Ramanuja

Sri:||

Dear BhagavathAs,

Adiyen after analysing for so many days, yesterday
when adiyEn was listenening to the UpanyAsam of Sri.U.Ve.
Velukkudi Krishnan Swamin on “Devaperumalin
aaruvaarthaigal” , immediately struck with the answer
for the question of “Can’t our Lord take one more
Avatara?”

Let us start from the beginning with five forms of our
emperuman. As we know, Lord exists in five forms as
follows:

1)Param – Paramapada nAthan at Sri Vaikuntam
2)VyUham – Sheerabdhi nAthan at ThirupAr kadal
3)Vibhavam – Rama, Krishna avatAram
4)AntharyAmi – Inside jeevAtma (?)
5)Archai – Divyadesams such as Sri Rangam, Aththigiri,
Thirukkannapuram, etc.,

In the above, Param is the home for our emperumAn
where He gives sEva to pirAttiyArs, nithyasUris such
as VishvaksEnar, KarudAlwar, Ananthan(AthisEshan ),
etc.,

VyUham is place where emperumAn sleeps above
AdhisEshan on ThirupAr kadal gives sEva to Brahma,
RudhrAdhi’s and other Devars (“ayarvarum amarargal
athipathi” - Nammalwar)

Vibhavam had happened once up on a time, during that
time we were not there. During RamavatAram, Rama gave
sEvai to AyOdhyA peoples Krishna for gOpikAs and
bhakthAs like Arjuna, Vithurar, etc., This avatAram
has time limit which is unlike Param, VyUham,
AntharyAmi, and Archai.

AntharyAmi – He lives inside everyone, but none
capable to recognize Him.

Archai – Only in this form, our beloved Emperuman
gives sEvai to all irrespective of whether he/she has
yOgyadhai to attain salvation. Eventhough if we had
committed mahApApams, emperumAn due to His nirhEthuka
krupai gives His sEvai (visible to us) only in this
ArchAvatAram.

1) If you attain salvation, then only you can have
nithya sEva of Paramapada nAthan.
2) If you are one among dEvar’s, you can have sEva of
SheerAbdhi nAthan.
3) Vibhavam – no way for us to take birth during
VibhavAvatAram which happened once up on a time.
4) AntharyAmi – eventhough He resides inside us, we
don’t have that much gn~anam to recognize Him.
5) Archai – easier for everyone to have His sEva in
this world who lost His sEva in the above four forms.

Now our poorvAchAryars compared the above five forms
with 5 water bodies.

The first form Param is like “Avarana jalam”. It is
said that, each andam is covered with saptha (seven)
Avarana jalam. We didn’t know about how Avarana jalam
would be? We dont have knowledge about it. Similarly,
we don’t know about how Paramapada nAthan would be.

The second form VyUham is like “pArkadal”. We know
about the milk. We have the knowledge of how milk
would be, it’s colour, taste, roopam, etc., But we
haven’t seen the ocean filled up with full of milk. We
can ONLY imagine how would be an ocean of milk.
Similarly, we can only IMAGINE how SheerAdbdhi nAthan
would be. We can’t see Him.

The third form Vibhavam is like “perukkAru”. During
rainy season, due to heavy floods, new river streams
and water bodies will emerge. After some time, there
won’t be paths of that newly developed streams. All
will vanish. Only at some places we can see water
stagnating at some places. Similarly, Rama Krishna
avatAram had taken once upon a time, but now, we are
having only the divyadesams like AyOdhya, DwAraka,
etc., which is like the stagnating water after the
avatAram had finished.

The fourth form AntharyAmi is like “thrivEni”. At
thrivEni sangamam, peoples says that, the third water
body which is not visible to human eye, will join
(sangamam) with the two river under the ground.
Similarly AntharyAmi – eventhough it is said that He
is inside us, He is not visible to us easily.

The fifth form Archai is like everflowing river like
Ganga, Cauvery where peoples like us can see at all
times. Whether he/she is sandAlan or punyAthmA, these
holy rivers removes their sins. Similarly, in
archAvatAram our bhagvAn gives His sEvai to all
peoples irrespective of their punyam / pApams and due
to nirhEthuka kripai He removes all their sins.

Our Azhwars and poorvAchAryars all dwelled up on with
ArchAvatAram only. Thondaradipodi Azhwar, in his
ThirumAlai, says:

“…achuvai perinum vEndEn……”

Azhwar simply rejects anubhavam at Sri Vaikuntam
(Paramapadham) .

ThirupAnAzhwAr says:

“andarkOn aniyarangan en amudhinaik-
kanda kangal maRonrinai kAnAvE “ (AmalanAthipirAn)

Azhwar simply rejects darshan of any after having
darshan of Periya Perumal Sri Ranganathar at Sri
Rangam.

BhoodhathAzhwAr says:

“manathullAn vEnkatathAn mAkadalAn…”
(IrandAm thiruvanthAdhi, 28)

Azhwar says, Only archai (vEnkatathAn) resides
inside him – manathullAn, then only azhwar says
about mAkadalAn – vyUham.

Our AchAryar Sri ParAsara Bhattar, longed for
anubhavam with Sri Renganayaki sametha Sri RenganAthar
only. He used say with Namperumal that, “ I will go
and see in Paramapadam. I dont want your sEvai as like
your sEvai with nithyasUris. If you are not like as in
Sri Rangam, I will stand at the end of Paramapadam and
JUMP from there to this world.” It shows clearly how
our Acharyar Bhattar loved ArchAvatAram of NamperumAl
at Sri Rangam.

When our

Hastigiri pErarulAlan,
Thirukannapuram Sowri rAja perumAl,
Sri Rangam Namperumal,
ThiruvallikEni pArthasArathi,
Thirukudanthai ArAvamudan were present,

did adiyEn need any more avatAra of Him?
DEFINITELY NOT!!!

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