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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas, 

Let us continue to enjoy PeyAzhwAr?s wonderful
anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. Today?s verse on
ThiruvEnkatam is the 45th. 

purinthu mathavEzam maappidiyO doodith,
thirinthu sinatthaal poruthu, virinthaseer
veNkOttu mutthuthirkkum vEngadamE, mElorun^aaL
maNkOttuk koNdaan malai.                 45

AzhwAr enjoys here that the Parabrahman, the Lord of
Paramapadham Sriman Narayanan blesses us by being here
at ThiruvEnkatam ? so easily accessible by all of us. 

In the mountain of ThiruvEnkatam, the male elephant
[with the waters trickling down from its hood] unites
with its mate; and then has some ?oodal? [domestic
squabble?] with the female; the male is [as usual]
angered and the furious elephant loiters, wanders here
and there hitting its head against the rocks thereby
the white ivory tuskers drop off its pearls on the
ground? such a beautiful place is ThiruvEnkatam is
where the Lord Sri Varaaha Moorthy resides. Sri
Adhivaraaha murthy is the One who has been in
ThiruvEnkatam sicne the beginning. It is Sri Venkatesa
who spought His permission to be here at
ThiruvEnkatam. 

Sri Periyavacchaan Pillai comments as above. Sri
Appillai Swami - comments as: First there was a oodal
(quarrel); secondly there was settlement; unity and
then again quarrel.. Also, the angered elephant walks
up and down; looks into the marble stone (in the
front- sees its image) and wonders as to who else is
as strong as it is and hits the stone;breaking its
ivory tusk.. Here there was no mentioning of marble
stone in the verse nor there is any repetition of
oodal [quarrel] twice and hence though it is rasOkthi,
it is not 100% correct. Acharyans have considered Sri
Periyavacchaan Pillai's commentary most apt.
   
Sri Varaaha murthy took His avathAram of Varaha [huge
boar] to rescue Bhoomi PiraaTTi from the troubled
waters when HiraNyaakshan took the earth and hid under
the waters. Lord took the huge Boar avathAr and killed
HiraNyaakshan to save the BhoomA dEvi. 

He took the bhooma Dev in between His two horns (which
are like the crescent moon ?says NammAzhwAr in
Thiruvaymozhi.) 

kOla malarp paavaiku anbaakiya en anbEyO!/
neela varai yiraNdu piRai kavvi nimirndhadhu oppa/
kOla varaakam onRaay nilam  kOttidaik konda endhaay!/
neelakkadal kadaindhaay! unnaip peRRu inippOkkuvanO?/
TVM- 10.10.7.     

Since You are the Greatest enjoyment happiness for the
Most Divinely Beautiful Periya PiraaTTi MahA Lakshmi,
(the One who sits close and next to You) You are the
enjoyment and happiness of mine too (as I am Periya
PiraaTTi?s possession. Similar to a Huge Blue
mountain, raising with two crescent moons on its top,
You came out of the Oceans with the Earth on Your
tusks, during Your Varaaha avataar! AzhwAr gently
reminds the Varaaha charama slOkam by narrating His
Varaaha avataar and hints that it is His
responsibility to take care of him now since AzhwAr
had already performed his Saranagati -prapatti) Oh
Lord who churned the Blue Ocean! After getting You as
my refuge, Will I ever leave You? NEVER.  (unnaip
peRRu inippOkkuvanO?- NampiLLai?s commentary is: In as
much You struggled for getting BhUmi PiraaTTi and
Periya PiraaTTi, You struggled for getting to me too,
and now after getting me, if You decide to leave me,
will I let You go away).

Sthithe manasi??.. vishvarupancha mam ajam |

Thatha: tham mriyamananthu ?.  paramaan gathim ||

Who (ya: Nara:) thinks (smarththaa) of me (as vishva
roopam) when he is able bodied (young - clear mind,
healthy body, dhathu=piththam all working and under
control) I think of him at his death (kaashta 
paashana sannibam) when he is lying down on death bed
as log of wood and I take him personally to Sri
vaikuNtam [paramaam gathim]- says Lord Varaaha.

About this Adhi varaaha Moorthy- The puraanic legends
say that after the Pralaya kalpa preceding the great
Deluge, the Supreme Being Maha Vishnu, revealed
Himself in the form of a White Boar, SwEta Varaha,
rescued the earth and recreated it and having
re-established the universe, He decided to stay on the
earth for some time to protect the good and destroy
the evil. Thus God Vishnu revealed Himself earlier, in
the previous incarnation as Varaahaswami on the bank
of the Vaaraha Teerttham i.e. northern portion of
Pushkarini at Tirumala. This manifestation as the
White Boar is enshrined in the Adhi Varahaswami temple
on the North-western bank of the Pushkarini at
Tirumala. This temple is thus older than the temple of
Lord Venkateswara and claims precedence in worship and
nivedana. [from
http://sribalaji.com/tirumala/history.htm] 

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE
Namah: 
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan

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