[Poygai Azhwaar] [pEy
Azhwaar] [Nammazhwaar] [Thirumangai Azhwaar] [Swami
Desikan]
Four Azhwaaars
have dedicated fourty-seven Paasurams to Him and have received His
Anugraham. Nammazhwaar, in his song, describes the Lord as "Than
oppillathavan Oppiliappan" (He who has nocomparision). Other Azhwaars who
sang in praise of the Lord were Peyazhwaar, Poigaiazhwaar, and
Thirumangaiazhwaar. Swami Desikan summarizes the ten verses of N
ammaazhwaar in his Tatparya Ratnavali.
[poygai
Aazhwaar]
vEnkadamum
viNNagarum vehhaavum akkaatha poongidankil neeL kOval ponnagarum
naankidaththum ninRaan irunthaan.
Here poygai
Aazhwaar confirms this kshEtram as SriVaikuNtam in Nina
Thiru-kOlam.
[pEy
Aazhwaar]
When pEy azhwAr
refers to viNNagram in his sixty-second pAsuram he lists vinNagaram prior
to other divya dEsams and describes that the kalyAna gunAs of Lord
thiruvikraman who cupped His palms to rece ive the Kamandala jalam from
king mahAbali and therey by accpet the yAgadhAnam and claimed the "title"
over one and all from there on.
There are two
different kamandala jalams here that paved way for this proclamation of
ownership over all jivans who have ever since been created and thrived on
this earth. The first one, the kamandal a jalam of King mahAbali, was the
one He washed His hands with, while the second one, the kamandal jalam of
brahma, was the one He washed His holy feet with. This reminds one of the
thirumanchana sEvai at this temple.
paNdellaam
vEnkadam paaRkadal vaikuntham koNdaaNG kuRaivaarkku "kOil pOl" vaNdu
vaLankiLaru neeL sOlai vaN poonkadaigai iLankumaran than
"viNNagar".
Here pEy azhwaar
confirms that He is ever young and always present.
[Nammazhwaar]
Audio
Nammazhwaar's anubhavam of Sri Oppiliappan by Sri Krishna Premi Swami
(in mp3 format)
When Nammazhwaar
arrived here, he was also pondering over eighty of his own paasurams that
he had already delivered, as he himself was not clear about certains
aspects of their meaning.
It was here, in
ThiruvinNagar Kshetram, that the Lord hurried to appear before
Nammazhwaar, who was about to abandon him with anger, for being
insensitive to his request of Darsanam. Our Lord could n ot bear with the
thought of losing His Parama Bhaktha and rushed to his side and made the
Azhwaar enjoy His Ananta Kalyaana Gunas and His unmatchable beauty. The
Azhwaar felt thoroughly appeased and specially blessed to have Darshan of
the five forms of t he Lord and declared :
Ennappan
Enakkayigulaai Ennai Perravalaai Ponnappan Maniappan
Mutthappanenappanumaai Minnapponmadhil Soozh Thiruvinnagar Sernda Appan
Tannoppaarillappan Tantanan Tanathaal Nizhaleh
The Azhwaar
describes the Lord as Panchaavataran here and states that the Lord
travelled to ThiruvinNagar in search of him to remove his dejection and
united with him and gave him the comforting and cool shade of His lotus
feet as his solace and refuge.
The Lord not only
cleared his doubts on such paaurams that had "munnukkum pinnukkum
muranaana poruL" in it and also made him realise that He is present in
those paasurams as antharyaamin. Hence namaa lwaar sung in praise of him
as "sEraatha poruLkaLellaam sErththa perumaL".
