looking

on HIM at all time.

 

This beautifull sEva can be seen in that temple. Thats why

there HE is called as Abhaya prathAna Ranganatha Swamy. THe

perumAl is as beauty as Lord RanganAthar at SrI Rangam, situated

at the very near banks of River Amaravathi at Karur.

 

One more greatness of this sthalam is that, there is a

elanthai tree near ChakkarathAlwar which never sleeps (i.e)

it will produce Elanthai fruits throughout the year and local

people called it as "UrangA elanthai" as like "UrangA puli" tree

at Alwar Thirunagari.

 

This temple is taken by Govt. Hindu Endowsment Board and is

associated with the AbhimAna Sthalam ThAnthondri perumAl,

Sri Kalyana Venkata Ramana Swamy at KARUR. Adiyen requests

if one happens to come across SrI Rangam, or near by areas,

also visit this sthalam and enjoy the beauty of this sEvai

and get HIS blessings. HE is there to give abhayam from all

the evils that come across one's life.

 

SrImathe rAmAnujAya namaha:

SrI Ranganayaki sametha Ranganatha Parabrahmane namaha:

adiyen,

senthil.B