Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- PeyAzhwAr anubhavam of ThiruvEnkatam- 6- 40 th verse of moonRaam ThiruvanthAthi

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

Let us continue to enjoy PeiyAzhwAr’s wonderful

anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. Today’s verse on

ThiruvEnkatam is the 40th.

 

uLan_kaNdaay nannencE! utthama NnenRum

uLan_kaNdaay, uLLuvaa ruLLath thuLan_kaNdaay,

viNNedungak kOduyarum veengaruvi vEngadatthaan,

maNNedungath thaanaLantha man. 40

 

Oh My dear Good cooperative mind! Realize that there

is One; who is the Greatest of Greatest virtuous Lord!

Those who think of Him such, He resides in them (in

their hearts willingly and lovingly out of His own

accord). He had measured the Earth and the huge earth

became smallest in size (as compared to His Form when

he measured). He is the One who is there so gracefully

at ThiruvEnkatam where the beautiful water falls from

so high a place near the sky. (AkAsa gangA).

 

BhuttatthzhwAr refers to the lines similarly in his

77th verse: in his " iraNdaam Thiruvandhaadhi "

 

" uRun kaNday nan nenjE! Utthaman naR paadham/

uRun kaNdaay oN kamalan thannaal,- uRun kaNdaay/

yEtthip paNindhavan pEr eerainjooR eppozhudhum/

saaRRi uraitthal thavam/ "

 

Oh My dear good Mind! See that He is There; See that

most Virtuous Lord, who is there on the Beautiful

Lotus Flower. See that IT IS ALWAYS A GREAT THAPAS

(PENANCE) to utter the Emperumaan’s Divine names

incessantly.

 

Here PeyAzhwAr refers NOT to just the existence of the

Lord as “uLan kaNdaay”. He was not an atheist firstly

to realise now that there is one who is here… what

azhwAr means is: Oh my dearest great mind! Realise and

see that here is One our Supreme Lord who is our

savour. Our Master who protects us always! Avan

namakkaaga enRu uLan kaNdaay. He is our Lord; our

mAthA; our PithA; our everything enRu uLan kaNdaay.

 

He is the Utthaman; He is PurushOtthaman enRu uLan

kaNdaay. He is there in the hearts of those sages,

rishis and yogins- and be the object of their penance

and dhyAnam.

 

viNN odunga- with the Nithya vibHuthi and Paramapadham

under his Lordship as well, with the skies below Him

(as ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan- with the mountain of

ThiruvEnkatam reaching much above everything]. He thus

establishes His Supremacy and Parathvam.

 

Veendu aruvi- the water falls are referred to here by

AzhwAr. When AzhwAr mentions His Parathvam (Supreme

Lordship), he had an apprehension that people may get

scared and may go away from Him. So, he addresses the

Lord’s sowlabhyam and sowseelyam by saying He is so

compassionate and comes down to our level (water

falls) though He is high above…

 

Parathvam kaNdu anjaamaikku sowlabhyam

Sowlabhyam kaNdu igazhaamaikkku parathvam

 

How and why should He protect us? Beuacse He is the

Lord of all; He rules all; He rules the whole

Universe. He is the one who had measured the whole

Universe with His Lotus Feet.

 

NammAzhwAr says: " kAnmin ulageer ! enak kaN mugappE

nimirntha thaaL " ie " It seems Lord's feet appear to

have said to bholOka residents during Trivikrama

avathAram that " Hey world! Look at This Feet and

enjoy " and while saying it seems the holy feet also

grew and

rose to reach beyond the vaan ulagam.

 

The Feet grew and almost touched everyone’s head, as

they all were bending to look at the small dwarf like

Vaamanan as to how he is going to measure the earth

with three measures. Otherwise, they would never have

bent their heads anyway..

 

NammAzhwAr thus invited the world to see the enfolding

wonderment of the sacred feet of the Lord shooting up

and out to measure the earth and the sky ( KaaNmingal

ulaheer yenru kaNNmuhappE nimirntha TaaLiNayan). Our

Lord's paadham and the Sri paadha theertham is the

most sacred for us as salvation, hence.

 

The AchAryAs followed the way shown by the AzhwArs.

ALavanthAr saluted Trivikrama in the 31st verse of his

SthOthra Rathnam and wondered as to when the lotus

feet of the Lord of Trivikraman with the signs of

the divine chakram, conch, mace, flag, goad and other

lAnchanAs are going to decorate his head:

 

kathA puna: sanka rathAnga kalpaka

dvajAravinda Ankusa vajralaanchanam I

Trivikrama tvaccharaNAmbhuja dvayam

madheeya murdhAnamalankarishyathi ? II

 

maN odunga thaan aLantha man- Thus, He is the “man”

[meaning king] who measured the maNN (earth)..

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE

Namah:

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan