SrI: SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah: Dearest all, After mudhal aazhwArs, next we have begun to enjoy Thirumazhisai AzhwAr?s verses on thiruvEnkatam. Today?s verse is the 45th verse in Naanmukhan ThiruvanthAthi. vaippan maNiviLakkaa maamadhiyai, maalukken Reppozhudhum kainNIttum yaanaiyai, - eppaadum vEduvaLaik kakkuRavar villedukkum vEngadamE, naaduvaLaith thaadumEl nanRu. 46 (Look at AzhwAr?s imagination and poetic narration in this pAsuram!) On top of this ThirumalA, the elephant wants to offer to the Lord Srinivasa the cool moon itself to the Lord and tries to catch it from the sky, while the hunter looking at that elephant tries to surround the elephant and trap. The gypsies (kuRavar) who live in there, seeing the cruel hunters, take their bows to attack the hunters. Such Great ThirumalA- if one pays obeisance happily and sincerely to Emperumaan here at this sthalam, it will DO HIM A LOT GOOD. They will be tremendously benefited. (AzhwAr implies that even the animals love to offer and pay obeisance to the Lord and the Lord removes the hurdles coming in the way). EmperumAn just destroys the hurdles ? and protects even the animals who lives in there. He is the nAthan for all. Without Him, we have no nAthan [master]. When the elephant is performing kaimkaryam offering the moon and attempst to do, why they are trying to kill and torture ? Gypsies wonder and try to save the elephant. That is the way the resident of Thirumala would do? to perform BhAgawatha kaimkaryam. Then- why should hunters try to kill the elephant? Will they behanve in different manner? Yes. They would- as they come from other place [and NOT belonging to Tirumala]. Also [OR if at they also belong to Tirumala- as will be clear from next verse tomorrow], they may not be aware that the elephant is also offering the moon to the Lord [as its kaimkaryam] and that?s why they try to capture the elephant to let it perform the kaimkaryam for the Lord. Thus He is the nAthan for all. vinA VenkatEsam na NaathO na Naatha: SadhA Venkatesam smarAmi smarAmi | HarE! VenkatEsa ! Praseedha Praseedha Priyam Venkatesa ! Prayaccha Prayaccha || Oh VenkatEsa! Even in my dreams, adiyEn does not consider any God superior to You. Therefore , adiyEn is always meditating on You and You alone. Oh Hari! Please grant me the boon of what adiyEn desires or better still, bless me with any auspiciousness , which You deem appropriate for me. The "NAakaara" (inflexion) at the end of the word "NaaraayaNA" proves beyond doubt that the term "Naaraayana" is a proper noun denoting the Lord of Goddess Lakshmi- who is Vishnu. This is confirmed by the grammatical rule of the Vedas (Vyaakaranam - one among the six accessories of the Veda) and by Paanini's sutra for Sanskrit grammar. It is of significance to note that the renowned critic Appayya Deekshitar (who was an extremely great scholar in the 16th century) undertook the exercise of proving that 1000 names of the Vishnu Sahasranamam are applicable to Shiva. However, even he could not do so since any other explanation of the word Narayana violates the rules of Panini's grammar. We quote below verbatim the words of Sri Appayya Deekshitar [a great advaitic scholar] in his Ananda Lahiri commentary. "vEdhaviBhAgArThamEvAvathIrNEna sakalavEdhathAthparyABhigyEna sarvajnyashirOmaNinA vEdhavyAsEna pulasthyavaradAnalabDhadhEvathApAramArThyavEdhanEna shriparAsharENa anyaIscha maharShiBhi: vEdhOpabrahmaNArTham praNIthEShu shrimahaBhAratha vishNupurANAdhiShu nischithaparabrahma BhAvasya sadBhi: sarvaIrapyaviBhAgEna parabrahmEthyEva pUjithasya shrinarayaNasya kvachithkONE niviShtamanthrArThavAdha purANavachanAdhilEshamavalambya jIvaBhAvam vakthum nAsmajjihvA pravarthathE I thaThA chEth mUrDhA cha shathaDhA Bhavathi I vEdhavaIdhikadhrOhO dhEvathAdhrOhascha jAyathE I athO nArAyaNa: parabrahmakOtirEvEthyasmAkam siDdhAntha: II [Meaning: Our tongue would not rise to assert in the wake of a few mantras, arthavadas, and puraNic statements found in some insignificant place that Sri Narayana is a jiva since He has been worshipped by sadhus as Godhead and has been confirmed and declared as parabrahman in the Mahabharata, and other religious works, which were composed solely for bringing out the essence of Vedas by eminent sages like Vedavyasa, who classified and analysed the vedas, and Parashara, who was blessed with the true knowledge about Godhead by Sage Pulastya. If any such attempt were made, our head would burst into a hundred pieces. We would be guilty of treachery to the vedas, sages, and the deity itself. Therefore, it is our considered opinion that Narayana alone qualifies for the title of Godhead.] [extract from Sri Muralidhar Rangaswamy?s article- Thanks to him] AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE Namah: Regards Namo Narayana dAsan __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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