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SrI:

Dear SrI Sudarsana BhakthAs:

adiyEn mentioned in my earlier posting that the above
decad is very auspicious for those who are facing a lot
of difficulties in life. These paasurams have been recited 
for overcoming many of the life's inauspiciousness, big & small.
It is customary to recite them before SrI Sudarsana sathakam 
slOkams .

Prior to exploring the meanings of these pAsurams ,
let us see the context of this decad.

In the previous decad , ParAnkusa Naayaki expressed her 
intense desire to visit her Lord at ThirupEryail dhivya
Desam .In the last paasuram of that previous decad ,
Swamy NammAzhwAr stated that those , who recite these ten
paasurams dealing with the lord of ThiruppEryeil with
MahA Sudarsanam in His upper right hand would be blessed 
with noble Kaimkarya SrI like SudarsanAzhwAr Himself. 

At the thought of the Lord with Sudarsanam on His hand ,
ParAnkusa Naayaki was blessed with the vision of the Lord
returning from His Vijaya YaathrA adorning all His aaydhams 
such as Chakram , Conch, Bow, Mace and Sword .Paraankusa Naayaki's
viraha Taapam and worries were all banished and out of the joy
of the Lord's sevai, she blessed us with these ten paasurams.
PerumAL's Vijaya Sri is celebrated along with the Kaimkarya
SrI of all the weapons headed by SudarsanAzhwAn.Nanjeeyar 
has commented on the purport of these paasurams this way :

" virahatthAl vantha taLarcchi theertthu midukkuNDAm-padiyAha 
--Tannudaya vijayangalai EmperumAn Kaati aruLak-kaNDu dharittha
AzhwAr---yEtthi iniyanAnAr". 

AzhwAr's weakness and sorrow arising from separation 
from His Lord were banished and he felt fulfilled over 
the sevai of the Lord returning from His Vijaya YaathrAs.
AzhwAr sang about this victorious Lord and became filled with 
a sweet and delectable experience . AzhwAr starts with 
the visualization of ThrivikramAvathaaram (Ongi UlahaLantha 
Utthman's avathAram and conquest on Earth & sky).

ThiruvAi Mozhi(TVM): 7.4.1
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1) Azhiyezhac-changumum villumezhat-tisai
vAzhi yezha taNDum VaaLumezha, anDam
mozhai yezhamudi paadham yezha, Appan
Oozhi yezha ulaham koNDavArE

Oh Lord ! Hail to Thy Victory over MahA Bali!
When You recieved the arghya jalam to solemnize 
the gift of three feet of land from MahA Bali, 
You grew to a gigantic ThrivikramA form . Your weapons
hurried and got in to their wonted sthAnams 
and rushed as it were to protect You and grew 
in proportion to Your growing ThirumEni. The first of
the Lord's weapons to report to duty was Hethi RaajA, 
the Sudarsanam .The Sankham (Paanchajanyam), the bow
(Saarngam), the Mace (KoumEthaki) and the Sword
(Nandhakam ) followed the Chakra Raajan and grew
in proportion to Your growing body. They were ready 
to engage in fight to protect You in the event of
any danger that might come Your way.Your head
adorning the crown rose and pierced the wall of aNDam . 
Your Sacred feet now grew and got past Your crown.
The big toe of Your left foot was instrumental in piercing
the wall of aNDam and aavaraNa jalam flooded in and mixed
with Gangai that had risen earlier from the KamaNDalu
Jalam used by BrahmA as Paadhyam to wash Your feet as it 
shot past Sathya Lokam , the residence of Your son .

AzhwAr has the adhbhutha sEvai of ThrivikramAvathAram 
here and celebrates this and exclaims: What a great victory
by the Lord engaged in returning the Earth from 
MahA Bali, who had taken it away from the DevAs
by force !

(2) Next , the Lord's KoormAvathAram and churning
of the Milky ocean for nectar (amrutha maTanam) is
seen by Swamy NammAzhwAr. He sings about that 
Vijaya Yaathrai that he was blessed to witness:

aaRu-malaikkedinthOdum oli ara-
vooRu sulAi malaittEykkum oli kadal
mARu suzhanRu azhaikkinRa oli Appan ,
sARu pada amudham koNDa nAnRE

---TVM: 7.4.2

During amrutha maTanam , the vehemence of 
the churning made all the rivers reverse their
direction of flow , the ocean heaved and the ear 
shattering sound of the churning with the rope of
Vaasuki wrapped around the mountain of Mandara 
spread all around. My Lord took such an effort 
to hold the rope of Vaasuki in His own hands and 
made such a gigantic effort to churn the milky
ocean to release the nectar for the benefit of 
the DevAs.I was blessed to witness this sight 
of the Lord at work . What a great service 
He performed for His aasritha janams and what 
a gigantic victory He scored on that day !

3) The Varaha avathAram is brought next before the eyes 
of Swamy NammazhwAr by the Lord.This is another rakshaNa 
leelai performed for rescuing His divine consort, BhUmi
PirAtti.

nAnrila yEzh maNNum tAnatthavE oinnum
nAniRla yEzh malai tAnatthavE pinnum
nAnRila yEzh kadal tAnatthavE Appan
oonRi idhanthu yeyiRRil koNDa nALE

---TVM:7.4.3

What a miracle my Lord performed during His
incarnation as the gigantic Varaham! my Lord
dived to the bottom of the praLaya jalam and
lifted His Devi from there and placed Her on His 
long Tusk. While doing this, He made sure that 
the seven Kula parvathams , the seven oceans , 
the seven dhveepams did not slacken from their 
original places . Ever so carefully and skillfully , 
He lifted His Devi without disturbing 
these land marks . What a glorious feat! 

4) In this Pasuram, Swamy NammazhwAr is blessed
to witness another mighty leelai of His Lord.
The time is PraLaya Kaalam. The world is experiencing 
a mighty disarray. The divisions of Time , the Earth,
the water, the Sky , the Nakshathra maNDalams, the Sun ,
Moon and the stars, the planets , the galaxies and
the intergalactic dust are entering in to the mouth
of the Lord with great rapiditiy to the accompaniment 
of a roaring noise. Mountains crash against rivers 
and stars collide against the waters and all enter
a small portion of the Lord's stomach to rest there
until the dangers are over.Universe achieves layam.
The Lord protects them there as MahOpakAram.This is
another great leelai of the lord to help the world!

nALum yezha nilam neerum yezha , ViNNUm
kOLum yezha yerikAlum yezha malai 
tALumezhac-chudar thAnumezha Appan
ooLi yezha ulaham uNDa ooNE

--T.V.M: 7.4.4 

(5) Swamy NammAzhwAr witnesses next the scenes 
from KrishNAvathAram. The most skillful way in
which He conducted the BhAratha Yuddham without
weapons and supervised the destruction of KouravAs
and their army unfolds in front of the eye of
Swamy NammAzhwAr.DevAs were cheering from their 
positions in the sky. With a loud clap of hands , 
The Lord started and concluded that war without
taking any weapons as PaarthasArathy. The Bhaaram
for BhUmi was lightened . It was the Mother of all 
Victories ! " That is Victory if victory 
can be spoken of for anybody".

OoNudai mallar taharntha oli mannar
aaNudaic-chEnai nadungum oli viNNuL
yENudait-thEvar veLipatta oli Apaan 
kaaNudaib-Bhaaratham kai yeRi pOzhthE

--TVM: 7.4.5

(To be continued)

Swamy NammazhwAr ThiruvadigaLE Saranam ,
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 










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