Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- Thirumangai AzhwAr anubhavam Periya Thirumozhi 1.10.2

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all,

 

Let us continue to enjoy Thirumangai AzhwAr’w

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.

 

ThirumangaiAzhwAr proceeds to plead the Lord of

TirumalA for His

unbounded limitless mercy that pours out on His own

out of His Greatest

compassion on us. Let us enjoy this nice ten on

AzhwAr's plea.

 

ilangkaippadhikku anRIRaiyaaya, arakkar

kulamkettavarmaaLak kodippuLthiritthaay!,

vilangkalkudumith thiruvEngkadammEya,

alangkalthuLabamudiyaay! aruLaayE. 1.10.2

 

Oh Lord! The one who thrashed and chased away maali

and other asurAs of lankA that day, by riding on

GarudA and sending the Strong ChakrA! Oh Lord of

ThiruvEmkatam, where even Sun and Moon deviate from

their tracks due to the tall Vemkata Mountain! Oh

Lord! the One who wears ThuLasi maalai on Your Head!

Please shower Your grace on me!

 

[Extract from SrI SatakOpan Swami’s write up] In the

uttara KhAndham, In the first few chapters, Sage

AgasthyA explains to Lord RamachandrA the ancestors of

the Raakshasan, RaavaNan, whom the Lord had destroyed

at LankhA for his offenses against His divine SitA

piraatti.

 

At the battle of UpendrA with Maali, SumAli and

MaalyavAn, Maali's head was cut off by UpEndran

(VaasavAnujan) and the other two ran off from the

battle field and run to LankhA, their capital first

and then escape to the netherworld to escape the fury

of the Lord. This incident is referred to by

NammAzhwAr in the Thiruvaimozhi Paasuram 7.6.8 (

aaLiyai kaaNpariyAi):

 

" Oh Lord! I must reach You and overcome all the

obstacles that stand in my way . If You will it so ,

these obstacles will be banished in one subsection of

a second. Yes, I do remember how you fought with the

powerful RaakshsAs , Maali , MaalyavAn and SumAli ,

who were the ancestors of RavaNA . You killed Maali

with Your Disc and the others ran away in fear. You

mounted Your Vaahanam , Garudan , and fought them and

destroyed their entire entourage . These pitiable

fellows fled like the jackals , when they see the king

of the forest;they ran away like the horses , when

they encounter a lion or a YaaLi . You left piles of

RakshasA corpses in the battle field .Oh Lord ! Please

slay the demons in me like arrogance and ego , which

interfere with my joining You . Oh Lord ! How I long

to join You and see You with my very eyes before long!

 

 

After centuries of hiding , Sumaali left PaathALam and

returned to earth in the guise of a Human being with

his beautiful daughter , Kaikasi and was intent on her

being married to Sage Visrava, the son of Pulasthya

prajApathi , a direct descendant of BrahmA. Kaikasi

approached the Sage at the time , when he was

performing AgnihOthram. She did not realize that it

was an inauspicious time to approach a sage and ask

him to bless her by accepting her as his wife. The

sage explained to her that the interruption to his

AgnihOthram and her request to marry her would result

in the birth of RakshasAs given to cruel deeds instead

of pious sages. The father, SumAli was upset and

prayed to the sage to mitigate the inauspicious news.

The Sage agreed and said that there will be three sons

and the last of the three sons born of his union with

Kaikasi would be pious and the other two will be cruel

RakshasAs. Thus RaavaNA, KumbhakarNA and VibhishaNA

were born. The purpose of RaamAvathAram was

established.

 

The maali, Sumaali incident is also referred to by

NammAzhwAr in his Thiruvaymozhi 9.2.6 … maachina maali

maalimaan enRaNG kavar_patak kananRumun NninRa,

kaaychina vEndhE! kathirmudi yaanE!

 

You came with such ferocity and anger on the more

ferocious GarudA bird with such speed and killed

maali, sumaali; that appeared like the Huge dark cloud

on Big Meru Parvatham (mountain). (With such

" kadunchinam " (terrific anger)m since, You attacked

them You are called " Kaay sina VendhanE! " ) Oh Lord of

brightest shining Crown! The Lord of ThiruppuLingudi!

With most strongest weapons (which also equally show

Your anger on asurAs) of ChakrA, Sanghu, Sword, Bow

and GadhA (mace), and You are the One who removes my

sorrows! Please show mercy on me!

 

Thirumangai AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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