SrI: Dear BhakthAs of Lord DevanAtha PerumAL : Macroscopic view of this Prabhandham ******************************************* In this Prabhandham of Nava MaNi Maalai , Swamy Desikan speaks about the glories of EmperumAn's sacred feet and next about His ten avathArams .He follows it up with the salutation to the sacred theerthams creeated at Thiruvaheendhrapuram by Brahma , Garudan , Aadhi Seshan and BhUmi Piraatti on the banks of which the Lord stays with affection . Swamy Desikan next elaborates on the walk to the seas side during the month of Maasi to enjoy His uthsavam at the sandy dunes and points out that those who have not forgotten His beauty will be freed from the cycles of births and deaths .He concludes the Nava MaNi Maalai by pleading with the Lord to grant him abhaya pradhAnam during his last moments on earth and acknowledges his composition of nine SrI sookthis ( 2 in Sanskrit and 7 in Tamil) at the command of his Lord. The Vaibhavam of the Lord's sacred feet ********************************************* oru mathi anbhar uLam kavarnthana ulaham adanga vaLarnthu aLanthana oru saDai onRiya Gangai tanthana urha paDangaL angu koNDana ( LInes 1-4) (Meaning ) : The sacred lotus feet of Lord DevanAthan , who is true to His devotees , enchant the minds of the ParamaikAnthis and make them meditate on those holy feet all the time. Such are their Vaibhavam ! Those sacred feet rose to a gigantic size and contained all the worlds under them . They created the GangA river and made Lord Siva a Parisuddhan by letting Him hold that sacred river in His matted locks. During KrishNAvathAram , those sacred feet used the hoods of the fiercely poisonous serpent , KaaLIngan as the theater for their dance and danced there . dharumam uyarnthathu ithu yenna ninRana Dharuman iranthathu isainthu senRana sakadam udainthu kalanga venRana tamarkaL arunthum marunthu yenbana ( Lines 5-8) (Meaning): These sacred feet are powerful to grant adiyArs their desired phalans by manifesting as the unique and wonderous upAyam . They dared to go to DuryOdhanan's court even as an ambassador at the request of Dharmaputhrar . Those feet destroyed into shreds the asuran , who came in the form of a wheel to kill Him during KrishNAvathAram .They are saluted by the SaasthrAs as the insatiable nectar and medicine for removing the sufferings from worldly afflictions (SamsAra tApams) . ThirumahaL seyya karankaL onRina thihazh TuLavu unthum maNam kamazhnthana sezhumaNi koNDa silambu ilangina silai tanil anRu ohr aNangu umizhnthana(Lines 9-12) (Meaning): Those sacred feet unite with the tender hands of MahA Lakshmi , when She presses them . They are fragrant with the perfume of sacred TuLasi from the archanais of adiyArs. They shine with the lustre of the gem-studded ankle ornament and add beauty to the rathna silampu through their union . During RaamAvathAram , they blessed Ahalyai to appear again in her beautiful form as the wife of Gouthama and freed her from the curse of her husband . aru maRai antham amarntha paNbina Ayan mudi tannil amarnthu uyarnthana aruL tara yeNNi Ayinthai vanthana Adiyavar Meyyar malar PaadhangaLE ( Lines 13-16) (Meaning): Those sacred feet have the vaibhavam of housing themselves inside Upanishads (VedAnthams) . They sat on the head of BrahmA and rose further up. They arrived at Thiru Ayindhai to bless Their adiyArs . Those are the lotus soft and beautiful feet of the Lord eulogized as Natha Sathyan ( Adiyavar Meyyan) . Sarvam KrishNArpaNam asthu , Daasan , Oppiliappan KOil VaradachAri SadagOpan Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka SrivaNN Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama: ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/XUWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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