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From: Sampath Rengarajan (srengara_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 00:08:15 PDT
Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadikaLE saraNam
(In this part a brief introduction is given about this mini series)
ezhil Azhi iRaiyavan - part 1 - thiruch chakkara rAjan thiru vizhA
(English menaing for this title is given below)
Dear bAgawathAs,
Our life itself revolves in a chakram in a cyclic way everyday. We
can never forget or get away from the influence of this kAla
chakram in our life. We would want to and continue with some
additions of Sri chakrahtAzhwAr vaibavam narrated brilliantly by
Sri V.Sadagopan. Swami Desikan addressed our Sri ChakrathAzwAr as
"ezhil Azhi iRaiyavan" in "para matha bangam". Meaning "The most
beautiful and majestic looking Chakra rAja perumAL". I will give a
brief meaning of two pasurams namely the first and the last of the
"para matha bangam", a tamil prabhandham that mainly was delivered
to condemn and contain the influence of the other faiths, in the
next part. Swami Desikan worships Sri Chakra rAja perumAL of this
thiruk kudanthai kshEhtram when he begins this prabhandham and as
well as when he ends. These two pAsurams stand as the rakshai (the
wheel that protects) for this prabhandam. But first, I thank Sri
V.Sadagopan for writing this series when it is most required to
glorify Sri Chakra rAja perumAL. These writings are happening as
Sri ChakrapAni kOil in Sri bAskara kshEthram (thiruk kudanthai) is
getting ready to celebrate the mahA samprOkshanam. I thank Sri
V.Sadagopan for encouraging and providing me with an oppurtunity
to add to his writings.
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The following tamil verse and its english meanings are written to
provide some taste or rucchi to kick start this mini series. Those
who donot know tamil, please skip this part.
Tamil: Chakkara vAzhkkai (these can be read in Adhami tamil fonts)
vittu vittu pOdappatta veLLaik kOdugaLukkuL oru vEga vAzhkkai.
kannAdith thirAikkuL "lagAn" illAmalEyE kaNgaL kattuNdana.
kaRpanaiyil pala yukthigaL, varai muRaigaL aRaycchi enRa uRu
edukkum. mugam thriyAmalEyE pala mahAnudukal nadakkum.
mudivillamalEya avai muRRup peRum. illatthin
ubasAratthil nALin vErvai ellam AviyAkum. vAych chollil Oru kuLir
mazhaiyum, oru kOdi puNNiaym kidaikkum.
niRaivEratha Ekkanagalin moottai thinam irAvin madiyil iRakki
vaikkap padum.
aranganin uruvil oru kaNam layanam. adaiyinil sAya mun janmangaLin
AsaiyellAm theerum.
vidiyum mun, meendum oru muRai intha boolOgatthil pirakka mun pOl
yanthira vAhana Ottam. avasaratthil thinam anuttAnam, athan pin
arai kuRai vELai thodakkam.
intha kAla chakkaratthil uzhala thiruch chakkaratthiIrkku oru
thiru vizhA ena azhaippu vanthathu.
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English:
There are those dotted white lines. We spend our life speeding
between those white lines as a commute between our work and home
every day in the interstate highways. Many of us spend our lives in
the middle lane. Sometime we are even called "those middle laners".
We travel every day for an hour or so either way and spend valuable
time of our lives between those lanes. When we are at our workplace,
we stay focussed in our work. Our eyes are glued to those computer
screens. It is as if our eyes are restrained within that window
without a "lagAn" (Oh yeah we hear "lAgAn" all the time these days!).
We spend most of our time staring at our computer screens. While
doing so we do think of many strategies, frame works, plans and
processes. The combination of all these imaginary work takes the
shape as a "Research". Due to our involvement in many forums, we
keep participating in many "Telephone meetings" for the rest of
the day. They advance these tele commuting a lot these days after
Sept 11. But all of them end without any conclusion. Yet we go for
several rounds of these phone meetings without any resolution and
accumulate our frustrations.
