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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas, 

After Poigai AzhwAr?s anubhavam, let us start to enjoy
the next AzhwAr?s -BhoothatthAzhwAr?s- wonderful
anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. 

senRathu ilangaimEl sevvEthan seeRRatthaal,
konRathu raavaNanaik kooRungaal, - ninRathuvum
vEyOngu thaNsaaral vEngadamE, viNNavar_tham
vaayOngu tholpugazaan vandhu.                         
 25

A wonderful verse! 
viNNavartham vaayOnghu thol pugazhvaan- The One who is
praised to the largest extent (maximum extent-
vaayaara) by the Nithyasuris; His kalyANa guNAs are
innumerable and unbounded; limitless; most auspicious
attributes; Such greatest Lord SarvEshawaran Sri Rama,
went [senRadhu] 
to LankA; and there with anger, He killed Ravana; 

That most merciful Lord Sri Rama- [if we have to say-
kooRungaal], has come to this ThiruvEnakatm [which has
tall bamboo trees and cool breezes and drizzle] 

Acharyas have enjoyed the verse beautifully. 

senRadhu- He went from Ayoddhi to lankA; 
the verse ends with vandhu- come to ThiruvEnkatam;
from Paramapadham He came here to ThiruvEnkatam. 

He went to lankA; why did He have to go all the way to
lankA? Why did hHe have to be born for that matter as
human being? Get married? Face Parasurama; to be
instructed to go to forests; lose SitA; cry for Her;
finally reach lankA to kill Ravana; 

The Lord could have simply killed Ravana with His
sankalpam (pledge); or He could have simply sent the
chakrAyudham from where He could have killed Ravana;
But why did He have to take all this trouble? The
reason mentioned by vyAkyAtha [commentators] is that
He had come to bless His devotees; BhakthAs; the
sages; jataayu; Sabari; Bharadwaj, Anjaneya; et al.
ParithrANAya saadhoonAm. That?s the reason. To accept
their obeisance. 

He could have simply killed the crcocodile with his
sankalpam or sent the chakrA from Parapadham. Why did
He have to run with His tresses falling on His
forhead; leaving Lakshmi behind; and rush to Gajendra;
to receive the flower that Gajendra was to offer.
Else, His kalyANa gunA would not be enjoyed by us. 

Hence, senRu.. went to lankA.
When the Nithyasuris praise Him with lots of
qualities, kalyANA guNAs;, those guNAs are
swaabhaavika guNAs; These attributes are naturally
with the Lord on its own. None needs to grant Him;
Nithyasuris also have these qualities; But their
qualities were granted to them by this Lord. For Him
alone it is tholpugazh- swabhaavika, anavadhika
adhisaya, anantha kalyANa guNa gaNouka mahaarNavan.
Ocean of kalyANa guNas. 

Such gunAs are enlisted by Sri Ramanuja very
beautifully in Saranagathi Gadya.  But Ramaanuja does
not add anger here as His guNA. The Lord never has
anger as the guNA naturally with Him. He needs to
cultivate or forcibly develop anger in Him. He is such
merciful One. 

When Ravana started hitting Rama with lots of arrows,
Rama responds with equal and more vigorously and
victoriously. However when he starts sending arrows to
Anjaneya hurting him, Rama is angered and that?s why
He starts sending arrows fiercely to kill Ravana.
Sinatthinaal thennilankai kOmaanai seRRa (says AndAL
in 12th verse of Thiruppaavai]. 

Same Rama after Ravana?s death immediately asks
Vibheeshana to perform funeral rites for Ravana, his
elder brother. Vibheeshana refuses to perform saying
that Ravana had committed asahya apacharam, which he
could not forgive and he would not touch his body
even. Rama mentions that until death alone enmity is
there; after that there is no enmity. 

It should not be misunderstood that Rama earlier had
considered Ravana as enemy and not that he is dead,
Rama does not consider him as an enemy. That is NOT
what Rama had meant in that statement. Until death,
Ravana considered me as his enemy. Now he would not be
able to think of me as his enemy, Vibheeshana. Are you
going to perform rites or should I? That's why AndAL
calls Him manatthukku iniyaan.  

Such most merciful One has come here to ThiruvEnkatam
to bless us. 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
SrI PadmavathI samEtha srI Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE
Namah:
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan


                
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