Dear SrEvaishNavites,
Sri Sadagopan swAmy now reflects on the
inner meanings of the next four pAsuram-s.
The Lord's omni -presence makes the difference, when
it comes to thripura samhAram -This is the third
pAsuram.
The Lord mystic powers -- By swallowing the all worlds
and resting on a leaf as a baby is described in the
fourth.
-the difference between avAnthara praLayam and mahA-praLayam is brought out succinctly by Sri Sadagopan
swAmy in the fifth pAsuram and
- In the third pAsuram the powers of the Lord in His
antharyAmithvam was seen. Here, the Lord being present
everywhere is reiterated in this sixth
pAsuram.
thripura-smahAram-Alilai
kaNNan-akAram-vyApakan
In the third Paasuram , Thirumangai
Mannan salutes ThiruviNNagarappan
as the empowering force behind the
Thripura SamhAra Moorthy (Rudran) :
Kuzhal niRavaNNa ! ninn kooRu
koNDa , tazhal niRa vaNNan naNNAr nakaram
vizha nani malai silai
vaLaivu seythangu azhal niRa ampathu aanavanE
AaNDay unnai kANpathOr aruL
yenakku aruLithiyEl
vENDEn manai Vaazhkkayai
ViNNagar mEyavanE ---- Periya Thirumozhi 6.1.3
Oh Lord of black hue comparable to that
of Your beautiful Bluish-Black tresses !
At one time , Lord Rudran with the reddish
hue of Agni , who has been blessed to be
a part of Your sacred body (valatthinan)
was approached by the DevAs as a fit person to
destroy the asurAs , who had taken the form
of three cities and were menacing
the DevAs and their world . Rudran asked
the DevAs to transfer him their sakthis
to enable him to destroy the
three asurAs . DevAs complied and transferred
their collective powers to Rudran to
destroy their enemies . Rudran came to be known
thereafter as MahA DEvan and succeded in
bending the gigantic Meru mountain
as his bow for the fight with the asurAs .
Rudran made the Agni , his own hue
into the arrow for that bow . He could not
do anymore in the discharge of
that arrow. Oh ThiruviNNagarappA ! You
entered into that arrow and empowered
it to destroy the three cities (asurAs) so
that MahA Devan can claim the fame as
"Thripura SamhAra Moorthy " . You are the
most generous One , when it comes to
granting the boons to those who pray
to You for help .
Oh Lord of ThiruviNNagaram of such
Vaibhavam ! My Lord and Sarva Swami !
If You grant me the rare boon of Your
darsana SoubhAgyam to this suffering sinner ,
adiyEn will instantly cast aside this life
in prakruthi MaNDalam and reject all
these perishable sukhams in favor of the
nithyAnandham of kaimkaryam to You .
Periya Thirumozhi :
Pasuram 6.1.4
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nilavodu
veyil nilaviru sudarum , ulahamum uyirhaLumuNDu
orukaal
kalai taru kuzhavinuruvinayAi
, alai kadal Aalilai vaLarnthavanE
AaNDAy unnaik-kaaNpathOr
aruLenakku aruLithiyEl
vENDEn manai vAzhkkayai
ViNNahar mEyavanE -----Periya Thirumozhi : 6.1.4
Oh My Lord ! You rested on the top of
a small leaf of a pupil tree amidst the swift moving waters of
deluge (avAnthara PraLayam ) billowing with the
mighty waves . You gave Sage
MarkaNDEyar ,
Your future Father-in-Law , Your
darsana SoubhAgyam as VaDapathra Saayee . At that time ,
You had the Moon , the Sun and the worlds
revealed by them and the aathmAs that enjoy
those worlds in a
small portion of Your stomach
and protected them all against the dangers of
the swirling waters of PraLayam . As
VaDapathra Saayee, our Lord is " ThrijagathAm
UdharAsrayaNan " ( One who retains all the
worlds in His stomach for their protection ).
Thirumangai relates to this Vadapathra
Saayee as Sarva-Rakshakan and the only medicine
for the disease known a s SamsAric
sufferings ( bhava baya yEka bhEshajam ) .
