Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- PeriyAzhwAr anubhavam on ThiruvEnkatam - verse 5.4.1

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

 

Dearest all,

 

After Poigai, bhootha, Pey, Thirumazhisai Kulasekara

and ThiruppANAzhwAr anubhavams, let us now continue on

PeriyAzhwAr anubhavams.

 

senniyOngu thaNthiruvEngadamudaiyaay! ulaku

thannaivaazhan^inRan^ambee! dhaamOdharaa! sadhiraa!

ennaiyum_ennudaimaiyaiyum unsakkarappoRiyoRRikkoNdu

ninnaruLEpurindhirundhEn ini_en_thirukkuRippE?

5.4.1.

 

When the Lord showed Himself to AzhwAr as

ThirumalirunchOlai appan, AzhwAr sang (in last ten

5.3) ?I will never ever leave You; Please bless me to

get rid of another birth? AzhwAr had sung KaNNan as

little darling Kutti KaNNan and enjoyed in the role of

loving mother Yashodha. He also addressed his favorite

PerumAL ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan while he sang on KaNNan

Vitthagan vENkatavaaNan (1.5.3); vEnkatavaaNaRkOr kOl

koNdu vaa(2.6.9); nicchalum theemaigaL seyvaay neeL

thiruvEnkatatthu enthaay(2.7.3); and immersed himself

in the beauty of ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan. In Tirumala,

the Lord does not have abhaya mudrA and instead, He

shows the hand pointing towards His lotus feet

indicating devotees to surrender to His lotus feet to

get rid of

future births. That is the answer to AzhwAr?s

viNNappam. The Lord thus shows himself to AzhwAr in

ThiruvEnkadamudiayaan divya mangala vigraham. AzhwAr

also thereby understands the way and the goal and

surrenders at His lotus feet, his self, his burden and

the fruits of his saranagathi as well. AzhwAr sings in

excitement and ecstasy ?due to your grace and

bharasweekAram (acceptance of my saranagthi) I am now

blessed with everything and am a krutha kruthyan

(having done what is to be done); I express my

gratitude (krutajathai) to You, Oh Lord

ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan!

 

AzhwAr concludes his prabhandham in this celebratory,

thankful and grateful mood. The " SenniyOngu " decad

(patthu) covers these magnificent thoughts of a

Kruthaj~nan, who has performed Prapatti at the sacred

feet of the Lord and who is comforted by the Lord's

acceptance of his prapatthi . PeriyAzhwAr Thirumozhi

started with the concern for the Lord's well being in

this evil world( pallAndu ) and ends with an assurance

to the Lord that he (AzhwAr ) has been fully rewarded

by Him and that there is nothing else he needs

anymore. [A wonderful eleven pAsurams]. Let us enjoy

the first one in this series on ThiruvEnkatam verses.

 

senniyOngu thaNthiruvEngadamudaiyaay! ulaku

ninnaruLEpurindhirundhEn ini_en_thirukkuRippE? 1

 

Oh Lord of Thiruvenkatamudaiyaan residing on the top

of many cool hills

reaching towards the sky! Sakala kalyANa guNa

paripoorNanE! (NambhI) Oh Lord with anantha kalyANa

guNAs, who has elected to reside there to confer Your

blessings on all the chEthanAs! DamOdharA! Lord with

Chaathuryam! [Oh Master who has the gift and power to

ignore the profound trespasses by Your devotees

[adiyArs] showing Your lotus feet as the only way]! My

body and my

possessions ? I have marked them all with the ChakrA

(showing our sEshathvam and belongingness to You and

You alone). I am seeking Your grace only as the

redeeming fruit for my athmA and its house, the body

for serving only You. I am standing here awaiting your

grace. Is there anything else you wish to see in me to

show myself and prove my sEshathvam?

 

With His eternal nitya vaasam on top of cool

mountains, enabling even Devas and NithyasUris arrive

there to pay their obeisance to his lotus feet,

ThiruvEnkadamudiayaan blesses us. Vem + katam-

destroyer of all sins. He stands showing His lotus

feet establishing Prapatti saasthra. He is the Lord

with Swamithvam (Lordship), Sowseelyathvam (stoops

down to mix with the lowly us), Sowlabhyathvam (easily

accessible) and Vaathsalyathvam (compassionate and

affectionate to devotees like the cow towards its

calves; mother towards her children).

 

DamOdharA- The One who had his waist tied down with a

small rope by a

cowherd woman (mother Yasodha)- such a simplistic

easily accessible Lord! (Sri NammAzhwAr fainted at his

sowseelyathvam- singing etthiRam,.. etthiRam..) AzhwAr

thus lovingly calls Him as Damodara!

ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan as well, in His uthsava muRthy

form, allows Himself to be tied down with various

vaahanam, roopams and alankarams for Maasa, Varsha,

Paksha, Brahmma Uthsavams. Thus ThiruvEnkadamudaiyaan

also is Daamodharan.

 

SathirA- Chaathuryaa! He is the Lord with greatest

chathuryam (smartness?). If we grant only moKsham,

there will be none aspiring for that and hence we

should be able to grant whatever the devotees wish for

as there are many who come to my Lotus feet with

materialistic desires, in this Kaliyuga. Thus, He

establishes His Srinivasathvam (being with SRI at all

times in His divine Chest) and grants whatever one

wishes for at this Divya Desam. Later with His

blessings, they get seshtva jnAnam and then performs

[saranagathi] prapatti in few births. He is

Chaathuryan. He is so merciful. (Swamy Desikan refers

to his

chathuryam in Dayasathakam)

 

BhaktiyOgins need to meditate your feet even when

their throats are choked with phlegm. I have performed

prapatti at your feet and have done what is to be

done. appOdhaikku ippOdhE solli vaitthEn. What else do

want or expect? Already I have the chakrA mark on my

shoulders. Hence please have mercy on me and bless me.

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan