Why is there only one PaadhukA that is worn by MalOlan , the AarAdhanA Moorthy

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NAMSTHE ALL,

 

I WOULD LIKE SHARE THIS WONDEFUL INFORMATION WITH YOU ALL DIRECT

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PRANAMAMS

KRISHNAPRIYA

 

Dear Sri BalAji Narasimhan :

 

Your question is an excellent one : Why is there only one PaadhukA

that is worn by MalOlan , the AarAdhanA Moorthy of Ahobila Matam

Jeeyars ? How come the other Paadhukai is missing in His dhivya

MangaLa Vigraham ?

 

 

Here is the legendary answer for your question below :

 

The answer is :

 

It all goes back to a BahudhAnya ( BaudhA + anya ) samvathsaram (

1398 C.E) , PurattAsi Month , Sukla Paksha Panchami dinam , a

Thursday , when a Young man of 20 years age by the name , KidAmbi

SrinivAsan stood on the Upper Ahobilam and was about to start to

perform his MangaLAsAsanam of Nava Narasimhars . He had just taken

his bath in BhavanAsini river , performed his nithya

karmAnushtAnams . As this young scholar walked towards the

Sannidhis , an elderly SanyAsi appeared before Kidambi SrinivAsar .

Our young visitor prostrated before the elderly SanyAsi and shared

with Him the dream that had brought him to Ahobila KshEthram The

SanyAsi smiled and acknowledged that it was He who had invited the

young scholar from Melkote to Ahobilam and asked the young scholar

to accept SanyAsAsramam . The elder

Yathi Saarvabhoumar blessed the younger scholar with His own saffron

robes ( KaashAya Vasthram) and performed PrEksha Manthra UpadEsam to

initiate him in to the fourth aasramam . The elder Yathi

Saarvabhoumar went into AchArya RaamAnuja Sannidhi inside the temple

of Upper Ahobilam and took the ThridhaNDam resting on the hands of

BhAshyakArar and blessed KidAmbi SrinivAsar with it . The elderly

SanyAsi , who was none other than BhagavAn Narasimhan gave the name

of SaThakOpa Jeeyar to the young SanyAsi .

 

Lord NarasimhA commanded the new Jeeyar to perform AarAdhanam for

Lord Narasimhan and travel from village to village with Lord

Narasimhan to bless aasrithAL's with SamAsrayaNams and

BharanyAsams and to protect them . Lord Narasimha appearing as the

elder SanyAsi gave His own sankha chakrams to the newly initiated

SanyAsi ( SrI SaThakOpa Jeeyar) for performing SamAsrayaNams during

his assigned misison .

 

The young SanyAsi had one doubt now . He asked the Lord as to which

of the Nava Narasimhan he should perform AarAdhanam . The elder

SanyAsi replied : " Close your eyes and meditate on the nava

NarasimhAs . One of them will bless You . I am the One who appeared

in Your dream and invited you here .We have blessed You with SanyAsa

Aasramam " and disappeared right in front of the astounded young

sanyAsi .

 

Sri SaThakOpa Jeeyar performed aarAdhanam for all the nava

NarasimhAs following the command of His AchAryan , closed his eyes

thereafter and held his hands in a supplicatory mode and said "

Praseedha" (Bless me) . Immediately , the ArchA Moorthy of Lord

Narasimhan embracing MahA Lakshmi seated on His left side and

holding abhaya Mudhrai on His right hand and Sankha –Chakrams on

His other two (upper) hands jumped in to the cupped hands of SrI

SaThakOpa Jeeyar . Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhan (MalOlan) came in such a

hurry that He had

Time to get into only one of His PaadhukAs. He left the other

Paadhukai in His aasthAnam .

MalOlan was so eager to start on His sanchArams with Sri SaThakOpa

Jeeyar that He did not even notice that He had only one PaadhukA .

He did not go back to recover His other PaadhukA. He has returned to

His aasthAnam many times at Upper Ahobilam to unite with His Moola

BhEram with the successors of Sri Adhi VaNN SathakOpa Jeeyar but did

not want to recover HIs other Paahduka and thereby erase the

incident associated with His historic rush

to bless His hand-picked Jeeyar on that BhaudhAnya-PurattAsi-Sukla

Paksha Panchami dinam some 606 years ago . At that historic

time ,Garudan at His Thiruvadi held on to the Lord ; AdhisEshan

above His head held on . MahA Lakshmi clasped Her lord tightly ,

when He was moving like chandamArutham .One of the Paadhukais

however could not match the speed of the Lord . The Paadhukai that

took the first step to transport the Lord ( on the Right foot) held

on . That on the Left foot got left behind.

 

That is why , we see Only One Paadhukai on the Paadha YugaLam of

MalOlan's archA Moorthy that receives AarAdhanam daily from the

Azhagiya Singars . It is the commemoration of a historic event .

 

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan