Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- AndAL anubhavam on ThiruvEnkatam- Thirumangai AzhwAr. anubhavam..

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all,

 

After all AzhwAr’s anubhavams, we have the anubhavams

of remaining two AzhwArs in this series and they have

covered more than fifty percent of the verses on

ThiruvEnkatam. They are NammAzhwAr and Thirumangai

AzhwAr. Let us enjoy Thirumangai AzhwAr first.

 

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

(ajj~nAnam) with his word and who destroys the Kali

dhOsham

 

Emberumaanaar (Sri Ramnuja's) thaniyan

 

vaazhi parakaalan vaazhi kaliganRi,

vaazhi kuRaiyaloor vaazhvEnNdhan -- vaazhiyarO

maayOnai vaaLvaliyaal manNdhirangkoL mangkaiyarkOn

thooyOn sudarmaana vEl.

 

Long live Parakaalan; May He who has removed the Kali

dhOsham long live; who is staying permanently at

ThirukkuRaiyaloor long live; who showed His spear and

threatened the SarvEshwaran Lord Sriya:pathih Sriman

Narayanan, to get upadEsam from Him straight away long

live; May this purest BhakthA, the king of Thirumangai

beings, long live! And may His lustrous sword in His

hand long live!

 

Azhvaan (KooratthAzhwAn) 's thaniyan

 

nenjchukku iruLkadi dheepam adangkaa nedumbiRavi,

nanjhukku nallavamudham thamizha nannool thuRaigaL,

anjukku ilakkiyam aaraNasaaram* parasamayap

panjhuk kanalin poRi parakaalan panuvalgaLE.

 

Thirumangai AzhwAr's works are like yamaa for the

enemies (other religions- non-believers); they are

like the lamp that removes the darkness of ignorance

(a~jnAnam); they are like the nectar (amudham) that

can change the killing fatal poison of these births

that has been going on for us, since time immemorial,

which can not be fought against with any amount of

efforts at all otherwise; They are the tamil

literature which has got yezhutthu, sol, poruL, yaappu

and aNi.

 

Embaar's thaniyans

 

engkaLgadhiyE! iraamaanusamuniyE!

sangkai kedutthaaNda thavaraasaa -- pongkupugazh

mangkaiyarkOn eendha maRai aayiram anaitthum

thangkum manamn Nee yenakku ththaa.

 

Oh Ramanuja! Our only refuge! Oh King of thapasvIs

(those who do great penance) and the Chief of

everyone! The One who removes our doubts on saasthrAs!

Please bless this lowly self, me to get to know the

entire collection of thousand pAsurams of

Thirumangaimannan, which house the Vedic truths in

full.

 

maalaith thaiyE vazhi paRikka vENum enRu

kOlip padhilirundha koRRavanE! - vElai

aNaitthu aruLum kaiyil adiyEn vinaiyaith

thuNitthu aruLa vENum thuNindhu.

 

Oh King, The One who hid behind the bushes and robbed

Sriman Narayanan! You, (who is the saviour and

protector from the onslaught and attack of other

religions with your great " vEl " (spear)), should bless

me and cut asunder my sins and karmic diseases with

your sharp spear.

 

However, let us enjoy his life and listing of his

wonderful prabandhams before immersing ourselves into

the verses

 

Thirumangai AzhwAr was the last of the Twelve AzhwArs.

[written by Sri Sadagopan Swami, New York]

 

KaarthikE KrittikA Jaatham chathushkavi SikhAmaNim

ShaDprabhandha kruthaM Saarnga-mUrthim kaliyamAsrayE

 

Thirumangai AzhwAr known as Kaliyan, ParakAlan was

born in Nala samvathsaram , VriscchikA Maasam ,

PourNami dinam.It was a Thursday and KritthikA

Nakshathram was in ascendance.His place of birth is

Thirukkurayaloor near ThiruvAli-Thirunahari.

His given name at birth was Neelan.He was born in

Chathurtha VarNam and he mastered svakula Vidhyai of

DhanussAsthram .With his mastery of archery and

weapons handling , he was formidable in fights. He

became a chieftain of a district in the kingdom of

ChOLAs and served the ChOLA king. He had four

ministers with the names of ThALUthuvAN , Neer-mEl

NadappAn , Nizhalil MaRaivAn and ThOlA azhakkan .With

their help and the carrying power of his horse with

the name of AadalmA ,Neelan was able to drive away

many enemies of the ChOLA king and enjoyed a honoured

status in the ChOLA Kingdom.

 

Meanwhile , in a nearby village , there was a female

child born as BhUmyamsai in an Aambal pond ( Kumuda

saras) and a Vaisyan took that child home and adopted

it as his own.This child grew to be a beautiful maiden

named Kumudavalli. The parents were worried

about finding a suitable bridegroom for their

daughter. Friends of Neelan mentioned to him about the

extraordinary beauty of Kumudavalli .Neelan rushed to

the house of the parents of Kumudavalli and requested

the father to give his daughter away as his bride. The

father asked his daughter about her

consent and she replied that any one whom she could

marry should have VishNu Chinhams (SamAsrayaNam ),

VishNu Bhakthi and should in addiiton perform

TadhiyAraadhanams for the BhagavathAs.

