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Dear BhakthAs :

Let us cover all the other three remaining avathArikais
(introductions) by the three commentators in today's posting .

Srimath Periya ParakAla Swamy 's AvathArikai
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Sriya: Pathi , Sarveswaran thought of chEthanams
learning about the Tatthva Thrayams and ArTa
Panchakam to redeem themselves and thereby gain Moksha
Siddhi. Many from the group of chEthanams did not
take notice of these tatthvams  . Sriman NaarAyaNan
then incarnated as Raama and KrishNa to demonstrate
to them the ways of observing Dharmaa through Their
own updesams enshrined in Bhagavath Gita and Srimath RaamAyaNam .Those
Svasookthis and SvAnushtAnams
of the Lord in Vibhava avathArams did not have much
impact either in the Kali yugam . Our Lord  finally decided that
the way to redeem these bhaddha jeevans is through
sending some one of their own  kind ( human beings/
SajaatheeyAs) just like the hunter uses an elephant
to catch an elephant . He commanded His nithya sooris
to decend to earth as AzhwArs and commanded them
to help with the redemption of the lost souls  struggling in
the SamsAric Ocean .

PeriyAzhwAr's avathAram
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Among the AzhwArs , PeriyAzhwAr is one , who was born
as the amsam of Garudan .We salute him as : " Garuthmadamsam
svsuram MurArE: Sri VishNuchittham SaraNam prapadhyE " .
He was born in SrivilliputthUr , where the EmperumAn
(VaDapathra Saayee ) made VishNuchitthar become a slave
to His soundharyam and auspicious attributes . VishNuchitthar
served His Lord with flower garland kaimkaryam there .
He did not undergo any special training to learn the VedAs
or the SaashtrAs .

The Debate at the Royal Court
*********************************
During this time , the PaaNDya King was worried about
his own Moksha gathy ( way to gain MOksham) and asked
his purOhithar , Selva Nampi for help .Selva Nampi suggested
that the king organize an assembly of scholars to establish
who is the Supreme ( Para DEvathai) One among the gods ,
who alone can gurantee MOksha phalan . A big prize was
set up for the one scholar , who established without doubt
the Supreme Lord , who can confer the boon of Moksham.
A bag with gold coins was hoisted in the court of the king
and it was decided that the winner will have the prize deflected
in his direction . When no one succeded , the prize stayed up .
Many scholars came and went but could not however win
the prize with their arguments .

The Lord's command to VishNuchitthar
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At this time , VishNuchittar at SrivilliputthUr had a dream ,
where Lord Vadapathra Saayee commanded him to go to the king's
court and establish His ( Lord's ) Parathvam and bring home
the prize. VishNuchitthar showed his welted hands from
nandavana kaimkaryam and asked the Lord as how he as an untutored one and a
laborer in the flower gardens can talk
about the Vedams and Saasthrams and dare to argue and hope
to  win among the assembly of great scholars. Lord told
VishNuchitthar to go to the court without any worry and that
He alone will be responsible for Veda VidhyA kaaryam without any previous
formal instruction under any other  AchAryan . VishNuchitthar arrived at the
royal court and was greeted warmly
by the king and his teacher , Selva Nampi.

Empowered by the Lord , VishNuchitthar cogently and convicigly
established the Supermacy of Sriman NaarAyaNan over all gods
with PramANams from many VedAntha Vaakyams. At the conclusion
of his presentation , the bag of prize hanging high on a pole lowered
by itself and fell at the feet of VishNuchitthar .

King's celebration of the Victory of VishNuchitthar
******************************************************
The elated king placed the victorious VishNuchitthar on
the royal elephant and took him around the main streets of
Mathurai . Sriman NaarAyaNan wanted to see the victorious
VishNuchitthar being honored and appeared in person onthe sky
seated on the back of Garudan and with His Devis . All the astounded people
of the town and  the king  were all thus blessed to see
the Lord in person at the sky with their own maamsa chakshus .

When VishNuchitthar had the sevai of Sriman NaarAyaNan , he
was overwhelmed . Instead of seeking boons from the Lord for
Svasamruddhi (his own well being ) , he was overcome by the fear
that the evil eye from the ill wishers of the Lord might  harm the Lord and
began to sing ThiruppallANDu for His protection and wished hundreds of
thousands of years of long life to the omnipotent Lord .VishNuchitthar's
overflowing prEmai for the Lord overtook him and made him forget that it was
ludicurous for a mere mortal like him to bless the Lord with long life .
Because of VishNuchitthar's unique love for the Lord that made him forget
about himself , he came to be known as PeriyAzhwAr (most magnificent ) among
all the AzhwArs.

This experience of PeriyAzhwAr is equal to the anubhavam of SitA PirAtti
when she performed MangaLAsAsanam for Her Lord  . Out of Her intense love
fort he Lord , She assumed the Rakshaka bhAvam ( protector) and related to
Him as the one to be protected(Rakshya BhAvam)  . It was equal to Devaki
performing MangaLa aaseervAdhams to her just born child with Chakram and
sankham in KamsA's prison . It was similar to the rishis of DaNDakAraNyam
who hailed long life to BhagavAn , when they were overtaken by His beauty
and GuNams . Instead of asking boons from the omnipotent Lord for their own
protection , they ended up in the role of His Rakshakars.

PeriyAzhwAr's fear arose from the concern that ParamAthmA ,
who is beyond the rules of Kaalam became visible to the residents of BhUmi ,
where every thing is controlled rigorously by the measures of Kaalam
(Cycles of births and deaths) . AzhwAr feared for that eternal vasthu
( ParamAthmA) to be affected by the transitory events of the earth
and thus run in harm's way . Hence , AzhwAr sang out : "Hail to Thee
for many years , thousands and crores of years so that Bhagavath
samruddhi will stay eternal. He considered in the heat of that moment
that Bhagavath samruddhi (well being ) is same as his own well being
(Sva samrudhdi) and broke into the MangaLAsAsanam of the Lord ,
His DEvis and His weapons . He invited others to join him in that
unique benediction. AzhwAr certainly knew about his own svaroopam
( true nature) and that the Lord's Para Svaroopam ( the Supermacy of
the Lord ) and yet was overcome with fear about any haani for the Lord
and as ParihAram agaist that sang the ThiruppallANDu Pasurams .
Instead of assuming the rakshya bhAvam , AzhwAr entered into Rakshaka
BhAvam praying for the protection of the Lord . His twelve ThiruppallANDu
paasurams like PraNavam contained in themselves enormous TatthvArTams.
They celebrate the Svaroopa-Roopa-GuNa-Vibhava Isvaryams and prays for
freedom from any harm to them in this "wicked " world and for all of those
Isvaryams to stay as eternal wealth without any destruction .

In the first two Paasurams , AzhwAr   performs his own MangaLa
aasAsanam.Not being satisfied with that , AzhwAr invites in
the next three paasurams the three categories of people to join him
in that MangaLa aasAsanam : Bhagavath SaraNArTees , kEvalar , who
seek only aathma saakshAthkAram and IswaryArTees , who only
seek material pleasures . In the next three paasurams , the invited ones
join with the AzhwAr ( AahUthars become sangathars). In the subsequent
three paasurams , all of them hail the Lord in unison with PallANDu.
The final paasuram is the Phala Sruthi.

In the subsequent postings , adiyEn will cover the individual Paasurams of
ThiruppallANDu  Prabhandham .

PeriyAzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
ThUppul KulatthadiyArkaL adiyAr poRRp-padham pORRi
Daasan ,  Oppiliappan KOil VaradAchAri Sadagopan






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