Courtesy: Sivayanama Laxminarayanan
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mANikka vAchakar, hearing this name the devotees just think of the love
that is pure and no limits set, taking the human form with its
ex-pression of tears continuously budding on the lotus face expressing
the softness of the heart, the words that were not coined but dragged
out in the flood of love that emerges from a broken dam on seeing the
Dancing Lord. He inspired the spirits of the people of the thamiz
speaking land very deeply to experience by loving the sweetness of the
Unexplorable Supreme. This great saint who developed the spiritual and
religious upliftment is revered as one of the four samayak kuravar
(religious guides). [manikavasagar]
In the pANdiya kingdom which was ruled by the great God Himself as rAja
saun^dhara pANdiyan, near the capitalmadhurai is the town thiruvAdhavUr
were this great one was born. By the time he was sixteen years old he
had well learnt, mastering in the philosophies and the scriptures. He
outstood in the love for Lord shiva and service to His devotees. The
jasmine need no go and advertise its fragrance to all, admirers
automatically turn up to wear it on their head. The pANdiya king
arimardhanan realizing his talent and discipline made him the prime
minister in his court giving him title thennavan biramarAyan. He guided
the governance in the righteous path to the prosperity of the land,
people and their minds. Still his mind was seeking an intellectual guide
who would show in clear light the blissful path to the Truth.
The king heard that high quality horses were on sale in the coast of the
chOza kingdom. He sent the prime ministerthiruvAdhavUrar with lots of
money to buy them. On the way vAdhvUrar reached thirup perun^thuRai
(AvudaiyAr kOvil). There he heard from a garden the sweet chantings hara
hara. The mind that jumps to the corners of the world was lost in that.
He forgot himself and like a piece of iron attracted by the magnet he
went in that direction. There he saw the Lord sitting in the form of a
shaivite sage under a tree elucidating the pupils, to see which Lord
sages observe austerities for births ! His seeking mind was overwhelmed
at the sight of the guru he was yearning for. He surrendered himself to
the Holy guru's feet and pleaded him to accept him as a disciple. The
God who comes voluntarily in the way of devotees to bless them
enlightened him with shivenyAnam. vAdhvUrar who got the immense wealth
of the Supreme knowledge outpoured the gems of hymns to the Glittering
Feet of the Lord offering his body, belongings and soul. (He then sang
the first thiruvAchakam song shivapurANam starting n^amachchivAya vAzka
). The Peerless guide heard the songs and blessed him with the name
mANikka vAchakar (Gem speached). He ordered mANikka vAchakar to build an
abode and disappeared.
With the money he had brought to buy horses that would fight, kill and
die in the battlefields, the devotee built a marvelous temple for the
Lord that would help growing the minds of the seekers in the bliss. Many
days passed. The king sent people to find out what happened. His
attendants reported to him the deeds of the devotee. The king was irked
and sent the message to vAdhavUrar ordering him to come with the horses.
mANikka vAchakar pleaded to the Playful Lord of thirupperun^thuRai. The
Lord assured him that He would bring the horses on the AvaNi mUlam day
and passed through the gem worded saint, a gem to the king as a mark of
assurance. The prime minister mANikka vAchakar told the king about the
arrival of the horses. The king was happy.
The Lord probably wanted to show that patience and perseverance pays in
His worship also, the horses did not arrive till day before the AvaNi
mUlam day. The king got wild and arrested the prime minister. vAdhavUrar
who had the mature vision that when the devotees surrendered themselves
in wholeness to the God the Three eyed Lord is the center of all deeds
they do. He appealed to the Lord singinganRE enRan. The God somasundara
mUrthi who rides the bull of justice in His playful act made the foxes
in the forest as horses, coming in the form of the lead man of the
horses handed over them to the king explaining him the identification
guidelines of good horses ! The Lord went off. The same night the horses
again became foxes and ran all over the capital. The king lost his sense
in the peak of his ire and ordered his men to torture mANikka vAchakar
making him stand on the fry hot sand of the vaigai river loading him
with a rock. The pained devotee with complete trust in the Lord who made
the vaigai river into existence for quenching the thirst of His
attendant, prayed to the Lord.
The Lord probably wanted to show that patience and perseverance pays in
His worship also, the horses did not arrive till day before the AvaNi
mUlam day. The king got wild and arrested the prime minister. vAdhavUrar
who had the mature vision that when the devotees surrendered themselves
in wholeness to the God the Three eyed Lord is the center of all deeds
they do. He appealed to the Lord singinganRE enRan. The God somasundara
mUrthi who rides the bull of justice in His playful act made the foxes
in the forest as horses, coming in the form of the lead man of the
horses handed over them to the king explaining him the identification
guidelines of good horses ! The Lord went off. The same night the horses
again became foxes and ran all over the capital. The king lost his sense
in the peak of his ire and ordered his men to torture mANikka vAchakar
making him stand on the fry hot sand of the vaigai river loading him
with a rock. The pained devotee with complete trust in the Lord who made
the vaigai river into existence for quenching the thirst of His
attendant, prayed to the Lord.
The Lord who stopped the furious river ga.nga in His matted hair and
allowed it to flow down as a stream blessing the penance ofbhagIrathan
flooded the river vaigai to grace the true love hearted devotee. The
flood entered the streets of the capital. The king ordered the people to
sharedly stop the deluging water by raising the banks. There was a
lonely old poor lady by name van^dhi (1), who practices marvelous love
for the Parentless God with her simple mind and activities. To save her
from getting penalized for not undertaking the king's order, the Lord
came as a laborer. But where is the end for His play ! Instead of
raising the banks he spoilt the work going on there and slept innocently
!! The king was annoyed and beat Him with a stick. But the pain was felt
by all the creatures including the king. The flooding of the river
subdued and the Lord disappeared. The king realized the act of God and
the glory of the saint mANikka vAchakar. He begged for the saint's
pardon. The loveful vAchakar forgave the king and left the prime
ministership.
He went to many abodes of the Lord singing It at thirupperun^thuRai,
uththara kOsamaN^gai, thiruvArUr, thiruvidaimarudhUr, chIrkAzi,
thiruvaNNAmalai, thirukkazukkunRam. Finally he reached the holy abode
thillaich chiRRambalam. He got what the vEdas proclaim, "One gets bliss
(amR^ita) here, even when he/she is alive" on seeing the heart stealing
Lord who dances there to the joy of the seeing eyes. He sang many hymns
on the Lord there.
The budhdhist people who had come from Sri Lanka challenged to come for
a debate on religions. With the Lord's order he took it and answered the
blemishes they were trying to put on the Lord, making a dumb girl sing
His Greatness and the opponents going dumb, he established the Shaivite
glory. The opponents realized the truth of the spiritual science of
shaivam and started worshipping the Outstanding Lord shankara. mANi
vAchakars service to the Lord continued. The Lord was getting anointed
with his honey like words and the pure wonderful love. The Lord wanted
those gems of his hymns which could not be found a peer even the whole
world is excavated to be glorified and passed to generations by
generations to the world for our benefit of getting to praise the Lord
in sweet loveful words easily and even the hardest of the minds getting
nurtured in love reading his hymns. He oneday went to the blessed saint
mANikka vAchakar, asked him to sing the complete thiruvAchakam he had
composed and wrote them down. He further asked him to sing the songs of
love keeping the Dancing Lord of thillai as the Hero the thirukkOvaiyAr.
He wrote them also in the palm leaves book and put His seal as "As
mANikka vAchakan told the Lord of thiruchchiRRambalam wrote this". He
kept the script in the panychAkkara steps of the abode and vanished.
The next day the priests of thillai were surprised to find the scripture
on the steps of the abode with the Lord's signature. They rushed to
mANikka vAchakar and appraised him about it. They saluted and asked him
to explain them the philosophical explanation of the compositions. He
took them to the golden hall abode of the Lord and showed the blissfully
Dancing Lord and said He is the meaning of it and immersed himself in
the Supreme Luminance and became One in Lord shiva. (This day was the
Ani magam day - his guru pUjai day)
The history of this great saint is told in thiruvAdhavUrp purANam(2) and
thiruviLaiyAdal purANam.(3) His composistions are thiruvAchakamand
thirukkOvaiyAr. These hymns are praised for their simplicity, deep sense
of love without losing focus in the description of things.
Today we will remember this great Saint who had an utmost faith and
devotion to LordShivaa which finally made Him to be treated at par with
lordShivaa HIMSELf at Avudiyaar koil a Paunya shethram near Pudukkotai
and Aranthangi.
There the first worship goes to this ShreeMANIKKAWASAGAR & Temple o f
Shiva without a Dwajasthamba Nandi and even Pradoshpooja is not in
celebration
Sivaayanamaha
that is pure and no limits set, taking the human form with its
ex-pression of tears continuously budding on the lotus face expressing
the softness of the heart, the words that were not coined but dragged
out in the flood of love that emerges from a broken dam on seeing the
Dancing Lord. He inspired the spirits of the people of the thamiz
speaking land very deeply to experience by loving the sweetness of the
Unexplorable Supreme. This great saint who developed the spiritual and
religious upliftment is revered as one of the four samayak kuravar
(religious guides). [manikavasagar]
In the pANdiya kingdom which was ruled by the great God Himself as rAja
saun^dhara pANdiyan, near the capitalmadhurai is the town thiruvAdhavUr
were this great one was born. By the time he was sixteen years old he
had well learnt, mastering in the philosophies and the scriptures. He
outstood in the love for Lord shiva and service to His devotees. The
jasmine need no go and advertise its fragrance to all, admirers
automatically turn up to wear it on their head. The pANdiya king
arimardhanan realizing his talent and discipline made him the prime
minister in his court giving him title thennavan biramarAyan. He guided
the governance in the righteous path to the prosperity of the land,
people and their minds. Still his mind was seeking an intellectual guide
who would show in clear light the blissful path to the Truth.
The king heard that high quality horses were on sale in the coast of the
chOza kingdom. He sent the prime ministerthiruvAdhavUrar with lots of
money to buy them. On the way vAdhvUrar reached thirup perun^thuRai
(AvudaiyAr kOvil). There he heard from a garden the sweet chantings hara
hara. The mind that jumps to the corners of the world was lost in that.
He forgot himself and like a piece of iron attracted by the magnet he
went in that direction. There he saw the Lord sitting in the form of a
shaivite sage under a tree elucidating the pupils, to see which Lord
sages observe austerities for births ! His seeking mind was overwhelmed
at the sight of the guru he was yearning for. He surrendered himself to
the Holy guru's feet and pleaded him to accept him as a disciple. The
God who comes voluntarily in the way of devotees to bless them
enlightened him with shivenyAnam. vAdhvUrar who got the immense wealth
of the Supreme knowledge outpoured the gems of hymns to the Glittering
Feet of the Lord offering his body, belongings and soul. (He then sang
the first thiruvAchakam song shivapurANam starting n^amachchivAya vAzka
). The Peerless guide heard the songs and blessed him with the name
mANikka vAchakar (Gem speached). He ordered mANikka vAchakar to build an
abode and disappeared.
With the money he had brought to buy horses that would fight, kill and
die in the battlefields, the devotee built a marvelous temple for the
Lord that would help growing the minds of the seekers in the bliss. Many
days passed. The king sent people to find out what happened. His
attendants reported to him the deeds of the devotee. The king was irked
and sent the message to vAdhavUrar ordering him to come with the horses.
mANikka vAchakar pleaded to the Playful Lord of thirupperun^thuRai. The
Lord assured him that He would bring the horses on the AvaNi mUlam day
and passed through the gem worded saint, a gem to the king as a mark of
assurance. The prime minister mANikka vAchakar told the king about the
arrival of the horses. The king was happy.
The Lord probably wanted to show that patience and perseverance pays in
His worship also, the horses did not arrive till day before the AvaNi
mUlam day. The king got wild and arrested the prime minister. vAdhavUrar
who had the mature vision that when the devotees surrendered themselves
in wholeness to the God the Three eyed Lord is the center of all deeds
they do. He appealed to the Lord singinganRE enRan. The God somasundara
mUrthi who rides the bull of justice in His playful act made the foxes
in the forest as horses, coming in the form of the lead man of the
horses handed over them to the king explaining him the identification
guidelines of good horses ! The Lord went off. The same night the horses
again became foxes and ran all over the capital. The king lost his sense
in the peak of his ire and ordered his men to torture mANikka vAchakar
making him stand on the fry hot sand of the vaigai river loading him
with a rock. The pained devotee with complete trust in the Lord who made
the vaigai river into existence for quenching the thirst of His
attendant, prayed to the Lord.
The Lord probably wanted to show that patience and perseverance pays in
His worship also, the horses did not arrive till day before the AvaNi
mUlam day. The king got wild and arrested the prime minister. vAdhavUrar
who had the mature vision that when the devotees surrendered themselves
in wholeness to the God the Three eyed Lord is the center of all deeds
they do. He appealed to the Lord singinganRE enRan. The God somasundara
mUrthi who rides the bull of justice in His playful act made the foxes
in the forest as horses, coming in the form of the lead man of the
horses handed over them to the king explaining him the identification
guidelines of good horses ! The Lord went off. The same night the horses
again became foxes and ran all over the capital. The king lost his sense
in the peak of his ire and ordered his men to torture mANikka vAchakar
making him stand on the fry hot sand of the vaigai river loading him
with a rock. The pained devotee with complete trust in the Lord who made
the vaigai river into existence for quenching the thirst of His
attendant, prayed to the Lord.
The Lord who stopped the furious river ga.nga in His matted hair and
allowed it to flow down as a stream blessing the penance ofbhagIrathan
flooded the river vaigai to grace the true love hearted devotee. The
flood entered the streets of the capital. The king ordered the people to
sharedly stop the deluging water by raising the banks. There was a
lonely old poor lady by name van^dhi (1), who practices marvelous love
for the Parentless God with her simple mind and activities. To save her
from getting penalized for not undertaking the king's order, the Lord
came as a laborer. But where is the end for His play ! Instead of
raising the banks he spoilt the work going on there and slept innocently
!! The king was annoyed and beat Him with a stick. But the pain was felt
by all the creatures including the king. The flooding of the river
subdued and the Lord disappeared. The king realized the act of God and
the glory of the saint mANikka vAchakar. He begged for the saint's
pardon. The loveful vAchakar forgave the king and left the prime
ministership.
He went to many abodes of the Lord singing It at thirupperun^thuRai,
uththara kOsamaN^gai, thiruvArUr, thiruvidaimarudhUr, chIrkAzi,
thiruvaNNAmalai, thirukkazukkunRam. Finally he reached the holy abode
thillaich chiRRambalam. He got what the vEdas proclaim, "One gets bliss
(amR^ita) here, even when he/she is alive" on seeing the heart stealing
Lord who dances there to the joy of the seeing eyes. He sang many hymns
on the Lord there.
The budhdhist people who had come from Sri Lanka challenged to come for
a debate on religions. With the Lord's order he took it and answered the
blemishes they were trying to put on the Lord, making a dumb girl sing
His Greatness and the opponents going dumb, he established the Shaivite
glory. The opponents realized the truth of the spiritual science of
shaivam and started worshipping the Outstanding Lord shankara. mANi
vAchakars service to the Lord continued. The Lord was getting anointed
with his honey like words and the pure wonderful love. The Lord wanted
those gems of his hymns which could not be found a peer even the whole
world is excavated to be glorified and passed to generations by
generations to the world for our benefit of getting to praise the Lord
in sweet loveful words easily and even the hardest of the minds getting
nurtured in love reading his hymns. He oneday went to the blessed saint
mANikka vAchakar, asked him to sing the complete thiruvAchakam he had
composed and wrote them down. He further asked him to sing the songs of
love keeping the Dancing Lord of thillai as the Hero the thirukkOvaiyAr.
He wrote them also in the palm leaves book and put His seal as "As
mANikka vAchakan told the Lord of thiruchchiRRambalam wrote this". He
kept the script in the panychAkkara steps of the abode and vanished.
The next day the priests of thillai were surprised to find the scripture
on the steps of the abode with the Lord's signature. They rushed to
mANikka vAchakar and appraised him about it. They saluted and asked him
to explain them the philosophical explanation of the compositions. He
took them to the golden hall abode of the Lord and showed the blissfully
Dancing Lord and said He is the meaning of it and immersed himself in
the Supreme Luminance and became One in Lord shiva. (This day was the
Ani magam day - his guru pUjai day)
The history of this great saint is told in thiruvAdhavUrp purANam(2) and
thiruviLaiyAdal purANam.(3) His composistions are thiruvAchakamand
thirukkOvaiyAr. These hymns are praised for their simplicity, deep sense
of love without losing focus in the description of things.
Today we will remember this great Saint who had an utmost faith and
devotion to LordShivaa which finally made Him to be treated at par with
lordShivaa HIMSELf at Avudiyaar koil a Paunya shethram near Pudukkotai
and Aranthangi.
There the first worship goes to this ShreeMANIKKAWASAGAR & Temple o f
Shiva without a Dwajasthamba Nandi and even Pradoshpooja is not in
celebration
Sivaayanamaha
knr
--
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God
--
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God
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