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Dear All,
 
Pranams!
 
aDiyEn would like to write on some interesting and well known aspect about our 
Kulasekara Azhwar, who lived his life full of vairagyam.
 
'GushyatE yasya nagarE rangayAtrA dhinE dhinE
tamahan shirasA vandE rAjAnam kulasEkaram'
 
Azhwar was always keen to visit Srirangam every day. In the process of singing 
on Ranganathan, Azhwar calls all the other people as ghost. Here is the lovely 
pasuram from his Perumal Thirumozhi,
 
pEya rEyenak kiyaavarum yaanumOr
pEya NnEyevark kum_ithu pEsiyen
aaya NnEaraNG kaaenRa zhaikkinREn
pEya Nnaayozhin^ thEnempi raanukkE              
 
He says others are ghost as they are always madly looking for some wordly 
thing, and hence running here and there. Azhwar could not stop with that. He 
calls himself a Ghost. How could it be possible?  It was true for him too, 
because he was so deeply immersed in bhakti for Ranaganathan that he wanted to 
get the anubhavam of not just His darshan but the sambandham of His Bhagavata 
Goshti. He highlighted the second desire in the first 10 pasurams of his 
Perumal Thirumozhi.
 
Now, aDiyEn would go into the link for Ranganthan with ThiruVenkadamudayAn. 
aDiyEn takes the liberty of shifting the focus to our Parakalan. In one of the 
five sets of 10 pasurams for Ranaganathan, Kaliyan says the following in Periya 
Thirumozhi 5.5.1,
 
veruvaathaaL vaayveruvi 'vEnkadamE !
 vEngadamE !' enkin RaaLaal,

Parakala nayaki is madly in love with ThiruVekadamudayAn, who actually decided 
to relax in Thiruvarangam (vaanavargal sandhi seyya nindram 
arangatharavinanaiyAn by Thiruppanazhwar).
 
All the above are the anubhavam of Azhwar Goshti. If we look at even the 
vaanara koottam, they are mad on getting the opportunity for kaimkaryam to 
ThiruVenkadamudayAn,
 
This can be taken from the Bhoothathazhwar's second Thruvandhadhi,
 
pOthaRinthu vaanarangaL pooncunaipukku, aangalarntha
pOtharinthu koNdEtthum pOthu,uLLam - pOthu
maNivENG kadavan malaradikkE sella,
aNivENG kadavanpE raaynthu
 
The vaanara koottam is madly jumping between the trees to do pushpa kaimkaryam 
to ThiruVenkatamudayAn. If we look in to us, the people in samsara, we also are 
a vaanara koottam. Every time we visit ThiruVenkadamudayAn, we jump from one 
request to the other, all for our world living. ThiruppAnazhwar refers to 
vaanara koottam in ThiruVenkadam,
 
'mandhi pai vada vEnkatada mAmalai...'
 
He was also in vaanara koottam because he was madly jumping between the 
avayavams (parts) of Ranganathan's ThirumEni in his anubhavam. 
 
>From all the above references, we could see that the vaanarakkottam in us (the 
>souls in samsara) are the lowest in the order of greatness when compared to 
>even the vaanarams in ThiruVenkadam in the aspect of madness to earn the 
>opportunity to do Nitya Kaimkaryam to Perumal.
 
The unique desire that our Chera king highlighted was not even the kaimkaryam, 
atleast some kind of form on ThiruVenkadam to just enjoy ThiruVenkadamudayAn's 
darshan all the time. He was ready to leave behind every thing for this 
darshan. Shouldn't we all think about getting this madness in us?
 
'umpa rulakaaN torukudaikkeezh uruppasithan
ampoR kalaiyalkul peRRaalu maathariyEn
sempavaLa vaayaan thiruvENG katamennum
emperumaan ponmalaimE lEthEnu maavEnE'
 
aDiyEn apologises for lenghty email, could not stop the flow.
 
aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
ramanan           
 
 
 

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