ThiruviNNagarappan Paasurams byKaliyan:PartXXIII( Periya Thirumozhi: 6.3.7)

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs of ThiruviNNagarappan :

 

Today , we will study the seventh Paasuram from

the 6.3 pathikam of Periya Thirumozhi :

 

vERE kooRuvathu uNdu adiyEn viritthuraikkum

aaRE Nee paNiyAthu adai Ninn Thirumanatthu

kooREn nenju tannAl guNam koNDu maRROr dhaivam

thEREn Unnaiallal ThiruviNNagarAnE

 

The key words in this Paasuram are : " maRRu ohr dhaivam

guNam koNDu nenju tannAl kooREn ; Unnai allAl thEREn " .

 

NOW , ThiruviNNagappan asks AzhwAr a question : " Namm KaliyA !

I accept that you are a highly evolved Jn~Ani , who will not

look at other dhaivams since You recognize that all of them

are empowered by Me alone as their indweller and that they

can not grant anyone Moksham . This MahA visvAsam of yours

has brought me closer to you . I still have a question for you .

 

In Your earlier paasuram ( MaanEy nOkku nallAr mathi pOL

muhatthu ulavum OonEy kaNN vaaLikku - -- " ) , You described

the power of the eyes of women whom you enjoyed in the past

prior to the development of Vairagyam that drove you to Me .

I am just curious about one thing in this context . Can you share

with Me the particular GuNams and VibhUthis (Iswaryams) of

the other gods that impressed you ? Kaliyan responds to

the question of the Lord of ThiruviNNagaram through

this paasuram .

 

( Meaning of the Paasuram ) : Oh ThiruviNNagarappA ! adiyEn's

response to Your question is this ( adiyEn kooRuvathu vERE

uNDu ) . Please do not anticipate adiyEn to elaborate on this

subject like I did in the case of the charming women , who had

a spell over me . adiyEn was then in the middle of SamsAra bhOgam .

Once adiyEn enjoyed these bhOgams , I understood the dhOshams

associated with such anubhavams and resolved to free myself

from their powerful attractions.

 

In the case of the other dhaivams , adiyEn has not worshipped

them to gain any non-lasting bhOgams like residence in Svarga

lOkam . Please do not therefore expect me to be conversant with

the guNams or VibhUthis of these gods to describe them .

 

The precious AshtAkshara ManthrOpadEsam alone that you

blessed me with is sufficent for me . adiyEn has no desire

to learn about the vibhUthis of the other gods . adiyEn has

no doubt that there is any other god that can match or equal Your

limitless vibhUthis and anantha kalyANa guNams . adiyEn will not

spend even a fraction of a second thinking about the vibhUthis of

the other gods , since the time spent that way is wasted time

and takes adiyEn away from dhyAnam and keerthanam about

You and AarAdhanam for You . adiyEn is speechless in this matter

and genuinely could not respond to Your question even if I wanted to .

This You have to accept .

 

adiyEn's mind will not be tempted to think about the glories of

other gods . adiyEn will not speak about them and will not hear

other people speaking about their glories . adiyEn will not seek

any god other than You as my PrApya PrApakam ( the object to

be attained as the ultimate goal of my life ) . Please do not press

adiyEn to describe the vibhuthis of other gods since adiyEn is

an ignoramus in this matter . adiyEn has totally surrendered to

You with the unalterable conviction that You are my sole protector ,

the means and goal for Moksham . You have said in GithA " MaamEkam

SaraNam vraja " . adiyEn has followed that beacon of light to help

me in the life's journey and have travelled directly to Your lotus

feet and performed SaraNAgathy . There is not much that adiyEn

can therefore say about the guNams or Iswaryams of the other gods .

Thirumangai side steps the question of the Lord based on his genuine

conviction about the Parathvam of ThiruviNNagarappan .

 

Thirumangai & the Parathvam of Sriman Naryana

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After performing MangaLAsAsanam at ThiruviNNagaram , Thirumangai

visited the dhivya dEsam of ThirukkaNNapuram and declared again

emphatically there too about the Parathvam of Sriman Narayanan

( Periya Thirumozhi: 8.10.3) , which he stated at ThiruviNNagaram :

 

MaRRum ohr dhaivam uLathenRu iruppArOdu

uRRilEn , uRRathum UnnadiyArkkadimai

maRRellAm pesilum Ninn Thiruvettezhutthum

kaRRu nAnn KaNNapuratthemmAnE

 

(Meaning ) : Oh Lord of KaNNapuram ! AdiyEn will not even

associate with those , who think that there is a God superior

to You , who is worthy of worship . The most ardent desire of

adiyEn is to engage in servitude to Your BhaagavathAs .

 

Special Notes :

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Thirumangai AzhwAr followed very closely Swamy NammAzhwAr,

the Prapanna Jana kUtasthar . Thirumangai's adoration of

Swamy NammAzhwAr is based on his gratitude for SaThakOpan

showing the way for the jeevAthmA's sacred union with

Sri Vaikunta NaaTan through the means of absolute Self-surrender

(SaraNAgathy) . Swamy NammAzhwAr performed SaraNAgathy

with aakinchanyam , ananyagathithvam and bhakthi pAravasyam

through immortal ThiruvAimozhi(TVM) paasurams at ThiruviNNagar ,

ThirumOhUr , VaanamAmalai ( TVM 5.7) , Thirukkudanthai ( TVM 5.8) ,

ThiruvallavAzh ( TVM 5.9) and at Milky Ocean ( TVM 5.10) . Since there

is no mention of Sri Devi ( recommendatory authority ) in these

Paasurams , Swamy NammAzhwAr's SaraNAgathy was not

completed . Hence , Swamy NammAzhwAr performed PoorNa

SaraNAgathy at ThiruvengadamudayAn's sacred feet at Thirumalai

by declaring : " ThiruvenkatatthAnE ! pukal onRu illA adiyEn

unn adikkeezh amarnthu puhunthEnE " .

