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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas, 

Let us continue to enjoy BhoothatthAzhwAr?s- wonderful
anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. The last verse on
ThiruvEnkatam from BhoothatthazhwAr is 75th verse. 

peruku mathavEzam maappidikki munninRu,
iruka NiLamoongil vaangi, - arugiruntha
thEn_kalanthu neettum thiruvENG kadamkaNdeer,
vaan_kalantha vaNNan varai.                           
 75

In the 74th verse, AzhwAr had said: My Swami! My
nAThA! In all states, at all times, adiyEn is blessed
by Yourself and due to Your mercy adiyEn is granted
this benefit of singing You and offering them at Your
Lotus Feet. adiyEn has been blessed to sing verses in
chaste pure grand Tamil. 

The Lord appears to have asked AzhwAr: Azhweer; If You
are so good in Tamil let us see some poetic skills of
Yours and blesses him to sing one with poetic skill
and imagination: Comes the 75th verse. 

The male elephant loiters somewhere for the whole day;
comes back the next day to its place; the female
elephant is quite angry and upset.. The male elephant
tries to appease the lady? [AzhwAr reminds himself of
praNaya kalaham- where Sri Rangantha tries to appease
SriranganAyaki and then the Panguni Utthiram sErtthi
sEvai]? and thus comes this verse. 

Standing in front of the female elephant, the strong
male elephant [with the waters trickling down from its
head] breaks a small tender branch from the nearby
bamboo tree, dips in the honey found in a nearby tree;
and offer the bamboo [dipped in honey] to its beloved
female elephant with tender, love and care for its
spouse?s consumption in the grand mountain of
ThiruvEnkatam. [The lady gets pleased. And anger
subsides]  

Isn?t this the wonderful mountain where the dark cloud
hued most merciful Lord Srinivasan resides? The ocean
of dayA resides in this mountain.  

Even the animals living in this mountain takes care of
its dependents lovingly and caringly; The Lord Sriya:
Pathi Sriman Narayanan [who is always with Sri
MahalakshmI -agalagillEn iRaiyum enRu alarmEl mangai
uRai maarbhan] resides in this mountain forever
eternally for our sake; certainly takes care of His
dependents ? His spouses [i.e. us- all jeevathmans are
like the beloved spouses for the PurushOtthaman]. 

Swami Desika enlists His upakaram for us: 
The infinite compassion for the Lord is the Prime
Cause for: 
(1) the nature and existence of all three kinds of
chethanas and achethanas (2) the creation of the
world; (3) promulgation of the Vedas and saasthrAs
[which are equal to thousand parents for us in terms
of talking care and for our better living; uplift];
(4) the enlightenment of the knowledge relating to
tattva hitha and purushartha (entities, way and the
Goal); (5) the origination of an aspiration or desire
for liberation; (6); redeeming the erring humanity
that seek refuge in Him; (7) functioning in the place
of upaya for one who is Akinchana (helpless); (8)
ignoring and pardoning infinite faults of the
chethanas that surrender to Him and take refuge in Him
on account of mere vyAja (excuse) or pretext of bhakti
or prapatti; (9) granting His infinite Bliss of
communion after terminating once for all their
migration from births to births; (10) causing
repentance in the minds of the Prapannas (those who
have performed Saranagathi) for the faults committed
intentionally and making them observe some expiation
according to their competence; (11) purifying such
hardliners that do not repent by inflicting light
punishments and leading them to His eternal abode; For
all These, the greatest compassion of the Lord is the
Prim Cause [extract from the Book Essence of Srimad
Rahasyathraya saram by Dr Sri U e NS
Anantharangacharya Swami]

It is His dayA on us that He takes such most beautiful
avathArams as archA mUrthi in Divya Desams like
ThiruvEnkatam. 

Parasara Bhattar?s ashtaslOki is to be enjoyed here:

IsAnAm jagadhAm adhIsa dhayithAm nityAnapAyAm sriyam
samsrithAsrayaNOchitAkila guNasyAngri harerAsrayE I
ishtopAyatayA sriyA cha sahithAyAthmEsvarAyArtayE 
karthum dAsyamaseshamaprathihatham nityam tvaham
nirmama : II

Sri Devi (Lakshmi)is the empress ( Sovereign Goddess )
of ALL the worlds, as NarAyaNa is the emperor. She is
the inseparable consort of His. We offer our
prostrations at Her lotus feet to empower ourselves to
acquire the means of access to the Lord's feet for our
SaraNAgathi. May I be blessed always to perform
service devoid of ego to the Lord, who is the
embodiment of DayA. 

[This complete BhoothatthAzhwAr anubhavam on
ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan. We will take up the third
AzhwAr pEyAzhwAr from next post] 

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


                
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