SrI:
Dear Sri Venkatesan :
AzhwArs and AchAryAs have a well established record
of
NaicchAnusandhAnam , where they condemn themselves
for trespasses that they are least likely to
committ .
Thirumangai Mannan's Paasurams are replete with
such
statements . Swamy AlavanthAr's StOtra Ratnam has
number of self-codemnatory verses arising from a
sense
of NirvEdham .
AzhwArs and AchAryAs engage in such outpourings for
our benefit .
Coming to ThoNDaradippodi AzhwAr's vyAmOham
with Deva Devi
is a colorful and credible incident , where the
Srirangam Dhivya
Dampathis were engaged in a sport to test
AzhwAr's MahA
ViswAsam . The legend has it that Lord
RanganAtha orchestrated it ,
had one of His Sannidhi Golden Vattil (
from His Soma Sundaram)
delivered in person to Deva Devi's house to please
Deva Devi
to reunite with the discarded AzhwAr . Our
Guru Paramparai
descriptions are not very consistent on such
matters .
With all these points in mind , a devotee
is left to oneself
to either accept this incident in the life of the
great AzhwAr
or to have some doubts about it . Our reverence
for
the AzhwAr and Lord Ranganatha however
does not change even by an iota
.
NamO SrI RanganAthAya ,
V.Sadagopan
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