sembiyan kOch
chOzhan
Debate on
dhEvathAnthram
Being faithful and subservient to the
Lord, can one also go and worship other deities - is a oft hear question? What
is wrong is often hear answer.
During the tamil kingdom days there was a
king named sempiyan kOch chOzhan who was an ardent devotee of shivaperumAn. He
built lot of temples for that deity in chOzha dhEsam-s.
However, like mArkaNdEya maharishi, he
turned a new leaf and never looked back. He surrendered at the feet of the Lord
of thirunaRAiyUr and got His blessings. He got a divine knife and
vanquished several other kings.
This is narrated by Sri peiryAvAchAn
piLLai in the introduction to the sixrth thirumozhi of the sixth ten of periya
thirumozhi.
The fact that he surrendered is mentioned
right from the first pAsuram
'sembiyan kO sen-kANAn
sEArndha kOil'' 6-6-1;
The blessing of the Lord and granting of
the divine knife -dheiva vAL is mentioned in the next
pAsuram
'dheiva vAL valam koNDa
chOzhan sEArndha thirunaRaiyUr' 6-6-3;
The battles in veNNi having fought with
this blessings mentioned in the same pAsuram
'kavvai mA-kaLiRundhi
veNNiyEARa -kazhal mannar maNi mudi mEal kAGam yEARA'
6-6-3;
the terms 'kazhal mannar maNi mudi mEal
kAgam yEARa' indicates the despatch of the enemy kings to
yama-lOgam.
the next pAsuram again narrates this
battlefield
'venkaN mA kaLiRundhi
veNNiyEARa' 6-6-4;
The basic idea in describing the
dedication and victories of the chOzha king are
1. The Lord blesses even those who want
other desires.
2. The souls do not get all they want from
other deities.
3. The dhEvathAnthra bhajanam is of the
past and not present.
4. The Lord does not just wait for those
souls who go with Him with full dedication but also for those who go to other
places and rescue them at the opportune moment. In fact, thirumangai AzhwAr
addresses this to his mind and narrates this episode of chOzha mannan to
emphasise the fact of the Lord's sEla guNam.
Sri periyavAchAn piLLai describes
this in the avathArikai.
thAn dhurmaniyumAi-snEhamum
inRikkEa irukkiRa rAjA thAn, srE mArkaNdEya bhagavAnaip pOlEa, dhEvathAnthra
bhajanam paNNi, angu thannudaiya abimadham thalai kattik koLLap peRamaiyAlEa
ingEa vandhu pagmabimanAi thiruvadigaLilEa vizhundhAsrayithu jEvan
mushmigangaLiraNdaiyum peRRup pOnAn.
Though not dedicated totally to the Lord,
having not got what he had wanted, chOzha king surrendered at the feet of
thirunaRaiyUr Lord and received the divine blessings and got his desires both
here in this world and thereafter after his lifeterm.
dAsan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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