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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
Dear bhAgavatas,

Salutations to all. A nice conversation between Tirumangai 
AzhvAr and ParimaLa Ranganathan of divya desam TiruindhaLUr/
MayilAduthuRai/mAyavaram. ThirumangaiAzhvAr has done mangaLAshAsanam 
in 10 pasurams for this divya sthalam. Nobody would direct you if you 
say tiruindhaLUr but only mAyavaram parimaLa rangan! Chandra,one of 
the navagrahas prayed to this Lord and got rid of his dosha. Indu is 
another name for chandra and he prayed to the Lord that the place 
should be named after him. So the name TiruindhaLUr.

Moolavar: ParimaLa ranganathan with four arms in vIrashayanam on 
Adisesha

ThAyAr: ParimaLa ranganAyaki

I want to go straight to Tirumangai's dialogue. When Tirumangai 
AzhvAr came to this place,the temple doors were closed. AzhvAr got 
really mad about His locking Himself before he saw Him and hence he 
told PerumAL "vAzhndhE pOm nIrE".

AsaivazhuvAdEththum emakkingu izhukkAyththu* adiyOrkkuth
desamaRiya umakke ALAyth thiriginROmukku*
kAsinoLiyil thigazhum vaNNam,kAttIr emperumAn!*
vAsivallIr! indhaLUrIr! vAzhndE pOmnIrE. (PT:4-9-4/1331)

Suppose one of our best friend has got our stuff and when we ask,he 
doesn't give. Then what do we say? We say "okay,you keep it to 
yourself". Similarly Tirumangai wants PerumAL and archAvatAram is the 
desired object. When he comes to worship the PerumAL and if He 
doesn't show HImself,then obviously AzhvAr would say "okay You admire
Your own beauty". Now Tirumangai blackmails the Lord:

Tiumangai:knowing very well that i'm Yur dAsan,You locked Yourself 
without giving me Your darshan;this is not just an issue between You 
and me;people will only blame You for not showing Yourself to me who 
wanted to see the You.

Lord:Don't worry about people blaming Me;I will look after that.

Tirumangai:AzhwAr desparately wants to see Him,so extends the 
conversation. O PerumAL,something You can not bear,has happened now

Lord: What is that?

Tirumangai:Normally when some thing leaves us,we forgetting that, go 
behind some other thing by nature. But i'm not like that. The more 
You keep Yourself away from me,the greater the bhakti towards You. 
Kaliyan says You know who we are?

"maRanthum puRanthozhA mAnthar";" eRRaikkum EzhEzh piRavikkum 
unthannOdu uRROmEyAvOm unakkE nAm AtseivOm"; "ichchuvai thavira yAn
pOi indiralOkam ALum,achchuvai peRinum vENdEn" and goes on

By nature we only praise You because of our love for You. You can 
tolerate people talking anything about You but not Your devotees. 
Everybody knows that i'm all the time in divya desams only. And for 
such a devotee,if You don't show Yourself,it will only be a disgrace 
for me!

Lord:He keeps quiet because He wants to extract as many pAsurams as 
possible from kaliyan.

Tirumangai:O PerumAL,just as nityasUris enjoy Your beauty in vaikuNTa,
You out of Your grace had taken arcAvatAra incarnation for the sake 
of people in BhUlOka. TiruindhaLUr is one such place where You live. 
How can You be so indifferent to me?

Lord:He is stubborn,still not showing Himself,and keeping quiet.

Tirumangai:arcAvatAra is ArAvamuda(never ending sweetness)for 
devotees who desire to see You. If You don't want to show that 
also,then You keep Your beauty to Yourself,i'm leaving this place.

Lord:PerumAL is now scared that kaliyan may actually leave the place 
and He also would get less pAsurams,so He started conversing again 
and after getting 10 pAsurams HE shows Himself to parakAlan. 

"nummaith thozhudOm nundhampaNiseithirukkum nummadiyOm" (PT 4-9-1)

AzhvAr EmperumAnAr Jeeyar TiruvadigaLE saraNam
nappinnai





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