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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas, 

Let us continue to enjoy PeiyAzhwAr?s wonderful
anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. Today?s verse on
ThiruvEnkatam is the 40th. 

uLan_kaNdaay nannencE! utthama NnenRum
uLan_kaNdaay, uLLuvaa ruLLath thuLan_kaNdaay,
viNNedungak kOduyarum veengaruvi vEngadatthaan,
maNNedungath thaanaLantha man.                      40

Oh My dear Good cooperative mind! Realize that there
is One; who is the Greatest of Greatest virtuous Lord!
Those who think of Him such, He resides in them (in
their hearts willingly and lovingly out of His own
accord). He had measured the Earth and the huge earth
became smallest in size (as compared to His Form when
he measured). He is the One who is there so gracefully
at ThiruvEnkatam where the beautiful water falls from
so high a place near the sky. (AkAsa gangA).

BhuttatthzhwAr refers to the lines similarly in his
77th verse: in his "iraNdaam Thiruvandhaadhi" 

"uRun kaNday nan nenjE! Utthaman naR paadham/
  uRun kaNdaay oN kamalan thannaal,- uRun kaNdaay/
  yEtthip paNindhavan pEr eerainjooR eppozhudhum/
  saaRRi uraitthal thavam/"

Oh My dear good Mind! See that He is There; See that
most Virtuous Lord, who is there on the Beautiful
Lotus Flower. See that IT IS ALWAYS A GREAT THAPAS
(PENANCE) to utter the Emperumaan?s Divine names 
incessantly. 

Here PeyAzhwAr refers NOT to just the existence of the
Lord as ?uLan kaNdaay?. He was not an atheist firstly
to realise now that there is one who is here? what
azhwAr means is: Oh my dearest great mind! Realise and
see that here is One our Supreme Lord who is our
savour. Our Master who protects us always! Avan
namakkaaga enRu uLan kaNdaay. He is our Lord; our
mAthA; our PithA; our everything enRu uLan kaNdaay. 

He is the Utthaman; He is PurushOtthaman enRu uLan
kaNdaay. He is there in the hearts of those sages,
rishis and yogins- and be the object of their penance
and dhyAnam. 

viNN odunga- with the Nithya vibHuthi and Paramapadham
under his Lordship as well, with the skies below Him
(as ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan- with the mountain of
ThiruvEnkatam reaching much above everything]. He thus
establishes His Supremacy and Parathvam. 

Veendu aruvi- the water falls are referred to here by
AzhwAr. When AzhwAr mentions His Parathvam (Supreme
Lordship), he had an apprehension that people may get
scared and may go away from Him. So, he addresses the
Lord?s sowlabhyam and sowseelyam by saying He is so
compassionate and comes down to our level (water
falls) though He is high above? 

Parathvam kaNdu anjaamaikku sowlabhyam
Sowlabhyam kaNdu igazhaamaikkku parathvam 

How and why should He protect us? Beuacse He is the
Lord of all; He rules all; He rules the whole
Universe. He is the one who had measured the whole
Universe with His Lotus Feet. 

NammAzhwAr says:  "kAnmin ulageer ! enak kaN mugappE
nimirntha thaaL" ie "It seems Lord's feet appear to
have said to bholOka residents during Trivikrama
avathAram that "Hey world! Look at This Feet and
enjoy" and while saying it seems the holy feet also
grew and
rose to reach beyond the vaan ulagam. 

The Feet grew and almost touched everyone?s head, as
they all were bending to look at the small dwarf like
Vaamanan as to how he is going to measure the earth
with three measures. Otherwise, they would never have
bent their heads anyway.. 

NammAzhwAr thus invited the world to see the enfolding
wonderment of the sacred feet of the Lord shooting up
and out  to measure the earth and the sky ( KaaNmingal
ulaheer yenru kaNNmuhappE nimirntha TaaLiNayan). Our
Lord's paadham and the Sri paadha theertham is the
most sacred for us as salvation, hence. 

The AchAryAs followed the way shown by the AzhwArs.
ALavanthAr saluted Trivikrama in the 31st verse of his
SthOthra Rathnam and wondered as to when the lotus
feet of the Lord of Trivikraman with the signs of
the divine chakram, conch, mace, flag, goad and other
lAnchanAs are going to decorate his head:

kathA puna: sanka rathAnga kalpaka
dvajAravinda Ankusa vajralaanchanam I
Trivikrama tvaccharaNAmbhuja dvayam 
madheeya murdhAnamalankarishyathi ? II

maN odunga thaan aLantha man- Thus, He is the ?man?
[meaning king] who measured the maNN (earth).. 
AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE
Namah: 
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan


                
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