Kulasekhar Alwar

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Kulasekhar Alwar

 

Name: Kulashekar Alwar

Place of Birth: Tiruvanjikkalam

Birth Month: Maashi (Magha)

Birth Star: Punarvasu

Amsham: Kausthuba

Works: Perumal Tirumozi

 

Kulashekar Alwar was from kerala and Ksatriya by caste, Born on Friday

suklapaksha dwadasi of Masi month in the Prabhava year under Punarvasu

star. He was valorous as he was virtuous, and conquering the enemy

kingdom, he established Ekachatradhipatya soon after his accession and

earned a name as benevolent dictator. Like the adage " as is the king,

so are the subjects, as are the subjects so is the prakriti " . There

was progressive contentment, breaking through every sphere of human

life. The king's obsession for devotion was mounting higher and higher

with his age. Like the far-famed Janaka of Mithila, he renounced

luxury and was always found immersed in spiritual activities and

strove for the Dharmika chintana of his subjects.

He converted his palace chambers into bhajan mandhir and spent

lavishly on a large number of Vaishnava bhaktas, confining them to

the fourwalls of palace for ready access to discourse, debates and

ritualistic prayer services. His passion for taking permanent

settlement at Srirangam, the Booloka Vaikundam made him oblivious of

his imperial duties. His samsleshana bhava was non pareil. It was

resented by ministers and well wishers. So they hit upon a plan to get

rid of all the vaishnava bhaktas living in the palace. Concealling the

precious jewels adoring the archamurthi in the palace temple; they

attributed the theft to Vaishnava bhaktas. When reported he flew to

the ungovernable anger and proclaimed the charge as baseless and

malicious in loud noise. He proclaimed that he would put his hand into

the pot containing a poisonous cobra and if he were not bitten it

would prove the falsity of the charge. When ordered for the pot the

officials accepted the guilt and the cause for it. Forgiving the well

wishers he left Srirangam with followers continuance of devotional

performance on installing his son as the king. Reaching there he

enlarged the sphere of his activities in worshipping the Lord with

unparalleled devotion and working on immortal devotional books.

Mukundamala and Perumal Tirumoli, his master-pieces are the standing

testimony of his peerless bhakti and matchless spiritual maturity and

austounding scholarship, and they are occupying a high place in the

bhakti literature.