Guest guest Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 sembiyan kOch chOzhan Debate on dhEvathAnthram Being faithful and subservient to the Lord, can one also go and worship other deities - is a oft hear question? What is wrong is often hear answer. During the tamil kingdom days there was a king named sempiyan kOch chOzhan who was an ardent devotee of shivaperumAn. He built lot of temples for that deity in chOzha dhEsam-s. However, like mArkaNdEya maharishi, he turned a new leaf and never looked back. He surrendered at the feet of the Lord of thirunaRAiyUr and got His blessings. He got a divine knife and vanquished several other kings. This is narrated by Sri peiryAvAchAn piLLai in the introduction to the sixrth thirumozhi of the sixth ten of periya thirumozhi. The fact that he surrendered is mentioned right from the first pAsuram 'sembiyan kO sen-kANAn sEArndha kOil'' 6-6-1; The blessing of the Lord and granting of the divine knife -dheiva vAL is mentioned in the next pAsuram 'dheiva vAL valam koNDa chOzhan sEArndha thirunaRaiyUr' 6-6-3; The battles in veNNi having fought with this blessings mentioned in the same pAsuram 'kavvai mA-kaLiRundhi veNNiyEARa -kazhal mannar maNi mudi mEal kAGam yEARA' 6-6-3; the terms 'kazhal mannar maNi mudi mEal kAgam yEARa' indicates the despatch of the enemy kings to yama-lOgam. the next pAsuram again narrates this battlefield 'venkaN mA kaLiRundhi veNNiyEARa' 6-6-4; The basic idea in describing the dedication and victories of the chOzha king are 1. The Lord blesses even those who want other desires. 2. The souls do not get all they want from other deities. 3. The dhEvathAnthra bhajanam is of the past and not present. 4. The Lord does not just wait for those souls who go with Him with full dedication but also for those who go to other places and rescue them at the opportune moment. In fact, thirumangai AzhwAr addresses this to his mind and narrates this episode of chOzha mannan to emphasise the fact of the Lord's sEla guNam. Sri periyavAchAn piLLai describes this in the avathArikai. thAn dhurmaniyumAi-snEhamum inRikkEa irukkiRa rAjA thAn, srE mArkaNdEya bhagavAnaip pOlEa, dhEvathAnthra bhajanam paNNi, angu thannudaiya abimadham thalai kattik koLLap peRamaiyAlEa ingEa vandhu pagmabimanAi thiruvadigaLilEa vizhundhAsrayithu jEvan mushmigangaLiraNdaiyum peRRup pOnAn. Though not dedicated totally to the Lord, having not got what he had wanted, chOzha king surrendered at the feet of thirunaRaiyUr Lord and received the divine blessings and got his desires both here in this world and thereafter after his lifeterm. dAsan vanamamalai padmanabhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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