Kulasekara AzhwAr PerumAL Thirumozhi- 2.1- the fruit of having my eyes is to see the glorious congregation of BhAgawathas of Srirangam

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

 

Kulasekara PerumAL sang such wonderful verses on Lord

Sri Ranganathan in the last decad. His intense longing

for seeing, and enjoying the Lord of Srirangam was

explicit in the verses. He not only stops with

Bhagavad Vishayam. Now He longs to associate himself

with the BhAgawathAs; and declares his explicit love

and reverence for the bhAgawathas.

 

thEttarumthiRal thEninaiththen

Nnaranganaitthiru maadhuvaazh

vaattamilvana maalaimaarvanai

vaazhththimaalkoLsin^ thaiyaraay

aattamEvi yalanthazhaiththayar

veythummeyyadi yaar_kaLtham

eettamkaNdidak koodumElathu

kaaNumkaNpaya NnaavathE 2.1

 

The sweetest and dearest Lord, who is to be attained

only with the effort from chEthanan; The One who

grants all that is good to His devotees who enjoy His

dhivya mangaLa vigraham and His kalyANa guNams; who is

Parama bhOgyam like the tasty honey; who always

resides in Srirangam (having nithya vaasam); who has

such a strong divine chest with the most beautiful

Vanamaali and where His divine consort resides

eternally; - Such most wonderful Lord Sri Ranganathan

is sung and praised with all mangalaasaasanams by the

ardent devotees of the Lord of Srirangam. Thse

bhAgwathas love Him so deeply and dance singing His

glories. They get exhausted and their mouths keep

uttering His divine names continuously forgetting

their own selves completely. Such truthful devotees,

bhAgawathas – if only I am blessed to see this

glorious congregations of these bhAgawathas, then that

is the fruit for having these eyes, I would say.

 

The Lord declares that His devotees are the most

dearest to Him; They are His life breath;

 

teshaam jnaani nitya-yukta eka-bhaktir visisyate

priyo hi jnanino 'tyartham aham sa ca mama priyah

[bh. Gita 7.17]

 

Of these, the one who is in full knowledge and who is

always engaged in pure devotional service is the best.

For I am very dear to him, and he is dear to Me.

 

Nammaazhwaar, Thirumangai AzhwAr, ThoNdaradippodi

AzhwAr and other AzhwArs / Acharyas have sung in

praise of bhAgwathas and have categorically expressed

and conveyed that serving bhAgwathas is more pleasing

to the Lord than serving Him. In fact the kaashtai

(ultimate) of the kainkaryam is BhAgawatha kaimkaryam.

Since Acharya is the most dearest to Bhagawaan,

serving one’s acharyan is also termed BhAgawatha

kaimkaryam.

 

Let us enjoy these verses now.. in this decad

Sri RanganayikA samEtha Sri Ranganatha ParabrahmaNE

Namah

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

dAsan