The Lord was
overjoyed and hugged and embraced azwaar here and pOkaathaoorkaLin (Divya
Desams) sevaiyellam saathithaar. i.e. the Lord also offered nammazhwaar
the darshan of various other kshEkthrams that Nammazhwaar had not yet
visited.
kaaNminkaL
ulakeer enRu kaNmukappE nimarntha thaaLiNaiyanRannaik kurukoor
satakOpan sonna aayiraththuth thiruviNNagar paththum
vallaar kOnaiyinRi viNNOrk kenRum aavar
kuravarkaLE
"kAnmin ulageer !
enak kaN mugappE nimirntha thaaL" ie "It seems Lord's holy feet said to
bolooga vaasees during vaamana avathaaram, that "O folks of this boolOgam,
watch this!" and while saying it s eems the Holy Feet also grew and rose
to reach beyond the vaan ulagam. (Thirumangai Aazhwar continues this
sentiment). Nammaazhwaar equates himself to This holy feet in this verse
saying "kan mugappE nimirntha thaaLiNaiyan" i.e. if you chant these 10
vers es delivered by me " who is the equal (me)to such Holy Feet of Lord
thiru viNNagaraan that rose in front of the eyes of boolOga
vaasees".
The azhaar also
asks us to look at His majesty, and as he "thaaLinaiyan", assures us that
one who worships Hm will surely become a member of the elite group of
viNNvar's leaders. This being Lord Oppi liappan or thiru viNNagaraan
[Thirumangai
Azhwaar]
Also see Sri
Madhavakannan's translation of Tirumangai Azhwar's anubhavam of " The
Lord without Comparision" - Periya Thirumozhi 6.1 6.2 6.3
Audio
Thirumangai
Azhwaar's anubhavam of Sri Oppiliappan by Sri Krishna Premi Swami (in
mp3 format)
Thirumangai has
delivered 30 paasurams on Lord Oppiliappan with incomparable references to
thiruvikrama avathAram. Thirumangai Aazhwar expresses all the
attributes of This Lord in three chapters and swears that he does not want
his samsaaram if this Lord will not bless him with His grace.
aandaay
unaik kaaNbathOr "arUL" enkku arULithiyEl vEndEn maNai vaazhkkaiyai
viNNagar mEyavanE
It is believed
that, during vaamana avathaaram, after booLogam was used for one foot, all
the dEvaas and anthanaas of vaaNulagam were standing ready for the
thiruvadi sErvai, so that all their "vinai s" would be washed away, the
instant His Feet were placed on their world. Thirumangai Aazhwaar sings
this in his paasurm "paNdai nam vinai keda enRu andarum amararum...". The
Aazhwaar emphasizes that one will get the same grace here when they
worship the Lord with these paasurams.
Note:
Also see Sri V Madhavakkannan's
series on Periya Thirumozhi.
[Swami
Desikan]
Swami Desikan in
his Tatparya RatnaavaLi summed up brilliantly the ten verses of
Nammazhwaar this way and offered his MangaLaasAsanam to Sri Vaikunta
Naathan of Oppiliappan Koil:
Sampat
Dhaaridrya Bhaavaat Asukasukakruteh: Pattana Graama Bhaavaat
Punyaapunyaadhi Bhaavaat Kapataruchutayaa Sarvalokaadhi Bhavaat :
I Divyaadivyangavatvaat Suradhitijagana Snigdha Chatrutva
Keerthyaa Chaayaacchayaadhi Bhaavaat Aagatitha Gatanam Praaha
Krishnam Sataari : II
Here, Swami
Desikan tersely summarizes Bhagavad Anubhavam of Nammazhwaar at this Divya
Desam. He says:
ThiruvinNagarappan
is the antharyaami of opposing concepts (Dvandhvam) such as
poverty-wealth, sorrow-happiness and paapam-punyam. He rules over both the
city and the village . He is the antharyami and reconciler of polar
opposites such as Kapatam and righteousness. He is the indweller of all
chetanas and Achetanas . He has the splenderous lustre and yet has even
the lowly worlds as a part of his body .He is the unfailing protector of
the Prapannas and destroys those , who cause harm to his Bhakthaas. He is
of the form of both the cooling shade and the scorching heat and thu s has
the unique power to unite normally irreconcilable
tattvaas.
Swami Desikan
echoes the statement of Nammazhwaar that the Lord is both Nimmittam and
Upaadhaanam, He is both Praapyam and Praapakan. He is one adorable
principle that has spread in many ways and shi nes in every corner of His
universe.
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