When it was about very late in the evening, the sweet words from
the home will quench some of the tiredness. We will feel relieved
with those smoothening words. Such words will sometime evaporate
all the sweat we experienced the whole day toiling at our work. The
children are almost at bed and are begging to talk everynight
and fighting to find as to why we are away all the time. Their
"mazhalai" (child language) will cool us off as similar to a paruva
mazhai or seasonal rain. We feel as if we are those crops waiting
for this shower. Those words will realize us with a jackpot of 10
million PuNNiyams. Not knowing how exhausted yet, the older one
will want a pillow fight at the bed and the younger one will want
a nice song to sleep. We do these every day no matter how tired we
are. Thanks Lord, you gave this lowkeekam or else we would live a
life of mere slavery to these office routine ?
By the time we go to bed it is nearing nadu jAmam. We recap the
days events for a minute. We think of many of those unfulfilled
thoughts and dreams. Our such unfulfilled cravings are accumulated
to huge loads of several bags. Not knowing of what to do with those
bags, we unload them onto the lap of night time. ie.. We have no
other way than to lessen our burden as we prepare to goto bed, only
to pick them up from where we left and carry them on our heads
forward in the next day. It is then we decide to see the thiru mEni
of Lord Sri Arangan. His thiru muga mandalam looks so brilliant and
alive. We forget ourselves for a moment on those radiant kArunyap
pArvai. We see HIM speak through HIS eyes, "Please bear all these
trouble if any sometimes, for my sake and enjoy this wonderful life
with our blessings. Nothing happens without MY knowledhge". Soon we
put our head on HIS thiruvadi (in our mind) and close our eyes and
sleep. When we do so we feel, it is as if all those desires of all
the previous janmams are fulfilled.
After some sleep, we once again get up in the very early morning
before sunrise. It is as if we are born again in this boolOgam.
Once again the mechanically driven life, begins. We do our daily
anushtAnam in a hurry. We remember Sri Thondar adip podi AzhwAr.
"thoNdukkE kOlam pooNdu" (thiru mALai 33; I simply dressed up like
a bAgawathA and came to you, it seems you also believed our vEsham
and blessed me.) It seems Sri Ranganathar believes our vEsham
and yet command us with some tasks in this boolOgam everyday.
Then we look at our beloved Lord Sri thEn (Oppili) appan who tells
a forecast for the day through HIS eyes. Sometimes HE smiles,
sometimes he is sober, and so on. After that we once again go
through those guided white lines and reach our work. We begin our
work that was stopped half the way the previous day. When we
dwell in this cyclic life (chakkara vAzhkkai) dictated by perumAL
thiru uLLam, what a pleasant surprise HIS thiru chakrarAja perumAL
sends an invitation to participate in HIS thiru vizhA.
The Sri Chakrapani temple in thiruk kudanthai chakra paditthurai
is scheduled to have the mahA samprOkshanam on Oct 29, 2001. We
will write a brief thala purAnam of this temple and Sri ChakrarAja
mahimai in 8 parts and join Sri V. Sadgopan in his sudarshana
vaibava anubavam. Incidentally Sri SeshAdri Bhattar the AsthAna
Bhattar of the temple (whom adiyEn knew from my childhood) called
for help. They have spent millions of rupees already renovating
the temple. They need help for the yAga sAlai. adiyEn was thrilled
to learn that and agreed to support right away. They have a budget
of Rs 400,000 to be spent on yAga sAlai. adiyEn was asked to
collect and contribute to the tune of Rs. 100,000. adiyEn and Sri
V. Sadagopan have already come up with Rs 55,000 by the two of us.
There are others who may come around to join. adiyEn request
bhakthAs from Kumbakonam and abhimAnis of Sri Chakra rAja perumAL
to join this very rare kainkaryam. adiyEn cannot contain the
joy of writing about Sri ChakrarAjan and the yAgam. There is a
very unique relationship between yAgam and this puNNiya kshEthram
that adiyEn will write in one of the parts.
Please reply by personal mail to adiyEn if you are interested in
this kainkaryam. adiyEn will provide the details for sending the
money is to be sent. ie.. address etc. (By the way, Sri SeshAdri
bhattar DONOT have 80G status for tax relief).
Srimadh Azhagiya Singar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
adiyEn irAmAnusa dAsan
thiruk kudanthai Sampath Rengarajan
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Please be assured that adiyEn will complete the series on Sri
thEnappan and publish it after this.
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