Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- PeyAzhwAr anubhavam of ThiruvEnkatam- 7- 45th verse of moonRaam ThiruvanthAthi

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

Let us continue to enjoy PeyAzhwAr’s wonderful

anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. Today’s verse on

ThiruvEnkatam is the 45th.

 

purinthu mathavEzam maappidiyO doodith,

thirinthu sinatthaal poruthu, virinthaseer

veNkOttu mutthuthirkkum vEngadamE, mElorun^aaL

maNkOttuk koNdaan malai. 45

 

AzhwAr enjoys here that the Parabrahman, the Lord of

Paramapadham Sriman Narayanan blesses us by being here

at ThiruvEnkatam – so easily accessible by all of us.

 

In the mountain of ThiruvEnkatam, the male elephant

[with the waters trickling down from its hood] unites

with its mate; and then has some “oodal” [domestic

squabble?] with the female; the male is [as usual]

angered and the furious elephant loiters, wanders here

and there hitting its head against the rocks thereby

the white ivory tuskers drop off its pearls on the

ground… such a beautiful place is ThiruvEnkatam is

where the Lord Sri Varaaha Moorthy resides. Sri

Adhivaraaha murthy is the One who has been in

ThiruvEnkatam sicne the beginning. It is Sri Venkatesa

who spought His permission to be here at

ThiruvEnkatam.

 

Sri Periyavacchaan Pillai comments as above. Sri

Appillai Swami - comments as: First there was a oodal

(quarrel); secondly there was settlement; unity and

then again quarrel.. Also, the angered elephant walks

up and down; looks into the marble stone (in the

front- sees its image) and wonders as to who else is

as strong as it is and hits the stone;breaking its

ivory tusk.. Here there was no mentioning of marble

stone in the verse nor there is any repetition of

oodal [quarrel] twice and hence though it is rasOkthi,

it is not 100% correct. Acharyans have considered Sri

Periyavacchaan Pillai's commentary most apt.

 

Sri Varaaha murthy took His avathAram of Varaha [huge

boar] to rescue Bhoomi PiraaTTi from the troubled

waters when HiraNyaakshan took the earth and hid under

the waters. Lord took the huge Boar avathAr and killed

HiraNyaakshan to save the BhoomA dEvi.

 

He took the bhooma Dev in between His two horns (which

are like the crescent moon –says NammAzhwAr in

Thiruvaymozhi.)

 

kOla malarp paavaiku anbaakiya en anbEyO!/

neela varai yiraNdu piRai kavvi nimirndhadhu oppa/

kOla varaakam onRaay nilam kOttidaik konda endhaay!/

neelakkadal kadaindhaay! unnaip peRRu inippOkkuvanO?/

TVM- 10.10.7.

 

Since You are the Greatest enjoyment happiness for the

Most Divinely Beautiful Periya PiraaTTi MahA Lakshmi,

(the One who sits close and next to You) You are the

enjoyment and happiness of mine too (as I am Periya

PiraaTTi’s possession. Similar to a Huge Blue

mountain, raising with two crescent moons on its top,

You came out of the Oceans with the Earth on Your

tusks, during Your Varaaha avataar! AzhwAr gently

reminds the Varaaha charama slOkam by narrating His

Varaaha avataar and hints that it is His

responsibility to take care of him now since AzhwAr

had already performed his Saranagati -prapatti) Oh

Lord who churned the Blue Ocean! After getting You as

my refuge, Will I ever leave You? NEVER. (unnaip

peRRu inippOkkuvanO?- NampiLLai’s commentary is: In as

much You struggled for getting BhUmi PiraaTTi and

Periya PiraaTTi, You struggled for getting to me too,

and now after getting me, if You decide to leave me,

will I let You go away).

 

Sthithe manasi…….. vishvarupancha mam ajam |

 

Thatha: tham mriyamananthu …. paramaan gathim ||

 

Who (ya: Nara:) thinks (smarththaa) of me (as vishva

roopam) when he is able bodied (young - clear mind,

healthy body, dhathu=piththam all working and under

control) I think of him at his death (kaashta

paashana sannibam) when he is lying down on death bed

as log of wood and I take him personally to Sri

vaikuNtam [paramaam gathim]- says Lord Varaaha.

 

About this Adhi varaaha Moorthy- The puraanic legends

say that after the Pralaya kalpa preceding the great

Deluge, the Supreme Being Maha Vishnu, revealed

Himself in the form of a White Boar, SwEta Varaha,

rescued the earth and recreated it and having

re-established the universe, He decided to stay on the

earth for some time to protect the good and destroy

the evil. Thus God Vishnu revealed Himself earlier, in

the previous incarnation as Varaahaswami on the bank

of the Vaaraha Teerttham i.e. northern portion of

Pushkarini at Tirumala. This manifestation as the

White Boar is enshrined in the Adhi Varahaswami temple

on the North-western bank of the Pushkarini at

Tirumala. This temple is thus older than the temple of

Lord Venkateswara and claims precedence in worship and

nivedana. [from

http://sribalaji.com/tirumala/history.htm]

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE

Namah:

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan