Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- BhoothatthAzhwAr anubhavam of ThiruvEnkatam- 10- [72nd verse]

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

Let us continue to enjoy BhoothatthAzhwAr’s- wonderful

anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. Next and today’s verse on

ThiruvEnkatam is 75th verse.

 

pOthaRinthu vaanarangaL pooncunaipukku, aangalarntha

pOtharinthu koNdEtthum pOthu,uLLam - pOthu

maNivENG kadavan malaradikkE sella,

aNivENG kadavanpE raaynthu.

72

 

Knowing that it is already wee hours; it is going to

dawn; the monkeys living in the mountain of

ThiruvEnkatam, get up from their sleep in the early

hours with great enthusiasm; go straight to the

PushkariNi (sacred pond) and immerse their heads into

it to take head bath (in that chill mornings); then

pluck and collect the just bloomed fresh flowers to

offer; they proceed straight to ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan

sannidhi (sanctum sanctorum) to offer their flowers;

pay their obeisance; on the way, they praise the Lord

with his divine names;

 

AzhwAr looking at these blessed monkeys living in the

mountain and performing such maanasa (mind by getting

up thinking of Him early morning); vaachika (praising)

and kaayika (collect flowers), addresses his mind: oh

my dear mind! You also start; proceed to go collect

the flowers and offer at the lotus feet of the Lord of

ThiruvEnkatam, which is like the ornament for the

earth; Utter his divine names.

 

AzhwAr very beautifully refers to monkeys performing

such thrikaraNa kaimkaryam (maanasa vaachika and

kaayika kaimkaryam) and we humans do not do that. Our

mind is like that of monkeys (it is an insult now to

the monkey to compare the mind to them). Even the

flickering monkeys stand firm and steadfast in getting

up at the wee hours, contemplate on Him, go straight

and take bath (*without eating anything; not even

coffee & #61514; or breakfast] in pushkarinI; collect

flowers, praise Him with His divine names and go to

the sannidhi.

 

Many of us do not even take bath in the morning before

lighting the stove for cooking. What to talk of bath

for the Lord? One should get up in Brahma muhoortham

(around 4 a.m.) and utter His name Hari: Hari: seven

times (utterance of Hari name destroys all paapams –

hari harathi paapani) and then start the day. One

should take bath; perform sandhi, japam and then only

consume something for antharyaami.. and not get up

after the sunrise; drink coffee /tea; go for a walk;

come back read newspaper; eat breakfast, then it is

already time and we are in a hurry to take bath

quickly; skip sandhi, etc..

 

AzhwAr gently reminds us by saying the monkeys follow

saasthrAs; and oh mind, you also adhere to saasthrAs.

 

AndAL mentions the same meLLa yezhundhu Hari yenRa

pEraravam and

in 5th verse of Thiruppaavai, thooyommay vandhu

thooamalar thoovi thozhudhu- both can be referred to

here.

 

meLLa yezhundhu Hari yenRa pEraravam

The scholars, Sages, and elders who lead their lives

in accordance with saasthrAs get up and loudly Utter

“Hari: Hari:.. seven times in the wee hours. [One

should utter loudly Hari: Hari: seven times when

waking up in the morning and prays to Him for making

us perform Kaimkaryam -Nithya, naimittika karma,

AgnyA, anugnyA karmA with no hurdles- and with

Saathvika thyaagam- Sriman Narayana Preethyarttham].

 

thooyOmaay vandhu thoomalar thoovi thozhudhu-

 

When one surrenders to Sri Krishnan, all karmas

(Sanchitha karma and Praarabdha karma) get

extinguished- All the Sanchita Karmas( Accumulated )

and Praarabdha Karmas (started to yield) will be

completely finished like the straw dirt being burnt by

fire- within no time.

 

By going to Him with pure heart (thooyOmaay vandhu)

 

THOO MALAR THOOVI THOZHUDU, VAAYINAAL PAADI,

MANATHINAAL SINDHIKKA Worship

by body, Speech and Mind (Mano, Vak,

Kaayam)-[bhUmAdEvi was submerged in the ocean by an

asura called Hiranyaksha. Lord Sriman nArAyana took

the incarnation of a big boar (varAha avtaar) and went

into The ocean to uplift up BhUmAdevi. She was lifted

up and made sit in the

lap of the Lord. Still bhUmAdEvi was shivering. When

the Lord asked her for the reason, She replied

politely : " Oh! my nAthA! You have protected me. But

still our children in the samsArA are helpless and

suffering. They cannot practice the uninterrupted

meditation in Bhakti yoga as preached by you in the

Vedas with their limited knowledge. So you must be

kind enough to show them a simpler way to reach you "

The Lord understood the affection of bhUmAdEvi towards

her children and gave a most compassionate reply: The

simplest way to reach me is in stable state of mind,

[with all three organs of senses (karanam) viz. manas,

vAk and kAyam (speech, action and thought)]-surrender

to Me.

 

Think only about him, act only for pUja [ArAdhana] to

Him, and speak only in praise of Him. Immediately

bhUmi piratti [AndAL] grasped this easy means of

Saranagathi to reach the Lord and thought it fit to be

preached to us in this samsAra. Thus comes ThiruppAvai

and this line in particular.

 

The monkeys have done; let us also start at least from

tomorrow (nay, today)

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE

Namah:

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan