SrI: SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama: Dearest all, Let us continue to enjoy azhwAr?s verses in the fourth ten on ThiruvEnkatam. A brilliant set of verses. Today?s verse is the 7th one. vaanaaLum maamathipOl veNkudaikkeezh mannavar_tham kOnaaki veeRRirunthu koNdaadum selvaRiyEn thEnaar_pooNY chOlaith thiruvENG kadamalaimEl kaanaaRaayp paayum karuththudaiyE NnaavEnE Like the moon that engulfs the land with its shining luster, the king rules his kingdom with his royal power [of umbrella- veNkoRRak kudai- in Tamil] I do not aspire for such a celebrity birth of being a king ruling the world, sitting in royal throne. All that I want is to be the swift flowing river in the mountain of ThiruvEnkatam wherein the fertile honey dripping gardens is found in abundance in the banks. AzhwAr in the last verse desired to be the mountain segment thereby he can enjoy divya darshan of the Lord as well as serve Bhaagawathaas. Suddenly he remembers that the devotees may pay their obeisance to the Lord from the ground (without actually climbing the mountain) and the darshan of the mountain itself is great. So, he would not have the bhaagyam of having the devotee?s feet on the mountain segment. And hence AzhwAr now asks for the river or water falls that flow from the mountain top downwards. Thereby he is able to have the sparsam of the Bhaagawathas and wash their feet as well. This kaattaaRu reminds me of the vibhava avathArams of the Lord namely Rama Krishna avathArams which are also referred to as the turbulent flowing waters [kaattaaRu] from mountains or in the forests. These waters do not flow forever. They would dry up after sometime. Similarly these Vibhava avathArams were enjoyed by those who were contemporaries. Today, it is history and we can not enjoy Lord KrishNA as Gopis and AkrUrar did or Rama as Ayodhya did. Thus this rUpam is in the past like last year's river water, which is no longer available to quench our thirst (dried up river bed). Only archA roopams like Srirangan, Thirumalai Srinivasan are available to us forever? And we see Rama Krishna avathArams in them and they are not different from Sreenivasan or Rangan. Sri Muralidhar Ranaswamy shares: In the seventh Pasuram, the Azhwar cries out "Of what use is it to be an emperor walking under a royal umbrella, living in a huge palace flaunting his wealth and hearing the praise of sycophants in the court? Are not all these marks of royalty useless tinsel if they cannot help in serving the Lord? Would it not be beautiful if I can become a hill stream at Venkatachalam which provides water used in performing Tirumanjanam for Lord Srinivasa? AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam Regards Namo narayana dAsan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:SriRangaSri-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:SriRangaSri-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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