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Please accept this article on the dhivya dEsam of
SiRu Puliyoor ,
specially written for Sri Vaishnavism e-list
.
adiyEn prays to Sri BhUmi DEvi SamEtha Sri
Oppiliappan to bless you with
additional Kaimkarya Sri and the growth of the
e-list of Sri Vaishnavism
that you are moderating .
NamO NaarAyaNAya ,
V.Sadagopan
Arul Maa Kadal of Thiru SiRu
Puliyoor Dhivya Desam
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After his MangaLAsAsanam of
ThErazhundhUr , Thirumagai Mannan
arrived at SiRu Puliyoor
dhivya dEsam and was totally overcome by
the grace &
Soundaryam of the Lord reclining on the bed of AdhisEshan .
This Baala Sayana
Moorthy is also
saluted by Thirumangai as Chala Sayanan .
There is a Sthala
Sayana archai ( Thirukkadanmallai /MahA Bali Puram) .
The Lord at SiRu Puliyoor is
" Chala Sayanar" , The Cha here is like
the CHa in Chathram (
Umbrella) .
Why the name "Chala
Sayanar"
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An intriguing thought crossed
adiyEn's mind . "Chala" is a PadhArTam
( one of the 16 Categories)
in the aasthka darsanam of Nyaaya ( " Philosophy of
logical realism ) founded by
Sage Gauthama . VisishtAdhvaitha has in contrast ,
two
PadArTAs (
Dhravyam and adhravyam) with sub categories among the two
.
The NyAyaa category of Chala
stands for argument infused with Sophistry .
The Jeevan argues with the
Lord that it is its own Master ( NaaTan) ,
" aham mE " ( I am my own
Lord , Thirumanjana Kattiyam of Lord RanganAtha)
with Sophistry
.
The Jeevan ( Chala svabhAvan)
quibbles with the Lord in a state of disputation
and forgets its ancient and unalterable relationship as Seshan (
liege/Servant)
with its Supreme Master ( Sarva Seshi) . The arguments of the Chala
Jeavan
with its Lord (Chala NaaTan ) about its " Svatantram " is covered in
detail elsewhere
( item 8 in http://www.oppiliappan.org/kattiyam
) . The Jeevan being "chalan " argues
its deluded state with impunity and stubbornness that it has
svatantram;
the Lord of the Jeevan reminds the Jeevan that it is wrong in
this beklief
and attests it has no Svatantram of its own anfd that Hehas
the inalienable
and eternal relationship with the Jeevan as its Master .
One can speculate with
comfort that the name " Chala Sayanan " for the AruL Maa Kadal of SiRu
Puliyoor
might be connected to Him being the Master of Bhaddha Jeevan that
wallows
in SamsAram by thinking that " I belong to myself , I am independent "
.
Due to His infinite compassion , the true owner of the
Jeevan directs
the suffering Bhaddha Jeevan with one of HIs AchAryans and grants
Moksham
to the Jeevan and recieves it as a Muktha Jeevan at His Supreme abode
after its anushtAnam of SaraNAgathy .
Thirumangai
performed his
MangaLAsAsanam of Lord Chala Saynan
with ten exquisite Paasurams
( Periya
Thirumozhi Paasurams 7.9.1-10) .
Location of the Dhivya
dEsam
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This dhivya dEsam is near
KollumAngudi in ChOLa dEsam . PerumAL is
in the Sayanam pose facing
South . His NaacchiyAr has the naamam of
Thiru MaamahaL . The VimAnam
is revered as Nandha Vardhana VimAnam .
Ananatha Saras and Maanasa
PushkaraNi are the sacred theertthams .
He is prathyaksham to Sage
VyAsa and the PulikkAl Munivar ( VyAgra
Paadhar ) . The name for the
dhivya dEsam ( SiRu PuliyUr)arose from
the Lord's
special anugraham
to PulikkAl Munivar .
The Ten Paasurams of Kaliyan
on Chala Sayanan
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In his ten Paasurams of
Thirumangai AzhwAr , AzhwAr instructs us to
worship the Lord of this
dhivya dEsam with the purity of Manas ,
Speech ( Vaak) and body (
kaayam) . ThrikaraNa parisuddhi is
recommended by Kaliyan as
ParOpadEsam . In the ninth paasuram
about the Lord of the Dhivya
dEsam , Thirumangai performs complete
MangaLAsAsanam about the
names of the PerumAl , ThAyAr , dhivya
dEsam : " Thru MaamahaL
maruvum SiRu Puliyoor chalasayantthu
Arumaa KadalamudhE " . He
visualizes the Lord as the nectar that arose
from a rare and gigantic
ocean and with the SubhAsrayam that is enjoyed
immensely by His dEvi ,
ThirumAmahaL . The aru (rare) maa ( gigantic) kadal
(Ocean) is the roopam of
ParavAsu dEvan ; the Lord of this dhivya dEsam
arose as a nectar from that
rare and huge ocean of Sri Vaikunta NaaTan
( Para VaasudEvan) . Azhwar
delights in the enjoyment of this nectar
at SiRu Puliyoor and
acknowledges that the Lord's sacrd feet are his
UpAyam and UpEyam ( means and
goal) .
Kalyan's Periya Thirumozhi:
7.9.1
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In the first Paasuram ,
Kaliyan invites us to worship the Lord of SiRu Puliyoor
,
who resides in his heart
lotus to chase away the stealthy habits of their minds .
Sri UthtamUr Swamy points out
that Kaliyan has in mind the Veda Vaakyams :
" stEnam mana: ,
anrutha-vaadhini vaak " ( Mind is deceitful and the speech
comes up with falsehood) . As
an AchAryan , Kaliyan instructs us to worship
the Lord of this dhivya
dEsam with aarjavam (Straightforwardness , rectitude
and honesty) . He asks
us to infuse ManO-Vaak-Kaayam with aarjavam
and then approach the
Lord for worship . He assures us that worship
of
the Lord's sacred feet in
that mode
will destroy the propensity for thievery
of the mind ( manatthin
thiruttuttanam viLLum ): " KaLLam manam viLLum
vahai karuthik-kazhal
Thozhuveer ". The whole paasuram takes this form
:
KaLLam manam viLLum vahai
karuthik-kazhal thozhuveer
veLLam
muthu paravait-tirai viriya karaiyengum
teLLum maNi thihazhum
SirupuliyUr chalasayanat-
tuLLum
yenathu uLLatthuLLum uRaivAraiyuLLeerE
In the first line ,
Thirumangai revealed the upAyam for tackling
the stealthiness of the
mind . In the second line and part of the third line ,
Kaliyan describes the
richness of this dhivya dEsam : " VeLLam
muthu paravait-tirai viriya
karai yengum teLLum MaNi thihazhum
Siru Puliyoor " . Kaliyan
sees amazing testament to the abundant
richness of this dhivya
dEsam . The assembly of the noble gems brought
ashore
by the swift
waves of the old ocean were illuminating the
dhivya
desam with their brilliant
lustre and serving as a rathna dheepam
for the Chala Sayana NaaTan
, the Lord of SiRu Puliyoor ( MaNi thihazhum
SiRu Puliyoor Chala
sayanatthuLLum) . The same Lord illuminated by
the lustre of the noble
gems is seen inside his Hrudhaya Kamalam by
Kaliyan .
Kaliyan asks us to worship the Lord's sacred feet and
approach
them for
protection from our deceitful minds and "anrutha Vaak ".
Srimath Azhagiya Singar
Thiruvadi ,
Oppiliappan Koil
VaradAchAri Sadagopan
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