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SrI:

 Dear BhakthAs of ThiruviNNagarappan :

Today , we will study the seventh Paasuram from
the 6.3 pathikam of Periya Thirumozhi :

vERE  kooRuvathu uNdu adiyEn viritthuraikkum
    aaRE Nee paNiyAthu adai Ninn Thirumanatthu
kooREn nenju tannAl guNam koNDu maRROr dhaivam
    thEREn Unnaiallal  ThiruviNNagarAnE

The key words in this Paasuram are : " maRRu ohr dhaivam
guNam koNDu nenju tannAl kooREn ; Unnai allAl thEREn ".

NOW , ThiruviNNagappan asks AzhwAr a question : " Namm KaliyA !
I accept that you are a highly evolved  Jn~Ani , who will not
look at other dhaivams since You recognize that all of them
are empowered by Me alone as their indweller and that they
can not grant anyone Moksham . This MahA visvAsam of yours
has brought me closer to you .  I still have a question for you .

In Your earlier paasuram ( MaanEy nOkku nallAr mathi pOL
muhatthu ulavum OonEy kaNN vaaLikku - -- " ) , You described
the power of the eyes of women whom you enjoyed in the past
prior to the development of Vairagyam that drove you to Me .
I am just curious about one thing in this context . Can you share
with Me the particular GuNams and VibhUthis (Iswaryams) of
the other gods that impressed you ? Kaliyan responds to
the question of the Lord of ThiruviNNagaram through
this paasuram .

( Meaning of the Paasuram ) : Oh ThiruviNNagarappA !  adiyEn's
response to Your question is this ( adiyEn kooRuvathu vERE
uNDu ) . Please do not anticipate adiyEn to elaborate on this
subject  like I did in the case of the charming women , who had
a spell over me . adiyEn was then in the middle of SamsAra bhOgam .
Once adiyEn enjoyed these bhOgams , I understood the dhOshams
associated with such anubhavams and resolved to free myself
from their powerful attractions. 

In the case of the other dhaivams , adiyEn has not worshipped 
them to gain any non-lasting bhOgams like residence in Svarga 
lOkam .  Please do not therefore expect me to be conversant with 
the guNams or VibhUthis of these gods to describe  them . 

The precious AshtAkshara ManthrOpadEsam alone that you 
blessed me with is sufficent  for me . adiyEn has no desire 
to learn about the vibhUthis of the other gods . adiyEn has
no doubt that there is any other god that can match or equal Your
limitless vibhUthis and anantha kalyANa guNams . adiyEn will not
spend even a fraction of a second thinking about the vibhUthis of
the other gods , since the time spent that way is wasted time 
and takes adiyEn away from dhyAnam and keerthanam about 
You and AarAdhanam for You . adiyEn is speechless in this matter 
and genuinely could not respond to Your question even if I wanted to . 
This You have to accept .

adiyEn's mind  will not be tempted to think about the glories of
other  gods . adiyEn will not speak about  them and will not hear
other people speaking about their glories . adiyEn will not seek
any god other than You as my PrApya PrApakam ( the object to
be attained as the ultimate goal of my life ) .  Please do not press
adiyEn to describe the vibhuthis of other gods since adiyEn is
an ignoramus in this matter . adiyEn has totally surrendered to
You with the unalterable conviction that You are my sole protector ,
the means and goal for Moksham . You have said in GithA " MaamEkam
SaraNam vraja " . adiyEn has followed  that beacon of light to help
me in the life's journey and have travelled directly to Your lotus
feet and performed SaraNAgathy . There is not much that adiyEn
can therefore say about the guNams or Iswaryams of the other gods .
Thirumangai side steps the question of the Lord based on his genuine 
conviction about the Parathvam of ThiruviNNagarappan .

Thirumangai & the Parathvam of Sriman Naryana 
**************************************************
After performing MangaLAsAsanam at ThiruviNNagaram , Thirumangai
visited the dhivya dEsam of ThirukkaNNapuram and  declared again
emphatically there too  about the Parathvam of Sriman Narayanan
( Periya Thirumozhi: 8.10.3) , which  he stated at ThiruviNNagaram :

MaRRum ohr dhaivam uLathenRu iruppArOdu
uRRilEn , uRRathum UnnadiyArkkadimai
maRRellAm pesilum Ninn Thiruvettezhutthum
kaRRu nAnn KaNNapuratthemmAnE

(Meaning ) : Oh Lord of KaNNapuram ! AdiyEn will not even
associate with those , who think that there is a God superior
to You , who is worthy of worship . The most ardent desire of
adiyEn  is to engage in servitude to Your BhaagavathAs .

Special Notes :
 ****************
Thirumangai AzhwAr followed very closely Swamy NammAzhwAr,
the Prapanna Jana kUtasthar . Thirumangai's adoration of
Swamy NammAzhwAr is based on his gratitude for SaThakOpan
showing the way for the jeevAthmA's sacred union with
Sri Vaikunta NaaTan through the means of absolute Self-surrender
(SaraNAgathy) . Swamy NammAzhwAr performed SaraNAgathy
with aakinchanyam , ananyagathithvam and bhakthi pAravasyam
through immortal ThiruvAimozhi(TVM)  paasurams at ThiruviNNagar ,
ThirumOhUr , VaanamAmalai ( TVM 5.7) , Thirukkudanthai ( TVM 5.8) ,
ThiruvallavAzh ( TVM 5.9) and at Milky Ocean ( TVM 5.10) . Since there
is no mention of Sri Devi ( recommendatory authority ) in these
Paasurams , Swamy NammAzhwAr's SaraNAgathy was not
completed . Hence , Swamy NammAzhwAr performed PoorNa
SaraNAgathy at ThiruvengadamudayAn's sacred feet at Thirumalai
by declaring : " ThiruvenkatatthAnE ! pukal onRu illA adiyEn
unn adikkeezh amarnthu puhunthEnE " .

ThiruviNNagarappan & ThiruvengadamudayAn
**************************************************
ThiruviNNagarappan is worshipped as the DakshiNa VenkatEsan
and as the elder brother of Lord SrinivAsan , who arrived here before
as ArchA Moorthy before Kali Yugam . That is why Swamy NammAzhwAr
declares : " TannoppArillappan tanthanan tann thAL nizhalE " in
his ThiruviNNagara Paasurams .

In view of the path-finding help to reach Sri Vaikuntam ( ThiruviNNagar) ,
Thirumangai brought ( yezhuntharilap-paNNInAr)  Swamy NammAzhwAr's
archaa vigraham from AzhwAr Thirunahari to Srirangam (BhUlOka Vaikuntam)
and started the adhyayana uthsavam or ThiruvAi mozhi ThiruvizhA 
at Srirangam .

Swamy NamAzhwAr as Maarga Darsi for Thirumangai
********************************************************
Let us enjoy now the extraordinary effect Swamy NammAzhwAr 
had on Thirumangai .

When Thirumangai declared in the ThiruviNNagara  Paasuram
" kooREn nenju tannAl guNam koNDu maRROr dhaivam " ,
He was echoing the thoughts of Swamy NammAzhwAr's
Thirukkuruhoor Paasuram on Lord Adhi NaaTan
( ThiruvAimozhi: 4.10.1):

" kunRam pOl MaNimAdaneedu ThirukkuruhUrathanuL
   ninRa AadhippirAn niRka maRRai dhaivam naaduthirE "

On another occasion , Thirumangai took the guidance of
Swamy NammAzhwAr for the ParamaikAnthis , where SaThakOpan
was referring to the anushtAnam of ParAnkusa Naayaki
in the matters of the Parathvam (Supermacy) of the Lord :

" unnitthu maRRoru dhaivam thozhAL Avanai allAl "

She will not even think of worshipping any one except EmperumAn
says  Swamy NammAzhwAr ( ThiruvAimozhi: 4.6.10) here .

Another AzhwAr states elsewhere  that other gods like
Indhran , Rudran or Brahma are powerless when it comes to
prescribing the medicine to cure the illness of the disease known as
SamsAram . Sri Vaikunta NaaTan is the only Doctor ( Marutthuvan) ,
who can cure this wasting disease of SamsAram . These are
the thoughts of PeriyAzhwAr , which Thirumangai remembered
also in the shaping of his dEha yAthra :

" MarutthuvanAi ninRa MaamanivaNNA ! maRu piRavi tavira
   thirutthi , Unn kOil kadaippahappey ThirumAlirumchOlai YenthAi "

Oh Lord of ThirumAlirumchOlai ! You stand for me as the doctor
who has cured my disease of Samsaram and freed me from
being born again here( SamsAra MaNDalam )  .

Moola Manthra UpadEsam for Thirumangai
*************************************************
Sriman Narayanan directly initiated Thirumangai on
AshtAksharam ( Moola Manthram ). This is known as
Manthra rahasyam. The PaancharAthra Dhvaya Mantra
 is known as anushtAna rahasyam . Lord's Charama slOkam
is Known as Vidhi rahasyam .

Just as He( Badri NaarAyaNan)  performed Moola Mantra updEsam
for Naran on top of HimalayAs , Sriman NarayaNan blessed
Thirumangai with Manthra rahasyam at KurayalUr in ChOLa dEsam .

Moola Mantram is the preeminent manthra for practising
the SaraNAgathy Vidhya .Dhvaya Manthram revealed by
Sriman NarayaNa to His divine consort is an elaboration of
Moola Manthram . The Charama slOkam is considered as
a detailed presentation of Moola Manthram .

If one is blessed with Moola Manthram from a SadAchAryan ,
there is nothing else to seek in this world . Having been
the beneficiary of the Moola Manthra UpadEsam from
the Lord Himself with His PirAtti by His side , Thirumangai
was uniquely blessed to benefit from the full power of
Tatthva Jn~nam , Parama hitham of SaraNaagathy as
the unfailing means and the PurushArTam of Moksha
sukham . Thirumangai  recognized the Lord as " the spring of
water in the midst of a sandy desert " ( Rg Vedam: X.4.1) ;
He saluted the Lord as " the nonleaking boat that can safely
take us to the shore in the disturbed waters of life "
( Rg Vedam: X.63.10) . Thirumangai approached the Lord
of ThiruviNNagaram in the ancient Vedic way : "  as a staff
on whom the weak and ignorant man can lean and walk
happily " during his dEha yaathra that leads up to his arrival
at Sri Vaikuntam via archirAdhi maargam ( Rg Vedam :VIII.45.20).

In the next Paasuram on ThiruviNNagarappan , Thirumangai
cites the anithyathvam of worldly life and presses the Lord
to reveal when He will bless him to reach Sri Vaikuntam .

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka
Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama:






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