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SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

[Hereafter AzhwAr enjoys few VaamanaavathAra pAsurams]

kankain^eer_pa yanthapaadha
  pankayaththem maNNalE,
ankaiyaazhi sankuthaNdu
  villumvaaLu mEnthinaay,
sinkamaaya thEvathEva!
  thEnulaavu menmalar,
mankaimanni vaazhumaar_pa!
  aazhimEni maayanE!    (24)

My Swami [em aNNalE]! The One who has beautiful red
lotus feet that made Ganges waters! The One who holds
divine ChakrA, white Conch Shell, KaumOdhaki gadhA,
and Saarngam (Bow), Sword etc in His resplendent
beautiful hands! Simgam Aya DhEvaa! Narasinga
perumAnE! The One who has the divine Chest as the
permament eternal residence of Periya PiraaTTi Sri
Mahalakshmi- seated on tender fresh lotus flowers
where bees loiter, and hum! Oh most wonderful
(athyAscharya) blue black ocean like dark complexioned
Lord! 

This verse can continue to next pAsuram- hence we will
take now in this post for the sake of completion. [OR
we can also change the word Azhi mEni maayanE! as
Maarbha vaazhi! Long live on divine chested with
Thirummaarbhaa!] 

Firt line- the Vaamanan grows to Thrivikraman- When He
grew so tall and huge talking Trivikarama avatHAram-
Chathur mukha BrahmA grabbed the opportunity to wash
his sins by talking his kamaNdalu and offered to the
small portion of toe-thumb tip (that reached him in
Brahma lOkam) and the when the waters were not
sufficient, Dharma dEvathai offered herself as waters
to flow down to wash the lotus feet and the waters
that is offered flows down from the Lotus feet to
Siva's matted locks and then to the earth as Ganges!
(Read Bhageerthan incident in Srimad Ramayanam); 

Water that touched the tip of the thumb in the lotus
feet becomes the cared Ganges.. and Sivan purified
himself by taking the waters on his head. 

Em aNNalE! With no prayers or efforts, all the
residents of Bhali witnessed the glorious Trivikraman
and everyone was blessed by getting touched by the
Lotus feet that grew on the ground. [kadhaa punas
sanka.. ¡ SthOthra Rathnam- by Alavandhar-] 

Hence Lord established His Swamithvam by taking the
avathAram [kaaNmeergaL ulagattheerE enRu kaNmugappE
nimirndha- says NammAzhwAr in Thiruvaymozhi]  and
hence becomes swami for all of us- em annaLE! Our
swami! 

When he grew so tall, naturally every limb and hence
the Ayudhas also were so magnificent and huge; They
were so charming and beautiful to enjoy looking at
them on those beautiful resplendent hands. [one can
enjoy all these in Thiruvaymozhi- PerumA neeL padai-
Thiruvaymozhi 1.10-1 and Azhiyezha sankhum villumezha
¡ Andam mOzhai yezha ¡ ulagam kOndavaaRE..
Thiruvaymozhi 7.4.1] 

How were five Ayudhas held in four hands? Villum
vaaLum (bow and Sword) are uttered together with a
um¡¨ and hence can be considered to be in one hand.
Same thing for next pAsurams also. 

Also in VaamanaavathAram, PiraaTTi was hidden
(intentionally- as he is a Brahmachari- Bachelor; and
PiraaTTi would not let  Bhali get defeated probably]
and hence AzhwAr takes Narasingan and mentions
PiraaTTi for everone not to assume that Prahlada came
first and PiraaTTi was scared to go near Him etc.. as
She lives with Him for ever in the divine Chest- says
Sri UttamUr Swamy.     

[as mentioned earlier- let us continue with another
PAsuram today for the sake of completeness]

varaththiNnil siraddhaimikka vaaLeyiRRu maRRavan,
uraththiNnil karaththai vaiththu ugirththalaththai
yoonRinaay, 
iraththi nee ithenna poyyi iranthamaN vayiRRuLE
karaththi un karuththai yaavar kaaNavallar kaNNanE!  
(25)

Let us enjoy NarasimhAvathAram in detail
HiraNyakasipu- who was having complete faith [on
the boon that was given to him by Chathumukha BrahmA;
- the asurA who has shining teeth; the enemy -was
destroyed by You; You pressed your sharp nails from
your divine hands on his strong chest and killed him;
Such greatest and grand Lord- You took a small
Brahmachari boy form and begged for three measures of
earth by your feet? What is this? (idhu enna?) The
worlds that you obtained from Bhali by begging You
retained them and hid them in Your little stomach
during cosmic dissolution (mahA praLayam). Thse
wonders- matvels- are all hosued in Your athyAscharya
Lordship! Who knows what is there in Your mind
(ThiruvuLLam)?  

Hiranyakasipu thought that with his boon obtained from
BrhmA that he would not be killed by human, devas,
animals, et al; not in day, night; not inside; nor
outside; not by any weapons; nor by hands; and many
such conditions- all of which was adhered to by Lord
Narasimhan and still He killed the asurA]. 

Brahmaa's father is our Lord; asurA did not know
that: He is not shrewed and did not know who was
Supreme? He had pride about his strength about the
boon. Not violating any of the conditions, NrusimhA
killed the asurA effortlessly with his sharp nails. 

He touched the heart (chest) with his hand to check if
He actually has any bhakti and if he has any love for
His devotee Prahalada. Having found none; He
pressed His sharp nails. - enjoys AzhwAr.
HiraNyakasipu asked:
 
Oh Prahalada, if He is there everywhere, why is He not
here- present in this pillar? Let me cut your head and
let me see how your most worshippable Lord comes to
protect you. With terrible anger, hiraNyakasipu struck
his fist against the pillar.
 
aLanthitta thooNai avan thatta AngE vaLarndhittu
vALugirrch singavuruvaay/ 
... (PeriyAzhwAr Thirumozhi)
 
THERE APPEARED FROM THE PILLAR, CAME A fierceful
sound, which appeared to crack the covering of the
universe. It reached even the abodes of Brahma.
Demi-gods thought the planets are getting destroyed.
 
Sri NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAymozhi describes wonderfully:
 
"engum uLan KaNNan enRa maganik kaayndhu/
inghu illaiyaa? enRu iraNiyan thooN pudaippa,
"anghu", "appozhudhE" avan veeyat thOnRiya
"en" Singapiraan perumai aarayum seermaitthE..
 
what an anubhavam and emotional narration of MaaRan..!
Prahalada says.. enghum uLan.  (KaNNan is there
everywhere) IraNiyan asks "inghu illaiyaa? (is He not
here?) The Bhagawathas say "He is everywhere.
The athiest asks in negative. Bhagawatha is
affirmative and positive. 
anghu- (Then and there..-Immediately), appozhudhE,
avan veeyatthOnRiya..
what a word! en- My Singapiraan- ennudaiya
Singapiraan- My Lord Nrusimhan-
ArAyum seermaitthE- Can His graetness be measured and
comprehended? (Never)
 
HiraNyakasipu studied the form of the Lord:
 
It was extremely fearsome, because of His angry eyes,
like molten gold, shining mane, which added ferocity
to the face, His deadly sharp teeth, His razor sharp
tongue, the erect ears, the cave like nostrils and the
mouth, slightly parted jaws, the whole body so huge
that it touched the sky, short neck and thick, broad
chest, thin waist and the body hairs like the rays of
moon. Long arms spread in all directions;
 
Just a small insect falls forcefully into the fire,
the insignificant creature becomes invisible,
HiraNyakasipu attacked the Lord, who was full of
effulgence. Like Garuda plays with the snake
by slowly releasing and again catching, the Lord left
him a little by letting him come back to fight;
HiraNyakasipu thought he is winning.
 
Making a huge noise, shrill sound of laughter, the
Great Lord Sri Narasihman who is extremely strong and
powerful, captured HiraNyakasipu, and with the great
speed, He hit him on the strong chest. With great
speed, HiraNyakasipu was tossed sometimes in the sky
and sometimes in the earth, he kept his eyes closed
because of fear of the Lord and His laughter.
 
Lord Sri Narasingan placed HiraNyakasipu on His lap
supporting him with His thighs, in the doorway, at
twilight and effortlessly and very easily tore open
the demon to pieces with His sharp nails.
 
Lord Sri Narsimhan's mouth and mane were sprinkled
with blood, His fearsome, fierce eyes, full of anger,
were just impossible to look at. Licking the edge of
the mouth with his tongue, simply threw the body
aside.
 
Manifesting a full effulgence, He roamed in the
corridors, being very angry. He sat down on the
assembly hall on the throne. No one, out of fear could
dare come near except Prahalada.
 
Brahma requested Prahalada, Sri Narasimhan is
extremely angry and fearsome at Your father. Please go
to Him and only You can appease Him. He appeared only
for You. (Naturally, four faced Brahma is very scared;
because he only had granted such a boon to
HiraNyakasipu).
 
Prahalada gradually (A devotee is not at all scared of
the Lord) went to Him and fell down prostrating at His
Feet to pay His obeisance.
 
The Lord (with angry eyes) looked with great dayA and
compassion to Prahalada (what a combination! Only he
can have such fierceful, merciful eyes simultaneously)
 
He became ecstatic to see His devotee and placed His
Lotus Hand on the head of Prahalada. Prahalada became
completely freed of all contamination (if any
existed), and his heart was full of Parama bhakti.
 
Although the Lion is very ferocious, it is very kind
to her cubs. Although fearsome, and fierceful (to
HiraNyakasipu- non devoted People), Sri Narsimhan is
very kind and merciful to devotees.
 
Oh Narasimhaa! You are sarva sakthan. When You have
decided to protect someone, is there any need to look
for someone else? And should You decide Not to save
one, is there anyone who can save him at all?
Realising that, I surrender to You Lotus Feet only.
Swami Desikan's Kaamaasikaashtakam (slOka 8):
[please forgive me for the digression- I lost myself
in Nrusimha avathAram]

When You can destroy so well on the asurA, where is
this Bhali? You could have finished him off easily! Or
resolved the crisis in different effortless manner!
Instead You went begging as small dwarf boy! What a
wonder! What a sowlabhyam! Whose property! Who is
begging! Why should You stoop down so low and beg? The
Lord who has divine MahAlakshmI in His divine Chest!
And He goes begging for a property! What is this!
Idhenna- asks AzhwAr (in third line)

Such a You, who took huge form to measure the worlds;
You placed all that in Your little stomach in your
infant form (You could have done that even for Bhali
and showed your Parathvam); why did You beg? You place
the worlds and protect them and hence the worlds are
Your property as always. Why should You beg? 

You let Yoruself as the sEsham (servitude) for Your
devotee (being a deriver for Arjunan) and what is the
wonder in considering Your property as if it is
others'- is that what You thought? Those who are
enemy to You, Your Parathvam and those who are devoted
to You- You show Your modesty - sowlabhyam and stand
infront of them like a child so easily accessible for
them to hug and take You. You have become the
repository of all such wonderful mysteries, Oh
KrishNA! Who can comprehend all such wonderful deeds
of Yours! None can. 

Thirumazhisai AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE saraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan



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