Acharya vaibhavam - 24- engum suRRi Ranganai saer- ThoNdaradippodi AzhwAr Thirunakshathram today-

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Dearest all,

 

Today is Sri ThoNdaradippodi AzhwAr Thirunakhathram-

Maargazhi KEttai..

 

He never ever sang on other Divya Desams except the

Only One Koil- Sri Rangam.

 

Swamy Desikan refers this temple as THE TEMPLE. Koil.

Koil means only Srirangam. Let us meditate on the

lotus feet of this AzhwAr on his TN and enjoy the

glorious Divya Desam Sri rangam's Lord Ranganathan's

divine beauty referring to one of his wonderful verses

from Thirumaalai.

 

Swamy Desikan said , " thOlAdha thani veeran thozhudha

koil " . He is Lord Rama's Kula deivam, kula NAthan..

Yamunacharya declares, in SthOthra Rathnam too as Kula

dhanam and Kula dhaivam..

 

Sri Ramanuja asserts in Gadyatrayam.. mamakula nAtham,

mama kula daivatham..

 

He is Our Kula nAThan' Our Kula dhanam. Our Kula

Deivam. His Beauty is indescribable in words. ayyO!

ivan azhagenna azhiyaa azhagudaiyaan.(says Kambar on

Lord Rama). He is The Beauty personified. (This is on

Lord Rama). Lord Rama Himself is captivated by

Lord Rangan's Beautiful ThirumEni.

 

asmadhAchAryan His Holiness SrI PaRavaakkOttai Andavan

Swami in one of his upanyasams mentioned this:

 

When Rama was performing ThiruvArAdhanam to Lord

Ranganathan, SitA PiraaTTi accompanies him doing

kaimkaryams.. Her already large beautiful, well laid

out, ruddy lined shining eyes, opened wider in

admiration.. (Valmeeki addresses her at this stage as

" visAlAkshi.. " (wide eyed..)

 

Why wide eyd now? Because, She looks at Rama. So

Charming. So Divinely Beautiful. Embodiment of

Beauty..and then her eyes shift to the Lord whom

Sri Rama is worshipping. wow! He is grander, more

beautiful, more divine! more charming!

 

Wait a minute. Rama looked as an Ultimate Beauty

personified. How come Lord Rangan looks so now!

She again goes back to Rama's ThirumEni and His

enjoyment of ThiruvArAdhanam. She could not believe.

There appears to be a competition between the Two..

Her eyes open wider in admiration of BOTH..

 

ThoNdaradippodi AzhwAr for no reason says.. " icchuvai

thavira yaan pOi indra lOkam ALum acchuvai peRinum

vENdEn. Aranga maa nagaruLaanE! Oh Lord

Ranganatha of Srirangam! (or Pomona!) Leaving this

taste of enjoying Your ThirumEni, even if granted to

rule the Paramapadham, I do not want that.

(Because Enjoying Him at Paramapadham is like going

from one airconditioned hall to the other hall. While

enjoying Him at Srirangam is like going underneath a

Huge Banyan tree for a cool shadow after being in a

scorching Heat of samsaaric afflictions. Which is more

enjoyable and more relieving!

 

(veyyilil iruppavanukkuthaan nizhal arumai theiryum.).

 

AzhwAr also tells:

 

kudathisai mudiyai vaitthu guNathisai paadham neetti

vadthisai pinbu kaatti then thisai lankai nOkki

kadal niRak kadavuL enthai arvaNait thuyilumaa kaNdu

udal enakku urugumaalO? en seyghEn ulagatthIrE?

 

What a sweet Pasuram! The Lord Ranganathan- who has

His Thirumudi in the West; Thiruvadi towards East;

back facing North and the Eyes looking to South

(lankA)..(as assured to Sri VisbhIshaNAzhwAn) is of

Blue hued Ocean coloured, Divinely Beautiful Form.

Oh! My body is melting.. what can I do, oh wordly

people! AzhwAr says: Not just my heart melts looking

at the Beautiful Divya mangaLa vigraham of Lord

Rangan. Also my Body is melting. I am not able to

stand. (That is why there are huge pillars at the

sannidhi says- KulasekharAzhwAr). He addresses the

world (us).. What can I do? tell me.

 

Question: why does he address us (world)? why not

Nithasooris, or the Lord Himself.. Perhaps, they can

give soultion to AzhwAr's problem. Not us.

Then, why should he address us..

 

Because:

 

We simply go into the sannidhi, look at the Lord..

(thinking of our own worries, whom to cheat, how to

make faster buck.. how to avoid this.. how

to get that promotion.. how to anti campaign aganist

the colleague who is in a better position to get

elevated in the office.. is all what we could

think of, when dIpArAdhanai is shown..) and come out

completely unaffected by the Lord's ThirumEni

azhaghu.. [divine beauty]

 

AzhwAr is simply stunned at our (no) reaction. That is

why he asks us: Tell me O world! How are you able to

maintain composure looking at Such a Beauty!

Hats off to you all!

 

(as read in archives from Sri Vijay Triplicane's Post

quoting vyAkhyAna chakravartthi- Sri Periyavacchaan

Pillai's vyakhyanam- Thanks Sri Vijay Triplicane)

 

Pat yourselves on the back for being unhurt by the

Lord's Beuaty!

 

what is so special about this archA moorthy! Why archA

is God? how and why the Lord is in this form?

Let us enjoy God's different forms tomorrow.

 

asmadhAchArya paryanthAm vandhE Guruparamaraam

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

engum suRRi RanganaichEr..

dAsan

Sri RanganayikA samEtha Sri Ranganatha ParabrahmaNE

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