Acharya vaibhavam - 43- Sri VishvaksEnar also called as Senai Mudhali...

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SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dearest all,

 

Our Acharya lineage has Sri VishvaksEnar also called

as Senai mudhali [nothing to do with the current

mudhaliaar sect]. Nor does he have anything to do with

pillaiyaar or Vinayaka. Sri vishvaksEnar is the

Nithyasuri. He is the commander-in-chief in

srivakuntam.

 

Swami Desikan in his 3rd verse of YathirAja saptathi:

 

vandhE vaikuntha sEnAnyam Devam soothravathi sakham |

yadvetrasikharaspandE visvamEthadvyavasthitham ||

 

I pay my respects to VishvaksEnar, the Consort of

Soothravathi. He is the Commander-in-chief of the

Lord. At the tip of His disciplining ward (whip) the

whole universe stays put in proper place and is

rightly led on.

 

Let me pay my humble adorations to Sri ViskvaksEnar,

[senai mudhaliaar]. He is the Chief of Nithyasooris. I

salute VishvaksEnar, the consort of Soothravathi and

the Commander-in-Chief of the Lord's army. The whole

universe is controlled by the different movements of

the Cane that he holds in his hand as insignia of his

delegated authority.

 

VishvaksEnar is also recognized as the AchAryan for

NammAzhwAr.

The name of VishvaksEnar's wife is Soothravathi. He is

the first among the Kainkarya parAL of Sriman

NaarAyaNA in Sri Vaikuntam. In the 14th slOkam of Sri

VenaktEsa SuprabhAtham,

 

Sri VishvaksEnar is seen in action controlling the

throngs of the DevAs jostling with each other to get a

better sEvai of ThiruvEnkatamudayAn during His

SuprabhAtham:

 

Sri Swami PushkariNikaa plava nirmalAnghA :

SrEyOarthinO Hara Virinchi SanandhanAdhyA :I

dhvArE vasanthi varavEthra hathOtthamAnghA :

Sri VenkataachalapathE ! Tava SuprabhAtham II

 

Brahma, MahEsvarA, the sage SanandanA and others,

aspiring well-being and having bathed in Sri Swami

PushkariNI and (thus) sanctified their bodies, are

waiting at the entrance receiving gentle strokes from

the cane on their heads from VishvaksEnar, their

commander. Oh Lord of

VenkatAchalam ! May it be an auspicious dawn to Thee

! " .

 

The cane strokes of VishvaksEnar are to be considered

as gentle touches to control the over enthusiastic

crowds of DevathAs pushing for an advantageous vantage

point for the darsanam of their Lord.

 

From Sri CG Balaji Swami’s translation of

asmadhAchAryan His Holiness Srimad ParavakkOttai

Andavan’s YathirAja Sapthathi Tamil commentary:

 

Vishwaksena Azhwan, who is the chieftain of Nitya

Suris (the daily attendants) also known as Saadhya

Devas and also the chief of Muktas (the liberated

ones). Muktas are those who performed bhakti or

prapatti and have got themselves dissociated from the

samsaric alliance and after having liberated

themselves so, have reached Sri Vaikuntam. Nitya Suris

are daily attendants at Sri Vaikuntam who have never

had any samsaric affliction or influence of prakruthi

on them and so are of pure satva or shuddha satva.

They always engage themselves in eternal service to

the Lord and immerse themselves in Brahmaanubhavam or

enjoyment of the divine qualities of the Lord. This

world of theirs

is known as Bhoga Vibhuti, Sri Vaikuntam or

Apraakrutha lokam.

 

The world below this is known as the Prakrutha Lokam

or Lila Vibhuti. It is here where millions of cosmic

realms exist and in each one of those exist fourteen

worlds. In these worlds exist bhaktas who are chained

to the samsaram with the bonds of punyams and papams

or in other words imprisoned behind bars of punyams

(good deeds) and papams (evil deeds). These Bhoga

vibhuti and Lila Vibhuti come under the direct

ruler-ship of the Divya Dampathis. Next to the Divya

Dampathis these worlds are controlled by Sri

Vishvaksena Azhwan. Everything comes under the regime

of his commanding staff.

 

As per the command of Piratti, Sri Vishvaksena Azhwan

taught the mantrams and mantraarthams and thereby the

tatva, hita and the purushartha to Sri Nammazhwar. Der

to this reason he becomes our third preceptor in the

spiritual lineage of acharyas. Sri Vishvaksena Azhwan

is the consort of Sutravati. There is a reason here

that Swamy Deshikan glorifies Sri Vishvaksena Azhwan

along with his consort.

 

When Bharata decided to bring back Sri Rama from the

forests, he ordered that all four types of battalions

should accompany him to the forests. Then the wives of

the soldiers of these battalions, out of great bhakti

towards Sri Rama, instigated their husbands to leave

for the forest at the earliest. In a similar way,

Srimathi Sutravati thought “When Nammazhwar propagates

the purport of the Vedas to the Jivas in Bhulokam,

then those Jivas would mend their ways and become

Mumukshus and would surrender at the feet of the Lord,

sing His praises and contemplate on Him with all their

heart, and consequently would obtain the divine

anugrahams of the Lord and get themselves liberated

from the samsaric world and come to Sri Vaikuntam.

 

How fortunate should we be to have their company? So

thinking she felt very happy and as per the wish of

Piratti, she instigated Sri Vishvaksena Azhwar to

initiate Maran Shatakopan into the truths at the

earliest. Considering this great support, Swamy

Deshikan glorifies Sri Vishvaksena Azhwan along with

his consort Smt Sutravati. It is said, “There will be

a thousand impediments to good deeds”. Due to Azhwar’s

upadeshams the Jivas will become the seekers of Moksha

or salvation.

 

samsAranyoonathA peethA: thridaSA: paripanThina: If

the Jivas here become the seekers of Moksha or

salvation and as per Azhwar’s upadesham perform

sharanagati and get liberated and attain Sri

Vaikuntam, then there would not be anybody in this

world to do sacrifices and other religious sacraments

and thereby the Devas would be deprived of their share

of the sacrificial offerings. So, the Devas themselves

might impede Azhwar from getting the Upadesham.

 

But, the moment Sri Vishwaksenar takes his staff in

his hand, all the Devas shiver with respect and fear.

And so let us bow at the feet of the husband of

Sutravati, the commander of the army of the Lord, Sri

Vishwaksena Azhwar.

 

asmadhAchArya paryanthAm vandhE GuruparamparAm

 

Regards

Namo Narayana

dasan