antharyAmi roopam

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Sri Lakshmi nrisimha parabrahmaNE nama:

Sri Lakshmi nrisimha divya paduka sevaka

srivan satakopa sri narayana yatindra mahadesikaya nama:

 

What follows is from Srimad Rahasya thraiyasara vivaraNam

by Srimad Azhagiya Singar, Sri Ahobila Muth publication, 1998.

pp. 271 - 281 (Tatvatraiya Chintana AdhikAram).

 

 

In pp. 280 and 281, Srimad Azhagiya Singar explains,

 

" shvedAshvadaropanishad states,

 

'angushtamAtra: purushontarAtmA sadA janAnAm

hridaye sannivista:'

 

(The Lord who is all pervading **always** (sadA) dwells

in the heart of humans (janAnAm) taking a dhivya mangala

vighraha form in the size of a thumb.)

 

Thus, we refute the position that the Lord in HArtha

form exists only at the time of Upasanam.

 

In page 271 - 273 Srimad Azhagiya Singar explains the actual

form of Antharyami roopam of Emperuman.

 

" nIlato yadamadhyasthA vidyullekheva bhAsvarA |

nIvArashUkavat tanvI bItAbhA SyAt tanUpamA |

taSyA shikhAyA madye paramAtmA vyavaSthita: "

 

At the center of the heart there is a fire called

" jAdarAgni " . In the middle of it there is a ray (jwalai).

Its end is very small in the shape of " nIvAram "

a grain that grows in the wild, its shape is like

wheat. In the middle of this ray-end (agni sikhai)

Emperuman dwells with a dark hued thirumEni.

The analogy here is like a cloud surrounded by

lightening. This is non-existent, i.e. lightening

will always be inside the cloud, not the other way

around. But the Upandihad uses this analogy that

does not exist, i.e. abhUdOpamai. Emperuman in

dark hues thirumeni is in the middle of a ray of

fire; this is like a dark cloud that is surrounded

by lightening on all four sides.

 

There some more interpretations for this passage. One

of the best among these is the one shown by Sri Bhashyakarar.

In the above passage, vahnisikhA, i.e. agni's sikhai,

refers to Mahalakshmi. She shines with " nIlatoyada madhya "

the dark-cloud-like Emperuman in the middle. That is,

the lightening (Mahalakshmi) originates only in the middle

of the cloud (Emperuman), but the lightening ends up

engulfing the cloud with its brilliance. Thus the cloud

is in the middle of the lightening.

 

In page 278, Srimad Azhagiya Singar explains the form of

Emperuman's Antharyami roopam:

 

" The forms of ArcA moorties are easily determined by

the explicit statements that say that the Archa

moorty will resemble any one of the Para, Vyuha,

Vibhava avathaaras. However, there is no such

clear statement with respect to Hartha-roopam.

Relying upon the texts of poorvacaryas it is

proper to conclude that the Harta-roopam will

resemble the Para form which is the origin for

all avatharas. Thus, as Paravasudevan dwells

in Sri Vaikundam, Emperuman exists in the

heart of everyone, in antharyami-avatharam, in

the seated position upon ThiruvanandAzhvaan,

with the left divine feet hanging down, right

divine feet folded, right divine hand upon right

knee, left divine hand upon adishesha, two hands

in the back with Shanku and Cakram respectively,

and in the size of our thumb. "

 

Srimad azhagiya singar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

-- adiyEn ramanuja dasan