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SrI: 

Dear BhakthAs:

Let us start with the Recitation of the DhyAna slOkam
of ThirukkOvalUr EmperumAn:

PrahlAdha Taarkshya Bali Sukra Namachunananta
LakshmI MrugaNDu Muni Vaasuki sEvyamAnam
KaasAra BhUtha MahathAhvaya dhivya soori
sammarthanOth sukhamaham SaraNam prapadhyE

Today , adiyEn will write about the visit to ThirukkovalUr
dhivya Desam. This is the sacred site where the Mudal AzhwArs
had the darsana soubhAgyam of the Lord with PirAtti at 
the Dehali of the aasramam of a sage .The First , Second
and the Third ThiruvandhAthis arose from that anugraham
of the Lord to Poygai, BhUtham and Pey AzhwArs. Portion of 
AdiyEn's earlier writings on the three AzhwArs are available 
at the Bhakthi Archives:

Poygai (http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/archivesfeb2001/0007.html)
BhUtham(http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/archivesfeb2001/0033.html
Pey (http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/archivesjan2001/0162.html 

Here was born the tribute of Swamy Desikan to DehaLIsa PerumAL
of this dhivya dEsam known as SrI DehaLisa Sthuthi.There are 
Twenty Eight slOkaas in this beautiful sthOthram and 
this Sthuthi has been covered by adiyEn in the postings 
starting from August 1997:

http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/archivesaug97/0012.html

Here was born Saccharithra RakshA , one of the five 
RakshA granthams bequeathed to us by Swamy Desikan .
This VaishNava anushtAna grantham has three chapters
dealing with Sudarsana-Paanchajanya DhAraNam (Taapam ),
Urdhva PuNDra DhAraNam and Bhagavan nivEdhitha upayOgam.

There are 23 paasurams on the EmperumAn of this
dhivya dEsams by number of AzhwArs including 
those of Thirumangai, Poygai and BhUtham .
Thirumangai recalls His darsanam of the Lord
with paasurmas ending : "ThirukkOvalUrathanuLL
KaNDEn naan ". 

Moolavar is the gigantic Thrivikraman with the uplifted 
right Thiruvadi, which is being worshipped by Brahma dEvan.
Moolavar is made of DhAru (Wood ) as in the case of 
Varadhan at Kaanchi resting in a special MaNDapam inside
Anaatha Saras .All the other moorthams inside are
also made of DhAru ( Lakshmi, PrahlAdhan , MahA Bali,
and his son Namacchi worshipping the lord's left foot.
Brahma performs AarAdhanam for the uplifted right foot.
SukrAcchAr who counseled MahA bali not to cede three
feet of land to the KapaDa Vaamanar is also there 
inside the garchagraham along with MrugaNDu Maharishi and 
his wife,the three Mudhal AzhwArs and Garudan). It is 
a crowded Garbha graham as in ParthasArathy Temple at 
ThiruvallikkENi and VanjuLa valli samEtha SrInivAsa
temple at NaacchiyAr Koil. 

Uthsavar is AayanAr, KOvalan (GOpAlan).With Ubhaya 
NaacchiyArs , He is an eye filling anubhavam. 

ThAyAr is SrI PoonkOval NaacchiyAr/SrI Pushpavalli.
She welcomes us with a big smile and She is beautiful
to behold .

ChakkaratthAzhwAn with Yoga Narasimhan bless us in
a separate sannadhi near ThAyAr Sannidhi. 

Theerthams are PeNNai River ,KrishNa and Chakra Theerthams.

VimAnam is SrIkara VimAnam.KshEthram is GopAla Puram.

He is Prathyaksham to: Bali Chakravarthy , Sage MrugaNDu , 
BrahmA ,Indhran, Sage Kukshi, Sages Sounakar,Kaasyapar,Kaalavar,
Kusadhvajan and the three Mudhal AzhwArs.

ThirukkOvalUr is one of the Five KrishNAraNya KshEthrams.
The other four KrishNAraNya KshEthrams are:ThirukkaNNangudi,
Kapisthalam ,ThirukkaNNapuram and ThirukkaNNamangai.

