ThiruvallikkENi-ThiruAtthiyur-ThiruviNNagar-Ahobilam
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• August 14, 1998
Srimathe Narayanaya Namaha : On Date: 8/13/98 9:40 PM Sri Ramesh SaarangapaNi wrote, Quote _______________ Kaliyan while singing the glory of Azhagiya singar (at Tiruvalikani) narrates succintly the avathara rahasyam of Lakshmi Narasimhan and says "Angu Appoyude avan viya thondriya en singapiran perumai"...meaning "that day when his parama bhakta, Prahaladan, was in distress, our Lord came to his rescue in an instant". Unquote ______________ Well first of all this paasuram is from NammazhwAr's Thiruvaimozhi 2nd patthu, 8th padhigam, 9th paasuram. However, let us ignore that. As pointed out by Sri Ramesh, Narasimhar did not come down to save His bhaktha immediately. Like Varadhar made Gajendran wait, KrishNa made Draupathi wait and Rama made VibheeshaNa wait even PrahlAdan had to do the Sriman Narayana japam and had to undergo a lot turmoil before one fine day Hiranyan asks him sarcastically, "Is your Narayana in this Pillar". Prahlada says "Yes. He is there, He is in you, He is in me, He is in this thooN (pillar) and He is also in a thurumbu (rust)". Then Hiranya breaks the pillar to see the most gorgeous form of Sri Narasimhar. Now here is the Narasimha avatara mahimai :- Our poorvAcharyAs say that PerumAL was in a state of agony on listening to the conversation between Prahaladan and Hiranyan. He was not sure where he has to show his form to Hiranyan. When Hiranyan went to the chairs and asked whether Hari is here PermAL entered the chairs thinking that he should show Himself out from there, but immediately Hiranyan went on to all the other articles and PerumAL kept on jumping from one place to another and he was fed up and decided to enter each and everything present in the mandapam. Thus during the Narasimha avataram, He was in everbody and everything and existing in every possible thing that was present there as unlike other avatarams. However as stated earlier even Narasimhar made Prahalaadhan wait. He did not come instantly to save Prahalaadhan, when he was poisoned or when he was sent rolling down the hill or when he was thrown in to the sea on when he was about to be stamped by elephant. Well, what is the reason that all these PerumALs made their Bhakthas wait. It is for them to completely surrender. Prapatti or SaraNaagati. In the case of Gajendran, first he was fighting the crocodile on his own thinking that he can get rid of him with his gigantic figure. But when figured out that it is not possible then only he made the SaraNagathi and PerumAL came and save him. In case of Draupathi, when she was dragged to the court, she was always trying to free herself from Dushchaasnan, and calling Paandavas for help. But when the most worst thing was happening to her, it is only then she called KrishNa and even let her hold on the saree go, thus totally surrendering herself. Instantly after the SaraNAgathi KrishNa came down to her help. Most and real unfortunate one was VibheeshaNA as he had to wait inspite of his SaraNAgathi to Rama, just because Rama was engaged in a debate with others as to accept him or not. Probably learned scholars in the list can throw light on this. So it is total SaraNAgathi which our PerumAL expects from us to instantly save us. "Sarva dharmAn parithyajya mAm Ekam saraNam vraja aham tvA sarva pApEpyO mOkshayishyAmi mAsuchaha:" Who said this? Sri Parthasarathy. So is ThiruvallikkENi not taking the advantage over Ahobilam. Also the same Azhagiya Singan is in ThiruvallikkENi. Who has the above gita slokams on their abhaya hastams? The emberumAns of ThiruviNNAgar (mAm Ekam saraNam vraja - this you can see in his abhaya hastam) and Atthigiri (mAsuchaha - this you can see in his abhaya hastam). So these two Divya DEsams also take the advantage over Ahobilam. vAsaka dhOsham kshandavyaha adiyEn RAmAnuja dAsan Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh
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