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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Would you Help a Child in need? It is easier than you think. Click Here to meet a Child you can help. http://us.click.yahoo.com/sTR6_D/I_qJAA/i1hLAA/XUWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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