PurattAsi SravaNam MangaLAsAsanam at Kaanchi:Part VII

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SrI:

 

SrI MahA Devi SamEtha Sri VaradarAja ParabrahmaNE nama:

 

Dear BhakthAs:After MangaLAsAsanam at ANDAL sannidhi

and the recitation of GOdhA Sthuthi, Swamy Desikan

arrives at VishvaksEnar sannidhi for offering His worship

and thereafter, He arrives at the bottom of Hasthigiri

(Malai adivAram). Haaratthi takes place at VishvaksEnar

sannidhi . Three slOkams saluting VishvaksEnar (SEnai Mudali),

the third in our AchArya paramparai, rings forth:

 

1) VandhE VaikuNta-sEnAnyam dEvam Soothravathisakham

yadhvEthra sikharasphandhE visvamEtadhath vyavasthitham

 

--- YathirAja Sapthathi: SlOkam 3

 

(meaning): VishvaksEnar resides in SrIvaikuntam and commands

all to perform their assigned kaimkaryams to the dhivya

dampathis. He is the commander in chief of the Lord's army.

He has always a cane in His hand as an insignia of His

authority. When he cracks that cane , the fearful world

will not swerve from their assigned status and behaves

accordingly. The consort of VishvaksEnar has the name of

Soothravathi. adiyEn salutes that VishvaksEnar , who

has the power to rule the world at the command of

His Lord , Sriya: pathi.

 

2) asesha-vigna-samanam AnIkEswaram aasrayE

SrImatha: KaruNAmbhOdhou sikshAsrOtha ivOTitham

 

--- Daya sathakam : SlOkam 5

 

(meaning): adiyEn offers my salutation to VishvaksEnar ,

who rose out of the ocean of Lord SrInivAsan's dayA

as the instrument(flowing canal) for correcting the offenders

transgressing His Lord's sAsthrAs. He removes all

obstacles to subha Kaaryams .( we perform VishvaksEna

aarAdhanam for that reason first in Vaidhika kaaryams ).

 

3) SurAsurAdhisvara mouLighAthAth

viseerna jAmBhunatha vEthrasrungam

aalkashya santhOsham alakshyam anyai:

anIkanEthAram aham prapadhyE

 

(meaning ):adiyEn seeks the refuge of SEnai MudhaliyAr

(AneekEswaran) , whose cane touches the heads of DevAs

and asurAs to keep them in their assigned places.

 

After this last MangaLAsAsanam at the foot of the Hasthigiri,

Swamy Desikan rushes towards the waiting Lord VaradarAjan

on top of the Hasthigiri. From here on the mangaLAsAsanams

are elaborate and will take many postings to cover.

 

(To be continued)

 

Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan