SrI: SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah: Dearest all, After mudhal aazhwArs, next we have begun to enjoy Thirumazhisai AzhwAr?s verses on thiruvEnkatam. Today?s is the 90th verse in Naanmukhan ThiruvanthAthi. vIRRirundhu viNNaaLa vENduvaar, vEngadaththaan paalthirundha vaiththaarE panmalargaL, - mElthirundha vaazhvaar varumadhipaarth thanbinaraay, maRRavarkkE thaazhaa yiruppaar thamar 90 Those who wish to live here in this world with fame and prosperity and then to go, attain Srivaikuntam and be there at Paramapadham forever, are the ones who pay obeisance to Lord of ThiruvEmkatam, by offering flowers with piety and sincerity. Those who can know and realise what could be running in Emperumaan?s mind and do that pleases Him, become His Great BhakthAs, and are loved by Emperumaan as His abhimaanis; They ARE MUCH BETTER THAN EVEN THE FORMER. Everyone wishes to attain moksham at some time or other ? and it is certain.. Hence performing Ardhanam for Him is necessary for all devotees. Because, he is the One who destroys our sins; Because He is ThiruvEm katatthan. Vem plus katam- One who destroys or burns the paapams. Meaning: He is the One who grants mOksham.. after destruction of sins. Anishta nivrtthi and Ishta praapthi. One who does not do ArAdhanam for Sriman Narayanan [Sreenivasan] thus would not get mOksham. One who has not surrendered to the Lord Sriman Narayanan would not cross the ocean of samsaara. ThiruvaLLuvar also says the same: piRavi perunkadal neenduvar neendhaar iRaivan adi sErAdhaar Those who have not surrendered to the Lord?s Feet, would NOT cross the ocean of births. [Others- those who have performed Saranagathi] will cross. Ahimsaa prathamam pushpam- even the good qualities can be offered to Him as flowers. Thus the devotees perform ArAdhanam. But being devoted to these devotees, thereby having Bhaagawatha Ardhanam is better than even Bhagavath ArAdhanam. We need to perform Bhaagawatha kaimkaryam. That is the ultimate of Bhagavath kaimkaryam. If we are truly devoted to the Lord, we would naturally feel attracted to and be devoted to His dearest darling devotees as well. We will feel lured to serve them as well. Thus one needs to involve himself with Bhaagawatha kaimkaryam much more than Bhagawath kaimkaryas ? says AzhwAr here. If everyone serves the other devotees like this, then the life would be blissful for all devotees and together they all glorify the Lord. Sriman Narayanan would also be pleased with the same. Tvadbruthya bruthya parichaaraka bruthya bruthya Bruthyasya bruthya ithimaam smaralOka nAtha: - says KulasekarAzhwAr Other AzhwAr echo the same: Kulasekara Azhvaar epitomizes the state of mind of all the AzhwArs when he declares that he will proudly wear on his forehead the wet mud from the feet of devotees, "thoNdar sEvadich sezhuncEr en sennikku aNivanE." PeriAzhvAr proclaims to the world that the precious feet of the Lord's devotees are on his head "... iNaiyadi en thalai mElanavE." NammAzhvAr repeatedly refers to himself as the servant of servant of servant of the Lord's servant, "thONdar thONdar thONdar thONdan satakOpan," and "adiyaar adiyaar thamadiyaar adiyaar thamak kadiyaar adiyaar tham adiyaar adiyOngaLE." This concludes Naanmukhan ThiruvanthAthi verses on ThiruvEnkatam. Let us end with the final verse: In a moving summation of Naanmukhan ThiruvandhAthi, Thirumazhisai AzhwAr reminds the Lord that he will never ever forget His RakshaNam ( Kaapu maranthu aRiyEn: Paasuram 93) and concludes this prabhandham on a majestic note distilling the essence of Sri VaishNva doctrines: iniaRinthEn IsaRkkum NaanmuhaRkkum dhaivam iniaRinthEnem PerumAn unnai -iniaRinthEn KAARANAM NEE KARRAVAI NEE KARPAVAI NEE: NARRKKIRISAI NAARANAN NEE NANKARINTHEN NAAN - 96 [According to Dr. VedAntha Desikan]: Oh My Lord! What have I learnt! I have learnt that You are the Lord to Siva and Brahma and the like. I have correctly comprehended Your innate nature. I have learnt also that You are the cause of all things; that You are the subject of all learning, that You are going to be the subject matter of all future knowledge as well. That is a, things learnt or to be learnt are all out of You and depend on You. All good acts constitute You (This is unlike what pertains to other gods). Thus by acquiring the wisdom on all fronts, I have become fully fit to speak of as 'my self' (only knowledge would signify the soul). Thus, I have acquired all the knowledge that should mark one in at the stage of Mukthi endowed with Jn~Ana VikAsam (blossoming of true Jn~Anam). AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE Namah: Regards Namo Narayana dAsan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! 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