Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- Mudhal - PoigaiAzhwAr anubhavam of ThiruvEnkatam- 4 [39th verse]

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

Let us continue to enjoy Poigai AzhwAr

aruLiccheyalgaL…

His Mudhal ThiruvanthAthi 39th verse is the next one:

 

idanthathu bhoomi edutthathu kunRam,

kadanthathu kancanaimun anca, - kidanthathum

neerOtha maakadalE ninRathuvum vEngadamE,

pErOtha vaNNar perithu. 39

 

The huge ocean like blue hued coloured Lord stands

tall forever in this Divya Desam of Thirumalai-

ThiruvEnkatam. This same Lord- Dhivya mangaLa mUrthi –

is the One who took the avathAram of Huge Boar and

brought back the bhUmi from troubled deep waters after

killing HiraNyaakshan; He is the One who lifted the

huge Govardhana mountain effortlessly in His little

hand during His KrishNaavathAram; He is the One who

went to Kamsan’s palace and killed that dhushtan; He

is the Same one who reclined on AdhisEshan in the

milky ocean;

 

He is the most merciful Lord- Dayaa moorthi- most

compassionate One.

 

During Varaaha avathAram, Bhumi dEvi says :

 

My lord ! I am Your disciple , servant and have great

bhakthi for You . Please accept my appeal and bless me

with instructions on the easy means that would help

all jeevans to reach sathgathi (mOksham ) " .The Lord

then revealed the two slOkams that constitute the

pUrva and Uttara BhAgams of Varaaha Charama Slokam .

 

The two slOkAs that came out of Sri Varaaha Moorthy's

sacred lips embed the essence of Vedic thoughts as

discussed in detail by Swami Desikan in his Rahasya

Grantham , Rahasya SikhAmaNi. This rahasya grantham

has huge references to the significance of

VarahAvathaaram, Charama SlOkam

and has quotations from the Divya Prabhandhams. Swami

Desikan analyzed word by word the VarAha Charama

Slokam with pramANams in this rahasya grantham.

[adiyEn had the bhAgyam of listening to this as

kalakshepam from our Sri MS Hari Swamin when he was in

Singapore few years ago]

 

He is Aadhi Varaahan and as such was asked permission

by Sri VenkatEsA to share the Aadhi Varha KshEthram,

when in Kali Yugam, He took the ArchA form to reside

on the top of Venkatam hills. On the banks of Swami

PushkaraNI, Adhi Varaahan stands even today and we

worship Him first before going inside Sri VenkatEsA's

temple.

 

His svayamvyaktha svarUpam is at Sri MushNam. His

divya desam is at Thiruvidaventhai.

 

BhU devi’s sthuthi and the manthram that She uses to

worship Yaj~na VarAha mUrthy are found in Srimadh

BhAgavatham ( 5.18.39 and 35 respectively). Her prayer

takes on this form:

 

pramathya dhaithyam prathivAraNam mrughE

yO maam rasayaa JagadhAdhisUkara: I

kruthvOgra dhamshtrE niragAdhudanvatha:

kreetan nivEpa: praNathAsmi tham vibhum II

 

I salute that Yaj~na VarAha Moorthy, who is the cause

of this Universe , who took the form of a Boar and

lifted me up from the waters of pralayam and placed me

on His tusk and came out of the waters like a powerful

elephant and killed the offending enemy (HiraNyAkshan)

like destroying an opposing elephant as though it was

an effortless sport. To that Omnipotent Lord are my

salutations.

 

In VarAha Charama slOkam , the Varaha Bhagavaan went

many steps beyond that position stated by Lord KrishNa

in GitA and MadhusUdhana " s statement about dhruva

smrithi in Brahma PurANam . What He said to Bhumi Devi

in response to the request for a Laghu UpAyam was :

 

The Man/woman , who, when his/her mind in its normal

condition,

when his/her body is not shattered , and when the

elementary constituents (DhAthus ) are in perfect

equipoise, meditates on Me , who has the world as My

body and (meditates ) on Me , who is not subject to

births due to KarmA --when that man/woman lies like a

log of wood or a piece of stone in his/her dying

moments, then I think of (him/her ) ,

My bhakthan/Bhakthai and lead him/her to My supreme

abode "

 

The conditions that this parama DayALu lays on the

humans, fully cognizant of their helplessness in their

last moments is so driven by His limitless compassion

to His Bhakthan.

 

Sri VishNu sahasra Naamam salutes this avathAram as

" MahA VarAhO GovindhO " . It is interesting to see the

juxtaposition of Govindha Naamam after MahA VarAha

nAmam.

 

In one approach Govindha is the One who rescued Mother

Earth ( Go=Earth , VindA = rescuer ). It is as MahA

VarAham that BhagavAN rescued His consort and acquired

the name of Govindhan.

 

Swami Desikan concludes his elaborate commentary with

a moving prayer:

 

kaalE prApthE karaNavilayAth kaashta paashaNa kalpAn

Naatha: POthrI nayathu krupayaa naathitha: kam padham

na:

 

When the time of physical death approaches, and when

our limbs have lost their power and when we are in a

state of unconsciousness equal to that of a stone or a

log, then may Lord VarAhan in response to our earlier

saraNAgathi have mercy on us and lead us to His Parama

Padham.

 

We are all aware of Govardhana giri incident and

Lord’s leelA as Govindhan [Krishna] against Devendra

to tame and control his pride and ego. [Thanks to Sri

Satakopan Swamy for his permission to make use of his

article on Lord Varaha]

 

Those avathArams were for one or few incidents and for

an occasion.

 

The avathAram as Srinivasan in ThiruvEnkatam- archA

avathAram is for ages for all of us at all times and

to destroy all our enemies that would come in the

future even. All our paapms get crushed by Him; and

such most merciful Lord who generally reclines at a

distant Milky ocean- inconceivable even for Devas- is

now easily available even for human beings like us –

at the mountain of ThiruvEnkatam.

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Sri PadmavathI samEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE

namah:

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan