Srinivaasa Vaibhavam - NammAzhwAr's divine anubhavams- Thiruvaaymozhi 10.5.6- Think of His divine Name Narayana...

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all,

 

Let us continue to enjoy the divine verses of AzhwArs

on ThiruvEnkatamudayaan. Today’s verse: NammAzhwAr

Thiruvaymozi 10.5.6.

 

In this EXCELLENT DECAD [10.5] PASURAMS, NammAzhwAr

advises BhakthAs of Emperumaan. NammAzhwAr’s advice

which had started off in 1.2, veedumin muRRavum, ends

in this decad.

 

6. mEyaan vENkatam* kaayaamalar vaNNan*

pEyaar mulai uNda* vaayaan maadhavanE*

 

Bhagawaan has got lovely blue hued ThirumEni (Divine

Body). He has got the cute red mouth that sucked the

life of demonic pUthanai along with her poisonous

breast milk (who had come to kill the infant KaNNan).

He is Sri LakshmI Nathan, (Maadhavan) and is

gracefully present at

ThiruvENkatam, as SrInivaasan..

 

The first verse in this ten is the most wonderful. I

can not resist posting here:

 

1. kaNNan kazhaliNai* naNNum manamudaiyeer!*

eNNum thirunaamam* thiNNam naaraNamE!

 

Sri SatakOpa swears on all that he holds holy that the

Narayana mantra is the one for us, if we wish to

meditate on the Lord's lotus feet.

 

Oh BhAgawathAs, who has always the thoughts of

reaching the Lotus Feet of KaNNan (Parama sowlabhyan-

who stooped down to our level and took KrishNAvataar)!

You all need to think and meditate only on His name

Narayanan.. Nothing else. This is firm and definite.

Take it for

granted.(NampiLLai greatly talks about this pAsuram:

If one spoils an angam or a swaram on other manthrams,

there is even a punishment to become brahmaraakshasa.

Such fears are not here. It is a simple name and that

is Narayana padham. Here AzhwAr says: eNNum

thirunaamam.. He did not say eNNum manthram.. Since it

is only Thirunaamam, there is no niyamam. Any time and

every time- Narayana Narayana. Like a baby utters and

blabbers the mother’s name and mother loves it so

much.

 

(Special anecdote: After NammAzhwAr departed from this

earthly world,

MadhurakaviAzhwAr was blessed with a Golden vigraham

of NammAzhwAr which he consecrated and performed

ThiruvarAdhanA and uthsavams in his honour. He was

impressed by nammAzhwAr's works so much that he wanted

to stage NammAzhwAr's works in front of other

scholars. the sangam poets objected to such claims and

praises. NammazhwAr who had no connection with Sangam

Madhurakavi, it seems was saddened by this protest and

was remorse. NammAzhwar, appeared as an old Brahmin

and consoled him saying " Do not worry about these

petty issues; You just place this pAsuram of " kaNNan

kazhaliNai... " on a kind of wooden boat (sangap

palagai) and disappeared. Madhurakavi did the same and

the boat -it is told -capsized throwing out all the

jealous, haughty poets while it retained only the leaf

containing " kaNNan kazhaliNai.. " - Such a POWERFUL

PASURAM IS THIS!

 

Each of these jealous poets wrote independently one

Tamil poem on the glory of our Great NammAzhwAr, which

finally turned out to be same one which all others

wrote: What a mystery! What an AzhwAr! What a

disciple! The verse is as follows:

 

sEmang kurugaiyo

seyyathirup pARkadalO

nAmam paraangusamo naaraNamo –

thAman thuLavO

vaguLamO thOLiraNdO

nAngum uLavO

peruma umakku " .

 

Are you, (the Kurugaiyoor Piraan) Or Sriman Narayana

Himself.)?

 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

dAsan