Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- BhoothatthAzhwAr anubhavam of ThiruvEnkatam- 11- 75th verse

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

Let us continue to enjoy BhoothatthAzhwAr’s- wonderful

anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. The last verse on

ThiruvEnkatam from BhoothatthazhwAr is 75th verse.

 

peruku mathavEzam maappidikki munninRu,

iruka NiLamoongil vaangi, - arugiruntha

thEn_kalanthu neettum thiruvENG kadamkaNdeer,

vaan_kalantha vaNNan varai.

75

 

In the 74th verse, AzhwAr had said: My Swami! My

nAThA! In all states, at all times, adiyEn is blessed

by Yourself and due to Your mercy adiyEn is granted

this benefit of singing You and offering them at Your

Lotus Feet. adiyEn has been blessed to sing verses in

chaste pure grand Tamil.

 

The Lord appears to have asked AzhwAr: Azhweer; If You

are so good in Tamil let us see some poetic skills of

Yours and blesses him to sing one with poetic skill

and imagination: Comes the 75th verse.

 

The male elephant loiters somewhere for the whole day;

comes back the next day to its place; the female

elephant is quite angry and upset.. The male elephant

tries to appease the lady… [AzhwAr reminds himself of

praNaya kalaham- where Sri Rangantha tries to appease

SriranganAyaki and then the Panguni Utthiram sErtthi

sEvai]… and thus comes this verse.

 

Standing in front of the female elephant, the strong

male elephant [with the waters trickling down from its

head] breaks a small tender branch from the nearby

bamboo tree, dips in the honey found in a nearby tree;

and offer the bamboo [dipped in honey] to its beloved

female elephant with tender, love and care for its

spouse’s consumption in the grand mountain of

ThiruvEnkatam. [The lady gets pleased. And anger

subsides]

 

Isn’t this the wonderful mountain where the dark cloud

hued most merciful Lord Srinivasan resides? The ocean

of dayA resides in this mountain.

 

Even the animals living in this mountain takes care of

its dependents lovingly and caringly; The Lord Sriya:

Pathi Sriman Narayanan [who is always with Sri

MahalakshmI -agalagillEn iRaiyum enRu alarmEl mangai

uRai maarbhan] resides in this mountain forever

eternally for our sake; certainly takes care of His

dependents – His spouses [i.e. us- all jeevathmans are

like the beloved spouses for the PurushOtthaman].

 

Swami Desika enlists His upakaram for us:

The infinite compassion for the Lord is the Prime

Cause for:

(1) the nature and existence of all three kinds of

chethanas and achethanas (2) the creation of the

world; (3) promulgation of the Vedas and saasthrAs

[which are equal to thousand parents for us in terms

of talking care and for our better living; uplift];

(4) the enlightenment of the knowledge relating to

tattva hitha and purushartha (entities, way and the

Goal); (5) the origination of an aspiration or desire

for liberation; (6); redeeming the erring humanity

that seek refuge in Him; (7) functioning in the place

of upaya for one who is Akinchana (helpless); (8)

ignoring and pardoning infinite faults of the

chethanas that surrender to Him and take refuge in Him

on account of mere vyAja (excuse) or pretext of bhakti

or prapatti; (9) granting His infinite Bliss of

communion after terminating once for all their

migration from births to births; (10) causing

repentance in the minds of the Prapannas (those who

have performed Saranagathi) for the faults committed

intentionally and making them observe some expiation

according to their competence; (11) purifying such

hardliners that do not repent by inflicting light

punishments and leading them to His eternal abode; For

all These, the greatest compassion of the Lord is the

Prim Cause [extract from the Book Essence of Srimad

Rahasyathraya saram by Dr Sri U e NS

Anantharangacharya Swami]

 

It is His dayA on us that He takes such most beautiful

avathArams as archA mUrthi in Divya Desams like

ThiruvEnkatam.

 

Parasara Bhattar’s ashtaslOki is to be enjoyed here:

 

IsAnAm jagadhAm adhIsa dhayithAm nityAnapAyAm sriyam

samsrithAsrayaNOchitAkila guNasyAngri harerAsrayE I

ishtopAyatayA sriyA cha sahithAyAthmEsvarAyArtayE

karthum dAsyamaseshamaprathihatham nityam tvaham

nirmama : II

 

Sri Devi (Lakshmi)is the empress ( Sovereign Goddess )

of ALL the worlds, as NarAyaNa is the emperor. She is

the inseparable consort of His. We offer our

prostrations at Her lotus feet to empower ourselves to

acquire the means of access to the Lord's feet for our

SaraNAgathi. May I be blessed always to perform

service devoid of ego to the Lord, who is the

embodiment of DayA.

 

[This complete BhoothatthAzhwAr anubhavam on

ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan. We will take up the third

AzhwAr pEyAzhwAr from next post]

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE

Namah:

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

 

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