Mystery of The Mistaken Identity - 7

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KOIL,

Tirumalai and PerumAL kOil

We all

know that Rangan substituted a devotee named Rangan ( who had been

caught in heavy rainfall in Srirangam) and stayed in their house with

the grandmother .

PEAraruLALan

and Tirumalai Appan had also feigned their identity and descended in

front of Sri RamAnuja and Sri AnanthAzvAn respecitvely, incognito.

Let us

see the incidents.

 

 

THE

HUNTER AND THE HUNTED

 

 

Learning

of the plot of yAdhava prakASa to kill him in the name of pilgrimage,

through gOvinda, swAmi iLaiyAzhwAr(rAmAnuja) gave a miss to the group

of yAdhavaprakASa and started moving south. While he reached the

forests of vindhya, it started getting dark and a sense of

helplessness set in. However, a hunter and his wife, claiming to be

travelling to satyavratha kshEthram(kAnchipuram) from sidhdhAsramam,

appeared before iLaiyAzhwAr. Finding company, iLaiyAzhwAr followed

them with their consent. As the dusk set in, they settled down for

the night. The hunter's wife then expressed her need for water, for

which the hunter promised to show her a well in the morning. At this,

iLaiyAzhwAr regretted that he could be of little help to those who

had greatly helped him.When he woke up the next morning, he finished

his regular duties, only to return to find the hunter couple missing.

Moving a little ahead, he found a few people around a well. He asked

them,"What is this place?" They replied immediately,"Oh!

And this question being asked standing in front of puNyakOtivimAna!"

Wondering at his sleeping near Vindhya and waking up in PerumAL koil,

iLaiyAzhwAr recognized the couple as perumAL and pirAtti, leading to

sweet memories of His soulabhyam.

 

 

TRESPASSERS

WILL BE PROSECUTED

Under

the directions of swAmi rAmAnuja, swAmi anantAzhwAn created a

beautiful nandavanam, a garden laden with flowers most pleasing for

the Lord TiruvEnkaDamuDaiyAn called SrIrAmAnuja nandavanam. Finding

such a garden, wonderful in both, that it was very beautiful and that

it was created by a person as great as swAmi anantAzhwAn, the Lord

and His consort alarmElmangai, used to spend the nights of the

pleasant spring, playing and dancing about in the garden, enjoying

the flowers and fruits of swAmi anantAzhwAn's garden. Every morning,

a disturbed garden used to meet the eyes of swAmi anantAzhwAn. To

catch the "trespassers", he appointed watch-guards for the

night. However, to his surprise no trespasser was caught though the

garden was rendered disturbed, with flowers and fruits lying all

over. Assuming that the watch—guards were not committed to their

task, swAmi appointed some of his intimate disciples to aid the

guards. Again, this yielded little result, as the ceremony continued

unabated with no violator caught.

Finally

swAmi decided to take the task himself. He spent 8 days and nights in

the nandavanam, sleepless, as the divya dampatIs continued to elude

his eye.

 

Impressed

by the commitment and devotion of swAmi, the divya dampatIs decided

to reveal themselves to him, also to make the world know of his

greatness. So, on the ninth night, the Lord and His consort took the

form of a royal couple and made themselves visible to swAmi. With

anger, haste and at the same time joy at having discovered his

trespassers, swAmi rushed ahead and caught hold of the royal couple.

However, TiruvEnkaDamuDaiyAn escaped from the hands of the swAmi. On

the other hand, alarmElmangai remained caught at the hands of swAmi

anantAzhwAn, as she stood bound by his devotion.

 

SwAmi

asked alarmElmangai to reveal the identity of her husband but she

declined. She also called swAmi as her father and asked him to

release her as a daughter. SwAmi however, expecting the runaway

prince to return for his consort, tied her to a tree.

The

temple authorities and priests were in for a shock the next day when

they found alarmElmangai missing from the Lord's tirumArbu(divine

chest). The Lord Himself revealed that His consort was bound to a

tree in SrIrAmAnuja nandavanam. Knowing of this, swAmi, full of shock

and ecstasy, with great regard to pirAtti's wish, engaged her in a

divine marriage with the Lord, very fittingly doing the duty of a

'father' – the word used by alarmElmagai herself to refer him.

 

 

 

dAsan,

ranganathan ramaswamy

 

 

 

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