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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 

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