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Dear Sri Nrusimha BhakthAs :

SrimAn Sarathy of Bangalore requested me to write on the Ten
paasurams of Thirumangai AzhwAr on Ahobila Naraimha Prabhu.
It is my pleasure to do so. Sri Sarathy  is an AhObila Matam sishyar .
These Paasurams like the NaimichAraNya Paasurams are used
in the daily SaathumuRai at the Sannidhi of MalOlan .

The First AhObila Narasimha Paasuram starts this way :

 angkaN nyaalamanja angkOr aaLariyaay avuNan
 pongga aagam vaLLugiraal pOzhndha punidhanidam,
 paingkaNaanaik kombu koNdu patthimaiyaal, adikkeezhch
 chengkaNaaLi ittiRaincum SingkavEL kunRamE.

Thirumangai Mannan's Vaibhavam
************************************
Thirumangai AzhwAr , the last of the AzhwArs in a chronological sense
was following Saiva SampradhAyam as a chieftain of Aali Naadu .
When he wanted to marry Kumudhavalli NaacchiyAr , she rejected
him as an " avaishNavan ". Thirumangai Mannan pointed out that
he was born in a Saiva Paramparai and yet through Saasthra Jn~Anam ,
he is a VishNu Bhakthan . He offered to adorn VaishNava lakshaNam
( ThirumaNN Kaappu ) and Kumudhavalli relented to take his hand
in marriage . She put one more condition . She wanted Thirumangai
to conduct TadhiyArAdhanam every day for MahA BhAgavathAs of
Sriman NaarAyaNan for an year . Thirumangai agreed and used his wealth to
perform such TadhiyArAdhanams daily . After he expended his wealth ,
he accumulated wealth in many other ways including waylaying people
and using their wealth to continue with the Bhagavadh-BhAgavatha
AarAdhanams .

BhagavAn Sriman NaarAyaNan was immensely pleased with the Bhakthi
of Thirumangai for His BhAgavathAs and decided to intervene actively
to bless Thirumangai . Our Lord took on the appearance of a rich Brahmin
adorning costly jewelery on His person and was accompanied by His divine
consort with abundant jewelery . They appeared as a newly married couple
travelling on the road where Kaliyan and his cohorts were waiting for
victims to come their way . Kaliyan was very pleased with the prospect of
the rich couple as a source of revenue for feeding the BhagavathAs for the
next
few days . Kaliyan took up his spear and robbed the Lord , tied up all
the jewelery in a neat little bundle and put it down. He turned his
attention to a beautiful diamond ring that the Brahmin ( our Lord )
was wearing and tried to pull that ring out of the finger of the victim .
Kaliyan experienced difficulty in completing the task of robbing
the Lord of His ring (Mothiram)  . Now , He tried to lift the bundle
containing the jewelery and found to his dismay that it was impossible
to lift that bundle . It was too heavy . Kaliyan got angry at his victim and
accused Him of using a manthram to frustrate him . Our Lord answered :
" Yes , There is a most auspicious Manthram holding its sway but I can not
reveal it " . Kaliyan got angrier and tried to use his teeth to remove the
ring
from the Lord's finger .

Our Lord responded in an  exclamatory mood : " Is not this our dear Kaliyan
? ".
Thirumangai was now blessed with the sambhandham of the Lord's body through
his teeth and got elevated immediately . Our Lord transformed Himself now
into His Own Svaroopam with MahA Lakshmi at His side and with great
affection
performed the UpadEsam of AshtAksharam into the ear of Thirumangai.
That adhbhutha anugraha visEsham of the Lord  made Thirumangai
a PoorNa VaishNavar and the blessed Kaliyan travelled with his Devi
Kumudhavalli to many dhivya dEsams and performed MangaLAsAsanam on
the various  ArchA Moorthys with delectable Paasurams with deep TathvArthams
.
Thirumangai blessed us with six dhivya prabhandhams as the six angams for
Swamy NammAzhwAr's four Dhivya Prabhandhams ( Four Vedams) .

