Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- Thirumangai AzhwAr anubhavam Periya Thirumozhi 10.1.2

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all,

 

Let us continue to enjoy Thirumangai AzhwArs wonderful

verses on Thiruvenkatamudiayaan.

 

kalayaami kalidhvamsam kavim lOkadhivaakaram

yaSya kObi: prakaaSaabir aavidhyam niHatham thama:

 

I meditate on the Poet, who is like the Sun for the

whole world, to destroy the darkness of

ignorance(a~jnAnam) with his word and who destroys the

Kali dhOsham.

 

Let us enjoy Periya Thirumozhi 10.1.2 on

ThiruvEnkatam.

 

In the last ten AzhwAr enjoyed the sowlabhyam of

Emperumaan showing Himself at ThirukkOttiyoor. Now

here AzhwAr pays his obeisance to various Divya Desams

PerumAL in one ten.

 

[Our verse on ThiruvEnkatam]

2. ponnai, maamaNiyai aNiyaarndhadhOr minnai*

vEmkatatthu ucchiyil kaNdu pOi*

ennai yaaLudai Isanai enpiraan thannaich*

chenRu kaaNdum thaNkaavilE..

 

He, who is sought after desirously like the Gold; who

is like the lost valuable maNi (gem stone); who shines

like the lightning; who is at the top of ThiruvEmkata

mountain to whom we paid our obeisance [yesterday] and

who enslaved us and rules us,- who is our parama

upakaarakan (most merciful one); - [Today], let us go

and pay our obeisance to Him and ThirutthaNkaa.

 

This pon [gold]; maNi [gem] reminds me of the most

popular Oppiliappan pAsuram [verse] of NammAzhwAr:

ponnappan; maNiappan; mutthappan; ennappan; than

oppAril appan… Oppiliappan [the unparalleled and

unsurpassed Father; He does not have anyone equal to

Him; why to talk of Superior?

 

Oppilappan (Oppilaa Appan ) Koil is known as Thiru

ViNNagar or Vaikuntapuri. Here , on the banks of

AhOratra Pushkarani, the Lord Of Vaikuntam stands

under Suddhaananda Vimanam with his bride Bhoomi Devi.

Four Azhwaars have dedicated 47 Pasurams to him and

have received His Anugraham. He blesses us even today

with His " Panchaavataaram " or five forms (Viz)., Hema

(Ponnappan ), Muktha (Mutthappan ), Mani (Maniappan ),

Vyoma Pureesan ( ViNNagarappan ) and Matpathi:

(Ennappan )

 

In this Kshetram, He hurried to appear before

Nammazhwaar ,

who was about abandon him out of anger at the Lord for

being insensitive to his request to give him Darsanam.

Our Lord could not bear with the thought of losing His

Parama Bhaktha and rushed to his side and made the

Azhwaar enjoy HIS Ananta Kalyaana Gunas and HIS

unmatchable beauty. The Azhwaar felt thoroughly

appeased and specially blessed and declared :

 

ENNAPPAN ENAKKAYIGULAAI ENNAI PERRAVALAAI

PONNAPPAN MANIAPPAN MUTTHAPPANENAPPANUMAAI

MINNAPPONMADHIL SOOZH THIRUVINNAGAR SERNDA aPPAN

TANNOPPAARILLAPPAN TANTANAN TANATHAAL NIZHALEH

 

Azhwaar describes the Lord as Panchavataaran here and

states that the Lord travelled to Thiruvinnagar in

search of him to remove his dejection and united with

him and gave him the comforting and cool shade of his

lotus feet as his solace and refuge.[from Sri

Satakopan Swamin’s write up].

I could not resist enjoying Oppiliappan’s glories

here.. as He is also traditionally reported to be

Srinivasa perumAL as well…

Thirumangai AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan