Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- PeyAzhwAr anubhavam of ThiruvEnkatam- 1- 14th verse of moonRaam ThiruvanthAthi

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

After the divine BhootthAzhwAr’s anubhavams, let us

begin to enjoy PEyAzhwAr’s- wonderful anubhavams on

ThiruvEnkatam.

 

maaRpaal manamsuzippa mangaiyar_thOL kaivittu,

nooRpaal manamvaikka noyvithaam, naaRpaala

vEthatthaan vEngadatthaan viNNOr mudithOyum,

paathatthaan paatham paNinthu.

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The Lord of ThiruvEnkatam- the Sowseelyan- one who

resides there on his own for our sake; the One who is

described, mentioned by and is the essence of all four

Vedas; The Feet of this greatest Lord- where the

crowns of Nithyasuris are placed with respect [when

they prostrate at His Feet].

 

My mind that gets involved, immersed and gets

attracted to the beauty of these two Lotus Feet of

Lord ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan due to which the mind is

now easily staying away from the desire to hug the

shoulders of beautiful women and get more liking to

learn and adhere to Vedanthic saasthrAs thereby get

closer to the Lord’s Lotus Feet.

 

A wonderful verse from pEyAzhwAr.

 

PeyAzhwAr is the third of the Mudhal AzhwArs. He was

born in Mylapore (Maada Maamayilai) inside a red lotus

flower blooming in the well at AdhikEsava PerumAL Koil

as the amsam of the Lord's Sword (Nandhakam).

 

This AzhwAr was PerumAL-obsessed (pitthan )and hence

was called pEy AzhwAr. Just like PeriyAzhwAr, he was

able to have the direct sevai of PerumAL effortlessly

through his Parama Bhakthi. He performed

mangaLAsAsanam for PerumAL, ThAyAr and PerumAL's

weapons at ThirukkOvalUr just as PeriyAzhwAr did at

Then Mathurai. pEy AzhwAr is considered as an AchAryan

for Thirumazhisai AzhwAr in our sampradhAyam.

 

we have to remember three gems of spiritual experience

of God in pEy AzhwAr's prabhandham :

(1) The Supreme Lord is Sriman NaarAyaNan

possessing Sri Devi in His divine heart

(2) He is the most beautiful and satisfying Being and

(3) He is the most tender healer of of all sorrows and

abolisher of sins and fear of samsAram as well as

granter of Moksham .

 

In the very first verse of AzhwAr moonRaam

ThiruvanthAthi- pEyAzhwAr describes with exultation

the great joy of the seeing the Lord with Sri Devi and

His dhivya aayudhams (weapons):

 

thirukkaNdEn ponmEni kaNdEn, thikazum

arukkan aNin^iRamum kaNdEn, - serukkiLarum

ponnaazi kaNdEn puri sangam kaikkaNdEn,

ennaazi vaNNanpaal inRu. 1

 

Today is a great day .I secured the privilege of

seeing the Lord's Form (ThirumEni), by His grace. I

saw MahA Lakshmi; I saw Her on a pure gold body of the

Lord;His effulgence was like that of the Sun;I saw the

enemy-destroying, fiery, but beautiful chakram (in one

hand);I saw also the bent Conch (Paanchajanyam) in the

other hand. All of these I saw in my dear Ocean-hued

Lord, Sriman NaarAyanan (from SrI Satakopan Swami’s

write up)

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE

Namah:

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan