Kaliyan-ParimaLa Ranganathan

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Sri:

Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Dear bhAgavatas,

 

Salutations to all. A nice conversation between Tirumangai

AzhvAr and ParimaLa Ranganathan of divya desam TiruindhaLUr/

MayilAduthuRai/mAyavaram. ThirumangaiAzhvAr has done mangaLAshAsanam

in 10 pasurams for this divya sthalam. Nobody would direct you if you

say tiruindhaLUr but only mAyavaram parimaLa rangan! Chandra,one of

the navagrahas prayed to this Lord and got rid of his dosha. Indu is

another name for chandra and he prayed to the Lord that the place

should be named after him. So the name TiruindhaLUr.

 

Moolavar: ParimaLa ranganathan with four arms in vIrashayanam on

Adisesha

 

ThAyAr: ParimaLa ranganAyaki

 

I want to go straight to Tirumangai's dialogue. When Tirumangai

AzhvAr came to this place,the temple doors were closed. AzhvAr got

really mad about His locking Himself before he saw Him and hence he

told PerumAL "vAzhndhE pOm nIrE".

 

AsaivazhuvAdEththum emakkingu izhukkAyththu* adiyOrkkuth

desamaRiya umakke ALAyth thiriginROmukku*

kAsinoLiyil thigazhum vaNNam,kAttIr emperumAn!*

vAsivallIr! indhaLUrIr! vAzhndE pOmnIrE. (PT:4-9-4/1331)

 

Suppose one of our best friend has got our stuff and when we ask,he

doesn't give. Then what do we say? We say "okay,you keep it to

yourself". Similarly Tirumangai wants PerumAL and archAvatAram is the

desired object. When he comes to worship the PerumAL and if He

doesn't show HImself,then obviously AzhvAr would say "okay You admire

Your own beauty". Now Tirumangai blackmails the Lord:

 

Tiumangai:knowing very well that i'm Yur dAsan,You locked Yourself

without giving me Your darshan;this is not just an issue between You

and me;people will only blame You for not showing Yourself to me who

wanted to see the You.

 

Lord:Don't worry about people blaming Me;I will look after that.

 

Tirumangai:AzhwAr desparately wants to see Him,so extends the

conversation. O PerumAL,something You can not bear,has happened now

 

Lord: What is that?

 

Tirumangai:Normally when some thing leaves us,we forgetting that, go

behind some other thing by nature. But i'm not like that. The more

You keep Yourself away from me,the greater the bhakti towards You.

Kaliyan says You know who we are?

 

"maRanthum puRanthozhA mAnthar";" eRRaikkum EzhEzh piRavikkum

unthannOdu uRROmEyAvOm unakkE nAm AtseivOm"; "ichchuvai thavira yAn

pOi indiralOkam ALum,achchuvai peRinum vENdEn" and goes on

 

By nature we only praise You because of our love for You. You can

tolerate people talking anything about You but not Your devotees.

Everybody knows that i'm all the time in divya desams only. And for

such a devotee,if You don't show Yourself,it will only be a disgrace

for me!

 

Lord:He keeps quiet because He wants to extract as many pAsurams as

possible from kaliyan.

 

Tirumangai:O PerumAL,just as nityasUris enjoy Your beauty in vaikuNTa,

You out of Your grace had taken arcAvatAra incarnation for the sake

of people in BhUlOka. TiruindhaLUr is one such place where You live.

How can You be so indifferent to me?

 

Lord:He is stubborn,still not showing Himself,and keeping quiet.

 

Tirumangai:arcAvatAra is ArAvamuda(never ending sweetness)for

devotees who desire to see You. If You don't want to show that

also,then You keep Your beauty to Yourself,i'm leaving this place.

 

Lord:PerumAL is now scared that kaliyan may actually leave the place

and He also would get less pAsurams,so He started conversing again

and after getting 10 pAsurams HE shows Himself to parakAlan.

 

"nummaith thozhudOm nundhampaNiseithirukkum nummadiyOm" (PT 4-9-1)

 

AzhvAr EmperumAnAr Jeeyar TiruvadigaLE saraNam

nappinnai