SrI:
NAMSTHE ALL,
I WOULD LIKE SHARE THIS WONDEFUL INFORMATION WITH YOU ALL DIRECT
FROM MESSAGE ARCHIVES.
PRANAMAMS
KRISHNAPRIYA
Dear Sri BalAji Narasimhan :
Your question is an excellent one : Why is there only one PaadhukA
that is worn by MalOlan , the AarAdhanA Moorthy of Ahobila Matam
Jeeyars ? How come the other Paadhukai is missing in His dhivya
MangaLa Vigraham ?
Here is the legendary answer for your question below :
The answer is :
It all goes back to a BahudhAnya ( BaudhA + anya ) samvathsaram (
1398 C.E) , PurattAsi Month , Sukla Paksha Panchami dinam , a
Thursday , when a Young man of 20 years age by the name , KidAmbi
SrinivAsan stood on the Upper Ahobilam and was about to start to
perform his MangaLAsAsanam of Nava Narasimhars . He had just taken
his bath in BhavanAsini river , performed his nithya
karmAnushtAnams . As this young scholar walked towards the
Sannidhis , an elderly SanyAsi appeared before Kidambi SrinivAsar .
Our young visitor prostrated before the elderly SanyAsi and shared
with Him the dream that had brought him to Ahobila KshEthram The
SanyAsi smiled and acknowledged that it was He who had invited the
young scholar from Melkote to Ahobilam and asked the young scholar
to accept SanyAsAsramam . The elder
Yathi Saarvabhoumar blessed the younger scholar with His own saffron
robes ( KaashAya Vasthram) and performed PrEksha Manthra UpadEsam to
initiate him in to the fourth aasramam . The elder Yathi
Saarvabhoumar went into AchArya RaamAnuja Sannidhi inside the temple
of Upper Ahobilam and took the ThridhaNDam resting on the hands of
BhAshyakArar and blessed KidAmbi SrinivAsar with it . The elderly
SanyAsi , who was none other than BhagavAn Narasimhan gave the name
of SaThakOpa Jeeyar to the young SanyAsi .
Lord NarasimhA commanded the new Jeeyar to perform AarAdhanam for
Lord Narasimhan and travel from village to village with Lord
Narasimhan to bless aasrithAL's with SamAsrayaNams and
BharanyAsams and to protect them . Lord Narasimha appearing as the
elder SanyAsi gave His own sankha chakrams to the newly initiated
SanyAsi ( SrI SaThakOpa Jeeyar) for performing SamAsrayaNams during
his assigned misison .
The young SanyAsi had one doubt now . He asked the Lord as to which
of the Nava Narasimhan he should perform AarAdhanam . The elder
SanyAsi replied : " Close your eyes and meditate on the nava
NarasimhAs . One of them will bless You . I am the One who appeared
in Your dream and invited you here .We have blessed You with SanyAsa
Aasramam " and disappeared right in front of the astounded young
sanyAsi .
Sri SaThakOpa Jeeyar performed aarAdhanam for all the nava
NarasimhAs following the command of His AchAryan , closed his eyes
thereafter and held his hands in a supplicatory mode and said "
Praseedha" (Bless me) . Immediately , the ArchA Moorthy of Lord
Narasimhan embracing MahA Lakshmi seated on His left side and
holding abhaya Mudhrai on His right hand and Sankha ?Chakrams on
His other two (upper) hands jumped in to the cupped hands of SrI
SaThakOpa Jeeyar . Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhan (MalOlan) came in such a
hurry that He had
Time to get into only one of His PaadhukAs. He left the other
Paadhukai in His aasthAnam .
MalOlan was so eager to start on His sanchArams with Sri SaThakOpa
Jeeyar that He did not even notice that He had only one PaadhukA .
He did not go back to recover His other PaadhukA. He has returned to
His aasthAnam many times at Upper Ahobilam to unite with His Moola
BhEram with the successors of Sri Adhi VaNN SathakOpa Jeeyar but did
not want to recover HIs other Paahduka and thereby erase the
incident associated with His historic rush
to bless His hand-picked Jeeyar on that BhaudhAnya-PurattAsi-Sukla
Paksha Panchami dinam some 606 years ago . At that historic
time ,Garudan at His Thiruvadi held on to the Lord ; AdhisEshan
above His head held on . MahA Lakshmi clasped Her lord tightly ,
when He was moving like chandamArutham .One of the Paadhukais
however could not match the speed of the Lord . The Paadhukai that
took the first step to transport the Lord ( on the Right foot) held
on . That on the Left foot got left behind.
That is why , we see Only One Paadhukai on the Paadha YugaLam of
MalOlan's archA Moorthy that receives AarAdhanam daily from the
Azhagiya Singars . It is the commemoration of a historic event .
Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan
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