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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:
Dearest Srivaishnavas,

Let us continue to enjoy Poigai AzhwAr
aruLiccheyalgaL? 
His Mudhal ThiruvanthAthi 40thth verse is the next
one:

peruvil pakazhik kuRavar_kais senthee
veruvip punamthuRantha vEzham, - iruvisumpil
meenveezhak kaNdancum vEngadamE, mElasurar
kOnveezha kaNdukanthaan kunRu.   [40 

Sri Srinivasa perumAL of ThiruvEnkatam resides here
forever only in order to crush the enemies and destroy
the hurdles of His dearest devotees. 

This Thirumalai is the place of the Lord who had
destroyed the chief of asurAs- HiraNyan and rejoiced
making him fall dead. In this divya Desam, the
[kuRavar] gypsies who live in there, in order to chase
the elephants out of their fields, run behind them
holding big well-lit torches with the ball of fire at
its end for showing the directions and the path. The
elephants get out of their fields and go into the
forests. But those elephants get scared that the
meteors that fall from the skies are the ball of fire
[from these gypsies]. 

Yet another poetic imagination by AzhwAr! 

HiraNyakasipu ? father of Prahlada asked his son:
where is Your Lord Sri Hari? 
He is there everywhere. [engum uLan kaNNan]- says
Prahalada. 
Is he here? [ingillaiyaa?] asks HiraNyakasipu.  
Hiranyakashipu is the personification of ahankaram and
mamakaram [I and mine]. He has caused lots of damage
to all the bhaktas, sages and bhaagavathas by
instructing them to do everything for himself and not
for the Lord Sri Hari. He has questioned the very
existence of God, challenged Him as also propagated to
the world that he himself is the Supreme. He had
tortured his own son and committed tremendous
BhAgawatha apachAram.

The Lord Sri Nrusimha proved that his bhakthas are
protected by Him always.  Prahlada was saved number of
times from Hiranyakasipu's torturous deeds and all the
while, Lord was waiting for the opportune moment. 
  
The same is reflected in PeriyAzhwAr pAsuram:   

kOLariyinnuruvangoNdu_avuNanudalam
       kuruthikuzhambiyezhakkoorukiraalkudaivaay!
?
aaLa! enakku_orukaal_aadukasengeerai
       aayar_kaLpOrERE! aaduka_aadukavE.

Oh Lord! The One who tore the body of hiraNyakasipu
with His sharp nails getting the blood inside out,
taking the form of lion faced huge form (Nrusimha
avataaram) to make the Bhagawatha?s words true
(Prahalada?s)! During Govardhana Pooja, when DevEndran
angered and sent torrential rains on Gokulam, You
lifted effortlessly the Govardhana mountain to save
the cattle and the cowherd folks from heavy downpour!
Oh Master! Aduga senkeerai.. Aduga AdugavE..

The Lord made not only the words of Prahalada; also
did he make the words of Chathur muka brahmA when he
gave away the boon to HiraNya kasipu. He took the
form; the time, the weapon (nails- which are alive as
well as dead- meaning nails do not have life, as when
we cut, it does not pain; and still it has life as it
grows) the place (neither inside the house nor
outside- at the entrance; neither on the ground nor in
the sky.. on his lap..). Also Sri Manavala MamunigaL
mentioned in his vyAkhyanam of this pAsuram that the
Lord came in such a way that made HiraNyakasipu think
of the truthful words of Prahalada (at the time of his
death).

Thus, the Lord is teaching a lesson, indirectly also
to Lord Brahma, on giving boons- to what extent a boon
has to be given and to whom.  Lord Brahma had blessed
Hiranyakasipu in such a way that Lord has very few
options and He abided by all the conditions of the
boon and did not violate any.

The wonder of BhagawAn NarasimhA's leelA is that His
appearance reflects intense anger towards
hiraNyakaSipu, while at the same time, He makes His
appearance to prahlAda one of intense Mercy and
kindness reflecting that of a mother feeding her young
child (datta sthanA saroja sadrSA drSA vyatibhishajya
thE vyajyate in Swamy Desikan?s KaamaasikhAshtakam).
Such is greatest kripa or dayA to His devotees.

The Lord Narasimha is the One who is here at this
divya desam of ThiruvEnkatam and is ever ready to
protect His devotees at all times. BhagawAn is the
only one who can protect us.  If He does not protect
us
no one else can protect us, and if He decides to
protect us, we don't need anyone else's protection. 
This concept is conveyed in Slokam 8 of Swamy
Desikan?s KaamaasikhAshtakam

tvayi rakshati rakshakaih kim ananyaih; 
tvayi ca arakshati rakshakaih kim ananyaih.  

The same idea was conveyed in SrI ashTabhujAshTakam
Sloka 5 and 6:  bhayam kutah syAt tvayi sAnukampe,
rakshA kutah syAt tvayi jAtaroshe
(Slokam 5), and tvayi pravrtte mama kim prayAsaih,
tvayyapravrtte mama kim prayAsaih (Slokam 6).  This is
the basis of goptrtva varaNam (the deliberate choice
of Lord Sriya: Pathi Sriman Narayanan alone as the
Sole Protector) which is one of the limbs of prapatti
or performance of Saranagathi. [from Sri N
Krishnamachari Swami?s translation]. 
 
AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Sri PadmavathI samEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE
namah:
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan

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