Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- Thirumazhisai Piraan anubhavam of ThiruvEnkatam- 11- 49th verse of Naanmukhan ThiruvanthAthi

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all,

 

After mudhal aazhwArs, next we have begun to enjoy

Thirumazhisai AzhwAr’s verses on thiruvEnkatam.

Today’s verse is the 49th verse in Naanmukhan

ThiruvanthAthi.

 

malaiyaamai mElvaiththu vaasugiyaich chuRRi,

thalaiyaamai thaanorugai paRRi, - alaiyaamal

pIRak kadaindha perumaan thirunNaamam,

kooRuvathE yaavarkkum kooRRu. 49

 

Emperumaan appeared as the Koormam (Huge Tortoise) to

hold the manthara mountain on His top, so that it will

not slip away and used Vasuki snake for churning the

Ocean. While doing so, He also held tight the top of

the mountain with His one Hand, in order not to let it

wobble and the water splash- Such Greatest Most

wonderful Lord- it should mandatorily be one’s duty to

speak ONLY in praise of Him and utter His Divine

Names.

 

After narrauing the glories of ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan,

AzhwAr rejoices in utterance of His divine names.

 

Also Koorma avathAram- is mentioned here.

Our Lord most merciful Sriman Narayanan took this

avathAram- churning his own place of residence and

enjoyed doing the same for the sake of His devotees,

i.e. Devas.

 

The 33 crores of dEvAs made peace with the sixty six

crores asurAs and as per the command of Sriman

NaarAyaNA and lifted the Mandaraadhri to place it in

the milky ocean for serving as a churning rod (matthu

). They suddenly got arrogant, proud about their feat

of lifting this mighty mountain and at that moment ,

the mountain slipped from their hands and fell down.

Our Lord appeared in front of the humiliated crowd of

AsurAs and DevAs and lifted the mountain like he would

lift a small fruit (badari palam ) and put that on the

back of Garudan and transported it to the milky ocean.

Srimadh Bhaagavatham describes this miraculous act:

 

girim chArOpya GaruDE hasthainEkEna leelayA

aaruhya prayayAvabhdhim SurAsura guNairvrutha :

 

Our Lord advised the DevAs to churn tirelessly after

adding Oushadhis (medicinal plants) into the milky

ocean and suggested that they do not quarrel with the

asurAs, who were not going to get any amrutham anyway

and will only labor in vain. He asked the Devas not

to be afraid of the poison that will emerge and also

instructed them not to lose their mind over the

wealthy and desirable items that were going to emerge

out of the Ocean.

 

The stage is now set for KoormAvathAram. As the

assembly of AsurAs and DevAs start to churn the

mountain that floated on the Ocean with the rope of

Vaasuki, the mountain began to sink into the ocean.

The devAs got very worried and prayed to the Lord to

save their efforts. The Bhaktha vathslan- bhaktha

priya NaarAyaNan took the form of a giant tortoise and

went under the ocean and supported the mountain on His

back and stabilized it. Also, He entered into the

asurAs and the dEvAs and energized them so that they

could churn vigorously. He also with his black tresses

falling in His forehead, did His share of churning.

The AsurAs were tricked by the Lord to hold the head

side of the snake, whereas the DevAs held the tail

side of the snake coiled around the mountain. The

fiery and poisonous exhalations of Vaasuki exhausted

the asurAs and the rain that fell on the devA's side

energized them . When continued effort by both the

devAs and the asurAs did not yield any amrutham,

Bhagavan Himself took the tail side and the head side

of the snake in His hands and churned the milky ocean

all by Himself . The message is that dhaiva balam is

essential for success in one's efforts. He alone

rescues anyone in need. [from Sri Sadagopan Swamin’s

post few years ago]

 

with the above incident of churning of Milky ocean-

for which he alone did everything right from bringing

the mountain, upto the churning.. it is unambiguously

declared and established that He is karthaa,

KaarayithA, prayOja karthA, sahakaari et al. He never

ever lets anyone down under any circumstances however

difficult the situation would be for us- It is never

tough for Him anyway. He is Sri Nivaasan- The One who

has Sri in His Chest; what is the wonder and surprise

in his such enormous efforts in churning the milky

ocean – all for getting Her from the paarkadal… . Thus

AzhwAr enjoys His Sreenivaasan name here so aptly.

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE

Namah:

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

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