Pushpa, ThyAga, BhOga ...5

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Once there were two friends who were flying over all the places in a pushpak

vimanam. While one person used to tell good things about the places they

visited, the other one used to talk bad things about those places. One fine day,

they were flying over ThiruVenkadam. The person who used to talk about the

places was totally out of bad words after he heard the other one talking good

things about that place. Here is what the good one told about Venkatadri:

 

The Perumal here asked for water from a MahAn

A Great AchArya gave weapons to this Perumal in this yugam

Perumal tried to serve the disciple of that AchArya in assisting in

kaimkaryam here, and eventually by his leela, got hurt by that great mahAn.

Perumal did this to show the greatness of that mahAn and his AchAryan.

 

ThiruVenkadamudayAn asked Periya Thirumalai Nambigal for water. Hence, Periya

Thirumalai Nambigal used to fetch water from Akasa Gangai everyday for Perumal.

A great AchAryA who gave the weapons to Perumal was none but Swami Ramanujar.

The mahAn from whom ThiruVenkadamudayAn got hurt was none but Thirumalai

AnanthAn Pillai. One day, Swami Ramanujar was doing ThiruvAymozhi kAlakshepam.

When talking about the ‘Ozhivil ’ pathikam, EmPerumAnAr felt that someone should

go and do kaimkaryam to this Perumal who was served by even nityasUris. AnanthAn

Pillai volunteered to do that kiamkaryam with AchAryan’s niyamanam.

 

Let us look at a reference in Ramanuja NoortrandhAdhi,

 

‘padi konda keerti rAmAyanam ennum bathi vellam kudi konda koil rAmAnusan..’

 

Here ThriuvarangathamudanAr talks about Ramanujar and his complete immersion in

Ramayanam. Periya Thirumalai Nambigal used to do Ramayana kAlakshEpam to Swami

Ramanujar everyday by climbing down the hill after his theertha kaimkaryam.

 

Though Andal was completely in Krishna Bhakti, she referred to Kannan in her

pasuram as

 

‘pennin varutham ariyAdha perumAn..’

 

When talking about Raman, she referred to Him as ‘manathukkiniyAn’ in

ThiruppAvai.

 

NammAzhwar who was totally involved in Krishna Bhakti has sung as

 

‘unnum sOru parugun neer thinnum vetrilai ellAm kannan….’ In his ThiruvAymozhi

pasuram for ThirukkOlUr Divya Desam. Same Azhwar infact has preached the world

to learn from the life of Raman in his pasuram,

 

‘karpAr rAmapirAnai allathu…’

 

Raman is none but ThiruVenkadamudayAn. Thirumazhisai Azhwar refers to this fact

in Thiruchhandaviruttam,

 

‘adainthapaaRka dalkidanthu kaalanEmi yaikkadinthu, udainthavaali thanpinukku

thavavanthi raamanaay, midainthavEzhma rankaLuma dankaveythu,vEnkadam

adainthamaala paathamE yadainthunaaLu muymminO’

 

Let us look at more anubhavams on Pushpa mandapam in the next posting,

 

aDiyEn,

 

ramanan

 

 

 

 

 

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