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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:
Dearest all,

Let us continue to enjoy the divine verses of AzhwArs
on ThiruvEnkatamudayaan. Today?s verse: NammAzhwAr
Thiruvaymozi 10.5.6. 

In this EXCELLENT DECAD [10.5] PASURAMS, NammAzhwAr
advises BhakthAs of  Emperumaan. NammAzhwAr?s advice
which had started off in 1.2, veedumin muRRavum, ends
in this decad.

6. mEyaan vENkatam* kaayaamalar vaNNan*
    pEyaar mulai uNda* vaayaan maadhavanE*

Bhagawaan has got lovely blue hued ThirumEni (Divine
Body). He has got the cute red mouth that sucked the
life of demonic pUthanai along with her poisonous
breast milk (who had come to kill the infant KaNNan).
He is Sri LakshmI Nathan, (Maadhavan) and is
gracefully present at 
ThiruvENkatam, as SrInivaasan.. 

The first verse in this ten is the most wonderful. I
can not resist posting here:

1. kaNNan kazhaliNai* naNNum manamudaiyeer!*
    eNNum thirunaamam* thiNNam naaraNamE!

Sri SatakOpa swears on all that he holds holy that the
Narayana mantra is the one for us, if we wish to
meditate on the Lord's lotus feet. 

Oh BhAgawathAs, who has always the thoughts of
reaching the Lotus Feet of KaNNan (Parama sowlabhyan-
who stooped down to our level and took KrishNAvataar)!
You all need to think and meditate only on His name
Narayanan.. Nothing else. This is firm and definite.
Take it for 
granted.(NampiLLai greatly talks about this pAsuram:
If one spoils an angam or a swaram on other manthrams,
there is even a punishment to become brahmaraakshasa.
Such fears are not here. It is a simple name and that
is Narayana padham. Here AzhwAr says: eNNum
thirunaamam.. He did not say eNNum manthram.. Since it
is only Thirunaamam, there is no niyamam. Any time and
every time- Narayana Narayana. Like a baby utters and
blabbers the mother?s name and mother loves it so
much. 

(Special anecdote: After NammAzhwAr departed from this
earthly world, 
MadhurakaviAzhwAr was blessed with a Golden vigraham
of NammAzhwAr which he consecrated and performed
ThiruvarAdhanA and uthsavams in his honour. He was
impressed by nammAzhwAr's works so much that he wanted
to stage NammAzhwAr's works in front of other
scholars. the sangam poets objected to such claims and
praises. NammazhwAr who had no connection with Sangam
Madhurakavi, it seems was saddened by this protest and
was remorse. NammAzhwar, appeared as an old Brahmin
and consoled him saying " Do not worry about these
petty issues; You just place this pAsuram of "kaNNan
kazhaliNai..." on a kind of wooden boat (sangap
palagai) and disappeared. Madhurakavi did the same and
the boat -it is told -capsized throwing out all the
jealous, haughty poets while it retained only the leaf
containing "kaNNan kazhaliNai.."-  Such a POWERFUL
PASURAM IS THIS! 

Each of these jealous poets wrote independently one
Tamil poem on the glory of our Great NammAzhwAr, which
finally turned out to be same one which all others
wrote: What a mystery! What an AzhwAr! What a
disciple! The verse is as follows: 

sEmang kurugaiyo 
seyyathirup pARkadalO 
nAmam paraangusamo naaraNamo ? 
thAman thuLavO 
vaguLamO thOLiraNdO 
nAngum uLavO 
peruma umakku" .

Are you, (the Kurugaiyoor Piraan) Or Sriman Narayana
Himself.)?

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo narayana
dAsan



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