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Padmanabhan • November 17, 2002 


DEAR BHAKTHI GROUP MEMBERS

Asmentioned by Sri ks venkat there is no mention of shiva worship in
rAmAyaNam.

My grandfather used to say regarding chidambaram GovindarAjar sannidhi
that,when somebody does pUja he does not do on a reclining position..Does
one perform pUja on a reclining position.?
Apart from that, I would like to clarify that there are three dwArAs for
this temple.First is for thirumuGamandalam of the Lord. This is dedicated to
nithya sUrigaL's worship. The second dwAra is emberumAn's nABhikkamalam
which is for worshp by brahmha who came up from this and shiva who was his
progeny and other dhevathAs. The thrid dwArA is embeurmAn's thiruvadi which
is for srEvaishnavites like us.(AchArya hridhayam 185
sasainya, puthra , sishya, sAthya , siddha, bhOsura archanathukku, mugha,
nAbhi, pAdhangaLai  dwArathraiythraiyathalE).

    Besides, I add herein the following few lines:

thiru voi mozhi second ten of tens-irandAm pathu- deals with emberumAn's
kAraNathvam-Cause of creation.He is the three causes of creation.
Sri azhagia- maNavALap- perumAL- nAyanAr explains this in detail in AchArya
hridhaym-220-....' kaLvA' 'thErthan' enRu vachana prathyakshangaLaik
kAtti...'.
The Supremacy is being explained:
a.By dialogue=vachanam- ' "kaLvA emmaiyum, yEzhulagum ninuLLE thORRiya
iRaiva"
enRu, veLLERan, nAnmuGan, puLLUrdhi kazhal paNindhu yEthuvaRE" thiru voi
mozhi
2-2-10.
shivA desired that emberumAn should take boon from him. EmberumAn assured
him that he will take boon from him at the appropriate time. Accordingly, as
Lord Krishna,emberumAn approached shivA and asked for a boon as
follows"rukmini pirAttikku oru piLLai vENdum"- I need an issue for rukmani
pirAtti. For this shiva's response was, ' Lo! here is the paramAtmA who has
created the universe, all the jEvarAsigaL, dhevArgaL and so on and He is
asking a boon from me and that too for a son.Is there such a deception and
exclaims as "kaLvA! You have created me and the seven worlds in from YOu".
Thus,by a quote from shiva the Lord's supremacy is being emphasised.
Similarly, by vision the same is being explained in 2-8-6 of
thiru-voi-mozhi.
"thErthan vulagaLandha sEvadi mEal pOndhAmam sErthi, avaiyE sivan mudi mAlE
thAn kaNdu, pArthan thelindhozhindha
paizhnthuzhAzhAn perumai".

When arjuna wanted to worship shivA( for obtaining pAsupadhAsthram), Lord
Krishna offered his feet, and arjuna worshpped by offering flowers to Lord
Krishna's feet. On his dream, arjunA saw shivA with the same flowers in his
head and then arjunA realised the supremacy of the LOrd not by words from
reliable sources, not by the verses from sruthi or smrithi but by vision -
prathyaksham. "Apthar sollak kEtkai anRikkE, sruthi smrithigaLAl Adhal
anRikkE,.thAnE kaNdAn AyiRRu" is the Edu vAkyam.


dhivya prabhandham is a capsule where parathvam, kalyANa guNangaL, AzhwAr's
Arthi, and so many aspects are dealt with. Parathvam is one of the important
aspects which is a basic postulate. Though, we should not get bogged down in
this aspect alone, we should always keep in mind that our philosophy is
built on the premises on emberuman's unquestioned, unparallel supremacy.
vAnamAmalai padmanabhan



b. BY Vision -prathyaksham- 'thErthan vulgaLandha sEvadi mEl







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