SrI: Dear BhakthAs of OppilA Appan : We will now enjoy the ten paasurams of Periya Thirumozhi 6.2 of Thirumangai Mannan about ThiruviNNagarappan . In the previous ten paasurams , Thirumangai AzhwAr appealed to the Lord to bless him with His auspicious arsanam and vowed to banish the Manai Vaazhkkai in return . He asked the Lord nine times for that boon . Nothing happened . EmperumAn did not respond .Thirumangai wondered why the Prabhu of ThiruviNNagar was indifferent . The astute AzhwAr recognized that ThiruviNNagarappan was testing his resolve about his intentions and promises to quit the samsAric temptations . Thirumnagai decided to put in to practise what he promised to do instead of talking about his intentions ; he execute his intentions and then approached the Lord once again to gain the boon that he sought . Thirumangai lists now one by one the efforts he has taken and describes his humble mental state of helplessnes (agathi , ananya saraNan ) with which he is approaching the Lord for refuge at His sacred feet . Thirumangai lists all the trials and tribulations that he went thru and the transformations in him as a result of those harrowing experiences . AzhwAr appeals to the Lord to take in to account his vivekam and VairAgyam that he has gained from his sufferings associated with the incidents prior to his appeal for aasrayaNam at ThiruviNNagarappan's Thiruvadi . In the first paasuram , Kaliyan explains that he could not bear all the samsAric sufferings anymore and cites that as the compelling reason for seeking refuge at the Lord's sacred feet . In the second paasuram , AzhwAr connects his misfortunes of timeless births in different wombs to his forgetfulness of the Lord at critical times . In the third Paasuram , AzhwAr observes that birth in this SamsAric world is largely prathikoolam ( interference , counter weight to the efforts to perform kaimkaryam to the Lord at His Supreme abode and to enjoy BrahmAnandham there ) . In the fourth Paasuram , AzhwAr concedes that the children and wife and attachment to them does not help in the efforts to seek moksham . They hold one mired in the mud of samsAram . In the fifth Paasuram , Thirumangai states that the wealth that we run after are perishable and non-lasting and thay wont help us in our saadhana to reach the Para Brahmam . In the sixth Paasuram , AzhwAr points out that the panchEndhriyams are tyrannical in their grip and wont permit us to follow the path that will lead us to Moksham . In the seventh paasuram , AzhwAr appeals to the Lord of ThiruviNNagar to take note of the changes in him as a result of his intense fight with all the opposing factors that held him back from the Lord until then . In the eighth and the ninth paasurams , AzhwAr refers to the sins accumulated from his worldly way of life chasing alpa sukhams and performs his saraNAgathy to ThiruviNNagarappan as the mOksha dhAyaka , Sujana Saarvabhouman . In the tenth paasuram , Kaliyan states that those who recite and meditate on the meanings of the ten Paasurams of this decad will be blessed to join the nithyasooris (eternally liberated souls like Garudan , VishvaksEnar et al) and stay in Sri Vaikuntam with them forever serving the Lord . In the next posting , we will study the first Paasuram of the Periya Thirumozhi 6.2 . NamO NaarAyaNAya , Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama: ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/WwRTUD/SOnJAA/i1hLAA/XUWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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