 

ThiruviNNagarappan & ThiruvengadamudayAn

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ThiruviNNagarappan is worshipped as the DakshiNa VenkatEsan

and as the elder brother of Lord SrinivAsan , who arrived here before

as ArchA Moorthy before Kali Yugam . That is why Swamy NammAzhwAr

declares : " TannoppArillappan tanthanan tann thAL nizhalE " in

his ThiruviNNagara Paasurams .

 

In view of the path-finding help to reach Sri Vaikuntam ( ThiruviNNagar) ,

Thirumangai brought ( yezhuntharilap-paNNInAr) Swamy NammAzhwAr's

archaa vigraham from AzhwAr Thirunahari to Srirangam (BhUlOka Vaikuntam)

and started the adhyayana uthsavam or ThiruvAi mozhi ThiruvizhA

at Srirangam .

 

Swamy NamAzhwAr as Maarga Darsi for Thirumangai

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Let us enjoy now the extraordinary effect Swamy NammAzhwAr

had on Thirumangai .

 

When Thirumangai declared in the ThiruviNNagara Paasuram

" kooREn nenju tannAl guNam koNDu maRROr dhaivam " ,

He was echoing the thoughts of Swamy NammAzhwAr's

Thirukkuruhoor Paasuram on Lord Adhi NaaTan

( ThiruvAimozhi: 4.10.1):

 

" kunRam pOl MaNimAdaneedu ThirukkuruhUrathanuL

ninRa AadhippirAn niRka maRRai dhaivam naaduthirE "

 

On another occasion , Thirumangai took the guidance of

Swamy NammAzhwAr for the ParamaikAnthis , where SaThakOpan

was referring to the anushtAnam of ParAnkusa Naayaki

in the matters of the Parathvam (Supermacy) of the Lord :

 

" unnitthu maRRoru dhaivam thozhAL Avanai allAl "

 

She will not even think of worshipping any one except EmperumAn

says Swamy NammAzhwAr ( ThiruvAimozhi: 4.6.10) here .

 

Another AzhwAr states elsewhere that other gods like

Indhran , Rudran or Brahma are powerless when it comes to

prescribing the medicine to cure the illness of the disease known as

SamsAram . Sri Vaikunta NaaTan is the only Doctor ( Marutthuvan) ,

who can cure this wasting disease of SamsAram . These are

the thoughts of PeriyAzhwAr , which Thirumangai remembered

also in the shaping of his dEha yAthra :

 

" MarutthuvanAi ninRa MaamanivaNNA ! maRu piRavi tavira

thirutthi , Unn kOil kadaippahappey ThirumAlirumchOlai YenthAi "

 

Oh Lord of ThirumAlirumchOlai ! You stand for me as the doctor

who has cured my disease of Samsaram and freed me from

being born again here( SamsAra MaNDalam ) .

 

Moola Manthra UpadEsam for Thirumangai

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Sriman Narayanan directly initiated Thirumangai on

AshtAksharam ( Moola Manthram ). This is known as

Manthra rahasyam. The PaancharAthra Dhvaya Mantra

is known as anushtAna rahasyam . Lord's Charama slOkam

is Known as Vidhi rahasyam .

 

Just as He( Badri NaarAyaNan) performed Moola Mantra updEsam

for Naran on top of HimalayAs , Sriman NarayaNan blessed

Thirumangai with Manthra rahasyam at KurayalUr in ChOLa dEsam .

 

Moola Mantram is the preeminent manthra for practising

the SaraNAgathy Vidhya .Dhvaya Manthram revealed by

Sriman NarayaNa to His divine consort is an elaboration of

Moola Manthram . The Charama slOkam is considered as

a detailed presentation of Moola Manthram .

 

If one is blessed with Moola Manthram from a SadAchAryan ,

there is nothing else to seek in this world . Having been

the beneficiary of the Moola Manthra UpadEsam from

the Lord Himself with His PirAtti by His side , Thirumangai

was uniquely blessed to benefit from the full power of

Tatthva Jn~nam , Parama hitham of SaraNaagathy as

the unfailing means and the PurushArTam of Moksha

sukham . Thirumangai recognized the Lord as " the spring of

water in the midst of a sandy desert " ( Rg Vedam: X.4.1) ;

He saluted the Lord as " the nonleaking boat that can safely

take us to the shore in the disturbed waters of life "

( Rg Vedam: X.63.10) . Thirumangai approached the Lord

of ThiruviNNagaram in the ancient Vedic way : " as a staff

on whom the weak and ignorant man can lean and walk

happily " during his dEha yaathra that leads up to his arrival

at Sri Vaikuntam via archirAdhi maargam ( Rg Vedam :VIII.45.20).

 

In the next Paasuram on ThiruviNNagarappan , Thirumangai

cites the anithyathvam of worldly life and presses the Lord

to reveal when He will bless him to reach Sri Vaikuntam .

 

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

 

Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka

Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama: