Thiruvanjikalam Kulasekara Azhwar temple samprokshanam

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Dear All,

 

Pranams!

 

aDiyEn would like to write on some interesting and well known aspect about our

Kulasekara Azhwar, who lived his life full of vairagyam.

 

'GushyatE yasya nagarE rangayAtrA dhinE dhinE

tamahan shirasA vandE rAjAnam kulasEkaram'

 

Azhwar was always keen to visit Srirangam every day. In the process of singing

on Ranganathan, Azhwar calls all the other people as ghost. Here is the lovely

pasuram from his Perumal Thirumozhi,

 

pEya rEyenak kiyaavarum yaanumOr

pEya NnEyevark kum_ithu pEsiyen

aaya NnEaraNG kaaenRa zhaikkinREn

pEya Nnaayozhin^ thEnempi raanukkE

 

He says others are ghost as they are always madly looking for some wordly thing,

and hence running here and there. Azhwar could not stop with that. He calls

himself a Ghost. How could it be possible? It was true for him too, because he

was so deeply immersed in bhakti for Ranaganathan that he wanted to get the

anubhavam of not just His darshan but the sambandham of His Bhagavata Goshti. He

highlighted the second desire in the first 10 pasurams of his Perumal

Thirumozhi.

 

Now, aDiyEn would go into the link for Ranganthan with ThiruVenkadamudayAn.

aDiyEn takes the liberty of shifting the focus to our Parakalan. In one of the

five sets of 10 pasurams for Ranaganathan, Kaliyan says the following in Periya

Thirumozhi 5.5.1,

 

veruvaathaaL vaayveruvi 'vEnkadamE !

vEngadamE !' enkin RaaLaal,

 

Parakala nayaki is madly in love with ThiruVekadamudayAn, who actually decided

to relax in Thiruvarangam (vaanavargal sandhi seyya nindram

arangatharavinanaiyAn by Thiruppanazhwar).

 

All the above are the anubhavam of Azhwar Goshti. If we look at even the vaanara

koottam, they are mad on getting the opportunity for kaimkaryam to

ThiruVenkadamudayAn,

 

This can be taken from the Bhoothathazhwar's second Thruvandhadhi,

 

pOthaRinthu vaanarangaL pooncunaipukku, aangalarntha

pOtharinthu koNdEtthum pOthu,uLLam - pOthu

maNivENG kadavan malaradikkE sella,

aNivENG kadavanpE raaynthu

 

The vaanara koottam is madly jumping between the trees to do pushpa kaimkaryam

to ThiruVenkatamudayAn. If we look in to us, the people in samsara, we also are

a vaanara koottam. Every time we visit ThiruVenkadamudayAn, we jump from one

request to the other, all for our world living. ThiruppAnazhwar refers to

vaanara koottam in ThiruVenkadam,

 

'mandhi pai vada vEnkatada mAmalai...'

 

He was also in vaanara koottam because he was madly jumping between the

avayavams (parts) of Ranganathan's ThirumEni in his anubhavam.

 

From all the above references, we could see that the vaanarakkottam in us (the

souls in samsara) are the lowest in the order of greatness when compared to even

the vaanarams in ThiruVenkadam in the aspect of madness to earn the opportunity

to do Nitya Kaimkaryam to Perumal.

 

The unique desire that our Chera king highlighted was not even the kaimkaryam,

atleast some kind of form on ThiruVenkadam to just enjoy ThiruVenkadamudayAn's

darshan all the time. He was ready to leave behind every thing for this darshan.

Shouldn't we all think about getting this madness in us?

 

'umpa rulakaaN torukudaikkeezh uruppasithan

ampoR kalaiyalkul peRRaalu maathariyEn

sempavaLa vaayaan thiruvENG katamennum

emperumaan ponmalaimE lEthEnu maavEnE'

 

aDiyEn apologises for lenghty email, could not stop the flow.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

ramanan