ThirukkOvalUr Temple is under the administration of
SrI EmperumAnAr Jeeyar Swaamigal paramparai for
the past 500 years. The temple is spread over 
five acres of land with big gOpurams and is
maintained in a very clean state. The archakas
belong to the VaikAnasa Aagamam and perform sevais
to sevArthis with great affection. SrI KrishNa PrEmi
Swamy has deep connections to this KshEthram.

VishNu Durgai is a Rakshaki for the Lord .She is
said to have arrived from the VindhyA mountains 
to perform Her guard duties. Thirumangai refers to Her
services in his paasuram: " KaRpudaya Madakkanni kaaval 
pooNDa --" After AarAdhanam and NaivEdhyam to PerumAL
and ThAyar, VishNu Durgai in the ardha MaNDapam ,
aarAdhanam for Durgai takes place.She is Kaaval
dhaivam . Only here among the 108 Dhivya dEsams , 
there is a sannidhi for VishNu Durgai. 

The greatness of ThirukkOvalUr is that it is
the Dhivya Prabhandha avathAra sthalam . The first
three hundred paasurams of the NaalAyiram originated 
here at a dEhaLi.

In the inner prAkAram is Vaamana Moorthy with umbrella
and DhaNDam as he proceeded to Bali Cahkravarthy's
Yaagam to seek three feet of land.VisEsha Uthsavam 
for Him is on AavaNi ThiruvONam.

Thirumangai performs MangaLAsAsanam for the sthala Vruksham
(Punnai: Punnai muttharumpi semponn kAtta)) , River (PeNNai: 
tunjA neer valam surakkum PeNnai), agrahAram filled with 
Vaidhika SrI (sIrERu maRayALar niraintha selva ThirukkOvalUr),
Uthsavar ( MathiL Kovalidaikazhi aayan),VishNu Durgai 
( kaRpudaya madakkannikaaval pooNDa kaDipozhil soozh--
PoonkOvalUr).

Let us enjoy the moving paasuram of ParakAla Naayaki 
performing Madal Oorthal in Periya Thirumadal:

"Senni maNicchudarai TaNNkAl thiRal valiyai
Tannai PiRar aRiyAt-tatthuvatthai mutthinai
annatthai meenai aRiyai arumaRayayai
munnivulahuNDa Moorthiyai KOVALUR
mannum idaikazhi-yemmAyanai--"

Here ParakAla Naayaki performs MangaLAsAsanam
to the Lord DehaLIsan (Idaikkazhi YemmAn) and
visualizes Him as an enchanting pearl(Mutthinai) , 
HamsAvathAran (annatthai) , MathsyAvathAran ( meenAi), 
NrusimhAvathAran (aRiyAyai), Veda Moorthy (arumaRayai) , 
Baala GopAlan who swallowed the entire world and floats on 
a fig leaf on the PraLaya waters( MunnivulahuNDa Moorthiyai).

Let us conclude the visit to this dhivya dEsam 
with the jubilant statement of pEy AzhwAr , when
he and his fellow mudhal AzhwArs are blessed with
the darsana soubhAgyam of DehaLIsan:

ThirukkaNDEn PonnmEni KaNDEn Thihazhum
arukkan aNiniRam kaNDEn--serukkiLarum
PonnAzhi kaNDEn purisangam kaikkaNDEn
YennAzhi VaNNan paal inRu

--MoonRAm ThiruvandhAthi: Paasuram 1

" Today is a great day. I secured the privelege of seeing
the Lord's form, by His grace . I saw MahA Lakshmi ; I saw Her 
on the pure gold body of the Lord; His effulgence was like that
of the Sun; I saw the foe-destroying , firey , but beautiful
chakra; I saw in His hand the bent Paanchajanya conch too.All
I saw in my dear ocean-hued Lord!".

Here the Lord wears Sankham on His right hand and 
the Chakram on the left hand . This is a reversal of
the positions of Sankhu and Chakram that are normally seen.
The Sankham on the right hand is denoting the conferral of
Jn~Anam to devotees. 

Punar Darsana PrApthirasthu 
SrImath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam,
Daasan Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 










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