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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:
Dearest Srivaishnavas,

Let us continue to enjoy Poigai AzhwAr
aruLiccheyalgaL? 
His Mudhal ThiruvanthAthi 39th verse is the next one:

idanthathu bhoomi edutthathu kunRam,
kadanthathu kancanaimun anca, - kidanthathum
neerOtha maakadalE ninRathuvum vEngadamE,
pErOtha vaNNar perithu.        39

The huge ocean like blue hued coloured Lord stands
tall forever in this Divya Desam of Thirumalai-
ThiruvEnkatam. This same Lord- Dhivya mangaLa mUrthi ?
is the One who took the avathAram of Huge Boar and
brought back the bhUmi from troubled deep waters after
killing HiraNyaakshan; He is the One who lifted the
huge Govardhana mountain effortlessly in His little
hand during His KrishNaavathAram; He is the One who
went to Kamsan?s palace and killed that dhushtan; He
is the Same one who reclined on AdhisEshan in the
milky ocean; 

He is the most merciful Lord- Dayaa moorthi- most
compassionate One. 

During Varaaha avathAram, Bhumi dEvi says :

My lord ! I am Your disciple , servant and have great
bhakthi for You . Please accept my appeal and bless me
with instructions on the easy means that would help
all jeevans to reach sathgathi (mOksham ) ".The Lord
then revealed the two slOkams that constitute the 
pUrva and Uttara BhAgams of Varaaha Charama Slokam . 

The two slOkAs that came out of Sri Varaaha Moorthy's
sacred lips embed the essence of Vedic thoughts as
discussed in detail by Swami Desikan in his Rahasya
Grantham , Rahasya SikhAmaNi. This rahasya grantham 
has huge references to the significance of
VarahAvathaaram, Charama SlOkam  
and has quotations from the Divya Prabhandhams. Swami
Desikan analyzed word by word the VarAha Charama
Slokam with pramANams in this rahasya grantham.
[adiyEn had the bhAgyam of listening to this as
kalakshepam from our Sri MS Hari Swamin when he was in
Singapore few years ago] 

He is Aadhi Varaahan and as such was asked permission
by Sri VenkatEsA to share the Aadhi Varha KshEthram,
when in Kali Yugam, He took the ArchA form to reside
on the top of Venkatam hills. On the banks of Swami
PushkaraNI, Adhi Varaahan stands even today and we
worship Him first before going inside Sri VenkatEsA's
temple.

His svayamvyaktha svarUpam is at Sri MushNam. His
divya desam is at Thiruvidaventhai.

BhU devi?s sthuthi and the manthram that She uses to
worship Yaj~na VarAha mUrthy are found in Srimadh
BhAgavatham ( 5.18.39 and 35 respectively). Her prayer
takes on this form:

pramathya dhaithyam prathivAraNam mrughE 
yO maam rasayaa JagadhAdhisUkara: I
kruthvOgra dhamshtrE niragAdhudanvatha:
kreetan nivEpa: praNathAsmi tham vibhum II

I salute that Yaj~na VarAha Moorthy, who is the cause
of this Universe , who took the form of a Boar and
lifted me up from the waters of pralayam and placed me
on His tusk and came out of the waters like a powerful
elephant and killed the offending enemy (HiraNyAkshan)
like destroying an opposing elephant as though it was
an effortless  sport. To that Omnipotent Lord are my
salutations. 

In VarAha Charama slOkam , the Varaha Bhagavaan went
many steps beyond that position stated by Lord KrishNa
in GitA and MadhusUdhana"s  statement about dhruva
smrithi in Brahma PurANam . What He said to Bhumi Devi
in response to the request for a Laghu UpAyam was :

The Man/woman , who, when his/her mind in its normal
condition,
when his/her body is not shattered , and when the
elementary constituents (DhAthus ) are in perfect
equipoise, meditates on Me , who has the world as My
body and (meditates ) on Me , who is not subject to
births due to  KarmA --when that man/woman lies like a
log of wood or a piece of stone in his/her dying
moments, then I think of (him/her ) , 
My bhakthan/Bhakthai and lead him/her to My supreme
abode"  

The conditions that this parama DayALu lays on the
humans, fully cognizant of their helplessness in their
last moments is so driven by His limitless compassion
to His Bhakthan.

Sri VishNu sahasra Naamam salutes this avathAram as
"MahA VarAhO GovindhO" . It is interesting to see the
juxtaposition of Govindha Naamam after MahA VarAha
nAmam.

In one approach Govindha is the One who rescued Mother
Earth ( Go=Earth , VindA = rescuer ). It is as MahA
VarAham that BhagavAN rescued His consort and acquired
the name of Govindhan. 

Swami Desikan concludes his elaborate commentary with
a moving prayer:

kaalE prApthE karaNavilayAth kaashta paashaNa kalpAn
Naatha: POthrI nayathu krupayaa naathitha: kam padham
na:
 
When the time of physical death approaches, and when
our limbs have lost their power and when we are in a
state of unconsciousness equal to that of a stone or a
log, then may Lord VarAhan in response to our earlier
saraNAgathi have mercy on us and lead us to His Parama
Padham.

We are all aware of Govardhana giri incident and
Lord?s leelA as Govindhan [Krishna] against Devendra
to tame and control his pride and ego. [Thanks to Sri
Satakopan Swamy for his permission to make use of his
article on Lord Varaha] 

Those avathArams were for one or few incidents and for
an occasion. 

The avathAram as Srinivasan in ThiruvEnkatam- archA
avathAram is for ages for all of us at all times and
to destroy all our enemies that would come in the
future even. All our paapms get crushed by Him; and
such most merciful Lord who generally reclines at a
distant Milky ocean- inconceivable even for Devas- is
now easily available even for human beings like us ?
at the mountain of ThiruvEnkatam.  

AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Sri PadmavathI samEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE
namah:
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan

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