Periya Thirumozhi 9.8- enthai pemmanaar- imaiyavar thalaivar

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Sri:

Dearest sisters and Brothers,

AzhwAr again addresses his mind (nenjam) and asks his mind to come to

ThirumaalirunchOlai to pay obeisance to Sarva rakshakan; One who grants all

that we desire and seek- who is Sowlabhyan.

 

1. Oh my (obedient) mind! At the outset, let me tell this. Do not get swayed

with the temptation of uniting with those fragrant haired young women and

leave it. Let us go and pay obeisance to our Swami- the One who has the

Seven Oceans; Seven mountains and the whole Universe as His sarIram; the

Lord of ThirumaalirunchOlai, where the water falls from the mountains carry

along with them the sandal trees, and peacock feathers and are accumulated

herein.

 

2. Oh foolish mind! (mada nenjE!) The Lord of ThirumalirunchOlai is the

SarvEshwaran, is the One who has the shining, most resplendent crown on His

head; One who reclines on ThiruvananthAzhwAn and has His Yoga nithrA; who is

praised by Nithya sooris and all other people across this whole Universe,

paying their obeisance to Him with flowers and waters, calling all others,

“Let us pray to Him at all times and get saved”. This Divya Desam of

Thirumaliruncholai is where bees sit on most fragrant honey dripping

“kuRinchi” flowers that bloom in between the bamboo trees. Come; Let us pay

our obeisance to Him here.

 

3. Oh mada nenjE! (Foolish mind!) In order to do great upakaram to us to get

rid of these samsaaric afflictions, He had created this earth (so that we

can do our karmanushtAnams, in accordance with saasthras, realize Him and

attain Him) due to His parama krupai, so that today we can stand and praise

Him. Also, He is One who had appeared as Vaamanan and took huge Trivikrama

avtaar and let the whole Earth obtain the Divine touch from His Lotus Feet.

That Emperumaan, who is our Swami is here at ThirumaalirunchOlai, where

gypsies use the “vEngai” trees for measuring the passage of time (as these

trees bloom flowers once in a year), and the small shining “maNi” that they

aim from their hands shed and spread light everywhere. Come; Let us pay our

obeisance to Him here.

 

4. mada nenjE! Emperumaan, who had sucked the cunning Poothanai’s breastmilk

and killed her; who killed the completely non-feminine Thaatakai with fiery

arrows; resides here at ThirumalirunchOlai, where tall ‘vEngai trees and

“kOngu trees, between which kuRinchi flowers bloom with honey flooding

everywhere, Come let us pay our obeisance to Him here.

 

5. mada nenjE! I will never bow down – said rAvaNana and fought with the

Lord. He had all his ten strong heads worn with gem-bedecked crowns, thrown

onto the ground by Emperumaan. RAvaNan’s remaining part of the body appeared

to have been in trance, danced in the battlefield, by Emperumaan. This

Emperumaan resides in ThirumaalirunchOlai, where the tall bamboo tree

braches move with the wind and pierce the honeycomb and floods the whole

area with honey. Come; Let us pay our obeisance to Him here.

 

6. mada nenjamE! (Foolish mind!) AdhisEshan -the one who exhales poison on

enemies (who do not have love and bhakti for the Lord) is the bed of our

Swami- Emperumaan, who reclines on the Milky Ocean; who threw the

dhEnukaasuran (the calf) at the “viLAmpazha” tree to kill him; who danced

having pot in His Hand with women; - Such most wonderful Emperumaan is here

at ThirumalirunchOlai, where the clouds immerse themselves in the dark

ocean, drink the waters, and roar with huge thunders in the sky, appearing

as if they are dark huge elephants standing on the mountains, the sight of

which scares the lions that roar with fear. (What a poetic imagination by

ThirumangaiAzhwAr!) Come; Let us pay our obeisance to Him here.

 

7. Emperumaan- who threw the asuran (in whose form dhEnukAsuran appeared) at

the tree thereby killing him, - who is of the divine Beautiful form of dark,

vast ocean like form, is here permanenetly residing at ThirumalirunchOlai,

where tall gardens touch the sky, and honey dripping from these trees aare

drunk by beautiful deer. Come; Let us pay our obeisance to Him here.

 

8. mada nenjE! The waves appear to touch even the clouds- in this milky

ocean, on top of which Emperumaan reclines on ThiruvananthAzhwAn and has His

Yoga nithrA; One who removed the cruel anger of the horse;- the One who

appears always as the waters to quench anyone’s thirst, when one sees Him;

One who is of the dark cloud form. He is here at ThirumalirunchOlai, where

the (madha jalam) waters fall trickling down the heads of huge male angry

elephants and bees drink those waters. Come; Let us pay our obeisance to Him

here.

 

9. Foolish mind! Unintelligent Jains and Buddhists, et al (pundhi il

samaNar, buddhar enRu ivargaL- otthana pEsavum uganthittu”) speak their own

statements (against Vedic truths, misinterpreting them), and Emperumaan

ignoring all these religions, (relish being with His devotees who hold onto

His Feet, with an unflinching faith), who is Chief and Nathan for me and all

my ancestors too, who is the Chief of Nithyasooris, who resides here at

ThirumalirunchOlai permanently, where tribal women folks staying under the

shadow of those sandal trees, come to this temple and utter few manthras

praising this Lord, to be blessed with wedlock. Come; Let us pay our

obeisance to Him here.

 

10. Kaliyan, one who rules Thiruvaali naadu; who has large sharp spear in

his hand; who has the nature of bowing down to the devotees and servants of

maNi vaNNan -Emperuman of ThirumalirunchOlai, surrounded by fertile gardens,

composed this ten and those who recite this ten written in chaste Tamil will

be blessed to rule this earth surrounded by oceans.

 

Thirumangai AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Narayana narayana

adiyEn Narayana dAsan Madhavakkannan

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