[ramanuja] Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- Thirumangai AzhwAr anubhavam Periya Thirumozhi 1.9.9

[Madhavakkannan V <srivaishnavan@xxxxxxxxx>]

SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:
Dearest all,

Let us continue to enjoy Thirumangai AzhwAr?w
wonderful verses on Thiruvenkatamudiayaan. 

kalayaami kalidhvamsam kavim lOkadhivaakaram
yaSya kObi: prakaaSaabir aavidhyam niHatham thama:
 
I meditate on the Poet, who is like the Sun for the
whole world, to destroy the darkness of ignorance
(a~jnAnam) with his word and who destroys the Kali
dhOsham. 

paRRElonRumilEn paavamEseydhupaaviyaanEn,
maRRElonRariyEn maayanE! engkaLmaadhavanE!,
kalthEnpaaynNdhozhugum kamalacchunaivEngkadavaa!,
aRREnvanNdhadainNdhEn adiyEnaiyaatkoNdaruLE.     1.9.9

Oh Most wonderful Lord! Oh alarmEl mangai maNALA!
Madhava! (Master of Sri MahALakshmi!) Oh Lord of
ThiruvEmkatam, surrounded by lotus ponds, where honey
rolls down from the mountain top to these lotus ponds!
I have committed only sins and nothing but sins- sins
after sins and more and more sins. There is no other
strength or refuge for me, now. I know NONE ELSE BUT
YOU to save me. There is none who can save me, except
You. adiyEn has surrendered to Your Feet. Please save
me and take me over to You as Your eternal servant. 

AzhwAr surrenders here to the Divya Dampathi. When he
thinks of his helplessness and wishes to perform
Saranagathi [self surrender] he immediately thinks of
Sri Mahalakshmi the most merciful Mother along with
the ever ready most graceful and most compassionate
Father Sriman Narayanan. It is PiraaTTi who recommends
as the Mother does, forgiveing our past and sins. The
Father has dhaNdarathvam [punishing for the acts
committed trespassing saasthirc injunctions].


The only thing that is in between us and SrIviakunTham
is the enormous sins that we have committed.  The only
prAyaScitta that is available to most of us for our
heaps of sins is prapatti. The greatness and efficacy
of Saranagathi has been taught to us by bhagawaan in
His rAma and krishNa incarnations, and also by the
great sages and AcArya-s. As the first step in seeking
SaraNagathi, we should seek the protection  of our
divine Mother, pirATTi, who speaks for us and pleads
for us with bhagavAn ?tadArambhe tasyAh giram
avadhAnena manasA akhila nAthasya ekAm ahishIm tAm
Sriyam prapadye (Slokam 3 of Nyasa thilakam of
Desika). In lakshmi tantra, pirATTi's words to us are:
"Surrender to Me when you perform the prAyaScitta for
your sins".  
prAyaScitta prasange tu sarva pApa samudbhave |
mAm ekAm devadevasya mahishIm saraNam Srayet ||

As our divine Mother, She takes the responsibility to
plead our case when bhagawaan is vexed with our
enormous sins.  Without Her pleading our case, we have
no chance of approaching Him 

It is pointed out by Poorvars that SrI rAmAnuja in his
SaraNAgati gadyam, also first seeks pirATTi's Grace,
and after obtaining Her blessing, performs prapatti at
the feet of the Lord.  Thus AzhwAr follows the same
principle here seeking PiraaTTi?s grace and Sri
Srinivasan?s mercy herein. 

In the PancharAtra smahitA, Maha Vishnu explains to
his senior disciple VishvaksenA, the nature and
attributes of His consort, Sri Mahalakshmi. He states
that She is the resting place of all Gurus, ruler of
all worlds, eternal and imperishable. He elaborates
further on their relationship: Just as the Universe is
pervaded by me both in essence and quality, all this
is pervaded by Her also. Therefore, She is the
disposer and ruler of all.... She is pervaded by me
and similarly, I, the Lord am also pervaded by Her.
The difference 
between me and Her is that She, who is the ruler of
all is subservient to me. To Her as well as the
Universe that I am the Lord,is well known in Vedas.

In the same PancharAtra SamhitA, Sri  Mahalakshmi
herself has explained Herself and Her consort, their
pervasion and rulership. Sri Vatsya Varada Guru, the
author of the illustrious work on SaranAgathi known as
Prapanna ParijAtha has elaborated on the relationship
between the divine couple as follows: That supreme
energy of Brahman, which is as is lustre to the moon,
is the Goddess Lakshmi, who is coexistent with Brahman
in all His conditions, and who is in His own nature
and is indestructible.

what a great paasuram again by AzhwAr. Let us waste no
further birth to rush to perform our saranagathi at
the lotus feet of Divya Dampathi Sri PadmavathI
SamEtha Sri Srinivasan of Thirumala... 

Thirumangai AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan


                
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