Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- NammAzhwAr's divine anubhavams- Thiruvaymozhi 6.10.10- NammAzhwAr's SaranAgathi at the Lotus Feet of Sri Srinivasan of Thirumalai

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all,

[it is our pleasure to enjoy this most beautiful and

divine verse on the day of Ekadasi..]

Let us continue to enjoy AzhwArs wonderful verses on

ThiruvEnkatam. Today’s ThiruvEnkatam verse is:

NammAzhwAr’s Thiruvaaymozhi 6.10.10

 

(This is the Most famous pAsuram: If we can memorize,

understand the meaning and recite daily, WE ARE SURE

TO BE SAVED BY AZHWAR AND LORD SRINIVASA)

 

`agala killEn iRaiyum'en

RalarmEl mangai yuRaimaar_paa,

nigaril pugazhaay! ulagamoon

Rudaiyaay! ennai aaLvaanE,

nigaril amarar munikkaNangaL

virumpum thiruvENG kadaththaanE,

pugalon Rillaa adiyEnun

adikkee zhamarndhu pugundhEnE.

 

Telling that She, AlarmEl manghai, will NOT be away

from You even for a fraction of a second and stays in

Your Chest always (Nityaanapaayinee), Oh SrInivaasaa!

The One who is unparalleled and unbounded famous Lord!

the One who has all the three worlds to His

possession! My Ruler! The peerless dEvAs and rishis

worship You, pay obeisance to You, and desire You at

TirumalA, always, thiruvEnkadatthaanE! I,- THE ONE

WHO HAS NO OTHER MEANS AND NO ONE ELSE FOR MY

REDEMTION EXCEPT YOU AND ONLY YOU- YOUR ETERNAL SEVANT

AND ONLY YOURS- HEREBY SURRENDER AT YOUR LOTUS FEET.

YOU SHOULD BLESS ME AND TAKE ME TO BE AT YOUR FEET FOR

EVER. (AzhwAr in order to fulfill his desire and wish

for being with the Lord's Lotus Feet, takes Periya

Piraati to his side, as Purushaakaaram and surrenders

at Emperumaan's Lotus Feet. In the above nine

pAsurams, he talks about Emperumaan's greatness. Here,

he expressed his disqualification, limitations,

helplessness, and having none else to save and protect

him. i.e. Having no qualifications, Having disability

to pursue any other means (like jnAnam, karma, Bhakti

yOgam), realizing the eternal nature of being His

servant always- are the qualities to perform Prapatti

[saranagati] at Divya Dampati's Feet. (also taking

Periya Piraatti to his side and recommendation,

praising her being closeness with Him). this pAsuram

is the essence of Dwaya manthram.

 

This all important pAsuram is in effect like Dwaya

manthra; it is said that this decad [set of ten

verses] speaks of the first half of Dwaya manthra abd

an earlier PAsuram [3.3 ozhivil kaalamellaam..] speaks

of the latter half of Dwaya manthra.. The present

decad stresses the Saranagti aspect [the way] while

3.3 refers the kaimkarya aspect [or the goal].

 

[extract from Sri Anbil Ramaswamy’s write up]

Swami Desika commences his Daya Satakam by

surrendering to the very mountain thus- " Prapadhye Tham

Girim Praayah Sreenivaasa Anukampayaa / Ikshu Saara

Sravanthyeva yan Moorthyaa Sarkaraayitham " (meaning)

The mercy of the Lord of Tiruvemkatam flows like the

juice of the Sugarcane. The mountain is like this

juice that had solidified into Sugar Cube. I surrender

to such a mountain of mercy " . Here Srinivasa is

Sugarcane; His mercy is the juice. It is He who raises

the crop; it is He who allows His Daya to flow and

become solidified. DayA can only tolerate our sins;

but this mountain can even destroy all our sins.

 

Bhishma Pitaamahar refers to this Srinivaasa in his

Sahasranamam in 8 words: " Sridhah, Srisah,

Srinivaasah, Srinidhi, Srivibhaavanah, Sridharah,

Srikarah, Sreyo, Srimaan "

 

Bhagavad Ramanuja in his invocatory verse of his

Sribashyam of Brahma Sutram says that Lord Srinivasa

stands on top of the Mountain of Upanishads (Sruti

Sirasi) and proclaims to the world that He is the very

" Paramatma " (BrahmaNi Srinivase)

 

SrI SatakOpan Swami adds: In the first decad of

Thiruvaimozhi , AzhwAr points out that Sriman

NaarAyaNan is upAyam ; the second decad focuses on the

athibhOgyam ( most delectable ) aspects of the Lord

;the third decad shows that the Lord has divya mangaLa

Vigraham ; the fourth decad asserts that the Lord is

the most superior means for moksham ; in the sixth

decad , AzhwAr performs SaraNAgathi to

ThiruvenaktamudayAN with

his AhalahillEn paasuram.

 

The above paasuram is the tenth in this decad. Through

the preceding nine paasurmas , NammAzhwAr completed

the five angAs of SaraNAgathi and in the tenth , he

performed the actual SaraNAgathi at the Lotus feet of

the SarvalOka SaraNyan at Thirumalai .In the earlier

decad, he cried

soulfully : koovikkoLLum kaalam innam kuruhAthO ? (

Will not that time to call me to Your sacred feet come

very soon ? ) . He had great aarthi (longing ) for

reaching the cool shade of Lord's holy feet to

escape from the scorching heat of SamsAram. He had no

patience for krama prApthi. He introduced himself as "

terithal ninaithal yeNNalAhAt thirumAlukku uriya

thondar thondar thondan SatakOpan " ( that he is

the servant of the servant of the servant of Sriya:

pathi, whose glories are beyond the comprehension

through either acquired knowledge , manthra japam or

dhyaanam ).

 

AzhwAr then performed his dheerga SaraNAgathi at

Thirumalai in his " ahalahillEn " paasuram.

SaraNAgathi has been described as the elaboration

(vivaraNam ) of the essence of dhvayam ( DhvyArtha

VivaraNam ) by Sri PiLLai LOkAcchAr in his work

revered as " Saara sangraham " . This SaraNAgathi led

to the state of " avidhyA nivarthaka ,jn~Ana pUrthi

pratha , Bhagaavth prasAdhOthitha Moksha lAbham " .

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE saraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

dAsan