Sri Oppiliappan Paasurams by Thirumangai : Part IV ( Paasurams 6.1. 3 to 6.1.5 )

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SrI:

Dear BhakthAs of OppilA Appan :

 

In the third Paasuram , Thirumangai Mannan salutes ThiruviNNagarappan

as the empowering force behind the Thripura SamhAra Moorthy (Rudran) :

 

Kuzhal niRavaNNa ! ninn kooRu koNDa , tazhal niRa vaNNan naNNAr nakaram

vizha nani malai silai vaLaivu seythangu azhal niRa ampathu aanavanE

AaNDay unnai kANpathOr aruL yenakku aruLithiyEl

vENDEn manai Vaazhkkayai ViNNagar mEyavanE ---- Periya Thirumozhi 6.1.3

 

Oh Lord of black hue comparable to that of Your beautiful Bluish-Black tresses !

At one time , Lord Rudran with the reddish hue of Agni , who has been blessed to be

a part of Your sacred body (valatthinan) was approached by the DevAs as a fit person to

destroy the asurAs , who had taken the form of three cities and were menacing

the DevAs and their world . Rudran asked the DevAs to transfer him their sakthis

to enable him to destroy the three asurAs . DevAs complied and transferred

their collective powers to Rudran to destroy their enemies . Rudran came to be known

thereafter as MahA DEvan and succeded in bending the gigantic Meru mountain

as his bow for the fight with the asurAs . Rudran made the Agni , his own hue

into the arrow for that bow . He could not do anymore in the discharge of

that arrow. Oh ThiruviNNagarappA ! You entered into that arrow and empowered

it to destroy the three cities (asurAs) so that MahA Devan can claim the fame as

"Thripura SamhAra Moorthy " . You are the most generous One , when it comes to

granting the boons to those who pray to You for help .

 

Oh Lord of ThiruviNNagaram of such Vaibhavam ! My Lord and Sarva Swami !

If You grant me the rare boon of Your darsana SoubhAgyam to this suffering sinner ,

adiyEn will instantly cast aside this life in prakruthi MaNDalam and reject all

these perishable sukhams in favor of the nithyAnandham of kaimkaryam to You .

 

Periya Thirumozhi : Pasuram 6.1.4

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nilavodu veyil nilaviru sudarum , ulahamum uyirhaLumuNDu orukaal

kalai taru kuzhavinuruvinayAi , alai kadal Aalilai vaLarnthavanE

AaNDAy unnaik-kaaNpathOr aruLenakku aruLithiyEl

vENDEn manai vAzhkkayai ViNNahar mEyavanE -----Periya Thirumozhi : 6.1.4

 

Oh My Lord ! You rested on the top of a small leaf of a pupil tree amidst the swift moving waters of deluge (avAnthara PraLayam ) billowing with the mighty waves . You gave Sage MarkaNDEyar ,

Your future Father-in-Law , Your darsana SoubhAgyam as VaDapathra Saayee . At that time ,

You had the Moon , the Sun and the worlds revealed by them and the aathmAs that enjoy

those worlds in a small portion of Your stomach and protected them all against the dangers of

the swirling waters of PraLayam . As VaDapathra Saayee, our Lord is " ThrijagathAm

UdharAsrayaNan " ( One who retains all the worlds in His stomach for their protection ).

Thirumangai relates to this Vadapathra Saayee as Sarva-Rakshakan and the only medicine

for the disease known a s SamsAric sufferings ( bhava baya yEka bhEshajam ) .

LeelA Sukhar captures the dhivya Soundharyam of the Aaalilai thuyil vaLarum

Infant this way in Sri KrishNa KarNAmrutham (2.57) :

 

karAravindhEna padhAravindham mukhAravindhE vinivEsayantham

vaDasya pathrasya puDE sayAnam Baalam Mukundham manasA smarAmi

 

Thirumangai confesses that the soubhAgyam of the darsanam of that Lord

of ThiruviNNagaram in person (SaakshAthkAram ) , it will cause him to reject

this world instantly in favor of nithya Kaimkaryam to that adorable Lord .

 

Periya Thirumozhi : 6.1.5

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Paarezhu kadalezhu malai yezhumAi , seerkezhum ivvulahEzhum yellAm

Aarkezhu vayiRRinl adakki ninRangu , Ohrezutthu ohr uru aanavanE

AaNDAi ! unnaik-kANpathOr aruL yenakku aruLithiyEl

vENDEn manai vAzhkkayai ViNNagar mEyavanE !

 

In the earlier Paasuram , Thirumangai referred to avaanthara PraLayam ,

when the Lord keeps the Sun , the Moon , the worlds and the Jeevans inside a small

portion of His stomach to protect them . In this paasuram , Thirumangai relates to

the happenings in MahA PraLayam . AvAnthara PraLayam happens at the end of

the day of Brahma Devan . MahA PraLayam refers to the end of the rule of Brahma

dEvan , which consists of many , many days and nights and years of Brahma devan .

No Ocean or the Pupil leaf is seen during the MahA PraLayam . Moola Prakruthi

is encompassed inside Tamas . There is nothing else except the Lord and His

sankalpa Jn~Anam that serves as the stomach in the avAnthara PraLayam time.

The absence of Moola Prakruthi at that time of MahA PraLayam is saluted by

the VedAs as " Tasya Prakruthi-leenasya Ya: Para: Sa MahEswara: " . The Paasuram

containing these MahA Tathtvams are enshrined in Thirumangai's Fifth Paasuram .

Here " VayiRRiniladakki " does not mean retaining them for safety in the Lord's

stomach (VayiRu) but every thing being contained inside the Sanklapa Jn~Anam of

the Lord , the Aaadhi Purushan . All letters are gone now including akaram but

the meaning of that akaram ( ThiruviNNagarappan ) remains as the sole existing

entity . When Thirumangai refers to " Ohr uru aanavanE " in this Paasuram ,

he means that all avathAra roopams have disappeared to merge in the Aaadhi

NaaTan , ThiruviNNagarappan .

 

Thirumangai remembers that Lord in the state of MahA PraLayam

and reminds Him that the darsana soubhAgyam of that Aadhi NaaTan

at ThiruviNNagar in His archA form will kindle his VairAgyam to cast

aside this world and its temptations and transform him into a nithya kinkaran

for the AaakAsa Nagareesan/ThiruviNNagarappan ( VyOmapureesan ).

 

ThiruviNNagar Paasurams of Thirumangai: Periya Thirumozhi 6.1.6

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kaar kezhu kadalkaLum malaihaLumAi , yEr kezhum ulahamumAhi

mudalArhaLum aRivu aru nilayinai aayi , seer kezhu Naan MaRai aanavanE

ANDAi unnaik-kaNpathOr aruL yenakku aruLithiyEl

VENDEn manaivaazhkkayai ViNNahar mEyavanE

 

Oh Jagath KakraNA ! You became the dark oceans and Mountains and

the beautiful universe with its multitudinous sentients and insentients ; You reached

a stage during Your srushti vyApAram that was beyond the ken of even superior

beings like Brahma dEvan and Indhran et al . Oh Lord , who is celebrated through

the recitation of the four sacred VedAs ! If only adiyEn has the bhAgyam of

Your darsanam at archA form at Your dhivya dEsam of ThiruviNNagaram ,

I will reject utterly the anithya sukhams of this world and seek instantly

the nithya sukham of being Your servant at Your Supreme abode to

enjoy niravadhya Kaimkaryam to You , my Supreme Master .

 

In the four Vedams , Kaamya KarmAs are referred to . Those who recite them

would get the dEva padhavi , Svarga Vaasam and other perishable Iswaryam .

Oh Lord ! adiyEn does not seek them . adiyEn is praying only for Your

SaakshAthkAraam at ThiruviNNagar .

 

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan