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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