No No !! Number One Divya dEsam - Srirangam
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• August 21, 1998
Srimathe Narayanaya Namaha Dear Bhagavathas, Sri Anbil swamy in his article has brought vividly the SarNAgathi to SrinivAsan and did try to make us change our mind to vote for Thirumalai as the best divya dEsam. It may be true that NammAzhwAr did SaraNAgathi at the lotus feet of SrinivAsan. But this action is specific to the AzhwAr, i.e., NAMMMAZHWAE DID IT. Now read the beautiful pAsuram of AmalanAthipirAn where ThiruppANAzhwAr, may start off with ThiruvEngadamudaiyAn, but ends saying "...andarkOn aNi arangan, en amudhinaik kaNda kaNgaL maRRonRnaik kANAvE". Here ThiruppANAzhwAr does not say "en amudhinaik kaNda EN kaNgaL". If he had said so it would have been specific to this AzhwAr. But he refers to as just kaNgaL. This means the eyes, of anybody, which sees Arangan will not see anyone else. By this he brings out the beauty of Arangan. Also we can interpret this pAsuram in this way (This may sound too much, but it is only my thought about the pAsuram). The AzhwAr says ".. kaNda kaNgaL maRRonRinaik kANAvE". Which means, though the input terminal, the "eyes", are connected with the CPU, the "brain" and should act as per the instructions from brain , here they will dissociate themselves from the CPU as they - have seen (or) are receiving- the most beautiful and vivid input, which is the beauty of Arangan, if the brain instructs them to look at someone else. Let us get back to our dear Thondar-adi-podi-AzhwAr and ofcourse to his ThirumAlai. In the 18th pAsuram the AzhwAr says "inithirai thivalai mOdha eRiyum thaN paRavai meedhE thanikidanthu arasu seyyum thAmaraik kaNNan emmAn kaniyirundhanaya sevvAi, kaNNanaik kaNda kaNgaL paniyarumbu uthirumAlo, en seigEn pAviyEnE" Here the AzhwAr says that, his eyes, when seeing RangaNathan, fills with tears of joy. Well everybody will like this. But the AzhwAr curses himself as a sinner because the tears of joy, blocks his eyes and prevents him from seeing Arangan. Well this action may be specific to the AzhwAr, but note that he curses himself as a Sinner just because he cannot see Arangan anymore. He is not cursing himself for not doing SarNAgathi, but just for not being able to see. Also Swami Desikan may have done SaraNAgathi to SrinivAsan with his DayA sathakam, but note that when he composed dayA sathakam he had only Srinivasan in mind and hence the SlOkam was on SrinivAsan. But ThiruppANAzhwAr started off with SrinivAsan and ended up with saying what I have quoted above. Taking Swami Desikan's case itself, if he was so entralled by SrinivAsan why did he not prefer to stay at Thirumalai but stayed at Srirangam. Even during the period of the Muslims attack on Srirangam, Swami Desikan prefered to stay in Thirunarayanapuram instead of Thirumalai. Actually Thirumalai was more safer to reside, at that time than compared to Thirunarayanapuram. Account for this can be found in the beautiful story "Thiruvarangan Ula" by SriVenugopalan. Forget not that our AchArya peetam starting from NAthamunigaL to RAmAnujar and down to Desikar and ManavALa mAmunigaL was always at Srirangam and not Thirupathi. So now I believe you will all agree that Thiruvarangam is the best Divya dEsam as none of the AzhwArs have brought the beauty or the Soundharyam and the KalyAna gunas of any other PerumAL so vividly as was done for Arangan. Sri RanganAyaki thAyAr samEtha Sri RanganAtha swAminE namaha adiyEn RAmAnuja dAsan Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh
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