UTSAVAR SRI PARTHASARATHY SWAMY



virperuvizhavum kanjanum mallum
vEzhamum pAghanum veezha
settravan thannai purameriseitha
sivanurutuyarkalaithEvai
pattralarvEzhakkOl kaiyil kondu
pArthan than thEr mun nindrAnai
sittrivai paniyAl muditurandhAnai
ThiruvallikkEni kandEnE.



The above pasuram sung by Thirumangai alwar, describes about the utsavar Sri parthasarathy swamy, who was a chariot rider for arjuna. "Partha" means Arjuna, "Sarathy" means krishna(chariot rider). We all know that lord krishna was a cattle rearer in his childhood days, so he will be always with a stick in his hand, thats why alwar sang 'kol kayil kondu', even u can see this in the picture.

After his chilhood days, he was a chariot rider for arjuna during the gurukshetra war. Before the war, Bhishma sent Duryodana to request krishna not to take any weapons during the war.
We can consider the above as one reason for Sri Venkatakrishnan swamy(moolavar) not having any weapons and giving darshan with only two hands. In the war lord krishna helped a lot to arjuna to succeed him.

When we see the utsavar's face, it is not normal like all the utsavars, especialy utsavars are made of Panchaloka,(gold,silver,copper,brass and bronze), this divya mangala vigraha is also made of panchaloka, but why the face is not clear? Its because during the time of war, lord krishna himself got all the arrows from bhishmar in his face instead of arjuna, actualy the arrows came to hit arjuna's face but, in order to help arjuna from this horrible incident, he himself got all these arrows in his face. Its a very grief incident not for krishna but for us, because we are the people who is having the darshan daily. I can say that it is a lesson for us that whatever obstacles we face in life cannot constitute even a percent of which he got for himself.

So we should overcome all the obstacles in our life by keeping this incident in our mind.
To say frankly the tears will be rolling in our eyes whenever we have the darshan of him, especialy in a closeup view as rightly said by nammalwar in a pasuram in thiruvaimoli "kanneer malga irukkum"

My next posting will be about the yearly utsavams and importantance of Utsavar Sri Parthasarathy swamy. I request all the readers of this webpage to keep checking this webpage daily, as i will be uploading this webpage daily with new informations and with new pitures of various deities and their utsavams.

P.N:-In thiruvallikeni, there is an association called " SRI THENNACHARYA SRIVAISHNAVA SRIPAADHAM THAANGIGAL KAINKARIYA SABHAI"(since 1995). Our sabhai cosists of thengalai srivaishnava sripadham thangigal of thiruvallikeni. The members in this sabhai are all youngsters who has put their interest in doing kainkariyams for the emperumans in every divya desams, avathara sthalas, and abimana sthalas. The main motive of our sabha is to do more and more kainkariyams to THIRUVALLIKENI divya desam.

Please check our link : www.geocities.com/thennacharya