LeelA Sukhar captures the dhivya
Soundharyam of the Aaalilai thuyil vaLarum
Infant this way in Sri KrishNa KarNAmrutham
(2.57) :
karAravindhEna padhAravindham mukhAravindhE
vinivEsayantham
vaDasya pathrasya puDE sayAnam Baalam
Mukundham manasA smarAmi
Thirumangai confesses that the soubhAgyam
of the darsanam of that Lord
of ThiruviNNagaram in person
(SaakshAthkAram ) , it will cause him to reject
this world instantly in favor of nithya
Kaimkaryam to that adorable Lord .
Periya Thirumozhi :
6.1.5
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Paarezhu kadalezhu malai
yezhumAi , seerkezhum ivvulahEzhum yellAm
Aarkezhu vayiRRinl adakki
ninRangu , Ohrezutthu ohr uru aanavanE
AaNDAi ! unnaik-kANpathOr
aruL yenakku aruLithiyEl
vENDEn manai vAzhkkayai
ViNNagar mEyavanE !
In the earlier Paasuram , Thirumangai
referred to avaanthara PraLayam ,
when the Lord keeps the Sun , the Moon ,
the worlds and the Jeevans inside a small
portion of His stomach to protect them . In
this paasuram , Thirumangai relates to
the happenings in MahA PraLayam . AvAnthara
PraLayam happens at the end of
the day of Brahma Devan . MahA
PraLayam refers to the end of the rule of Brahma
dEvan , which consists of many , many days
and nights and years of Brahma
devan
.
No Ocean or the Pupil leaf is seen during
the MahA PraLayam . Moola Prakruthi
is encompassed inside Tamas . There is
nothing else except the Lord and His
sankalpa Jn~Anam that serves as the stomach
in the avAnthara PraLayam time.
The absence of Moola Prakruthi at that time
of MahA PraLayam is saluted by
the VedAs as " Tasya Prakruthi-leenasya Ya:
Para: Sa MahEswara: " . The Paasuram
containing these MahA Tathtvams are
enshrined in Thirumangai's Fifth Paasuram .
Here " VayiRRiniladakki " does not mean
retaining them for safety in the Lord's
stomach (VayiRu) but every thing being
contained inside the Sanklapa Jn~Anam of
the Lord , the Aaadhi Purushan . All
letters are gone now including akaram but
the meaning of that akaram
( ThiruviNNagarappan ) remains as the sole existing
entity . When Thirumangai refers to " Ohr uru aanavanE " in this
Paasuram ,
he means that all avathAra roopams
have disappeared to merge in the Aaadhi
NaaTan , ThiruviNNagarappan .
Thirumangai remembers that Lord in the
state of MahA PraLayam
and reminds Him that the darsana soubhAgyam
of that Aadhi NaaTan
at ThiruviNNagar in His archA form
will kindle his VairAgyam to cast
aside this world and its temptations and
transform him into a nithya kinkaran
for the AaakAsa
Nagareesan/ThiruviNNagarappan ( VyOmapureesan ).
ThiruviNNagar Paasurams of
Thirumangai: Periya Thirumozhi 6.1.6
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kaar kezhu kadalkaLum
malaihaLumAi , yEr kezhum ulahamumAhi
mudalArhaLum aRivu aru
nilayinai aayi , seer kezhu Naan MaRai aanavanE
ANDAi unnaik-kaNpathOr aruL
yenakku aruLithiyEl
VENDEn manaivaazhkkayai
ViNNahar mEyavanE
Oh Jagath KakraNA ! You became the dark
oceans and Mountains and
the beautiful universe with its
multitudinous sentients and insentients ; You reached
a stage during Your srushti vyApAram that was beyond the ken of even
superior
beings like Brahma dEvan and Indhran et al
. Oh Lord , who is celebrated through
the recitation of the four sacred VedAs !
If only adiyEn has the bhAgyam of
Your darsanam at archA form at Your dhivya
dEsam of ThiruviNNagaram ,
I will reject utterly the anithya sukhams
of this world and seek instantly
the nithya sukham of being Your servant at
Your Supreme abode to
enjoy niravadhya Kaimkaryam to You , my
Supreme Master .
In the four Vedams , Kaamya KarmAs are
referred to . Those who recite them
would get the dEva padhavi , Svarga Vaasam
and other perishable Iswaryam .
Oh Lord ! adiyEn does not seek them .
adiyEn is praying only for Your
SaakshAthkAraam at
ThiruviNNagar .
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri
Sadagopan
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