Kulasekara AzhwAr PerumAL Thirumozhi- 2.2- AzhwAr longs to associate himself with bhAgawathAs..

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

 

Kulasekara AzhwAr longs to associate himself with the

BhAgawathAs; and declares his explicit love and

reverence for the bhAgawathas.

 

Along with the Bhagavath kainkaryam (service for the

Lord), Sri vaishnam has developed the concept of

Bhaagawatha kainkaryam or service towards His

devotees. In fact Bhaagwatha kainkarya is regarded

even higher than Bhagavath kainkarya by our

sampradayam. The basis for this belief is that the

true devotees of VishNu are dearest to the Lord Sriman

Narayanan and any service rendered to them is the most

pleasing to the Lord.

 

Padmotthara purANa says: of all the types of worship,

the worship to VishNu is great; greater than that is

the service to Bhaagawathas.

 

ArAdhanAnAm sarvESAm vishnO: ArAdhanam param |

thasmAth paratharam prOktham thadheeyaaraadhanam param

||

 

It further adds that even by neglecting the worship of

God if one offers worship to the bhAgawathas, the God

becomes supremely pleased with him and showers His

grace on him.

 

swArAdhanam vihaayaani swabhakthAn archayanthi yE; |

tEbhya: prasanna bhagawaan siddhim ishtam prayacchathi

||

 

Now let us enjoy the verse:

 

thOdulaamalar mangaithOLiNai

thEynthathumsudar vaaLiyaal

needumaamaram seRRathumn^irai

mEyththumivai yEn^inainthu

aadippaadi arangavOenRa

zhaikkumthoNda radippodi

aadanaampeRil kangain^eer_kudain^

thaadumvEtkaiyen NnaavathE 2.2

 

The Lord, who lovingly embraces the most beautiful and

slender shoulders of His divine Consort Sri

Mahalakshmi (who is seated on the lotus flower with

dense red petals); who had sent the arrow through the

seven crooked trees (in His Rama avathAram); who had

reared the cows and cattle in such a sowseelyam; -

Like that these bhAgawathas dance and jump with joy

singing such marvelous deeds of the Lord and the

anantha kalyANa guNas of His and address Him, “Oh

Arangaaaa! Ranganathaa!. If only we are blessed to be

at the shadow of their feet and dance at the dust from

the feet of these Parama Sri Vaishnava Sri

bhAgawathas, then why should we have a desire to

immerse ourselves in the Ganges? Only once this river

Ganga had the blessing of being touched by the Lord

(when He took trivikrama avatharam, one of His legs

rose through Sathyalokam (Chathurmukha Brahma’s) and

Brahma seeing His lotus feet’s thumb, washed the same

with His kamaNdalu waters) and those waters from the

thumb were taken by Rudran on his matted locks as he

too grabbed the opportunity to cleanse himself;- from

where Ganges came to our earth;). While these

bhAgawathas have the association with the Lord’s Lotus

feet eternally. Hence naturally they are grander than

the river Ganges (Bhaageerathi).

 

In MahA Bharatham, Lord KrishNA answers DuryodhanA's

query on why He did not eat at his palace and instead

ate at VidhurA's house. The Lord explained:

 

sudhdam BhaagavathAsyaannam suddham Bhageerathi jalam

I

suddham VishNupadha dhyAnam suddham EKAADASI VRATHAM

II

 

The food partaken at a Bhagawatha's house is superior

and pure. At he same level of holiness are the intake

of GangA theertham, VishNu DhyAnam and the observance

of EkAdasi vratham.

 

Sri RanganayikA samEtha Sri Ranganatha ParabrahmaNE

Namah

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

dAsan