Amalan Aathi Piraan - 6 (Throat)

My master, Lord Ranganatha, has His adobe in the holy city of Sri Rangam surrounded by groves, wherein live the swarms of bees with fasciating wings; He is the One, who has removed the sufferings of Lord Siva with the crescent moon on His head (when a skull got stuck in His hand). Lord Ranganatha's throat (in days of Yore) consumed in full the whole Universe comprising
1. Many worlds inhabited by Andar (a category of people)
2. The higher and the nether worlds
3. This massive and vast earth
4. All the seven Kulaachalas (Ezhu maal Varai, the seven mountains balancing this earth)
Harken! Such a THROAT of the Lord indeed has saved me.

Amalan Aathi Piraan - 5 (Chest)

The Lord of Sri Rangam has cut asunder all my burdensome old sins (ripe and heavy); He has now made me His (exclusive) servant; further, He has also entered into my heart; what a wonder! I do not know how much severe and great penance I have done to achieve such a great fortune of the Lord's immense grace over me. The Lord's CHEST, beautified by the Goddess Lakshmi and the great garland Vaijayanthi, indeed has wholly captured and enslaved me.

Amalan Aathi Piraan - 4 (Waistband)

The Lord of Sri Rangam (full of woods), where sweetly singing bees hum and great peacocks dance (hppily), is the same as teh Lord Sri Rama of (life-bestowing) ocean hue; Lord Rama vanquished Ravana, the king of Lanka surrounded by massive and sqare ramparts; after driving him out (from the battlefield), Lord Rama later aimed an invincible sharp arrow at Ravana and made his ten heads fall down (simultaneously cut off); The WAISTBAND (of this Ranganatha) found on His beautiful belly makes pleasant strolls within my heart.

Amalan Aathi Piraan - 3 (Navel)

The Lord, Ranganatha, who reclines on the serpent couch (Adi Sesha) in Sri Rangam, is the same Lord Vishnu, (Srinivasa) who has stood in the north as the great Venkatam Hills, where monkeys jump from one tree to the other. Lord Srinivasa has stood there for the sake of Gods, who come to worship Him; the sweet core (inner soul) of my heart rests on the twilight colored garment of the Lord and on His beautiful NAVEL, above it (the garment) - the great NAVEL that created the four faced God Aja (Brahma Devan).

Amalan Aathi Piraan - 2 (Silk Garment)

Lord Ranganatha (Arangatthu Amman) who has with his heart full of pleasure, measured the worlds (earth and heaven) (in his descent as Trivikrama) shines with his tall and lofty crown. He, whose sharp and piercing arrows destroyed (devoured) the demons (night-wanderers) who came to fight Him that day (i.e., In His descent as Rama); He is the scion of the race of Kakutsa. He is the Lord of Sri Rangam full of (flowery and) fragnant gardens; now my mind becomes immerses with the Lord's Reddish (saffron) SILK GARMENT worn by Him around His waist.

Amalan Aathi Piraan - 1 (Feet)

He, the Lord Vishnu is blemishless, the foremost God, and the resplendent one that has made me serve His ardent devotees; He, the Lord of Nityasuris (Celestial, eternal Arch angels) has taken His adobe at the Venkatam hill surrounded by fragnant groves; He, the immaculate Lord is the ever pure, sacred God; (now I look at) Him, the overlord of supreme justful heaven (Vaikuntham), and the divine God (Ranganatha) of Sri Rangam (girth with) long ramparts. (As I see Him), His sacred lous FEET enter into and become merged with my eyes.

Amalanathipiran - Thaniyan

ThiruppaaN Azhwaar composed ten paasurams among the divya prabandham revered as "Amalanaadhipiraan" Prabhandham. All 10 pasurams praise our Arangan. As ThiruppaaN Azhwaar has not sung on any other divya desa perumal, Arangan gets the distinction of being sung by 11 Aazhwars.

This Azhwaar's prabhandham is different from all the other aazhwaar's
prabhandhams in that it does not contain any upadesams, critique of Veda-
Baahya Mathams, messages sent to the Lord as His Naayaki et al.
Thiruppaanar's prabhandham is an aanandha-lahari (limitless outpourings of the
bliss of aanandham) at the anubhavam of the Lord's Sarvaanga Soundharyam
and its redeeming effect. Azhwaar is totally lost in that blissful anubhavam
and the ten paasurams arose from him as "the revelational hymns".


Let me contemplate on TiruppaanaAzhwar (Munivahana, the saint who was
carried to the precincts of the shrine of Lord Ranganatha, by
Lokasarangamamuni on his shoulders), whose inner soul (antaratma) became
enraptured at the sight of the reclining Lord Hari (Ranganatha) betwixt (the
two streams of) the river Kaveri, and who, having experienced (the vision of
the Lord) from the feet to His head declared that his eyes would not see any
other objects (except the Lord).


Let us sing in praise of the holy feet of Sri ThiruppaanaAzhwar, who entered
(the holy shrine of Lord Ranganatha) riding on the shoulders of the sage
(Lokasaranga-Mahamuni) saw(the Lord in full) and sung (in praise) HIM limb by
limb, as the Lord showed to him, i. e., the lotus feet, the silk garment, the
navel, the waist band of rare excellence, the holy chest, the neck, the red
mouth (with rosy lips), the eyes of unfading (red lotus charm) and the (whole
divine) Archa form.

In the coming days, Let me post each paasuram of Amalanaadhipiraan.

ThiruppaaN Azhwaar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam.

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