 

Neelan was smitten with love for Kumudavalli and

agreed to her conditions. He went to the Sannidhi of

ThirunaRayUr PerumAL and prayed for SamAsrayaNa

BhAgyam. ThirunaRayUr Nampi consented and pressed the

disc and conch on the shoulders of Neelan , presented

ThirumaNN Kaappu and initiated Neelan into the meaning

of Thirumanthiram . All of these happenings

were not visible to the archakAs and the sEvArthis of

ThirunarayUr Nampi . Neelan was blessed to receive

SamAsrayaNam from the very hands of the Lord and

returned home as a Sri VishNavan , wedded Kumudavalli

and began the TadhiyArAdhana kaimkaryams .

 

The spies of ChOLa RaajA reported that Neelan was

spending a lot of the revenues due to the king in

TadhiyArAdhanams .The angry king ordered his soldiers

to capture Neelan and bring him to the court.

Thirumangai Mannan confronted the soldiers sent by the

king and drove them away .The king himself came to

fight Thirumangai Mannan and prooved to be no match

for his heroic commander . The king

also had to withdraw from the battle . The king

however tricked Thirumangai with conciliatory words

and had him imprisoned.

 

Thirumangai was very sad over the interruption to his

TadhiyArAdhana Kaimkaryam and during his dream inside

the prison , Lord VaradarAjA appeared before him and

instructed him to come to Kaanchi to recover buried

treasure close to His temple and gain his release from

the prison.

 

Next Morning , Thirumangai proceeded to Kaanchi with

a court servant , worshipped Lord VaradarAjan and dug

up the treasure pointed out by the Lord . He returned

the funds used from the treasury of the king for

TadhiyArAdhanams and used the rest of the funds for

the future Kaimkaryam .

 

Soon the extra funds from Kaanchi were used up and

Thirumangai had shortage of funds to carry on his

TadhiyArAdhanam . With the counsel of the ministers

(asAdhubhyO arTam aadhAya Saadhubhyas sampracchathi),

Thirumangai appropriated funds from avaishNavAs and

fed the VaishNavAs.Thirumangai did not touch any

VaishNava dhanam .One day , Thirumangai did not

encounter any avaishNavAs to gather money for

the TadhiyArAdhanam and was very sad about

the interruption to his Kaimkaryam.

 

The dhivya Dampathis saw the plight of their

Bhakthan and appeared before him as a rich avaishNava,

newly-wedded couple. Thirumangai was happy to see

them adorned with rich jewelery and ornaments. He

robbed them and put all his plunderings in a box and

tried to lift that box so he can go back to his

village . Thirumangai could not lift that box ,

however much he tried. He was angry and thought that

the bridegroom had cast a spell that made the box

un-liftable. Thirumangai drew his sword and demanded

that the bridegroom reveal to him the manthram

that he (the Bridegroom) had used to make that box

super heavy. The bridegroom laughed and addressed

Thirumangai as " Namm KaliyA " and asked Kaliyan to

come closer so that he can repeat the manthram in to

Kaliyan's ears. Lord Sriman NaarAyaNa recited the

Moola Manthram in the ears of Kaliyan and blessed him

with His Sevai with MahA Lakshmi and His parijanams.

Thirumangai Mannan became at that instant Thirumangai

AzhwAr and performed SaraNAgathi at the sacred feet

of the Dhivya dampathis.

 

The AanandhAnubhava PravAham of Thirumangai found its

release through Six Prabhandhams , which serve as

the six angams for the four Tamizh vedams of Swamy

NammAzhwAr .These Six prabhandhams set in the four

modes of poetry known as Aasu, Chithram, Madhuram and

Vistharam and earned him the name of Naalu Kavi

perumAL.

 

These six prabhandhams extolling Bhagavath

GuNAnubhavam, SaraNAgathi and Bhagavath-BhAgavatha

kaimkaryams are:

 

(1)Periya Thirumozhi

(2) ThirukkuRunthANDakam

(3)ThirunedumthANDakam

4) ThiruvEzhukkURRirukkai

(5) SiRiya Thiumadal and

(6) Periya Thirumadal.

 

Thirumangai AzhwAr performed MangaLAsAsanam for

86 of the 108 dhivya dEsams . He performed many

kaimkaryams such as the building of the ramparts

for the Srirangam temple, construction of the

dasAvathAra sannidhi at Srirangam and the creation

of the Thiruadhyayana Uthsavam at Srirangam .

He ascended to parama Padham from the dhivya desam

of ThirukkuRunkudi.

 

Let us enjoy his verses from morrow...

Thirumangai AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

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