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Aippasi, Vyaya                                                                                       AzhvAr 1; AchArya 3

 

                        Om SrIdharAya namaH

                        Om SriyaiH namaH

                        Om SrIvishvaksEnAya namaH

                                             Om SrI SaThagOpAya namaH

                                            SrImathE rAmAnujAya namaH

 

AippaSi pUrADam- thirunakshathram of sEnApathi AzhvAn

 tulAkathEthi nagarE poorvAshAdA samudhbhavam

padmApadhAmbhujAsaktham sEnAdhipamaham bhajE

is a thaniyan used to salute SrI sEnApathi AzhvAn or SrI vishvakshEna in our Guru-parampara. In the SrIvaishNava sampradAyam, Guruparmpara the position of SrIvishvakshEna is third in the line. Tradition has it SrIyaHpathi SrIman nArAyaNan, did the rahasya upadESam to periya pirATTiyAr SrImahAlakshmi, and she did upadESam to SrI vishvakshEna, and Through vishvakshEna, EmperumAn did panchasamskAram to swAmi nammAzhvAr. Hence, the thirunakshathram of the commander in chief of the ubhaya vibhUthi is very much of importance to us. On this auspicious day let us try to glimpse through the passing remarks given by our pUrvAchAryas about this grand Acharya.

He is often portrayed in the divya mangaLavigraham, as chathurbAhu, holding, conch, chakram, and having his left hand holding a cane, or a whip, or a chenkOl, and his right hand showing a special mudra called Anguli mudra.

This is wonderfully portrayed in srIranga rAja sthavam, by swami paraSarabhattar

SrIrangachandramasa indhirayA viharthum

vinyasya viSva chitha chinnayanAdhikAram |

yO nirvahathya nisamanguli mudrayaiva

senAnyamanyavimukAsthama SriyAma ||

In this slokam SENai mudhalaiyAr is being worshipped and revered. The whole prapancham is to be administered by EmperumAn. VishwakSEnar

spells out thus " svAmi! dhEvarEr need not bother; You can be with Periya PirATTiyAr. adiyEan will take care of these duties' and the Lord Almighty accordingly delegates these on him.

Sri VishwaksEnar's anguLi mudhirai -which is seen in his vigraham-s- represents this administration under his regime.

The well known SrI vishNu sahasranAmam, salutes sEnApathi Azhvan, in the second invocatory verse as the remover of obstacles.

Yasya dviravakthrAdya pArishadyA paraSSadam

Vighnam nighnanthi Sathatham vishvakshEnam thmASrayE ||

In Edu 36000ppadi, nampiLLAi refers emperuman himself as

"Viswaksenar pirambin kEzhEa vaLarnadha thathuvam"

The philosophy grown under the strict regime of Sri Visvaksenar

Often in our pUrvAchArya commentaries he is portrayed as an age old prime minister to whom emperumAn transferred all the duties and takes pleasure with pirATTI's. Whenever SrI vishvaksEna makes an entry without notice, pirATTi's go and hide, out of great respect to the Age old manthri.

Among the nithya sUrIs, and mukthAs, VishvaksEna is the chieftain. In Every temple, he is the custodian of EmperumAn's prasAdam. That is ,whenever the  thaLigai (offerings) is offered to EmperumAn, immediately afterwards, it is offered to vishvakshEna. Hence, he bears, the name SEshASana(not to be confused with sEshAsana) meaning, one who part takes the remaining food.

Remember the SEsha SEshASana garuDa pramukha… chUrNai in SaraNagathi gadyam.

In Kerala DD's, Thanthra samucchayam, kriyA paTalam, addresses him as nirmAlya dhAri. Meaning the same, SEshASana . His presence is inevitable  in all utsavams, and his extreme importance is seen in SrIpAncharArtha Agama itself, having an important portion of it named after himself as  vishvaksEna samhitha.

 In sthOthra rathnam swAmi ALavanthAr points out

thvadIya bhukthOjhitha SEsha bhOjinaa

thvayaa nisRshtha aathma bharENa yadyathhaa.

priyeNa senaapathinaanyavEdi thath

thathhaanu jaanantha mudaara viixaNaiH
Who approves with noble glance whatever communication is brought to You by your beloved chief of hosts (Vishvaksenar), who partakes of the remnants of Your food, and on whom has been bestowed the charge (of Your sovereignty). [courtesy sundarasimham.org]

swAmi dESikan praises the vishvaksEna in several SrI sUkthIs

in dayA Sathakam it goes like this

anEka vighna samanam aneekEswaram AshrayE

sreemata: karuNAmbOdhou sikshA srOta ivOtthitam

salutations to vishvaksEna, who is like a canal, originating from the ocean of mercy of the lord, He has been given the power to chastise and correct the erring chEthanams to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of their travel through the path of light to reach Bhagavan's supreme abode.

 In yathirAja sapthathi it goes like this

VandE VaikuNDa sEnAnyam dEvam SootravatI sakham

yat vEtra shikara: spande visvam Etat vyavastthitam

I pay my respects to Vishvaksena, the Consort of Soothravathi. He is the Commander-in-chief of the Lord. At the tip of His disciplining ward (whip) the whole universe stays put in proper place and is rightly led on.  

 And above all, when swAmi nammAzhvar expresses his deep anguish for kainkaryam, in the ozhivil kAlamellAm pathikam he remembers immediately about vishvakshEna.

vAnavar vAnavarkOnoDum chinthu pUmakizhum thiruvEnkaTam

Ongku thulAp pUrAdaththuthiththa selvan vAzhiyE

oNdodiyAL sUthravathi uRai mArban vAzhiyE

Ingkulagil sadakOpaRku itham uraiththAn vAzhiyE

ezhiR pirambin sengkOlai Enthumavan vAzhiyE

pAngkudan muppaththu mUvar paNiyumavan vAzhiyE

pangkayath thAL thiruvadiyaip paRRinAn vAzhiyE

thEngku pugazh arangkaraiyE sinthai seyvOn vAzhiyE

sEnaiyar kOn sengkamalath thiruvadigaL vAzhiyE

 Vara vara muni dasargaL




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