Divine chat with pErarulAlan! (Part-1)

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

 

 

(This is an imaginary chat adiyen had with kAnchi devaperumal. Hope all of you

will enjoy this divine anubhavam)

 

 

 

Adiyen: Oh! dEvarajA! pErarulAlA! Sri:pathi! Sriman NarayanA! BhakthavatsalA!

perundEvi nAyakA! Ayar varum amargaladhipathiyE! emayOr thalaivA! mainindru

kEttarulAi adiyen seiyyum vinnappamE!

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: Oh! My dear bhaktha. Tell me what you want.

 

 

 

Adiyen: My god! Did I hear something? Did you talk to me Oh lord! It is

adiyen's divine bhakyam Oh! NO it is devarir's krupai, Nirheduka krupai.

EmperumAnE! adiyen neesanEn niraivondrumilEn en kan pAsam vaiththAi! archaiyai

kulaiththu pEsavum seidhAyO?

 

[Oh! lord I am a lowest soul who doesn't have anything to my credit. Still you

have a special love towards me and now due to your ultimate grace you are

talking with me?]

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: The sastras say, " ajAya mAnO bhahuthA vijAyathE " The one who has no

birth is born with various forms. It is my agadithagatanAsAmarthyam. I am not

born like you due to karma but I take birth to uplift the suffering souls in

this world. So nothing is impossible to me. I have five forms, para, vyuha,

vibhava, antharyAmi and archai. Out of these the archa form is very dear to my

bhakthas and me. In all my avataras I am poornan as per the sastras. I come

down with all my kalyana gunas. But out of all the avataras the archAvatara is

considered to be the most complete, as only there I am able to exhibit all my

kalyana gunas. Where is the need for me to show the krupai in a place like

paramapadham where are the mukthAtmas have already reached the ultimate goal and

they are enjoying the same constantly? (nithya vibhoothiyilE bhagavat gunangal

pagal vilakku pattirukkum " ). So love and care is necessary for only the

jeevatmas suffering here and hence I stay in different archa forms in different

divya desams happily taking care of my beloved bhakthas.

 

 

 

Adiyen: Yes My lord! You are poornan Akila hEya prathyaneekan and hence we enjoy

calling you as Nambi.

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: Now is there anything, which I cannot do? I prescribe all rules

and I prefer to follow them. But when a situation arises when I have to break

them I have all the right to do the same.

 

 

 

Adiyen: Sure Oh lord! We have no right to question your acts ( " pattaththukkuriya

Anaiyum arasum seivana ArAyAdhu " )

 

PErarulAlan: So today I choose to talk to you.

 

 

 

Adiyen: Adiyen's bhakyam emperumAnE! As ranganatha you talked to thiruvilakku

pichchan! As thiruvEnkatamudaiyan you talked to thondaimAn chakravarthi! As

dEvAdhirAjan you talked with thirukachchi Nambigal and today you have decided to

add nAyiyEn to that great bhagavata list!

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: The whole world is my property. Will you consider one part of your

body to be inferior and the other to be superior? Similarly I view everyone with

a single eye only. ( " vibheeshanO vA sugreeva yathi vA rAvana svayam " )

 

 

 

Adiyen: True emperumAnE! Though you have a samadrishti, to maintain the samatvam

towards all you require a reason to shower your grace on someone. For sugreeva

it was hanuman's AsheervAdham, For vibheeshanA it was piratti's katAksham. And

now adiyen has found the reason for you showering your special grace suddenly on

me today!

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: Really! what did you find?

 

 

 

Adiyen: It is due to the limitless happiness you are experiencing that had made

you talk to this worthless jeevatma.

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: What did you do to make me so happy?

 

 

 

Adiyen: na dharmanishtOsmi, na cha atma yOgi, na bhakthimAn dvath

charanAravindyE akinchana: ananyagathi: sharaNyA [neither do I have karma yoga,

jnana yoga or bhakthi yoga Adiyen is helpless and considers you as my soul

saviour Oh! lord] Adiyen doesn't even know to say, " dvath pAdhamoolam sharaNam

prapaththyE " nor do I have the intelligence to cheat you and others posing

myself to be a great bhaktha " thondukkE kOlam poondu "

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: Then what did you do?

 

 

 

Adiyen: Not thinking about the result but due to some poorvasukrudham, your

krupai and sankalpam adiyen stepped into the temple of your dear bhaktha,

bhAgavata sreshta Sri Thirukachchi Nambigal in poovirundhavalli.

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: What made you go there?

 

 

 

Adiyen: What else other than your sankalpam. We heard that the samprOkshanam

has been done recently and the temple glitters with new divine touch.

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: Then come on tell me about your experience there!

 

 

 

Adiyen: Adiyen and Adiyen's husband parked our vehicle and glanced at the

entrance. The gopuram gleamed with divine beauty. The sound of divine

instruments filled the air. We entered the temple with great enthusiasm with

flower garlands (Adiyen made them for the acharya and the emperuman) in our

hand. Though we have already visited the temple earlier this time it was a

special occasion being the 5th day yearly thirunakshatra utsavam of the

acharya's acharya, Sri Thirukachchi Nambigal, the first after the samprOkshanam.

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: hmm! Then

 

 

 

Adiyen: Oh lord! You are listening as if you don't know anything. You are not

only residing in kAnchi but you are the prime deity in this temple also. The

archaka over there told us that Nambigal used to come to kanchi daily to do

fanning (ThiruAlavatta) kainkaryam to you and in his final days due to lack of

strength in his body nambigal was unable to come to your service. Nambigal felt

very bad about it and hence to wipe of his sorrow you came running to

poovirundhavalli amidst the sun's rays to accept nambi's kainkaryam and give him

divya darshanam and hence even today you are seen with a soorya mandalam around

your divine head in that temple.

 

What an amazing smile you have on your thirumugam? Your bhakthavAtsalyam is

really beyond words.

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: It is true that I am sarva vyApi, sarva sankalpam and hence knows

anything and everything but I always cherish listening to my bhaktha's sweet

words ( " elaiya pun kavidhaiyElum empirArkku eniyavArE " ) and I surrender to the

deep love and prEmai of my beloved bhakthas.

 

 

 

Adiyen: Oh! Lord one bhagavata over there (theerthakArar thirukachchi Nambigal

sannadhi) blessed us with the divine charithram of nambigal and enlightened us

about the great acharya who you choose to talk freely daily.

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: Let me hear what he told you about our dear Nambi.

 

 

 

Adiyen: It is adiyen's bhakyam to repeat a few words about the acharya with this

mouth used to talk only rubbish. Nambigal was born in poovirundhavalli (today's

poonamalee) in the star of mAsi mirugasheerusham [it falls on 29th feb this year

2004]. Nambigal was not born in a brahmin family but oh! Lord it is not any

disqualification to receive your grace and develop special bhakthi towards you.

 

 

 

PErarulAlan: Sure those bhagavatas do not have the ahankaram that they are born

in a higher caste and they need not worry about Aacharam or anushtanam they care

only for a pure heart filled bhakthi towards me. They respect the sastras and

the brahmins well versed in the vedas as their masters. And hence they are near

to me. Do you know about the leela I played with dear nAmbi?

 

 

 

Adiyen: Oh yes the bhagavata told us that too.

 

 

 

[The chat will continue in the next posting]

 

 

 

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

 

 

Adiyen ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan