Re: new memeber (Sri Parthasarathy Perumal)
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• March 17, 2003
--- In bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com, "D.Satish Kumar"wrote: > dear bakthas > i have seen our Emperuman sporting a > moustache in the Thiruvallikeni Parthasarathy temple > in madras,can anyone explain its significance? > regards > satish Dear Sri Sathish, Welcome. The short explanation for the above question is, Sri Krishna was the Sarathy for Arjun during the war in Mahabharat. Here is a quote from http://www.srivaishnava.org/ddesam/tvkeni/index.html "This idol in thiru allik kEni is prominent for us in Sri sampradaayam and those who are taking refuge at Lord's feet as per HIS charaNagathi slOkam. It is becuase of the fact that the feature of this idol represents the moment the Lord gave us Geetha in arjunas chariot. It is hard to find out the details as to when Saint Veda vyAsa obtained this from Lord Krishna. However as similar to Sri Ranganathar of Sri Rangam, this idol also had some very special features of this avatharam (Sri Krishna avathAram) carried over with it. The idol had a changam in hand and "dhAna" muththirai on the other hand. DhAna muththirai is the one that points to HIS thiruvadi and indirectly says that take refuge there by surrendering and I will protect you by all means and Bless you". Lord krishna accepted all the arrows of the opponent's chief Bhisma when Lord was covering for Arjuna, as his saarathi or charioteer. These arrows made some scars on Lord's face and such scars are visible even today on the face of this ursavar that vyAsar did prathistai here as his (seethanam ?) or in memory of Sri Krishna avatharam. If one can go closer to the ursavar they can see these scars on HIS face and at this moment one can realize that this is the same Lord who stood on the chariot in the battle filed and one will get thrilled to have this realization. ie One can really feel HIS presence here if they can truly surrender and see this Lord, which will make one to have an electrifying experience." adiyEn Venkatesh Elayavilli -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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