RE:urchava moorthies

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At 09:14 PM 1/12/02 -0800, you wrote:

 

>I have a doubt. Why is the utsavar a different posture from the moolavar

>almost always ?

>

> Sriram Ranganathan <srirangan wrote:

>

>Dear Sri Sreekanth//bhAgavatAs,

>

>In most of the Sri Vaishnava temples you will find two types of idols.

 

Dear Sri Venaktaramani:

 

As Sriram Ranganathan mentioned the Uthsava Moorthys

are for bringing the Lord out on to the streets of

His Raaja Veedhis and neighboring villages on special

occasions , so that ALL can have the blessings of

the Lord as He comes to us with pomp and splendour.

The sick, the lazy ,the elderly and ALL who can not

or do not get to the temple to worship Him there can NOW

have the blessings of His darsanam with His Devi(s)

right in front of their homes.The BhagavathAs have also

their darsanam that fills their hearts with joy. Moolavr

as Dhruva BhEram stays inside the Garbha Graham.

 

Uthsava Moorthy in most cases are in the standing posture .

One of the exceptions is Sri Govinda Raajan at

Thillai Thirucchitthirakkoodam.

 

MOOLAVARS are either in standing posture (Thirumalai-Thiruppathi,

Oppiliappan Koil , Kaanchipuram );

 

or in Sleeping/reclining posture ( as at Srirangam ,

Thirukkudanthai , Thiruvananathapuram and 24 other

dhivya desams among the 108 uhanthu aruLina NilankaLs

sung by the 12 AzhwArs);

 

or in standing posture in 60 dhivya Desams

( ThiruvallikkENi and 59 other KshEthrams);

 

or in the seated posture as at ThiruarimEya ViNNagaram ,

Thiru Aali , (near SeerkhAzhi),Thirukkadigai ( ShOlingar),

Thirukkoodal ( Koodalazhagar at Madhurai), AhObilam ,

ThiruppAdakam ( Kaanchi KshEthrram ),Thirupputtkuzhi

VijayarAghavan , ThiruppErai (PaanDya Nadu) ,

ThiruvaNNparichAram ( MalayALa Naadu),ThiruvaraguNamangai,

Thiruvaikuntha ViNNagram and Thirupparama Padham ( seated

facing South).

 

There are dhivya dEsams , where the Moolavar is in more

than one posture (e.g): ThirukkOshtioor, ThiruppullANi ,

SrivilliputthUr.

 

At Srirangam , there is a special distinction between

Moolavar and Uthsavar. Moolavar has been recognized as

KrishNan ( DaamOdhara KaNNan) and Uthsavar as Lord

Raamachandran .

 

The directions that the Moolavar faces inside

His garbhagraham are also different at different

Dhivya dEsams. At 79 dhivya Desams , The Moolavar

and Uthsavar Face East . At 19 dhivya dEsams,

He faces west ( Kaanchipuram et al), At 7 dhivya desams ,

He faces South ( Srirangam , SiRupuliuoor ,Parama Padham

(Sri Vaikuntam ), ThiruppARkkadal et al.He faces north at

three dhivya dEsams ( AyOddhi, URayoor and SaaLagramam).

 

There are reasons for the directions they face based on

ithihAsams and Sthala PurANam .

 

Independent of all these details , Dhivya Dampathis

enter into ArchA forms ( consecrated vigrahams

or appear as svyam vyaktha vigrahms) with Suddha

Satthva ThirumEni to bless us and unite us with

the AchAryans for performing SaraNAgathy to attain Him.

 

BhOgi PaNDigai Day, Vishu Samvathsaram,

V.Sadagopan