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Dear SrEvaishNavites,
 
Sri Sadagopan swAmy who hails from Sri Oppiliappan koil and has fondly founded the oppiliappan group has given an erudite write up on the thiruviNNagar padhigam of thirumozhi 6-1;
 
He goes on to anlayse the hows of the amarar-s seeking refuge in this Lord, the greatness of thrivikraman, the prayers offered and the response.
 
dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan
 
ThiruviNNagarappan-thrivikraman-ponnappan-maNiayppan
 
 
vaNDuNu anumalariNDaikoNDu , paNDai namm vinai keDavenRadimEl
  thoNDarum amararum paNiya ninRangu aNDmODahilidam aLanthavanE
AaNDay Unnaik-kANpathOr aruLennakkaruLithiyEl
   vENDEn manai vaazhkkayai ViNNaharmEyavanE ---Periya Thirumozhi: 6.1.1
 
(Meaning) : Oh Sri VaikuntanAtha ,who has joyously elected to reside at
the dhivya dEsam of ThiruviNNagar ! When the oppressed  DevAs  and
the faithful servants of Yours who have chosen Your sacred feet as their ultimate
refuge arrived at Your Sannidhi with the fragrant flower garalnds , prostrated
before You and begged for the destruction of their ancient sins , You responded to
them with alacrity . You incarnated as Vaamanan and changed right before
their eyes into the gigantic Thrivikraman  , measured both the immense earth
and vast upper worlds with two of Your spreading steps . Through that benovolent
act , their heads had the sambhandham of Your most sacred foot and all  their sins
were destroyed. Their prayers were thus answered by You . Oh Lord who has blessed
adiyEn with all auspiciousness and corrected me from vipareetha AchArams ! adiyEn will
cut asunder all my links to this samsAric world filled with every kind of affliction , 
if You could grant me the boon of gaining the difficult-to-obtain darsana soubhAgyam of
Yours at ThiruviNNagar
 
( Special Notes ) : Vinnagar MeyavanE : Oh Lord who chose with elan to arrive at
ThoiruviNNagar and rsides there joyously ! You elected happily to arrive at this
forest of gardens on a Panguni SravaNam day to seek the hand of BhUmi Piraatti ,
the daughter of MarkaNDEya Maharishi and reside with Her to bless Your bhaktha
kOtees .
 
Amararum ThoNDarum , vaNDu uNUm naRu malar maalai koNDu paNiya =
When You chose and settled down at ThiruviNNagar by the side of AhOrAthra
PushkaraNi , the assembly of DevAs and the throngs of Your devoted servants ,
who have taken refuge at Your sacred feet arrived in hordes at Your sannidhi
carrying in their hands garlands with fragrant flowers with honey desired by
the bees . They placed the garlands at Your charaNa kamalam , prostrated before
You .
 
Namm PaNDai vinai keda yenRu paNiya : They  prayed then for the total destruction of
their ancient sins .
 
How did you rspond to their prayers ? You took on Thrivikrama avathAram
to fulfill their manOraTam
 
angu ninRu aNDamODu ahal idam aLanthavanE ! = You hurried to the Yaaga Saalai
of the haughty MahA Bali as Vaamana Moorthy and stood there , transformed right
before their eyes into the rapidly growing Thrivikrama Moorthy to measure every inch
of the ocean-girdled Earth and vast skies and the upper worlds . By that act , every
chEtanam and achEtanam had the bhAgyam of contact with Your sacred feet
celebrated by the VedAs . All their sins were destroyed as a result .   
 
AzhwAr's fondness for ThrivikramAvathAram : Thirumangai was the last of
the 12 AzhwArs .The AzhwArs , who preceded Thirumangai have celebrated
the ThrivikramAvathAram in their paasurams with great joy . For instance , ANDAL
addresses Thrivikraman as " Ongi UlhaLantha Utthaman " . Why is He addressed
as Utthaman here ? Rest of the avathArams are for Saadhu ParithrANam( protection
of the BhakthAs) or for Dushta Nigraham ( destrcution of the enemies of His adiyArs).
Thrivikrama avathAram is not for one or both of the above two purposes . It was for
the upliftment of all entities of His creation through contact with His sacred feet
worshipped by the VedAs and to lead them through uttama maargam to His supreme
abode after destroying their Paapams and PuNyams . He is Sarva lOka suhruth .
Sarva Jana Priyan . He is apavarga pradhan (grantor of Moksham). As Thrivikraman
( TaaDALan)  , he uplifted all chEtanams and achEtanms en masse . Swamy NammAzhwAr
wonders about this avathAram in his ThiruviNNagara Paasuram : " KaaNminkaL
ulaheer yenRu KaNNmuhappE nimirntha TaaLiNai " ( For the benefit of all the world
to witness , the pair of feet of the Lord growing  and spreading in all directions
 right before their very eyes . He invited them , nay , comanded the people of
His world to see what is going to happen just before their eyes) .
 
Swamy NammAzhwAr enjoys this Thrivikrama avathAram and its uniqueness in so many
of his paasurams . In one paasuram , he admires : " sEyOn yellA uyirukkum disaikaL yellAm ThiruvadiyAl  ThAyOn ". He alone is the rakshakan for all jeevans . He related to the avathy
( sorrows and struggles of the Bhaddha Jeevans) and as Rakshakan responded quickly.
Once the water fell on His little palm in His Vaaman Svaroopam , He grew and grew .
Swamy NammAzhwAr describes the immense and instaneous growth in the Thiruviruttham
paasuram (58) :
 
" Kazhal talamonRE nilamuzhthAyiRRu , oru kazhakl pOy 
   nizhal taravellA visumpum niRainthathu , neeNDavaNDatt-
   thuzharalar Jn~Anacchudar  viLakkAi uyarnthOraiyillA
   azhaRalar ThAmaraikkaNNan , yennOvinkaLikkinRathE 
 
(Meaning according to Dr. V.N.VedAntha Desikan ) : " The Thrivikrama incarnation made no distinction between those who had resorted to Him and who had not. He set His foot on all
heads uniformly . It was an implication that all are SeshAs  (lieges) to Him , the Sarva Seshi
( the Lord of all ) . By protruding one foot in to the heavens , He showed if there be a necessity
to show it , that He is the Superlord having sole suzeranity over all the worlds . How did He
measure the Universe , if at all He did it ? One measures a distance by alternating one's steps;
but He did not do it this way ! What more has He to scale ? When the measured thing did not
measure up to the size of His foot , how can He ( once again)  consider measuring the world !
That ( Lotus eyed Lord ) is His glory ! ".
 
In this avathAram , there is no distinction between aasrithar ( those who sought His refuge)
and anAsrithar ( those who did not seek it ) . He practised SarvalOka rakshaNam and kept
all of them under the cool shade of His Thiruvadi .He comforted them through the removal
of thier Taapams and  aasvAsam resulted for them . His krupA here is nirhEthukam   
 
Other AzhwAr Paasurams celebrate this avathAra mahimai following the path of  the Vedam:
" threeNi padhA vichakramE " . Examples are : "PaaraLavum ohradi vaitthu "  ( Poygai AzhwAr) ,
" ninRathOr paadham nilam puthaippa " ( BhUthatthAzhwAr) and " ANDamum nilamum adi onRinAl koNDavan varil  (Andal'd Koodal KuRippu Paasuram in NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi ).
 
AaNDAi : Thirumangai addresses the Lord as His ruler , Sarva Swamy . All VedAnthic thoughts are
condensed in this one salutation . He is the sole cause of the Universe (" Ulahu padaitthu uNDa Yenthai ) , He is in all and in every thing ( " Karanthengum ParanthuLan " -Swamy NammAzhwAr) ,
Sarvam khalvidham Brahma according to Upanishad . He is " infinite in His Bliss and
infinite in His splendour of KalyANa guNams ( Veevil inbham and Veevil seeran --Swamy NammAzhwAr : 2460) ; He is PanchAvathAran with Para , VyUha , Vibhava, ArchA and
antharyAmi roopan . He is Tatthvam , Hitham as well as PurushArtham . He is Aadhi Bhagavan ;
He is adhvitheeyan ; He is apramEyan ( unmatched in glories and splendour ). He is anavadhyan
( without any dhOsham) ; He is ParamOdharan ( Supremely generous) ; He is SarvalOka SaraNyan;
He is the dearest to Bhagavath PravaNars ( Soely attached to BhagavAn ) and virOdhi for Vishaya PravaNars ;He is Our PraTama Guru ( First AchAryan) ; He is PrApakan ( adaivippavan ); He is
Svatantran ; He is Souseelyan ; Soulabhyan; He is our Father and Master ; He is Yennappan ,
Ponnappan , MaNiyappan , Mutthappan and ThiruviNNagar sErntha Appan ; He is AaNDAi     
 
Thirumangai Mannan concludes this Paasuram with the Tani Makudam ( refrain) , which will
resonate sweetly in our ears in this Patthu  
     
ThiruviNNagrappan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Srimath Azhagiya Singar Thiruvadi ,
Oppiliappan  Koil  Varadachari Sadagopan                                                                                                


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