AzhvAr Arulamudham

*TIRUPALLIYEZHUCHCHI 1-5* *PASURAMS 917 TO 921* EmperumAn, with his "niravatika krupa" and sankalpam decided to enlighten AzhvAr from his engulfed sleep of ignorance for ages and through him, make the people of the world realise that the means and goal is none other than EmperumAn himself. Upon gaining the realisation, AzhvAr drew himself closer to EmperumAn  and finding him to be meditating upon (in his yOganidra) how to draw all other jeevAs as well, he initiates to wake him up by singing *tiruppalliyezhuchi* in the similar way, how nammAzhvAr, AndAL and vishvAmitrar did and relish in the beautiful experience. Every pAsuram ends with the phrase(  arangaththammA! paLLi ezhundharuLAyE / அரங்கத்தம்மா! பள்ளி எழுந்தருளாயே ). The beauty of the dawn and the early morning scene is vividly portrayed in all these 10 verses.  917.** kadhiravan guNa thisaich sigaram vandhu aNaindhAn * gana iruL aganRadhu kAlai ampozhudhAy * madhu virindhu ozhugina mAmalar ellAm * vAnavar arasargaL ...

*TIRUPALLIYEZHUCHCHI TANIYANS* *TANIYAN - 1* By Shri TirumAlai ANDAn tamEva matvA paravAsudEvam rangEshayam rAjavadarhaNeeyam | prabhOdhikeem yOkRuta sookthimAlAm bhakthAngrirENum bhagavantameeDE ||   I stand saluting TONDARADIPODI AZHVAR  possessing great qualities and abundant wisdom, who has graciously given us the garland of songs attributing to the waking up of lord Sri RanganAtha who is the King of kings, celebrated and worshipped even by King rAma (Chakravarthi tirumahan), reclining on the serpent bed Adhiseshan, personifying him as the paravAsudEvan . *TANIYAN - 2* By Shri tiruvaranga perumAL araiyar. maNDangkuDi yenbar maamaRaiyOr manniyacheerth toNDaraDippoDi tonnagaram vaNDu tiNarttavayal tennaragattammAnai paLLi uNarttum pirAn udhittavoor.  The well revered Vedic scholars agree that, this greatly revered tondaraDipoDi AzhvAr, who engaged himself in waking up Periya Perumal who reclines in tiruvarangam surrounded by fields flocked with swarming bees, is the nat...

*TIRUPALLIEZHUCHI*by  *TONDARADIPODI AZHVAR* THONDARADIPODI AzhvAr has sung 10 verses in this Prabandam called TIRUPALLIEZHUCHI where AzhvAr engages himself in waking up the Lord from his yOganidra. TirupaLliyezhuchi, suits best only to the Lord who is in the reclining state. திருப்பள்ளி ( divine rest/sleep) yezhuchi (wake up). In srivaishnava tradition, these 10 songs of TIRUPALLIEZHUCHI are sung during the daily recitation practice of Pooja called the nithyanusandhanam after pallandu.   Reference of EmperumAn who goes into yOganidra, being woken up by nithyasoories is evident in Rigvedas, that is highlighted by pathanjali munivar.  VedAnta Desika in his great composition pAduka Sahasram, has referred in the 9th section called vaitAlika  paddadi about waking Lord ranganatha. The principal duty of a vaitAlika is to awaken a chief at dawn with music and song. Here tondaraDipoDi AzhvAr assumes the role of a vaitAlika and renders these verses to wake Lord Ranganatha. On...

*TIRUMALAI* 1 - 45 PASURAMS 872 - 917 THE POWER OF HIS HOLY NAME CAN EVADE HELL. 872.kAvalir pulanai vaittu kali tannai kaDakka pAindu nAvaliTTu uzhi taruhinrOm naman tamar talaihaL meedE moovulahu uNDu umizhnda mudalva nin nAmam kaTTra AvalippuDaimai kaNDAi arangamA naharuLAnE || One || 872.Oh primordial Lord!, (arangamA naharuLAnE !) who safeguards all the three worlds at the time of deluge by keeping it in your stomach and later releases it back during creation. Oh Lord! Who abodes in the city of Srirangam. By safeguarding the senses and emerging out of the ill effects of the sins committed as a consequence of the active senses, we have been able to victoriously win over Yama and even walk over the heads of yamakinkaras ascertaining our victory. All this was possible only because of the power of nAma smaraNam and nAma sankeerthanam/ nAmochAraNam. Listening to the utterances of your  name, yama bhattas ran away, getting scared to come closer.(1) nAmam kaTTra Avalippu : ITHEEHYAM...