Sri mathe Ramanujaya namaha Dear Bhakthas,I also floated this question to my friends. No one could reply, but I would like to expose my ajnanam, so that I can learn from others. 1. There are five ways of prayer to the Lord. They are Naman, Smaran, Keerthanam, Yachanam and Arpanam. The five faces depict these five forms. Lord Hanuman always used to Naman, Smaran and Keerthanam of Lord Sri Rama. He totally surrendered (Arpanam) to his Master Sri Ram. He also begged (yachanam) Sri Rama to bless him the undivided love.
2. Let us recall Bhagavat Githa Sloka mat-karma-krn mat-paramo mad-bhaktah sanga-varjitah nirvairah sarva-bhutesu yah sa mam eti pandava 11.55 ||Lord Krishna says, "O Pandava, he who acts for me, who is engrossed in me, who is my devotee, who is free from attachment, he reaches me"
We find all these 5 qualities enshrined in Hanuman. Each of his face explains the five divine qualifications.3. I think, this Panchamuka Anjaneya icon is at Tamil Nadu. So we will ask Kambazwar about this.
Anjile onru petran Anjile onraka Ariyaruku aha ehi Anjile onru petra Anagai kaka Anjile onrai thavi Anjile onraivaithan Aban namai alithukappanHe is son Vayu Bhagavan (Anjile onru petran - vayu is one of Panjabutham). He became the member of the Ariya family. (Sita Laksmana Bharatha Satrukna Hanumath samathe Sri Ramachandra para brihmane Namaha). He crossed the one of five oceans to reach Sita Devi (She is a daughter of Earth - one of the five Panjabhutam). He put fire (one of the Panjabhutham) on Srilanga to kill demons. You can see all five. May be the artist thought over about this before making the Vigraham.
Let me side track this slightly:I heard from one Swamiji that Sri Hanuman is very avatar of Lord Siva. He quoted from Siva puranam, I forgot the sloka/verse. When Parvathi devi asked Siva to give a simpler way to say Vishnu sahasranamam. Isvara told her recite his Lord's name Sri Rama.
Isvara uvacha Srirama rama rameti rame manorame Saharanamatatulyam ramanam varanane Sriramanama varanana om nama iti.The Swamiji also told that Lord Siva has control over the Panchabhutas. May be because of this Lord Hanuman is pictured with five faces.
I may be wrong, please slap me. Jai Sriman Narayana Dasan Sudarsanan
From: "Mohan Sagar" <msagar@xxxx> Reply-To: SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxx To: SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxx CC: "Bhakti List" <bhakti-list@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [SriRangaSri] Panchamukhi AnjanEya Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:50:53 -0700 Someone had recently posted a question to SriRangaSri asking for details surrounding Sri Panchamukhi AnjanEya. I posed this question to HH Sri Tridandi Jeear, who replied today: ----- Original Message ----- From: chinna jeeyar <acharya27@xxxx> To: <jetusa@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [jetusa] Fw: [SriRangaSri] Significance of Panchamukhi Anjaneyar > Priya Sriman Mohanji! > Jai Srimannarayana! > We do not know much about panchamukhi Anjaneya Swamy. > We know one Anjaneya from Sri Ramayanam. He was one > headed Anjaneya. When he was in Lanka in search of > Sitadevi, he happened to fight with rakshasas, then he > might have taken this form, but not for the sake of > devotees. Then while he was fighting with Rakshasas,on > behalf of Srirama, while Rama- Ravana war was going > on, he might have again taken that form, even then > also it was only for the Demons. Devotees, can > visualize him in a beautiful form with one head andtwo > hands and serving Sri ramachendra, whom we call as > Dasa Anjaneya. There may be other stories about > Panchamukha Anjaneya Swamy. Let us see how people > supply stories about Pancha Mukhas & Anjaneya swamy. > =chinnajeeyar= >
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