Sequence of Paasurams before AhObila Paasurams
*******************************************************
Elated by the mahA bhAgyam of recieving AshtAkshara ManthrOpadEsam
directly from Sriman NaarAyaNan , in the first Paasuram of his Periya
Thirumozhi , Thirumangai expresses his gratefulness to the Lord for
blessing him , who was unfit in every way with the Ujjevana Manthram of
AshtAksharam revealing the sambhandham between JeevAthmA and
ParamAthmA : " NaadinEn naaDi naann kaNDu koNDEn NaarAyaNA
yennum naamam ". In the 8th paasuram of the First Pathikam of Periya
Thirumozhi , Kaliyan assured us that if he could acquire AshtAkshara
manthram even if he was not fit to recieve it , that people like us should
have no doubt in being blessed with such anugraham . He was pointing out
in the mood of NaicchyAnusandhAnam that paramAthma dhAsyam is
svabhAvikam for the Jeevans . In the 9th Paasuram , Thirumangai
revealed to us that the name of NaarAyaNa will bless us with every
kind of Iswaryam ( Kulam , Selvam , NeeL visumbu , valam , perunilam ) .
He concluded this Paasuram with a celebratory statement about
the power of AshtAksharam : " PeRRa thAyinum aayina seyyum ,
nalam tarum sollai nAnn kaNDu koNDEn NaarAyaNA yennum nAmam ".
That NaarAYaNa nAmam will bless us with the hitham , which is even more than
what one's own Mother could confer . Kaliyan concluded that in the land
populated by
AshtAkshara (Thirumanthira) nishtars  ( who are deeply immersed in it) ,
there will be no diseases or deficiencies ( VyAdhi and dhurbhiksham) .

In the second decad , Thirumangai celebrates NaarAyaNa Naama PrabhAvam
and arrives at the dhivya dEsam of Thiruppirithi ( JyOthir Matam ) on
the banks of river GangA . Thirumangai was on his way to BadrikAsramam
where NaarAyaNan performed UpadEsam for Naran on AshtAksharam.
Sriman NaarAyaNan is also the devathai for AshtAkshara Manthram .
Therefore , Thirumangai decided to travel to BadrikAsramam and  stopped
on the way at Thirupparithi , a dhivya dEsam at the foot hills of HimAlaya .

In the third and the fourth decads , Thirumangai performs MangaLAsAsanam
for the EmperumAn of BadrikAsramam . After the visit to Thiruppirithi and
Badari , Thirumangai arrives at the dhivya dEsam of SaaLagrAmam on
the banks of Gadaki river in the snow bound territory of HimAlayAs .
Here , he performs MangaLAsAsanam for Sri Moorthy of SaaLagrAmam
thru the paasurams of the 1.5 decad of Periya Thirumozhi .

After SaaLagramam , Thirumangai descends to the plains and arrives
at NaimichArANyam , where the Lord is in the form of a forest . Here ,
Thirumangai performs SaraNAgathy to the EmperumAn of NaimichAraNyam :
" NaathanE vanthunn Thiruvadi adainthEn  NaimichAraNyatthuLLa YenthAi ".
NaimichAraNyam is the sacred place, where Maharishis assemble to perform
sathkarmAs and removes all sins thru dharmAchAram .Here Thirumangai
confessed that he is the possessor of many sins and he performed SaraNAgathy
at the Lord's sacred feet there to destroy those sins . After that moving
SaraNAgathy to the Lord , who is in the form of forest (AaraNyam ) at
NaimichAraNyam , Thirumangai thought of another dhivya dEsam
known for its dense forests and tall mountains (Viz)., AhObilam .
Thirumangai was pulled towards that dhivya dEsam of AhObilam
by Narasimha BhagavAn . Thirumangai performed MangaLAsAsanam
for the Lord of SingavEzh KunRam (AhObilam ) , which will be the focus
of this series of postings . From AhObilam , Thirumangai sought  another
mountainous dhivya dEsam ( ThiruvEngadam ) and performed MangaLAsAsanam
of ThiruvEngadamudayAn with 40 paasurams .

Thus , the ten paasurams on AhObila Naathan are in between those of
NaimichAraNya paasurams and the ThiruvEngada Paasurams . adiyEn will
cover the individual paasurams of AhObilam in the subsequent postings .

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

P.S : Please join in ANDAL's Mutthangi Kaimkaryam at SrivilliputthUr,
Her avathAra Sthalam on Aadi Pooram day  . adiyEn plans to close
the appeal for Mutthangi SamarpaNams by next Friday , July 15 .










 
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