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SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

Dearest all,

Our Acharya lineage has Sri VishvaksEnar also called
as Senai mudhali [nothing to do with the current
mudhaliaar sect]. Nor does he have anything to do with
pillaiyaar or Vinayaka. Sri vishvaksEnar is the
Nithyasuri. He is the commander-in-chief in
srivakuntam. 

Swami Desikan in his 3rd verse of YathirAja saptathi: 

vandhE vaikuntha sEnAnyam Devam soothravathi sakham |
yadvetrasikharaspandE visvamEthadvyavasthitham ||

I pay my respects to VishvaksEnar, the Consort of
Soothravathi. He is the Commander-in-chief of the
Lord. At the tip of His disciplining ward (whip) the
whole universe stays put in proper place and is
rightly led on.

Let me pay my humble adorations to Sri ViskvaksEnar,
[Senai mudhaliaar]. He is the Chief of Nithyasooris. I
salute VishvaksEnar, the consort of Soothravathi and
the Commander-in-Chief of the Lord's army. The whole
universe is controlled by the different movements of
the Cane that he holds in his hand as insignia of  his
delegated authority. 
  
VishvaksEnar is also recognized as the AchAryan for
NammAzhwAr. 
The name of VishvaksEnar's wife is Soothravathi. He is
the first among the Kainkarya parAL of Sriman
NaarAyaNA in Sri Vaikuntam. In the 14th slOkam of Sri
VenaktEsa SuprabhAtham,

Sri VishvaksEnar is seen in action controlling the
throngs of the DevAs jostling with each other to get a
better sEvai of ThiruvEnkatamudayAn during His
SuprabhAtham:

Sri Swami PushkariNikaa plava nirmalAnghA :
SrEyOarthinO Hara Virinchi SanandhanAdhyA :I
dhvArE vasanthi varavEthra hathOtthamAnghA :
Sri VenkataachalapathE ! Tava SuprabhAtham II

Brahma, MahEsvarA, the sage SanandanA and others,
aspiring well-being and having bathed in Sri Swami
PushkariNI and (thus) sanctified their bodies, are
waiting at the entrance receiving gentle strokes from
the cane on their heads from VishvaksEnar, their
commander. Oh Lord of 
VenkatAchalam ! May it be an auspicious dawn to Thee
!".

The cane strokes of VishvaksEnar are to be considered
as gentle touches to control the over enthusiastic
crowds of DevathAs pushing for an advantageous vantage
point for the darsanam of their Lord.

>From Sri CG Balaji Swami?s translation of
asmadhAchAryan His Holiness Srimad ParavakkOttai
Andavan?s YathirAja Sapthathi Tamil commentary: 

Vishwaksena Azhwan, who is the chieftain of Nitya
Suris (the daily attendants) also known as Saadhya
Devas and also the chief of Muktas (the liberated
ones). Muktas are those who performed bhakti or
prapatti and have got themselves dissociated from the
samsaric alliance and after having liberated
themselves so, have reached Sri Vaikuntam. Nitya Suris
are daily attendants at Sri Vaikuntam who have never
had any samsaric affliction or influence of prakruthi
on them and so are of pure satva or shuddha satva.
They always engage themselves in eternal service to
the Lord and immerse themselves in Brahmaanubhavam or
enjoyment of the divine qualities of the Lord. This
world of theirs
is known as Bhoga Vibhuti, Sri Vaikuntam or
Apraakrutha lokam. 

The world below this is known as the Prakrutha Lokam
or Lila Vibhuti. It is here where millions of cosmic
realms exist and in each one of those exist fourteen
worlds. In these worlds exist bhaktas who are chained
to the samsaram with the bonds of punyams and papams
or in other words imprisoned behind bars of punyams
(good deeds) and papams (evil deeds). These Bhoga
vibhuti and Lila Vibhuti come under the direct
ruler-ship of the Divya Dampathis. Next to the Divya
Dampathis these worlds are controlled by Sri
Vishvaksena Azhwan. Everything comes under the regime
of his commanding staff. 

As per the command of Piratti, Sri Vishvaksena Azhwan
taught the mantrams and mantraarthams and thereby the
tatva, hita and the purushartha to Sri Nammazhwar. Der
to this reason he becomes our third preceptor in the
spiritual lineage of acharyas. Sri Vishvaksena Azhwan
is the consort of Sutravati. There is a reason here
that Swamy Deshikan glorifies Sri Vishvaksena Azhwan
along with his consort.

When Bharata decided to bring back Sri Rama from the
forests, he ordered that all four types of battalions
should accompany him to the forests. Then the wives of
the soldiers of these battalions, out of great bhakti
towards Sri Rama, instigated their husbands to leave
for the forest at the earliest. In a similar way,
Srimathi Sutravati thought ?When Nammazhwar propagates
the purport of the Vedas to the Jivas in Bhulokam,
then those Jivas would mend their ways and become
Mumukshus and would surrender at the feet of the Lord,
sing His praises and contemplate on Him with all their
heart, and consequently would obtain the divine
anugrahams of the Lord and get themselves liberated
from the samsaric world and come to Sri Vaikuntam. 

How fortunate should we be to have their company? So
thinking she felt very happy and as per the wish of
Piratti, she instigated Sri Vishvaksena Azhwar to
initiate Maran Shatakopan into the truths at the
earliest. Considering this great support, Swamy
Deshikan glorifies Sri Vishvaksena Azhwan along with
his consort Smt Sutravati. It is said, ?There will be
a thousand impediments to good deeds?. Due to Azhwar?s
upadeshams the Jivas will become the seekers of Moksha
or salvation. 

samsAranyoonathA peethA: thridaSA: paripanThina: If
the Jivas here become the seekers of Moksha or
salvation and as per Azhwar?s upadesham perform
sharanagati and get liberated and attain Sri
Vaikuntam, then there would not be anybody in this
world to do sacrifices and other religious sacraments
and thereby the Devas would be deprived of their share
of the sacrificial offerings. So, the Devas themselves
might impede Azhwar from getting the Upadesham. 

But, the moment Sri Vishwaksenar takes his staff in
his hand, all the Devas shiver with respect and fear.
And so let us bow at the feet of the husband of
Sutravati, the commander of the army of the Lord, Sri
Vishwaksena Azhwar. 

asmadhAchArya paryanthAm vandhE GuruparamparAm

Regards
Namo Narayana
dasan

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